Wanna Live A long Life? Try this!

The following was found in the Huffington Post.

How To Live A Long Life.

1.In their book, "The longevity Project," which includes research  over the course of 80 years,authors,Friedman and Martin identified an association between being conscientious and a longer life span.

2.In the journal 'Aging', published in 2012, it is claimed that if you laugh a lot you live longer.





3 The PIOS medicare Journal in 2010 claimed that a strong social relationship can boost survival odds by 50%.







4.In the same aging study mentioned above, it was discovered that 'optimism' might put years on your life




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5.In the journal'Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Science',  it was stated that older people who report being happy have a 35% decreased risk of dying over 5 years.


Well, there you have it if it is all true. It certainly seems that how you feel really does have a big impact  on your body. I read only last week that, after extensive research, it was discovered that Alzheimer' s disease is strongly suspected to be caused by stress. I was alarmed to read that stress can actually eat parts of your brain away! It is, obviously, a must to avoid at all costs.

The question is, how to live a stress free life?

Regular readers will know the answer; jump off the illusion, scrape it out of your thinking, chuck out the delusion,get rid of your ego, for once and for all.It's not real; it'a s lie; it's the only reason you ever suffer in your life.So bye bye ego bye bye!

Once you do this , you will straight away be living in the now in all its true grandeur

In fact, it will be the first time since you were a very young child, that you are really living again. Since about the age of five most people live in a severe state of unconsciousness, barely sleep- walking,living like robots, but having no clue that this is going on.

It's time to wake up!I used to read the words like the words I am writing now, for years and years without any impact on my life at all.Then one fine day, I suddenly realized that I was only reading these books for intellectual stimulation and original entertainment-it made a change from the Simpsons! I felt a fool, and could only think that my ego had  made me get stuck like this, because it knows , if I know, it's curtain time for my little, big , ego.


Once you get a glimpse of this, you know, really gut know, it's true..It's no longer a concept, an idea, a fancy:;this is it.No doubt about it. This is real, and everything else is just illusion.Your whole outlook on life changes beyond belief, and you are a different you.

I was thinking about the title of this post: "wanna live a long life?" and thought it funny when we really know, any lives in this dimension are pure illusion, and as the Buddha so astutely observed that this World IS a World of suffering. So maybe we shouldn't want to live such long lives.

But, isn't there something in Buddhist literature about how wonderful it is to be born a person, because this is one of the rare dimensions where you can actually get enlightened.. So, the more years we have, the more the chance we will get enlightened.O.K. , let's live as long as we can.

Let's all drink to that, tomato juice or straight Whisky Macs - I never understood what the 'Mac' bit meant.