I was struck by a new piece of research that says that you indulge and overcome binging! ... indulge mentally. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? According to an article by Carnegie Mellon University researchers Moorewedge and others in Science (10 Dec 2010) the brain has a unique ability to habituate itself to a stimulus that it has only imagined. What this means, for instance, is that by imagining eating, it is possible to control hunger. In other words, the power of the mind has the ability to tame the body impulses; mastery over our impulses.
I am wondering who else can do this better than those in the second half of their lives. And with the impulses reined in, the older people have a greater chance to be freer of extrinsic reasons for happiness!! And isn’t that the real freedom we are all seeking!!
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