You Really Are Only as Old as You Feel

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I got this from part of DR. MERCOLA'S newsletter,

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You Really Are Only as Old as You Feel

 

Old sayings like " You're only as old as you feel " may be more than

just words, as one study found that they might actually persuade

people to changer their lifestyles as they age.

 

Researchers asked 104 people between the ages of 18 and 77 years to

describe one memorable message they had received as well as how it

had influenced them.

 

Messages were categorized according to how they interpreted the

aging process. For example, " You're only young once, enjoy it while

you can, " was included with messages having to do with enjoying

life, and those to do with age as a state of mind included " Getting

old and being old are two different things. "

 

The messages commonly shed a positive light on aging, and 34 percent

of participants said that they had changed their lives or their

relationships with others in response to them. Moreover, the

messages influenced 11 percent of participants to enjoy life more,

and seven percent to exercise and eat healthily.

 

Researchers said that people's beliefs, along with timing, are

likely reasons why people remember messages that are important to

them.

 

Journal of Communication 2002;52:681-69

 

 

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DR. MERCOLA'S COMMENT:

 

Brian Tracy wrote a wonderful book called Maximum Achievement.

Although he is not a health care practitioner he has helped to

popularize an important energy medicine concept:

 

Whatever you focus your constant attention on you tend to manifest

in your life.

 

I am convinced that this statement is true as I see the results of

it nearly everyday in my clinical practice. The major problem,

however, is that many people tend to dwell on fear and therefore

reap negative consequences.

 

Focusing on fear and what you don't want to have can actually create

a reverse effect--actually facilitating the manifestation of the

very thing you were afraid of.

 

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