The Attitude Factor: Extend Your Life by Changing the Way You Think

Thomas R. Blakeslee

iUniverse, 2004 - Health & Fitness - 260 pages

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!

Contents

• Keeping Your Youthful Joy: 1
• Why Attitudes Decline: 14
• Chaos and Attitude Development: 26
• Pain Pleasure and Placebos: 35
• The Principles of Exercise: 46
• Expanding Your Comfort Zones: 57
• The Art of Minimal Selfcontrol: 70
• New Cures for Phobias: 81
• Changing Hopeless Situations: 93
• Being Careful Can Kill You: 117
• Expanding Your Boundaries: 137
• Developing Optimism and Complexity: 151
• Sex Sensuality and Food: 163
• Ageing and Culture: 175
• Principles of Rutbusting: 185
• The Pleasure and Wellbeing Test: 193
• The Selfregulation Questionnaire: 195
• About Dr GrossarthMaticek: 206
• The Attitude Factor Web Site: 208
• Selected Bibliography: 211
• Notes and References: 219
• Index: 240

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Attitude Factor: Extend Your Life by Changing the Way You Think
• Author: Thomas R. Blakeslee
• Publisher: iUniverse, 2004
• ISBN: 0595340857, 9780595340859
• Length: 260 pages
• Subjects: Health & Fitness / Healthy Living; Medical / Health Care Delivery; Psychology / General; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Happiness; Self-Help / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem