Longevity Mindset
Longevity Mindset
It’s Mother’s Day and wishing you all the happiest day, week, month and year until the next one rolls around! I will be taking the week off, partially to visit with my Mother In Law. She is doing so well nearing her 93rd birthday. This awesome ability, despite the assaults and injuries of a long and potent life drew my attention to a site I saw about the “Longevity Mindset”. I might not agree totally with all of their ideas but the premise is a good one in how we too often can limit our mindset with beliefs. So sharing with you what peeked my attention:
“Longevity Mindset is mortality is avoidable (hmmm, this I pause on), youth is extendable, the spirit of the Longevity Mindset is aging is a disease that many on the planet believe can be slowed, stopped and reversed.”
So how does one develop this type of mindset?
- Well if we begin with our beliefs, are they etched in stone or can we reflect, pause and create another option in the way we think? The only limiting belief is that our beliefs can’t change, in fact, they must as life brings new experiences forward.
- What about our “Media diet”? Might we become a bit more attuned to what or how much we bring into our Nervous System as we all realize too much “doom scrolling” will take you down the rabbit hole!
- Continuing a direction of optimism vs pessimism. The news is all about what sells and too often they barrage us with the negative as they say, that’s what sells. Turn it off when you feel the affects it is creating in you that are taking you in the wrong direction of what you hope to happen.
- Sleep habits. There are many studies that indicate we need more sleep than often we allow, so sleep more and allow for a restful repose, quieting the unnecessary stimulation that triggers and reeves and robs us of our sleep!
- You are what you eat so think to eat a healthy diet and then enjoy the process of eating so our digestion receives with delight, even when it’s that awesome chocolate we just had to have. If the state we are in welcomes the delights, our system will receive it and digest it instead of feeling guilty because we eat the whole thing. Next time the urge comes, eat only half 😉
- Exercise with enjoyment, listening to how you explore instead of “NO PAIN, no gain, in fact, NO PAIN and all GAIN!
- Mindset, create a mindful approach to honoring what you feel, then don’t make it worst than it is, or better but see it as it is and then create more specificity as to what you would like to see happen!
So enjoy the lessons from your library that I’ve sent, if you attend my classes. Draw upon your library of ATM lessons, another wonderful way to awaken all of you to how to improve. And of course you can tap into my Free 57 ATM lessons on my YouTube channel. Then, join me with FeldenkraisAccess this Thursday for another Balance lesson, part of the series that even if you haven’t joined yet, you can still tap in and receive all the previous recordings and videos.
“The only thing permanent about our behavior patterns is our belief that they are so.” – Moshe Feldenkrais
See you next week when I return to our usual 4 ATMs a week.
Warmest,
Peggi
