> While that sounds like a nice idea, Do you have any statistics?
> There seem to be lots of people who have been negative all their lives but
> live to a good age, and so while I am sure that it effects ageing I don't see
> how it could be the sole cause, You would think that there would be one in a
> billion who would have so little negative thinking that they would hardly age
> and that there would be many who hate and be so negative so much that they
> would be 60 at 30 years of age.
> This would also mean that people in nice tropic climates would live longer
> than people in windy cold places who have to fight the weather all the time.
> The effect would appear not enough pronounced, although almost all people that
> look old are grumpy so maybe you have something ;-)
It's a joke. At least, I hope it's a joke... otherwise, I'm going to start
laughing - long and hard. I've been cynical and perhaps 'negative' all my
life, and I still lead a very healthy existence. This 'be good or else'
mindset is just utter crap and is totally baseless. Aging is a biological
mechanism - wherein after n-cycles the body initiates certain changes,
according to the number of cycles that have passed (the body is
self-regulating according to a biological 'clock'). After a given amount
of cycles, the body introduces harmful substances into the body itself to
slowly cause your body to breakdown (otherwise, who knows HOW long you
could live -- as although your DNA does become more sensitive to external
energies as you grow older, limiting your exposure to such energies would
counter that effect - hence evolution introduced a lovely 'insurance
policy' to make sure you die within a given period of time).