In the corporate -- and real -- world, one spends a lot of time around subliminal messaging focused on aging and the negative effects of growing old. While most people will agree that perhaps turning 50 does not bring the same elation as did turning 21, a new article by Psychology Today blames the negative feelings we have regarding aging stemming from the subliminal messaging all around us, and in fact, we can turn this around by just thinking nice thoughts.
[Time is such a valued commodity everywhere you go. The magazines on the newsstands I pass by in the morning extol the latest vitamins to preserve your current cognition speed; the coworker down the hall is complaining how our team could've won the game "if only [his] knees were what they were 20 years ago"; and even the banana sitting on my desk from a day ago has now developed horrid brown spots.
Too often I've discredited the notion of positive thinking. For me, it gets a bit too New Age-y/preachy and bastardizes the law of attraction I studied in my psychology courses. (Blame it on "The Secret"). For a new study to show that there is some truth behind the popular notion is both heartening (so easy, anybody could do it!) and suspicious (...really?), at least for this girl. Will this work? As someone actually looking forward to aging, I'll have to round back to you in six months...!
Too often I've discredited the notion of positive thinking. For me, it gets a bit too New Age-y/preachy and bastardizes the law of attraction I studied in my psychology courses. (Blame it on "The Secret"). For a new study to show that there is some truth behind the popular notion is both heartening (so easy, anybody could do it!) and suspicious (...really?), at least for this girl. Will this work? As someone actually looking forward to aging, I'll have to round back to you in six months...!
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