If you want to live a long, rich life, one of the best things you can do is to fill that life with happy feelings.
Such a sentiment is, of course, easier said than done. And that's why it's a topic psychologists are tackling with zeal, many spurred by a landmark study of elderly nuns. That report, by Deborah Danner, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, found that nuns who'd expressed the most positive emotions in early adulthood—using words like "thankful" and "joy" in diary entries—lived about ten years longer than those who'd shown the fewest good feelings.
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Such a sentiment is, of course, easier said than done. And that's why it's a topic psychologists are tackling with zeal, many spurred by a landmark study of elderly nuns. That report, by Deborah Danner, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, found that nuns who'd expressed the most positive emotions in early adulthood—using words like "thankful" and "joy" in diary entries—lived about ten years longer than those who'd shown the fewest good feelings.
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