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  • It’s the end of the day and you are exhausted.

    結束辛苦的一天,你簡直累斃了。

  • You had a brutal day of classes punctuated by the world’s most grueling workout.

    上了一整天課,又在健身房挑戰了人體極限 。

  • Your muscles feel like jello and your brain feels like mush.

    全身肌肉像果凍一樣軟趴趴,腦袋全糊成一團。

  • Uhh! On a day like this, nothing can make you feel better.

    任何事都沒辦法挽救這糟糕的一天。

  • Or can it?

    還是,其實有辦法?

  • Actually, there’s something that can.

    有樣東西能治癒你的心靈。

  • It’s fluffy and playful and it has four legs.

    毛茸茸、活潑愛玩,還有四隻腳的生物。

  • Or maybe it’s feathery with two legs.

    或是有羽毛跟兩隻腳。

  • That’s right! You guess it!

    沒錯!你猜對了!

  • On today’s Wellcast, well (be) talking about pets and how they can actually improve your mood and your health.

    今天我們要來聊聊寵物,看牠們如何治癒心靈、促進人類健康。

  • Hey, we are not telling you to just go out and buy a pet.

    嘿!不是叫你去買寵物啦!

  • Instead, were gonna teach you why spending time with cute little fuzzy animals will actually improve your mental and physical health.

    我們要告訴你,為何與毛茸茸小動物玩耍可以促進身心健康。

  • Well also help you figure out how to spend time with animals even if you can’t have a pet of your own.

    還有就算沒有養寵物,也能與小動物玩耍的方式。

  • So, what can spending time with a pet do for you?

    跟寵物相處有什麼好處呢?

  • A study published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine in Jolly Old, England,

    英國皇家藥學會研究指出,

  • found that dog owners, cat owners, and owners of fluffy little hamsters, generally found that minor ailments improved when they spend time with their pets!

    養貓、狗,甚至毛絨絨小倉鼠的人們在跟寵物玩耍時,身上小病痛竟然有所改善!

  • Furthermore, a study by the American Heart Association, found that people’s blood pressure drops significantly by merely petting animals.

    美國心臟病協會研究也發現,跟動物玩時人的血壓會明顯下降。

  • These could be any animals not just their own beloved pets.

    這不只限於自己的寵物。

  • How do we know?

    我們如何知道的呢?

  • Well, researchers with the AMA gave 48 volunteers a series of difficult math problems while measuring their blood pressure and other stress indicators.

    美國醫學會給了 48 名受試者一份困難的數學題,並同時測量他們血壓及其他壓力指數。

  • Half of them were given a temporary pet to spend time with.

    而後給了其中一半人臨時寵物。

  • So, when the volunteers came back to do more incredibly difficult Math problem six weeks later,

    六個禮拜後,受試者們回到實驗室做了一份更困難的數學題,

  • those who spend time with pets over the course of six weeks didn’t show the kind of stress reactions that the pet free folks had.

    相較於沒有寵物的人,那些與寵物相處了六星期的人並沒有表現出壓力反應。

  • They were more mellow, more calm, better able to think rationally about the problem than those who didn’t have any quality pet time.

    他們顯得更加柔和、冷靜,且更能理性思考題目。

  • Clearly, animals are awesome!

    看來寵物立了大功!

  • But, if youre not one of the 62% of American households who have a pet, what should you do?

    但如果你與美國 62% 家庭不同,沒有寵物怎麼辦呢?

  • Well, we Wellcast have got a couple suggestions for you.

    接下來,我們有些建議供你參考。

  • Pause and print out our PDF at watchwellcast.com.

    先按暫停,去網站上印講義吧!

  • Got it?

    好了嗎?

  • Awesome!

    很好!

  • This worksheet will teach you our four-legged method to get you spending time with animals.

    講義上有四個小撇步,教你如何找到動物相伴。

  • Now, leg one of our worksheet: brainstorm.

    來看看第一步,腦力激盪。

  • This is pretty straightforward.

    字面意思相當明顯。

  • Think of all the friends in your circle and think of all the pets that they have.

    想想你生活圈中所有朋友以及他們的寵物。

  • Next, make a list of your top five favorite pets.

    接下來,列出五隻你最愛的寵物。

  • It sounds silly but don’t worry.

    聽起來有點蠢,不過別擔心。

  • We have another leg for this.

    接下來還有其他撇步。

  • Leg two, reach out.

    二,聯繫朋友。

  • Call up your friends and ask how you could get involved with their pet life.

    打給朋友,詢問能不能幫忙照顧寵物。

  • Don’t forget! Pets are a big responsibility and everybody needs help time to time.

    別忘了!養寵物是很大的責任,每個飼主都有需要幫忙的時候。

  • So if you ask them if you could walk a dog once a week,

    問問他們能不能每週幫忙帶寵物散步一次,

  • or maybe be the first person that they call when they go on vacation, it won’t be that weird.

    或者他們去度假時,自願幫忙照顧。這其實沒那麼怪!

  • Leg three, volunteer!

    三,擔任志工!

  • Another great way to get quality animal time in is to volunteer at your local animal shelter.

    另一個能與動物相處的方法是擔任附近動物收容所的志工。

  • Not only are you going to be connecting with your community, but youll be connecting with a wonderful little puppy or kitten or something else that needs some TLC.

    這樣不僅能與社區產生互動,也能與可愛的小貓、小狗,或其它只能在 TLC 上看到的動物互動。

  • And on top of all of that, youll be lowering your blood pressure, and stress as well.

    更棒的是,還能幫助降血壓、減輕壓力。

  • Not sure how to start?

    不知道該怎麼著手嗎?

  • Check out this National Registry of Animal Shelters or look up a shelter on Google.

    去看看動物收容所官網或谷歌搜尋收容所。

  • Write down their contact information on our worksheet and then give them a call.

    把收容所的聯絡方式抄在講義上,等等撥電話給他們。

  • Leg four, schedule.

    第四步,規劃行程。

  • Once youve arranged the time to volunteer at a shelter, schedule your quality pet dates around that.

    跟收容所約好志工時間後,排定你的寵物時間吧!

  • So, call a buster’s person, soft person, and fluffy person and schedule some quality pet time.

    打給那些毛茸茸、軟綿綿寵物的飼主,安排去找寵物玩的日子。

  • Try for an hour a week just to start.

    剛開始可以先試試一週一小時。

  • To recap, today on Wellcast, we taught you why spending some time with your favorite non-human cuddly friend was actually beneficial to your health.

    複習時間!今天的節目我們了解到為什麼跟毛小孩相處能促進健康。

  • We also taught you a four-legged method to get you to spend some animal quality time of your own, even if you don’t have a pet at home.

    還學了四個即使沒養寵物,也能與小動物相處的小撇步。

  • After spending some time with pets, how do you feel?

    跟寵物相處後感覺如何?

  • Tweet us @watchWellCast.

    上推特 @watchWellCast 推文。

  • E-mail us at watchwellcast@gmail.com or leave a comment down below.

    寄信到 [email protected] 或在下方留言。

  • Well see you next time!

    我們下次見!

It’s the end of the day and you are exhausted.

結束辛苦的一天,你簡直累斃了。

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