Positive Thinking the Key to a Longer Life?
The short answer is, yes, of course! Research has already tied positive thinking with more positive surgical outcomes, so it’s not such a leap to imagine that thinking positively in general could also more generally help us out in life.
Of course the challenge is how to keep a positive attitude when so many of us are dealing with very unhappy or bad things happening to us. There’s no easy answer to that one.
A growing mountain of evidence suggests that an upbeat, positive attitude could be the key to a long life. http://psychcentral.com/blog/
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This is a job for my head staff.
http://thinkerer.org/HeadOffice/HOffIntro.htm
Un: Our problem is that we have too many keys. And no key ring.
Networker: And no way to spell cliché without that funny mark.
Vulcan: The logical problem with the assertion is that there is no way to demonstrate a causal link. The evidence lies in correlations. It is quite possible that the same genetics that lead to long life also lead to an optimistic outlook.
Engineer: I don’t care. I ignore advice that doesn’t tell me what to do in the here and now. Nobody wants to be depressed. Nobody needs the promise of a long life to encourage them to be optimistic. If people knew how to become optimistic, they would do it.
Empath: Pessimism is not a choice. It is a reaction.
Canter: And a realistic recognition of all the things you can’t do.
Hunter: And a determined neglect of all the things you can do. The view of the hunted rather than of the Hunter.
Vulcan: A choice to want what is out of reach.
Hunter: A neglect of what you can reach.
Engineer: A neglect of the rule that you can’t do what you haven’t planned for. A neglect of the planning that turns a can’t into a can.
Hunter: Not planning by itself, but planning and action.
Un: An ounce of action is worth a pound of positive thinking.
Hunter: People might do some of these things and find that they are becoming more upbeat.
Canter: Perhaps. But we Canters are not optimistic about it.
Hunter: You get no hope from the Canters. You get hope from the Hunters.
Of course the challenge is how to keep a positive attitude when so many of us are dealing with very unhappy or bad things happening to us. There’s no easy answer to that one.
A growing mountain of evidence suggests that an upbeat, positive attitude could be the key to a long life. http://psychcentral.com/blog/
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This is a job for my head staff.
http://thinkerer.org/HeadOffice/HOffIntro.htm
Un: Our problem is that we have too many keys. And no key ring.
Networker: And no way to spell cliché without that funny mark.
Vulcan: The logical problem with the assertion is that there is no way to demonstrate a causal link. The evidence lies in correlations. It is quite possible that the same genetics that lead to long life also lead to an optimistic outlook.
Engineer: I don’t care. I ignore advice that doesn’t tell me what to do in the here and now. Nobody wants to be depressed. Nobody needs the promise of a long life to encourage them to be optimistic. If people knew how to become optimistic, they would do it.
Empath: Pessimism is not a choice. It is a reaction.
Canter: And a realistic recognition of all the things you can’t do.
Hunter: And a determined neglect of all the things you can do. The view of the hunted rather than of the Hunter.
Vulcan: A choice to want what is out of reach.
Hunter: A neglect of what you can reach.
Engineer: A neglect of the rule that you can’t do what you haven’t planned for. A neglect of the planning that turns a can’t into a can.
Hunter: Not planning by itself, but planning and action.
Un: An ounce of action is worth a pound of positive thinking.
Hunter: People might do some of these things and find that they are becoming more upbeat.
Canter: Perhaps. But we Canters are not optimistic about it.
Hunter: You get no hope from the Canters. You get hope from the Hunters.
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