Most of us want to age gracefully and live a long, and healthy life. Whether you’re a retired person, working professional or housewife, however, most of us want the same thing in the end and that is longevity.
Ever since the evolution of mankind, the life expectancy across the globe has risen.
Yes, today people are living longer with advancement of medical technology that involves advanced health care system ensuring timely care and better treatment approach.
But this extended lifespan is not looking healthy because medical management bring their own set of challenges in terms of frequent hospital visits, financial hardship, or dependency on others.
Then what could be other things that help us to live longer and better?
For this let’s first understood what longevity mean?
Understanding longevity
The word longevity means living a long healthy life. The goal is to live as healthy as possible and live as long as possible. It’s a preservation of optimal health over lifetime. You should be highly active and remain a valuable part of your communities. Perhaps your presence must play a good role in society.
Therefore, longevity is also consider as a balance between lifespan (living longer) and healthspan (living better).
Human body is able to work very well until 80s. However, it all comes with the combination of healthy diet, adequate sleep, physical activity, preventive health check-up, hygiene, cultural factors and genetics.
No doubt, healthy lifestyle significantly contribute to improving healthspan and lifespan.
Apart from these factors, there is one more thing that have helped the people to increase their lifespan.
Do you know, what is that?
It is nothing but emotional wellness.
Emotional wellness as a key to overall wellness
Yes, emotional wellness is conducive to happy aging. It can unlock your potential for healthier life too.
You are what you think and feel. And what you feel also determine your outlook on life.
Mastering your emotions means taking charge of your emotions so that you can control your thoughts, behaviour and action. With emotional wellness, you are able to understand and accept your feelings. It allows you to focus on a positive aspect of life. This gives you an opportunity to cultivate optimism that enhances the level of understanding, empathy, humor, and compassion.
When you are emotionally well, you cultivate more positive attitude for life. That means you find ‘your reason to live’ that is essential for life fulfillment.
With articulating your sense of purpose, you’re more likely to move around. You have a good chance of socialization and exploration of possibilities.
Even socialization can create an opportunities to flourish relationships through real meaningful conversations, true sharing and caring nature. Even you can derive more emotional benefit by socializing more by strengthening personal ties.
All these have a measurable impact on your healthy behavior. When life appears good, you naturally prefer to make healthy lifestyle choices. Scientific research has shown that optimizing health through lifestyle choices can improve healthspan – the period of life spent in good health.
See, what drives emotional wellness also drives overall wellness and ultimately longevity too.
Longevity isn’t just about lifestyle – it’s also about understanding the science behind it.
Fortunately, you can optimize your emotional health so that you feel good even in later years of your life and challenges don’t have to bother you. In fact, you see challenges as an opportunities for growth.
The psychological benefits of emotional wellness means you are happier and live longer.
So, ensure to prolong your longevity by keeping yourself emotionally well. Rewriting aging narrative help to extend healthy lifespan.
Don’t wait – start taking care of your emotional wellness now for your healthy tomorrow.
Also Read : The Art Of Ageing Gracefully
Disclaimer : The purpose of this blog is to create mental health awareness. This information is not a replacement for medical treatment or counseling therapy.
