How to Push Past Your Limits to Achieve More & Why Rest is So Misunderstood

You are more likely to be happy if your friends are happy- and even if your friend’s friends are happy. This episode begins with a discussion on why that is and how social interactions affects you health and happiness. Source: Tom Rath author of Well Being (https://amzn.to/3xcMYUM)  Your body is very good at telling you when you’ve reached your limit. When you have exercised enough or worked enough or done anything that pushes you to the limit - your body tells you to stop. But have you really reached your limit? Could you do more? That’s what Alex Hutchinson looked into. Human endurance seems to be flexible. People break records all the time. So how does that happen? How do people achieve what was once thought to be impossible? And how can we use this knowledge in our own lives? Listen to this fascinating discussion with Alex who is a columnist for Outside magazine and author of the book Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance (https://amzn.to/3n9j7I7) What is rest? Most of us think that rest is what you get by sleeping or by NOT doing something. Rest turns out to be more complex than that and is misunderstood by many of us. Board-certified internal medicine physician Sandra Dalton-Smith says we all need different types of rest to restore different parts of us. Even if you get plenty of sleep, there are things that can mentally exhaust you or there are conversations with certain people that leave you drained. More sleep won’t help in those cases. You need a different kind of rest. In fact, Sandra has identified 7 kinds of necessary rest. Listen and you will look at the importance of rest very differently. Sandra is author of the book Sacred Rest: Recover Your Life, Renew Your Energy, Restore Your Sanity (https://amzn.to/2RA9t5w). If you have allergies, spring can be a difficult time. Listen as I explain some simple yet effective ways to combat allergy symptoms so you can enjoy the pleasures of spring. The website I mention to check the pollen count in your area is www.aaaai.org. Source: https://www.consumerreports.org/allergy/how-to-ease-seasonal-allergy-symptoms/ PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS! With Grove, making the switch to natural products has never been easier! Go to https://grove.co/SOMETHING and choose a free gift with your 1st order of $30 or more! Movie fans, the lights are dimmed, cameras are rolling, and we are ready for action! The movie industry’s biggest night is THIS Sunday. So, grab your popcorn and download the DraftKings app NOW! Use promo code SYSK to enter the FREE film awards pool with TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS in prizes up for grabs!   https://FSAstore.com and https://HSAstore.com are the first direct-to-consumer (D2C) ecommerce sites dedicated to stocking an all FSA/HSA eligible product selection. FSAstore.com is everything flex spending with zero guesswork, while HSAstore.com is health savings, simplified, so visit today! Get key nutrients–without the B.S. Ritual is offering my listeners 10% off during your first 3 months. Visit https://ritual.com/SOMETHING to start your Ritual today!  Discover matches all the cash back you earn on your credit card at the end of your first year automatically and is accepted at 99% of places in the U.S. that take credit cards! Learn more at https://discover.com/yes Over the last 6 years, donations made at Walgreens in support of Red Nose Day have helped positively impact over 25 million kids. You can join in helping to change the lives of kids facing poverty. To help Walgreens support even more kids, donate today at checkout or at https://Walgreens.com/RedNoseDay. https://www.geico.com Bundle your policies and save! It's Geico easy! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices