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Thank you for coming and if you're still sitting out in the back where there's still I think a room for another couple of people to come in.

Hopefully my voice will carry it's hard not to hear me. This is a time of year when many of us take stock, reflect on what meaning or purpose has been established in our lives through our

actions through our endeavors.

And there's actually real benefit to that.

I was looking through a number of clinical studies that show that there are many positive ramifications for

reviewing, taking stock, having a detached perspective on what one's undertakings have amounted to.

The positive ramifications are associated with when you feel that your life has an underlying meaning or purpose,

not only is it positively associated with longevity, reduced risk of Alzheimer's, reduced risk of heart attack and stroke,

but according to a number of studies, there's books actually about psychological ramifications of looking at one's life in terms of meaning. One book of spiritual thoughts coping with a sense of coherence making sense by

ownsworth and Chambers and social psychological and existential well-being.

But one positive association is with resilience.

The more you have a sense of purpose or meaning

where you have a feeling that your actions have a coherence to them,

you have a greater sense of ability to bounce back after setback.

If you don't have a sense of bounce back after setback.

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