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Back in the eighties, people were singing the lyrics to Alphaville’s Forever Young. The song lyrics describe enjoying life for as long as you can, and making sure that you make the best of your experiences. Little did these young people – boomers for the most part – realize that this could be their life theme even today. They now moan and groan about turning a year older again and looking as bad off as their hand-made moccasins back then. Age is a part of life, it’s inevitable, and you just have to learn to embrace it instead of fighting it. When you accomplish that, you’ll realize how feeling old is just a state of mind.

How you feel deep down inside is one of the major factors that interfere with your health and apparent youth. If you want to beat aging, you have be synchronised with your body’s needs. Body, mind, and spirit must be in harmony with your desires. When your spiritual, mental, and physical states match up with what you want, you can usually achieve those goals effortlessly. The secret to aging better and more naturally is to feel good about yourself, and just treat the symptoms that come naturally when you grow older. You don’t have to just live with these aches and pains and old looks and feel bad about them. You just need to accept what you’ve got and feel good about yourself. Avoid making an obsession out of aging, and you’ll be amazed at just how much pressure you’ve taken off your mind. You should feel like you are the same person as 20 or 30 years ago.

What matters is not your physical appearance, but who you really are in your heart and soul. This sounds like a cliché, but this became a cliché with good reason. Inside, you still have many of the same dreams and interests as you did those 20 or 30 years ago. In fact, aging has its rewards; the years of experience should have taught you how to be more confident and happier with yourself. You may worry about the fine lines and deep crevices you see in the mirror’s reflection, but has this helped at all? No, it only gave you ulcers!

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Here are a few things to remember each time you feel that you are aging:

1. Feeling beautiful is not about your age. In fact, it’s almost 100% attitude. You are a unique person, and there is much about you to love.
2. Learn to show your emotions. The trick is to let it our and get over it; blowing off steam is healthy.
3. Do not get bamboozled by the media’s perception of beauty. If you read through all the fashion publications and websites, you’ll soon realize that, in their eyes, no woman is good enough, much less perfect.
4. Find love with and via your friends, your partners, and your family. Share your good times with them and meet new people. Don’t surround yourself with people who don’t like you of who have a poor opinion of you; they are deadly to your welfare.
5. Don’t get caught in the rut that says, “I’m too old” to do something. Enjoy the rock concerts like you used to, and go to your friends’ parties. Don’t let other people’s opinions (or your own fear of looking silly) impact your mind-set. Let them knit sweaters and socks while you cut a rug.

Life is an adventure. Live it! Take your courage in your hands and enjoy whatever comes. The real secret is to carry on with your life and enjoy yourself. This is how you can feel forever young, and look the part as well.

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Hi there!

Everybody goes through troublesome situations. Almost everyone has been subject to misery and pain. With all that, how is it possible to move on to our next phase and enjoy the golden years that are still there for us? We have put all that bad stuff behind us but it’s still present in our minds. As the saying goes, “only two things are certain in this life, death and taxes.” Usually, the person then goes on to speak about taxes, but as we get older, we have to look the prospect of death in the eye. How are we going to do that? With strength and self-assurance? Or are we going to cower before death and give him a victory even while we are still alive? Old age is your choice! I know what I want to do, and I think that you have the same desire, whether you can achieve it or not.

What do you feel like right now? Is your body relaxed and younger-feeling than it really is? Have you come to grips with your real age? If that’s a problem for you, then you need to get a new way of thinking. If you can modify your attitude about your age, you can make astounding changes in your life. Your whole body will respond with a more positive outlook on life, your personality will reflect the potential joy that surrounds you, and even your looks will improve – those troublesome lines and wrinkles will not necessarily disappear, but they will become less noticeable, and many will turn into laugh lines. Just think, life – your life – is just sitting there, waiting for you to enjoy it to the fullest. It’s up to you to pick the cherries while you can. Old age is your choice.

How to do that? How do you “pick the cherries?” Well, it starts every morning. When you wake up, and make sure that you are thinking positive thoughts, that those nasty dark thoughts are banned from your head. Think about how you have been blessed: you are free to breathe good air, live in a comfortable house with people you love and who love you, enjoy your day. Old age is your choice, count your blessings; you’re bound to have many. And don’t stop where you are, go after all the new blessings you can find as well – new flowers and plants in the garden and along the street, new friends and acquaintances, even new TV programs (hmm, well maybe not). The important thing is to get and maintain a positive point of view on your entire existence. It’s your responsibility to take care of your own positive thoughts.

There is nothing that says you cannot stay active as your age increases. Daily routines are a pain, and they will drag you down with them into their boring daily cycles, but only if you let them. Vary your required activities, do them at a different time, go here and there via different routes and explore new areas, energise your mind and pump up your imagination with new experiences. Take life by the throat and love it! Old age really is your own choice: take control of your life and live it to the hilt, or grow old before your time, stewing in your own juices. You say you’ve made mistakes in the past? Who has not? But you can’t change those errors now; the thing to do is to face them down, accept that you made a mistake, but learn from it and life goes on! You have to let the old wounds heal themselves and go away. If you don’t do that, you will be covered by old wounds and look like the loser you have decided to be. Did you get the drift there? “The loser YOU have decided to be.” Don’t. Old age – your choice. Think positively and show it.

“Old age” comes in two varieties: the physical aging of the body, and the mental aging that can accelerate the physical aging if you let it. If you become old mentally, you’re done for. Your mind will convince your body that it cannot do even the normal things that it still is capable of doing, and you will kill yourself before your time. The correct, positive outlook will support your body and allow it to create joy and pleasure for you. You cannot stop physical aging, but you certainly can prevent yourself from becoming “prematurely old”. Think about it, you’ve probably seen and maybe even known some people who, at 40 or 45 years, were already older than most people at 75. Except in rare cases, that’s not physical, that’s mental aging. You don’t have to succumb to that. Enjoy your life, right up to, and even beyond, the limits that you set for yourself. That’s how to achieve the best you can do. “I don’t want to get old?” Old age is your choice!

Please note: Sue & Craig Websites, its owners and the author(s) of this article are not doctors or medical practitioners. The information above is volunteered in the public interest solely as entertainment, and is not designed to take the place of a consultation with your appropriate medical source. In case of a conflict between any statement above and your doctor’s advice, always take your doctor’s advice, but remember, it is your prerogative to obtain medical advice from more than one qualified source.

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Old Age – Your Choice?

Hello again!

We all have to grow up and grow old. As we age, we’ll notice creases on our faces and feel pains that we never felt when we were younger (as my mother used to say, “pains in places where I didn’t know I had places!”). If only we could freeze time and stay youthful forever… However, if there is one thing certain in life, it’s the fact that we all eventually age.

Some people deal with aging through cosmetic surgery, while others hide their real age with other methods. What you do about growing old is really up to you, but there are some things we can do to maintain our health so that we will always feel like a teenager, sans the cosmetic surgery. Here a few tricks you might want to use:

1. Attitude plays a key role when you want to feel young. You can’t expect to look young if you don’t believe that you can. You just have to know that if you take care of yourself well enough, you could be just as active as you were years before.
2. Take care of your body by exercising regularly. Working out keeps your muscles in tip-top shape, thus lessening strains and aches and potential damage when you overexert yourself.
3. Watch what you eat and make sure that you take in a lot of nutrients, vitamins, and water. Food plays a big role in your health, and when you are often sick, you will age faster.
4. Enjoy life and make every moment count. Never dwell on your fears. Life is too short, and when you know that you’ve lived it to the fullest, you will never have regrets in the end.
5. Try to avoid stressful situations. Stress brings the body down. When you are often depressed, the lines of worry eventually show in your face.
6. Learn the value of a sense of humor. People who don’t take life too seriously will not go through their daily routines worried about even the most trivial of matters.
7. Take lots of fluid to let moisture stay in your body. Sweat acts as natural moisturizer and this can visibly lessen lines and wrinkles.Sometimes, we have to motivate ourselves to stay young. If you find this too difficult, you need to take time to think about all your wonderful blessings. You’ll be surprised at just how much you have when you look into yourself and the life you’ve lived. It’s always good to be optimistic so that we can also look forward to what the future holds for us.

Set yourself a series of goals that you need to accomplish. Look at this list and make wise decisions. Let your past mistakes be lessons learned. If you do this, then staying young at heart will not be as difficult. In fact, it might be even easier than you think.

Most importantly, you should always be happy. Life is a constant surprise; learn to welcome each day with open arms. Your brain will be your most powerful ally as you grow older. As long as you believe in yourself and your abilities, you can do most anything you want. Though you may never be able to stop time, you can always lead your body to believe that it can win over it.

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Thanks for looking in,

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