Revealed:
Scientifically-Proven Habits That Boost Your Well-being Sustainably
What if improving your overall wellness was within reach, with a few simple habits?
Do you feel like you’ve lost your mojo?
Tired of living a life in a constant state of “joyless urgency?”
Are you tired of the platitudes? Like, hitting what feels like rock-bottom then keep hearing the same old: “Choose to be happy!” “Get over it.”“Stop making excuses!” Would that it were so easy.
Then this message is for you.
I’m Mitch, Founder of Low-Key Wellness.
After being trapped in what seemed like a pointless hamster’s wheel of drudgery before hitting rock-bottom, I discovered that you don’t need drastic changes in your circumstances to attain happiness. Having worked in STEM for almost 2 decades, I found out that the sciences have a lot to say about happiness – whether it’s neuroscience, psychology, and others.
The good news is, according to science, wellness is not just for shiny, happy people.
The great thing about what science says about happiness is the formal research that these methods to improve well-being, actually work.
The great thing about these methods is that they are also easy and doable, and won’t take a rocket scientist (pun unintended).
If you’re one of those who keep trying to hack happiness, yet end up being frustrated as you keep receiving the cliché responses and mantras.
To be specific, I tried these habits, personally, and got a boost of double my original happiness score after embedding them into my routine, from 3.5 to 7.4, out of 10!
Now, I know not all of us may start from a happiness score of less than 5, to merit an increase of double, but imagine just practicing low-key wellness habits and getting an actual bump on your happiness.
Why do I love sharing what I learned about well-being?
Mike Tyson, former heavyweight boxing champion, famously said, “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”
I guess you could say that life punched me in the mouth.
I realized I had been running myself ragged for nearly two decades in the corporate world only to be hit with health then financial crises. Forget quiet quitting, I was forced to quit after serious health issues due in large part to the environment and the lifestyle I had gotten used to over the years.
It has become a personal passion of mine to write about how to get your life back after setbacks in career, physical and mental health, and finances, slowly but surely. It starts with your personal well-being.
Working on your personal wellness is not selfish. If you’re running on fumes in your personal life, how can you be available to your loved ones, to those who matter to you?
Why Low-Key Wellness?
Low-Key...
means we don’t force unrealistic life changes. We can fly at a speed you’re comfortable with. We show how we can insert the methods into your routine, but more importantly, we share the big effect of small changes. We like the wellness journey to be meaningful but also friendly and fun!
Wellness...
has to be holistic. We tap scientific methods because the way to hack happiness is to understand how the brain is wired. This way we can introduce effective wellness habits that not only dwell on pleasure but purpose as well.
For so long, we thought the pursuit of happiness was the pursuit of pleasure alone. However, positive psychology describes happiness through two opposing concepts: hedonism and eudaimonism. The hedonic view equates happiness pleasure while the eudaimonic view equates happiness with purpose. Life doesn’t just have to feel good, but has to have meaning. You need both for true happiness.
Low-Key Happiness: 4 Habits to Boost Your Overall Well-Being
You may have heard that happiness is a choice. But in real life, we find that happiness is not a mere matter of choice, or positive thinking, or dwelling on mantras. And it doesn’t come as easily to most, if not all, people. The good news is, according to science, happiness is something that can be hacked. If you stumble upon habits that don’t cost anything, but can improve your brain’s structure for better cognition, focus, memory; naturally increase your happy hormones, improve your pain resilience, fight aging, wouldn’t you want to try it? THIS BOOK shares 4 happiness habits and how they work:
- 1The happiness habit that releases feel-good neurotransmitters: dopamine, serotonin, oxytocin; can activate the hypothalamus to help you sleep better; reduces the stress hormone cortisol; improves cardiac functioning; and decreases symptoms of anxiety and depression.
- 2The happiness habit that strengthens your prefrontal cortex for better regulation of the limbic system (in charge of emotions), as well as the learning and memory regions; and improves resilience to pain.
- 3The happiness habit that boosts our mood by releasing dopamine, serotonin, and adrenalin; strengthens our hippocampus for better memory, and fights aging.
- 4The happiness habit that brings happiness full-circle. Since happiness is composed not just from feeling pleasure (from your neurotransmitters) but fulfillment, this habit is something that increases your engagement with daily life by using your natural gifts.
If you want to learn the simple, science-backed habits to give your happiness a boost
If getting started on these happiness habits sounds too challenging…
Don’t worry, we got you!
Here is an ebook about the science of habits and simple and effective methods we can use to make and break habits.
HINT: It doesn’t depend on our self-discipline!
“Low-Key Habits: Hacks for Habit-Building (and Breaking)”
Is there a habit you want to change but have given up on?
All of us have failed at making good habits and breaking bad ones at some point.
Remember New Year’s Resolutions? No matter how excited or determined we were when we made them, roughly 80% of us give up on them before the year ends (this varies per study, but still). Just ask gyms how many members stop going by February.
Failing at something, especially year after year, tends to make us feel bad and ask ourselves,
“Am I really that undisciplined? Is my willpower that weak?”
Well, it’s not that it’s weak, but it is limited. It’s limited for any human being.
When trying to make habits work, we hear the same messages over and over again:
“Do the habit at the same time daily.”
“Celebrate the small wins.”
“Focus on the goal/reward.”
“Just give it 21 days.”
BUT… according to the science and some updated studies, these are NOT necessarily 100% effective.
If we want to succeed at making sustainable changes, we have to consider the science behind it: behavioral, psychological, even the neuroscientific: specifically our brain circuitry and chemistry.
What if it wasn’t all dependent on your willpower?
What if understanding the science behind habits can make it easier to make or break them?
What if simple tweaks to your routine can make the big difference you’ve been looking for?
THIS BOOK discusses:
If you want scientific, effective, yet simple, ways to go about your habit journey,
Low-Key Digital Wellness: Tips to Enjoying A Life Offline
While the advent of technology brought several advances in communication, connection, and convenience, it also brought a scourge.
The scourge of addiction to our digital devices.
We reach for it whenever we feel bored or slightly anxious, or even just when there’s a crack of free time in our day. It comes with us everywhere we go and we feel anxiety when we don’t have it within arm’s reach.
Despite multiple studies proving that excessive social media and time online are bad for our health, and even a whistleblower from big tech revealing how our phones are simply slot machines in our pockets, it is still extremely difficult to manage our digital lives.
But, it’s still possible to develop a better screen life without a rigorous 30-day regimen, with simple tips still centered on the digital minimalism philosophy.
THIS BOOK discusses:
o The pleasant life – studies quantifying the unpleasantness of excessive online activities
o The meaningful life – repurposing our screentime to find something of more value
Give someone the gift of wellness today!
Our wellness bundle is composed of the first 3 in the Low-Key Wellness book series come at the low price of $24, so you get 3 books for the price of 2!
We hope you have a meaningful Christmas and joyous New Year!