The Attitude Factor: Extend Your Life By Changing The Way You Think

by Blakeslee, Thomas R.

• ISBN13: 9780595340859
• ISBN10: 0595340857
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-30
• Publisher: Iuniverse Inc

Summary

Happiness and good health can decline or improve with age depending upon important mental habits learned in childhood. Viewing the mind as a self-organizing system, Blakeslee shows how we can improve our attitudes by reorganizing "critical moments" where a tiny effort can profoundly affect future development to help you identify unhealthy attitudes, attitude tests given to three thousand elderly people in 1973 are included. Follow-ups 21 years later showed an amazing correlation between scores on these tests and good health. The 300 people with highest scores were 30 times more likely to be alive and well than the 200 lowest!

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Keeping Your Youthful Joy	p. 1
Why Attitudes Decline	p. 14
Chaos and Attitude Development	p. 26
Pain, Pleasure and Placebos	p. 35
The Principles of Exercise	p. 46
Expanding Your Comfort Zones	p. 57
The Art of Minimal Self-control	p. 70
New Cures for Phobias	p. 81
Changing Hopeless Situations	p. 93
Being Careful Can Kill You	p. 117
Expanding Your Boundaries	p. 137
Developing Optimism and Complexity	p. 151
Sex, Sensuality and Food	p. 163
Ageing and Culture	p. 175
Principles of Rut-busting	p. 185
The Pleasure and Well-being Test	p. 193
The Self-regulation Questionnaire	p. 195
About Dr Grossarth-Maticek	p. 206
The Attitude Factor Web Site	p. 208
Selected Bibliography	p. 211
Notes and References	p. 219
Index	p. 240
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