Secret to old age: live like a happy old nun!
May 4th, 2008 | By Richard | Category: Advice, Blog and MindThe undo effect is a recent article in COSMOS magazine Discussing the amazing relationship between longevity and expressive writing in youth on a study of 180 Nuns.
They found that “Positive emotions can undo the cardiovascular effects of negative ones, they may also reverse the attention-narrowing effects of negative feelings: broadening our perspectives, rather than limiting them”
Three generations ago, 180 young women wrote brief essays describing why they wanted to become nuns. Years later, a team of psychological researchers came across these spiritual autobiographies in the convent’s archives. What they discovered is simply astonishing…


