Old Age: A Time of Awakening

“What does everyone want to become but no one wants to be?” “Old.”

Old Age: A Time of AwakeningGerrit Gielen – In our society, aging is associated with frightening realities such as physical and mental deterioration, the loss of friends and loved ones, isolation, being left alone to figure things out, and the threatening cost of healthcare.

The way it is portrayed in the media, growing old is considered highly undesirable. The question is, how do we deal with the inevitable? How do we make our way with confidence and connection to the end of our lives? Continue reading

Memory Support Tips: How to Care for the Brain

mental healthIn today’s fast-paced society, you might be more focused on work and money than you are on your mental health.

But the fact is, you need to take good care of your brain to stay sharp and creative.

Without a healthy brain, you may experience a decline in memory, a decline in your ability to focus, and a decline in your productivity.

Your brain does not stop aging after the age of 30, so you need to start taking good care of it from a young age. Continue reading

Aging Parents and Insight in Life

parents The gift of life can be an amazing thing. If you look around and feel awe about the mere fact that you’re here, you have a couple of people to directly thank. Those two individuals are your parents. It can be a gift to have parents who are still alive. If you have aging parents, then you should thank your lucky stars on a daily basis. It can also be nice to get insight from their existence.

It doesn’t matter if you need guidance that pertains to interpersonal relationships, career, pastimes or anything else along those lines. Viewing the actions of your elderly parents can prove to be invaluable to you. Continue reading

Main Types of Wrinkles and Effective Ways to Treat Them

agingAging is inevitable, but you can reduce the signs. Whether you’re having problems with laugh lines, creases, and wrinkles, there are effective natural ways to treat them.

But first, let’s understand the different types of wrinkles so that we can determine how to successfully get rid of them.

1. Expression Lines

As the name suggests, this type of wrinkle develops from repeated expressions you make on your face. Those repeated muscle movements cause creases, which in time, become permanent lines on the skin. Continue reading

How To Feel Okay About Aging

AshTreeAs we age, it is scary for our minds to realize that we are not as sharp as we used to be, or as quick, or as organized, or as competent. It might happen at age 40, or 50, or 60 or 70. And fear can twist us into knots. When the mind gets afraid, it gets more and more stressed, and the stress accumulates in the brain. You can be having a perfectly normal day and, all of a sudden, your mind can’t remember something: a name, a date, an appointment, where you put something, where you parked, or even what you did yesterday. And your mind can’t handle not knowing everything. So, it crawls back even deeper into its fear-based place where it lives much of the time. When this happens, it is important to remember that we are not losing ourselves. We are losing who we thought we were. This is a very important distinction.

Most people are caught in this very small box of struggle called the mind. We don’t recognize that there is something else going on here and it is called “home.” Home is exactly where we need to be. Eckhart Tolle so brilliantly tells us, “Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment.” This means that there is a bigger picture here. People who have had near death experiences have often said that they come back to life and realize how claustrophobic it is to be in this small body-mind system. We are so much more than this. Continue reading