{"id":1177,"date":"2017-09-06T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T11:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.silvercentury.org\/2017\/09\/counterclockwise-mindful-health-and-the-power-of-possibility\/"},"modified":"2018-03-21T12:41:04","modified_gmt":"2018-03-21T16:41:04","slug":"counterclockwise-mindful-health-and-the-power-of-possibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/78.142.243.82\/~silvercentury\/2017\/09\/counterclockwise-mindful-health-and-the-power-of-possibility\/","title":{"rendered":"Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Ellen J. Langer<\/span> – Ballantine, 2009<\/em> <\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Harvard psychology professor Ellen J. Langer firmly believes that \u201cIt is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset\u2026\u201d In Counterclockwise<\/em>, a book more about theory than practice, she summarizes a multitude of studies, including her own, that demonstrate how our thoughts affect our bodies and that many of our ideas are damaging. Langer is especially interested in mindsets that assume aging is a long descent into illness. We\u2019re victims of self-fulfilling prophecies, she suggests. We expect our eyesight and hearing to falter in later years, and so they do. She also explores the potential in placebos and the fact that sometimes when we\u2019re ill, we get better mostly because we expect to. Overall, Counterclockwise<\/em> is about the psychology of possibility and the power of thinking positively. Want to explore a new way to look at aging? Check out this book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Ellen J. Langer – Ballantine, 2009  Harvard psychology professor Ellen J. Langer firmly believes that \u201cIt is not primarily our physical selves that limit us but rather our mindset\u2026\u201d In Counterclockwise, a book more about theory than practice, she summarizes a…<\/span><\/p>\n

Read more Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility<\/span> ›<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n

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