逆龄生长，一本关于健康、疾病和衰老的书｜每天听本书｜Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility ｜Audio Book

Описание: 这是一本讲关于健康、疾病和衰老的书，和我们的生活息息相关。我们都不想那么快地变老，想要健康，远离疾病，但不可否认的是，每一个人都在变老的路上。在很多人心里，变老是一件可怕的事情，因为变老在某种程度上来说意味着衰退。比如生理方面，视力下降、腿脚变得不再灵活；认知方面，智力、记忆力、反应能力变得大不如从前，按照俗话说就是“老糊涂”了。

但事实真的是这样吗？脑神经科学的证据显示，90%以上的60岁老人的大脑活跃度与20岁的年轻人相比并没有本质的区别，也就是说老年人在记忆力、推理能力、信息加工速度等认知能力方面并不比年轻人差 。那我们为什么一说起老年，总会和虚弱、无助、多病联系在一起呢？这可能是因为我们总是用一种僵化的思维来看待变老这件事，认为年纪大了，必然会衰老，必然体弱多病。的确很多问题是衰老带来的，但是我们也不能忽视其他的可能性，比如，当人们发现总是记不住事的时候，很多人第一反应是“我老了”，但是事实上可能只是我们并没有像原来一样去花时间、花精力去记忆了。就像这本书的作者说的那样“衰老是一个被灌输的概念”，我们需要看到更多的可能性。

作者埃伦·兰格是哈佛大学心理学系教授，同时也是积极心理学创始人之一。兰格教授在积极心理学领域已经进行了50多年的研究，主持过多项具有开创性的、颠覆人们对身心关系认知的实验，并因此获得了很多奖项 。这本书中就有非常多兰格教授做的实验，接下来的解读也会围绕着这些实验展开。

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.