The adding of extra years to our lives, that is aging, does not necessarily have to follow along the old rules which say:
1. we are born
2. we try to have a productive life's period where and when we involve ourselves in:
• education
• work
• be married and have a family
• see our family grow up and have their own families
• accept that our productive period is over
• prepare ourselves to look-after ourselves and later depart from this world.
The above are roughly what we as humans do go through within a lifetime.
Serious questions need to be asked with respect to aging and how we do age:
a. do we have to impose past learning on ourselves? learning that says that we must suffer disabling occurrences in our lives and accept that only a few of the aged will escape such disabilities?
b. that the older we become, the more frail we will be and again accept that only the minority will escape?
c. that sooner or later our brain activities will fail and we will suffer adversely from the effects of the failing brain and again accept that only the lucky minority will escape such trauma?
There is much evidence that say that as we grow older and older and the impact of both internal and external body mishaps take hold, that there is a greater tendency for the above to happen, that is, we will suffer disability/disabilities, become frail and have memory dysfunctions.
The one thing that needs now to be remembered and imparted at this point is that there is no guarantee that the above conditions will happen, except, if we believe and accept that they will and we further go on to impose those beliefs on our body systems. With the reprogramming of our attitudes to life, living and aging, we can go quite some way towards reprogramming our life's outcomes, all to our advantage.
The very apt quotation of Napoleon Hill will suffice here: 'whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve'. The message here is that you can change your belief systems and such systems can have very powerful and profound effects on our lives.
The above is not saying that if we do change our mindsets that pertain to life and aging that we can live forever just by believing and accepting those certain conditions. There is that something finite about all existence. Human life does have built-in limits. There is a beginning and then the end, which inevitably comes sooner or later to every living thing.
It has been quoted over past times that our past defines our future. I would say to the contrary and quite categorically to all aspects of the above that it is good to know about the past, for with that knowledge, we can more certainly change/define our future. Aging is one such condition that says that we must not be absolute slaves to our past. We can certainly do something about it and that something can be very positive and productive. We can live longer, productive and care-free lives.
What is very necessary about the aging/anti-aging question is to rethink past conditioning processes that we accept on the issue of aging. We do need to look at the lives of those who have broken the mould and have lived beyond their naturally expected ages. These are what most of them do:
most of them exercise regularly
they do not indulge in smoking or abuse alcohol
they ate wisely
they do have good friends outside of their immediate family groupings
they exude optimism and very positive attitude
they adapt well to current life's situations
Much research is taking place at the moment especially in America with the hope that the current extended human lifespan which stands at 122 years will be grossly increased.
1. we are born
2. we try to have a productive life's period where and when we involve ourselves in:
• education
• work
• be married and have a family
• see our family grow up and have their own families
• accept that our productive period is over
• prepare ourselves to look-after ourselves and later depart from this world.
The above are roughly what we as humans do go through within a lifetime.
Serious questions need to be asked with respect to aging and how we do age:
a. do we have to impose past learning on ourselves? learning that says that we must suffer disabling occurrences in our lives and accept that only a few of the aged will escape such disabilities?
b. that the older we become, the more frail we will be and again accept that only the minority will escape?
c. that sooner or later our brain activities will fail and we will suffer adversely from the effects of the failing brain and again accept that only the lucky minority will escape such trauma?
There is much evidence that say that as we grow older and older and the impact of both internal and external body mishaps take hold, that there is a greater tendency for the above to happen, that is, we will suffer disability/disabilities, become frail and have memory dysfunctions.
The one thing that needs now to be remembered and imparted at this point is that there is no guarantee that the above conditions will happen, except, if we believe and accept that they will and we further go on to impose those beliefs on our body systems. With the reprogramming of our attitudes to life, living and aging, we can go quite some way towards reprogramming our life's outcomes, all to our advantage.
The very apt quotation of Napoleon Hill will suffice here: 'whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve'. The message here is that you can change your belief systems and such systems can have very powerful and profound effects on our lives.
The above is not saying that if we do change our mindsets that pertain to life and aging that we can live forever just by believing and accepting those certain conditions. There is that something finite about all existence. Human life does have built-in limits. There is a beginning and then the end, which inevitably comes sooner or later to every living thing.
It has been quoted over past times that our past defines our future. I would say to the contrary and quite categorically to all aspects of the above that it is good to know about the past, for with that knowledge, we can more certainly change/define our future. Aging is one such condition that says that we must not be absolute slaves to our past. We can certainly do something about it and that something can be very positive and productive. We can live longer, productive and care-free lives.
What is very necessary about the aging/anti-aging question is to rethink past conditioning processes that we accept on the issue of aging. We do need to look at the lives of those who have broken the mould and have lived beyond their naturally expected ages. These are what most of them do:
most of them exercise regularly
they do not indulge in smoking or abuse alcohol
they ate wisely
they do have good friends outside of their immediate family groupings
they exude optimism and very positive attitude
they adapt well to current life's situations
Much research is taking place at the moment especially in America with the hope that the current extended human lifespan which stands at 122 years will be grossly increased.
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