Embrace Your Age to Feel Younger

Contrary to everything we see and hear in the wave of commercial messages that crashes over us every day, there is nothing we can do to stop getting older. Creams promise to make your face look “years younger”. Exercise videos promise to make your body “look like it did in college”. Prescription pills guarantee to make your bedroom life… well you know. The point is that beneath all of these messages and promises flows one scary, and untrue current. That something is wrong with aging, and that it must be resisted at all costs. That underlying theme seeps into the minds of all of us, and leads us to the insane resistance of the beauty of the natural aging process. This resistance is the essence of what makes us look and feel older. By resisting, one is actually misaligning one’s self with the universe, and stressing the body. However, non-resistance to the aging process is no easy state to achieve. This article will look at a few exercises that can make it a little easier for you, and thus keep you feeling younger.

One thing to do is to, “Make friends” with today, the present moment. Pause your mind if you can. Clear all that incessant thinking that is always like a voice in the back of your head. Breathe deeply, and allow the beauty of today to get into your head. Notice the little things like birds chirping in the distance, or leaves rustling from the breeze. Soak up all the bright little details that get swept away by your otherwise busy and complicated mind. When you practice this exercise, you will immediately start to feel joy. You will feel a sense of peace with the current moment. It is in this moment that you are not resisting growing older… you are simply being. You are friends with “today” and therefore, friends with your current age. Practice this exercise when you have some quiet time in the morning or maybe in the evening before bed.

This next anti-aging exercise of the mind is a little easier than the last one. This one allows you to see the silliness of years past and the things that occupied your mind. By accomplishing this, you allow yourself to be happy that you are older now. You allow yourself to see that you are wiser and happier with your life, situation, and age. Take a minute to recall a situation from several years ago. Think of a problem you overcame, perhaps. Think about how important and all consuming that problem seemed at the time. Now snap back to the present time and realize how silly that problem seemed, or how much better off you are now. By doing this, you come to peace with your current situation and age. You will be happy that you are your current age. This is the peace you seek throughout the aging process.

A good old pat on the back is another simple yet powerful tool to finding peace with your current age. What I mean by this is to evaluate the good things in your life that have come to you over the years. Look at the financial assets you have accumulated. Look at the family or loved ones that you have. With each fantastic thing in your life that you can be thankful for, is another reason to be GLAD you have gotten older. You see, the years are required to attain these successes, these triumphs. As you begin feeling the gratefulness for these things in your life, so should you feel grateful for the age you’ve become. Without the years going by, these wonderful possessions or relationships could have never been attained. Draw a connection between your age and these valued things. You will begin thanking the universe for allowing you to have grown old, and as a result, you will start feeling younger.

Make every day a “Mini Thanksgiving”. I don’t mean to eat a giant plate of turkey and stuffing every day. That definitely wouldn’t make you feel any younger. However, giving thanks and feeling grateful for the blessings in your life will make you happy to be the age you are. In general being happy about something makes thinking about it less stressful and taxing on the body. By giving thanks every day for your life and the things in it, including all the years that have gone by, you will begin to feel a youthful excitement. This is the youthful excitement that used to be present all the time when you charged out the door as a youngster. Renew this excitement and gratitude and you will feel and look younger.

If you make a little effort to try building these concepts into your daily routine, you will find that life just “Feels better”. When you feel better, you will feel younger too. Of course, the occasional day will pass where you just feel old and wish you could wind the clock back 20 years. On those days in particular, you need to perform the exercises outlined in this article. They will clear your mind and refocus you as a young and satisfied, but mature adult.