Looking younger becomes the ultimate quest for anyone who begins to feel old. We all want to look and feel forever young, to be plump of body, mind, and spirit. But nature has its intentions, we battle it on a daily basis. We don’t want to look older than our true biological age.
What the health experts claim is that it’s disease that’s the cause of someone aging quicker. What the anti-aging industry does is it preys by injecting hope rather than offering a solution such as a creme. Aging is inevitable, so they always seem to have the ideal solution.
The cause of aging because of disease is the decline in one’s hormonal production at the cellular level, which we artificially attempt to replenish ourselves to restore that youthful appearance.
Those who market aging will tell you that they’ve made yet another miraculous breakthrough, a magical cure for looking younger, another revealing solution, and maybe, just maybe this time.
Aging Vs Growing Old
Realize that aging, getting older isn’t the reason why we begin to look and feel older, as there’s a distinction. But we believe that’s the cause, and as a result, we’d rather blame our birth certificates.
What it comes down to is how young we think, how our brain is able to function and manage the root causes of chronic illness and disease, the causes which makes us age prematurely.
The agreed clinical lifespan of a human is now 120 years old. That’s how old we should be living if we avoid illness, disease, and all other life mishaps. Some individuals who reach the age of 60, however, which is only the halfway point, look and feel old,.
Feeling Younger Despite Your Age
Aging And Getting Old
The aging effect is the depletion of the natural reserves that we have in our cells. It’s estimated that we begin to decline at approximately 1% percent per year once we reach 30 years of age.
It’s not biological aging that’s the cause of our joints to stiffen, have aches and pains, low energy, high blood pressure, or why our metabolism slows down. The culprit is how we think and treat our bodies.
We begin to do less for ourselves while lowering our expectations. Then we become increasingly dependent on supplements and prescriptions, thinking that getting old is the root cause.
Accept What You Can’t Control
There are certain hazards that we face every day of our lives, unforeseen injuries, unexpected accidents, sudden tragedies, fate, events that we can’t usually control.
What they result in are negative emotions, so it’s recommended you remain as positive as possible, stay engaged and connected with others, while not allowing yourself to become isolated by finding purpose. Resilience is what keeps us young, as it’s a byproduct of positive emotions.
Do What You Believe
Make sure that you manage your time efficiently to make room for what’s important to you. How you spend this time reflects what your priorities are. Decide what’s really important and make them preferred.
We’re all guilty of doing things which are trivial, habits which don’t contribute to our cause, but they’re easy and routine to do, so we do them first. What we avoid are doing the things which we think are too difficult.
Learning To Adapt
Always look for better ways to adapt. What the cells in our brains and muscles does is it challenges us daily, to use them or lose them, which is a natural law of biology.
You need to keep your cells active, otherwise they’ll weaken, shrink, and then lose their circulation. These cells as a result will begin to break down, which is the default setting of getting old.
What we need to do is proactively make positive adaptations by constantly keeping our brains and our bodies as active as possible, keeping our cells alive, this in a variety of ways.
Know Your Body
Always be consciously aware of how you’re standing, sitting, walking, and breathing. Always be listening to your body, look for every itch and ouch.
If we’re not conscious about this, then what our subconscious mind does is it begins to take over, begin making excuses for you which often leads to unhealthy responses, and ultimately illness or disease.
Listen To Yourself
Always listen to what that “little” voice in the back of your mind says. The one that procrastinates, resists change, raises questions, raises doubt, challenging our worth and our abilities. It tells us that we’re getting old.
This subconscious programming restricts us from making any positive changes. Negative thinking then becomes protocol and begins to take over, which undermines our behavior.
This is a chemical reaction that’s released by our brains which makes us feel worse, and old. Then you begin to fear change, become pessimistic, and change the subject. The cure is just repeating positive affirmations.
Just Breathe
Which sounds easy, but what the quality of our breathing does other than keep us alive, is it connects our body to our mind. Our daily lives are full of the stresses which never gets completely resolved.
What we consciously need to do is turn off our stress response. We can do so by breathing slower and deeper to relax. Practice it often several times a day, focusing on the quality of your breathing.
Take A Walk
You need to walk before you can run. So walk at every opportunity you can and make sure that you walk with purpose. Walking is our most natural and easiest form of exercise.
The more that you walk, every step that you take, what you’re doing is lowering your risk of every chronic disease known. Walk as if you’re late for something, brisk, increase your stride, stretch out your leg muscles, stand up straight and tall, take a sip of water and breathe deeply.