Slow Aging | Healthy living, healthy aging

Defining Moments That Change How We Age

Woman-exercising-with-theraband

Woman-exercising-with-theraband

We are confronted with the choice or stairs or the lift?  Which one will it be…

Either, nothing happens (in your head) and you head for the lift.  Or, that voice kicks in…”you’ve walked a long way today, your bag is heavy and will be difficult if you take the stairs, you’re in a hurry…”  There’s always a reason not to push our bodies.  We are programmed that to push our bodies is “hard”, is “challenging”, is a “chore”, something to be done so we can avoid worse things from happening.  We aren’t typically programmed that it is fun to run up those stairs, to feel LIFE running through our bodies because we CAN run up those stairs.

 

This is what we must change.  The choice of the lift or the stairs is one of many defining moments.  These opportunities present to us a different way of approaching our lives and how we will age.  We can age with fitness and health on our side, or we can go into a steady decline (of fitness and health) and not even realise we’d made that particular choice somewhere along the line.  Now it becomes habitual and this habit, with many similar others sets us up for bad health and an older age without great function.

 

How many other defining moments will you have?

How can you become more conscious of these?  I challenge you to find sneaky ways to get past that voice in your head and start exercising:

Last Reviewed 27/Feb/2014

 

The following two tabs change content below.
Whilst wielding a couple of dumbbells in a gym class in 2003, Kate experienced an epiphany around the lack of accepted best practice guidelines when it came to staying well and avoiding disease. Kate realized that she had no chance of slowing her own aging process unless she became better educated about her options.
Exit mobile version