[ Fun / Experiences ] - ID: 63437 "[With many experiments, experience and age comes the practical wisdom to focus on what is good and enjoyable and to distract from what is bad and painful:] Older people consistently reported just as many positive emotions as the younger participants, but had fewer negative ones. They also had more mixed emotions, meaning that they didn't let frustration or anxiety keep them from saying they were happy. Consciously or unconsciously, they were making the choice to be happy even when there were reasons to feel otherwise... Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, the researchers found that the emotional processing center of older people's brains, the amygdala, fired more actively when they looked at positive images than negative one Author's Info on Wikipedia Author on ebay Author on Amazon More Quotes by this Author Start Searching Amazon for Gifts [ Fun / Experiences ] - ID: 63437 "[With many experiments, experience and age comes the practical wisdom to focus on what is good and enjoyable and to distract from what is bad and painful:] Older people consistently reported just as many positive emotions as the younger participants, but had fewer negative ones. They also had more mixed emotions, meaning that they didn't let frustration or anxiety keep them from saying they were happy. Consciously or unconsciously, they were making the choice to be happy even when there were reasons to feel otherwise... Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, the researchers found that the emotional processing center of older people's brains, the amygdala, fired more actively when they looked at positive images than negative one&theme=ont class=sampleQuote>[ Fun / Experiences ] - ID: 63437 "[With many experiments, experience and age comes the practical wisdom to focus on what is good and enjoyable and to distract from what is bad and painful:] Older people consistently reported just as many positive emotions as the younger participants, but had fewer negative ones. They also had more mixed emotions, meaning that they didn't let frustration or anxiety keep them from saying they were happy. Consciously or unconsciously, they were making the choice to be happy even when there were reasons to feel otherwise... Using functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, the researchers found that the emotional processing center of older people's brains, the amygdala, fired more actively when they looked at positive images than negative one" TARGET="_top">Send as Free eCard