Aging Consciously: Simple Things You Can Do Now To Look Good And Feel Great

Getting older is a gift.

I like getting older. In the spirit of true confession and full transparency, it wasn’t always like this. Had you asked me just a few years ago what I dreaded most, my answer would have been exactly this: “Getting Older”.

As I write this post today, I feel like “Wow! How amazing is this life? I feel very lucky to have gone through all the challenges in life, in health, in my relationships and in my career to have arrived at this stage of my life where honestly, I don’t give an f… what others think of me. After all, as we grow older, we have the added benefit of experience, wisdom, and perspective.

Growing older is the one thing every human shares, and yet so many of us fight this inevitability. Our experience with age is determined as much by our thoughts about it as by its objective reality. The culture we live in doesn’t help either because it is dominated by attitudes about growing old, constricting us emotionally into anxiety and fear as we age.

Change is inevitable. Our body changes from day to day. Gravity takes over and stuff droops and falls. Yes, some of the things that happen to our physical body really suck! And if we wait too long to take care of this body, the aging process accelerates and overall…