"Over many millennia our minds and physical being have become time machines programmed to grow old and expire, but it doesn't have to be that way,"

"Our attentional state -- where our thoughts rest at any moment -- turns out to be a fascinating window into our well-being. It may be affected by our emotional state as well as shape our emotional state," said Elissa Epel, PhD, associate professor of psychiatry and lead author on the study. "In our healthy sample, people who report being more engaged in their current activities tend to have longer telomeres. We don't yet know how generalizable or important this relationship is."http://www.sott.net/article/253763-Breaking-study-is-the-first-to-show-link-between-being-present-in-the-moment-and-ageless-DNA