1.Kogda in 1979..

 

 

When psychiatrist Ellen Langer started this experiment in 1979, she already had a reputation for supporting bold theories with even bolder practice. Ellen practiced mainly on pensioners.

2.Three years earlier, she had authored a truly revolutionary experiment for gerontology at the Arden House nursing home in Connecticut, proving that reverent care for the elderly is not as good as is commonly thought, and will bring to the grave faster than another disease. The experiment was part of a study of learned helplessness syndrome.
3.But Mrs. Langer did not intend to stop
there. She was going to completely destroy the dim halo of old age and prove that we are only as young as we consider ourselves young.
4.For the new experiment, Ellen selected eight
men. The average age of the subjects is 75 years. All of them had to live for a week in a monastery converted for scientific and secular needs in New Hampshire. The test subjects did not yet know what exactly awaited them. All they were asked to do was not to take books, magazines or photographs that appeared less than 20 years ago.
5.When eight men went into the house in which they were to spend a week, they were stagnashed.
It seems as if they have been transported to the past. Specifically, in 1959. Black and white TV, old records, books on the shelves, calendars - all returned them to the reality of twenty years ago.
6.Further more: the participants of the experiment were asked to dress and behave as if in the yard and really 1959.
And they, respectively, are not dusty 75 years old, but perky 55.
7.At first it seemed that this is
impossible. How to erase the last 20 years from life? It quickly became clear that it was very easy. Without in touch with the outside world, which still reigned in 1979, the men began to speak,

live and even think as if they were in 1959. 8.The staff treated them accordingly: no offers to help carry a heavy bag or rearrange the shelf. No reminders to take pills or go to the toilet. All by themselves!
9.Already a week of experiment has given amazing results.
Most subjects improved posture, flexibility, muscle strength, vision (by 10%!) and memory. That is, all those parameters that age does not spare. In addition, it turned out that 63% of participants at the end of the experiment IQ test results were higher than at the beginning.
10.The most interesting: the participants of the experiment rejuvenated and externally.
Their photos before and after the experiment were shown to random people. Those, looking at the photos, considered that in the pictures "after" men look on average three years younger.
11.That is, the experiment proved that our well-being directly depends on our environment and the model that it imposes. If you call yourself a grandfather at 70, complain about old age and ask everyone to move you across the street, you will feel like an old man.

12.But if you gain courage and ignore the request of society for grumpy pensioners, and until death at the age of 95 to think that you are still 45 - you have every chance to live not only a long, but also a healthy, active and happy
life.
13.In 2009, Ellen Langer wrote the bestseller Counter Clockwise based on her experiments.
You can find the online edition in English. Don't know English? Nothing, learn. At your young age, it's a spat at all.

 

 

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With best regards,
Sincerely,
Vel
I would rather be happy than right