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The Open Secret To Longevity
by Lonny Brown, HHc. |
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At 59, I have fun asking new students in my holistic health classes to guess my age. Their estimates average fifteen years too young. When I prove that I'm stronger than anyone in the room, and I tell them I never get sick and haven't taken any medicine or seen a doctor in decades, they ask me my "secret."
My answer is, there is no secret. The key to longevity is simply the difference between knowing what to do and doing it: i.e. will power. The secret to living a long life is what you do every day of that life, starting now.
In my holistic health lectures and workshops, when I ask who would like to live to 100, most people raise their hands. When I ask who would be willing to quit their addictions, go vegetarian, meditate daily, exercise weekly, and fast once a month, many of those hands - like the resolve of their owners - begin dropping. Self-care seems too much like work.
Thanks to modern medical science, universal public education, and mass media, we now all know all too well what to do (and what not to do) for good health. But, as they say, "the flesh is weak." Hence the cigarette industry thrives, despite the dire warnings on its packages and the well-known fact that smoking is the greatest single risk factor for most life-threatening diseases.
Americans takes better care of their cars and pets than their own bodies. Our leading killer, heart disease, is directly linked to lifestyle. Our stressful, polluted, stuffed couch-potato existence causes the growing gap between biological and chronological ages. Our quality-of-life expectancy is falling. It is commonly accepted that the longer we live, the sicker we get. Yet the most long-lived cultures in the world - such as in Asia and eastern Russia - show another possibility: healthy aging and "youthful" old age. These are people that play hard, virtually never retire and live into their hundreds.
What would it take to make you clean up your act, get strong, and make smart life-extending choices? A milestone birthday? A good cancer scare? The death of a loved one? Why wait? It's a lot easier (and more fun) to be proactive about life-extension than reactive, or defeatist. When "what" is no longer the issue, "when" becomes the question, and the best answer is, the sooner the better. When it comes to insuring more tomorrows, there's no time like today.
Many people make big resolutions once a year. But the best way to live a lot more years is to stop resolving and start making many small smart choices every day. When you finish reading this article, stop and stretch, take a deep breath, relax, close your eyes and picture yourself both old and healthy. Ask your future self how you survived and thrived so successfully. Chances are the answer will be no secret at all, and sound something like your grandmother's good advice: eat healthy food, get regular exercise, rest and relaxation, and oh yeah.. lots of love.
When you're done visualizing, get up and start that long life with a simple but positive, life-enhancing act, and then another. After a few days or weeks or months of reducing your risk factors and strengthening your systems, common symptoms and ailments naturally begin to disappear. Biological aging slows. You may wake up one morning and actually feel younger! Keep it up, and a few years or decades of wellness later, you'll find yourself happily playing with your great-grand-children, and telling them your "secret" to long life.
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Lonny Brown,
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Lonny J. Brown, HHC is the author of "Self-Actuated Healing" (Naturegraph, Publ.), and "Enlightenment In Our Time," (BookLocker.com/
LonnyBrown).
His writings on holistic health have appeared on AOL's Alternative Medicine Forum and in Alternative Health Practitioner, Yoga Journal, and many other progressive publications.
Lonny Brown teaches holistic health, mind/body healing, and stress reduction courses at hospitals, schools and businesses throughout the US. His Web site also features essays, tapes, books, and links to a variety of integrative health sources.
holistic.com/lonny
lonny@holistic.com
lonnybrown@aol.com
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