Behold, the 'mother of mindfulness.'
and to tell us when they got tired,” she explains. “They tended to get tired around 67, so ⅔ of the way. Then we asked a different group of people to do 200 jumping jacks and to tell us when they get tired. “They [still] got tired at ⅔ of the way, which is many more jumping jacks.”
What does this mean? Your mindset can totally affect your energy levels. If you have a physical goal in mind, it’s common to think you’ll experience fatigue ⅔ of the way through it, even if your body actually has more energy to expend. You should still respect your limits (don’t push yourself to injury, but your mind has more power over your body than you think. “Whenever we're tired, we have a lot more in us than meets the eye at that moment,” Langer adds. ,” in which she and her team retrofit a “timeless retreat” to 20 years earlier. “We had old men live there for a week as if they were their younger selves,” she recounts.
may wind up stronger and more mobile with age! But for some reason, so many of us think daily movement doesn’t