Wishful thinking

• Autores: Emma Young
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2925, 2013, págs. 46-49
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Nancy Havill is a research associate at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where psychologist Barbara Fredrickson has uncovered a surprising link between meditating on kind thoughts and a whole range of indicators of physical health and mental well-being. It might boost the immune system, protect people from cardiovascular disease, reduce vulnerability to stress, improve thinking and emotional control, and even raise levels of empathy, sociability and self-esteem. Perhaps too goad to be true, but, in recent years, evidence linking physical health and psychological well-being has been steadily accumulating. Here, Young investigates people could make one's body, which contains a nerve that underpins their health and happiness, work better with just the power of their mind.