Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
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If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than thirty years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question, and now, in Counterclockwise, she presents the answer: Opening our minds to what’s possible, instead of presuming impossibility, can lead to better health–at any age.
Drawing on landmark work in the field and her own body of colorful and highly original experiments–including the first detailed discussion of her “counterclockwise” study, in which elderly men lived for a week as though it was 1959 and showed dramatic improvements in their hearing, memory, dexterity, appetite, and general well-being–Langer shows that the magic of rejuvenation and ongoing good health lies in being aware of the ways we mindlessly react to social and cultural cues. Examining the hidden decisions and vocabulary that shape the medical world (“chronic” versus “acute,” “cure” versus “remission”), the powerful physical effects of placebos, and the intricate but often defeatist ways we define our physical health, Langer challenges the idea that the limits we assume and impose on ourselves are real. With only subtle shifts in our thinking, in our language, and in our expectations, she tells us, we can begin to change the ingrained behaviors that sap health, optimism, and vitality from our lives. Improved vision, younger appearance, weight loss, and increased longevity are just four of the results that Langer has demonstrated.
Immensely readable and riveting, Counterclockwise offers a transformative and bold new paradigm: the psychology of possibility. A hopeful and groundbreaking book by an author who has changed how people all over the world think and feel, Counterclockwise is sure to join Mindfulness as a standard source on new-century science and healing.
Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
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I was very disappointed in this book. It was very redundant. Repeating one research project after another as if she had to prove to herself or others what she was writing about. This topic could easily been covered in 20 pages or less and it offered no new information. I struggled through to the end to be just as disappointed as I was part way through.
The subject deserves much better coverage that what was written in this book.
Floyd White
Rating: 2 / 5
Interesting topic. Understanding our ability to exchange our own (mis)beliefs to ones which suit us better can serve us well.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book inspired me to adopt a different, more mindful approach to understanding events in my life. I recommend this for any and everyone, in all stages and walks of life, as a guide for living life more fully and taking advantage of the power of possibility!
Rating: 5 / 5
The concept of mindfulness is interesting, and clearly applicable in many situations. The book bogged down, seeming to repeat the key ideas endlessly. It would have made a really great professional journal article.
Rating: 3 / 5