Ultimately, aging in a healthful manner will be determined by how you feel about yourself deep inside.
Both men and women have to endure hormonal changes in mid life that affect the way they feel, how they begin to look in the mirror, their sexual function, energy levels are diminished and their moods tend to fluctuate. Women’s change of life is more immediate and the males change happens over an extended time frame. However these changes occur, one thing is certain, it will alter the way we feel about ourselves and tangle with our self esteem.
We can certainly make physical changes by using anti aging products and supplement our health with different vitamin products to increase energy etc., but more needs to be done to rejuvenate our self worth and not just our bodies. E need to boost and reinforce our spiritual well being or risk remaining in a funk, as we grow older.
One popular individual who embodied a powerful sense of self was the actress and comedienne Mae West and she backed this up by stating aloud “I never loved another person the way I loved myself.” Loving one’s self and having a sense of personal well being will mean other people also will feel compelled to treat you with the highest dignity.
Here Are Some Tips To Revitalize Your Inner Being:
Keep your sexuality alive: Nurture that spirited side of yourself and always display a youthful energy. Once again, Mae West comes to mind as someone who was self confident and her zingers certainly showed a healthy amount of sexuality into her senior years when she once said “I used to be Snow White – but I drifted.”
Always have room in your heart for others: Show a kind spirit to others always and do not be shy about conveying your heart to those around you. Your great spirit will draw others to you and take care of your existing associations.
Be good to yourself: It is okay to reward yourself with a few kind thoughts about the good person you are. When the day is finished it is fine to tell yourself how much you have done for others and credit the good you have bestowed on those around you. Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for being a good person.
Always laugh at yourself: Do not take yourself too seriously and your spirits will continue to skyrocket because of it. Funnyman Rodney Dangerfield once said, “My wife was afraid of the dark…then she saw me naked and now she’s afraid of the light.”
Search out role models: Seek out those in public life who you respect, admire, and in your own life privately, emulate those you respect. Isabella Rossellini, the Italian actress who is fifty seven years old is an author and doer of good works has said, “When we read women’s magazines we read about the drama of growing old – anti aging products, plastic surgery and many other things. But if you are independent, as I am, aging is welcome.”
Aging is a physical development that we all must face down. Some of us do a better job of it than others. Those who face aging straight on with hope, health and grace, doing what they can to take care of themselves while not fretting over each new wrinkle and age spot, are truly at peace with themselves. They have developed a strong inner self worth that will sustain them into their later lives and be those people that others look up to.
Wed, Nov 4, 2009
Health And Aging, Lifestyle, Longevity