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If you want to live a longer life, it probably helps to look on the sunny side.
Researchers at the Mayo Clinic have what they are calling the first
statistical evidence that optimists tend to live longer than pessimists.
Mayo Clinic Professor of Psychiatry, Dr. Toshihiko Maruta, says the research
scientifically confirms what most doctors already know - that there is a
mind-body connection.
Using a personality test administered to patients 30 years ago, the research
team used an "Optimism/Pessimism" scale to observe the ways in which the
subjects explain the good and bad things that have happened to them in their
lives.
Those who were characterized as optimists showed a strong tendency to
outlive the ones whose answers marked them as pessimists.
Even though the writer of Proverbs 17:22 didn't have this research on hand
at the time, he wrote these words, A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a
crushed spirit dries up the bones.
The choice is yours -- but the truth is this -- the only way to find true
happiness that will last is by maintaining a relationship with the Lord. If
you know, love, and obey Him, you can be satisfied and happy both in this
life and in the life to come. If you've never trusted and obeyed Him, you
won't find peace or satisfaction in this life nor in eternity to come.
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