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    Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility Chapter 2  Health, Unlimited Jerome Groopman "We doctors need you to help us think better. We need you to question us and to engage us.... It is really hard to be a doctor. But it is much harder to be a patient." How Doctors Think  by Jerome Groopman. a group of more than 650 people in Oxford Ohio who in 1975 had been asked to respond to positive and negative statements about aging. those who viewed aging as positive live seven and a half years longer lowering blood pressure and controlling cholesterol live about four years longer benefits of diet, exercise and not smoking about one to three years Certainty is a cruel mindset which prevents us from seeing possibilities and closes us to the world around us. We are either ill or healthy. The medical world knows best: we ought to know more about ourselves that anyone else. Health is a medical phenomenon. Granting permission mindlessly: the triumph of form...

  A Guided Encounter with Langer: Counterclockwise Robert Greenleaf in Servant Leadership claimed that " prophetic voices of great clarity  and with quality of insight equal to that of any age" are speaking in our time. It is very important for servant leaders/followers to discern and affirm those prophets. Ellen J. Langer (Wikipedia)   is a social psychologist who was the first woman to be tenured in Harvard's psychology department.   This is her website.   She certainly has a high quality of insight into mindfulness and the psychology of possibility, especially in regard to aging, and health problems. Her first major book,  Mindfulness (The 25th Anniversary Edition , is rather abstract and technical, but very helpful in understanding her concept of "mindfulness" as applied to all aspects of life. Her most influential work  Counterclockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility  deals with aging and health deterioration. Most of ...