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Having a positive outlook doesn’t mean you never feel negative emotions, such as sadness or anger, says Dr. Barbara L. Fredrickson, a psychologist and expert on emotional wellness at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. “All emotions— whether positive or negative—are adaptive in the right circumstances. The key seems to be finding a balance between the two,” she says.

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People who are emotionally well, experts say, have fewer negative emotions and are able to bounce back from difficulties faster.

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“While earlier research suggests an association between positive emotions and health, it doesn’t reveal the underlying mechanisms,” says Dr. Richard J. Davidson, a neuroscientist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “To understand the mechanisms, I think it will be crucial to understand the underlying brain circuits.”

By using brain imaging, Davidson and others have found that positive emotions can trigger “reward” pathways located deep within the brain, including in an area known as the ventral striatum.

“Individuals who are able to savor positive emotions have lasting activation in the ventral striatum,” Davidson says. “The longer the activation lasts, the greater his or her feelings of well-being.” Continued activation of this part of the brain has been linked to healthful changes in the body, including lower levels of a stress hormone.

Negative emotions, in contrast, can activate a brain region known as the amygdala, which plays a role in fear and anxiety. “We’ve shown that there are big differences among people in how rapidly or slowly the amygdala recovers following a threat,” Davidson says. “Those who recover more slowly may be more at risk for a variety of health conditions compared to those who recover more quickly.”

Among those who appear more resilient and better able to hold on to positive emotions are people who’ve practiced various forms of meditation. In fact, growing evidence suggests that several techniques—including meditation, cognitive therapy (a type of psychotherapy), and self-reflection (thinking about the things you find important)—can help people develop the skills needed to make positive, healthful changes.

“Research points to the importance of certain kinds of training that can alter brain circuits in a way that will promote positive responses,” Davidson says. “It’s led us to conclude that well-being can be considered as a life skill. If you practice, you can actually get better at it.”

In one study, Davidson and his colleagues found changes in reward-related brain circuits after people had 2 weeks of training in a simple form of meditation that focuses on compassion and kindness. These changes, in turn, were linked to an increase in positive social behaviors, such as increased generosity.

Fredrickson and her colleagues are also studying meditation. They found that after 6 weeks of training in compassion and kindness meditation, people reported increased positive emotions and social connectedness compared to an untrained group. The meditation group also had improved functioning

in a nerve that helps to control heart rate.

“The results suggest that taking time to learn the skills to self-generate positive emotions can help us become healthier, more social, more resilient versions of ourselves,” Fredrickson says.

Dr. Emily Falk, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, is taking a different approach. Falk is exploring how selfaffirmation—that is, thinking about what’s most important to you—can affect your brain and lead to positive, healthful behaviors. Her team found that when people are asked to think about things that they find meaningful, a brain region that recognizes personally relevant information becomes activated. This brain activity can change how people respond to health advice.

“In general, if you tell people that they sit too much and they need to change their behavior, they can become defensive.

They’ll come up with reasons why the message doesn’t apply to them,” Falk says. But if people reflect on the things they value before the health message, the brain’s reward pathways are activated.

This type of self-affirmation, Falk’s research shows, can help physically inactive “couch potatoes” get more active. In a recent study, inactive adults received typical health advice about the importance of moving more and sitting less. But before the advice, about half of the participants were asked to think about things that they value most.

The “self-affirmation” group became more physically active during the monthlong study period that followed compared to the group that hadn’t engaged in self-affirmation. “The study shows one way that we can open the brain to positive change and help people achieve their goals,” Falk says.

Being open to positive change is a key to emotional wellness. “Sometimes people think that emotions just happen, kind of like the weather,” Fredrickson says. “But research suggests that we can have some control over which emotions we experience.” As mounting research suggests, having a positive mindset might help to improve your physical health as well.

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The frozen cliffs of Drew Point, Alaska, (population zero) are tumbling to the ocean faster than perhaps any other location in the Arctic. The sea has eaten house-size chunks of tundra at a rate of more than 50 feet per year recently.

Ben Jones has watched pieces of Alaska’s northern coast disappear since 2003.

Then, as a University of Cincinnati researcher, he flew over Drew Point and saw blocks of tundra and frozen soil that had detached from the land and leaned into the sea like capsizing ships.

Last week, he and Chris Arp, both of UAF’s Water and Environmental Research Center, snowmachined out to Drew Point in dim winter light. With the landscape now locked up for the long polar night, they went to see if they could gather a deeper plug of soil from a chunk of land that had fallen into the ocean in summer 2018.

They wanted to find out if salty, unfrozen soil at its base might have something to do with why the 20-foot cliffs at Drew Point are losing so much to the ocean. But they found conditions too challenging, and not because there is no sunrise up there this time of year.

The photogenic nature of Drew Point seems to be increasing. Jones, Arp and coauthors in a recent paper calculated that the northern coast there is losing 56 feet per year to the Arctic Ocean. In the most drastic year they measured, 2016, the sea consumed an average Photo courtesy Ben Jones of 72 feet of a 5.5-mile UAF researcher Chris Arp is seen from above while he stands on Drew Point, stretch of coast around Alaska, in late November, 2018.

Drew Point. Even in a “There was a lot of slushy snow and low year of land loss at Drew Point, 21 water at the base of the bluff,” Jones said feet of coastline disappeared. in an email from Utqiaġvik, where he and For a Washington Post reporter, Jones Arp stayed after returning by snowma- in November calculated that the ocean is chine from a cabin on the northern shore gobbling about 30 football fields of land of Teshekpuk Lake, about 60 miles south- from the area each year now. east. “It would have made coring pretty Erosion of coastlines is normal, but the north coast of Alaska is different, with challenging in the sub-zero air temps.”

They will attempt a deeper soil sam- its core of frozen ground and wedges of ple into the bluff on a scheduled trip up ice that formed during a colder period of there in April 2019. For now, the mystery Earth’s existence. Though the ocean is will remain as to whether the “cryopeg” capped with sea ice most of the year, for a — salty permafrost that is unfrozen and three-to-four month window the relatively crumbly — is in a big way responsible for warm water eats at the cliff bases until they fall, exposing new faces to warm air the drama at Drew Point.

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Now, with less and thinner sea ice, there’s a longer open-water period.

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“The salinity of these soils (at the base of the cliffs) increases the erodibility of these deposits.”

Next spring, when soil-drilling is more feasible, Jones and Arp hope to get soil cores from about six feet below beach level, to see how extensive the unfrozen permafrost is, and to maybe find some clues on whether salty, unstable permafrost is becoming more common as the Arctic warms.

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This is the story of how people learned to navigate the seas using nothing more than the North Star, the Southern Cross, a magnetic needle, a clock, and sighting the sun at high noon. It features Captain James Cook’s 1778 search of the Alaska coastline, hoping to find the Northwest Passage. Presenter Dean Knapp (not an astronomer) is a search and rescue volunteer who still uses latitude and longitude to direct rescue helicopters to injured people in the Alaska wilderness. If skies are clear, be ready to go outside and view the night sky.

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Starting at Noon Good Panning & More Cure your gold fever: pan for gold and take home a fleck of the Alaska Gold Rush. Make maple sugar taffy in the snow. Tickets are $3 per activity or 2 tickets for $5.

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1pm Living on the Last Frontier Today Hear stories about mushing and camping on the Iditarod Trail from author Yukon Don Tanner, who lives with his family on an old homestead in Talkeetna.

2pm The Chilkoot Trail During the Klondike Gold Rush, the Chilkoot Trail was an important access route connecting coastal Alaska to the Yukon gold fields. Stacy Flagg and Sandy Halstaed will talk about the trail’s history and hiking the trail today.

3pm The Story of the Iditarod Trail Learn about the gold rush history of the old Iditarod Trail, the stampeder trail over Crow Pass, and how it became America’s only winter National Historic Trail, from Kevin Keeler, BLM National Trail Administrator.

4pm Roadhouse Music The Allgood Family Band and friends will be playing some old-time folk music. Clapping and foot stomping allowed!

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907 - 746 - 2337 Postpartum Mama Meetup Jan. 18th @ 1:00pm - 2:00pm

Heritage Birth Center (2323 S Trunk Rd., Unit 6) Please join us the third Friday of every month, in an open, safe place to share, ask questions and connect with other moms. You do not need to be a client of Heritage Midwifery, this meetup is for all moms in the community! So, join us! Have a cup of tea or coffee and talk to other adults! This is an open, free community event. heritagebirthcenter@gmail.com • (907) 746-6645

Mat-Su AARP Tax-Aide Classes Jan. 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th @ 9:30am - 4:30pm

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Boom Town Roller Derby Season 8 Game 1 Jan. 12th @ 7:00pm - 9:00pm

Menard Sport Complex (1640 N Catalina Dr ) Welcome to Game 1 of Season 8 with Boom Town Roller Derby! Details coming soon... Saturday, January 12, 2019 Come see live roller derby in the Mat-Su Valley! All events will be at the Menard Sports Complex: 1001 S Clapp Street, Wasilla, AK 99654. Doors open at 6pm, Wheels roll at 7pm If you have any questions please contact us at boomtownderbydames@yahoo.com Price: $4 - $16 Ticket/Registration Links: BrownPaperTickets.com

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