The Come Alive Project

Tag: longevity

  • Energy Bite 384 – I Am Ageless. You Can Choose To Be Ageless Too

    Being Ageless is a mental construct. It is a State of Being. I am ageless. So are YOU if you choose to be.

    There is difference between longevity and being ageless. Longevity refers to living a long time but often succumbing to the biomarkers of reduced . . .

    Lean muscle mass . . . Strength . . . Metabolic rate . . . Aerobic capacity . . . Bone density. Biomarkers also refer to negative changes in blood pressure, body fat percentage, ability to regulate body temperature, insulin sensitivity and your cholesterol ratios.   — Biomarkers, Wm Evans, Irwin Rosenberg, 1991.

    You can add loss of hearing, eyesight, and the potential for mental deterioration.

    You become old. As in living a long time but deteriorating/decaying.

    Being ageless, while a mental construct, is both a mental and a physical state of being. It’s the mental attitude of feeling “alive” with mental energy, Flow, and enthusiasm for life . . . AND . . . The physical capacity (physical energy) to be able to carry out the purpose you choose for that life.

    Will you regress occasionally? Of course. Situations will arise that will depress you, isolate you, anger you, or injure you. Yes, you will fall ill on occasion. But the “ageless” person is more likely to recover, to “shift” and to re-awaken into “aliveness”.

    Those are amazing feelings you get as the endorphins kick in and you “shift” into that addictive state of Flow, where time SLOWS DOWN, you can perform at an optimal state, and when you have truly “Come Alive”.

    You can LET yourself get old, or you can choose to be ageless. There is no reason to let yourself fall into the aging trap when you can “shift” at any time and “Come Alive Again”.

    I am ageless. You are too if you choose to be.

    Thank you for reading.

  • Energy bite 305 – Random Thoughts

    Seniors today are aging better and are more vibrant and aware than Seniors of previous generations. Thanks to modern medicine, you are living longer and better lives than before. Many of you have stayed active longer and are in better physical condition than those seniors of earlier generations. 60 is the new 50. Some say 70 is the new 50. And some feel and act like they are 80 when they are only turning 50.

    I know there are a lot of Seniors like you, who want to focus their lives in a healthy direction and get away from the stagnation and boredom that often pops up after the initial excitement of retirement. You are entering a new stage in life where health, fitness and personal energy becomes a priority. You begin to recognize that health and fitness leads to a better and longer senior life.

    As Seniors, you and I face a lot of challenges — some real and some perceived as real. These challenges include lack of mobility, weakening bodies, increased incidents of illness, falling, increasing isolation, boredom and depression, all leading to that lack of independent living that we fear most of all.

    Of course, you can prevent the premature aging that saps the energy from our lives. I’ve been promoting physical movement (exercise), intelligent eating, deep breathing and a Positive Attitude toward life, in the 304 previous “Energy Bite” blog articles over the last decade.

    When I started the Come Alive Project nearly a decade ago, I intended it to be an awareness campaign for active Seniors about how to discover the Fountain of Youth within each of us through Health, Fitness and Personal Energy. I continue to do talks and workshops on the subject and intend to continue both the blog and the workshops for as long as I am physically able. Heck, it’s fun! Plus, I have enjoyed the many positive comments I have received over the years.

    Oh, and by the way, I practice what I preach. That’s why at age 79, coming up on 80 in five months, I feel like “80 going on 45”. I feel better now than at almost any time in my adult life because of the change in lifestyle I made ten years ago. I added physical movement, intelligent eating and better habits back into my life. I am still following the message that I created The Come Alive Project to spread.

    I hope you are doing the same. Thank you for reading. 

  • Energy Bite 272 – Why Aging Airplanes Keep On Flying


    Here’s a question for you. If you took two brand new airplanes, fresh out of the factory, and stored one in the hanger to spend its days in rest and quiet and never let it get off the ground, while the other one started flying and flew for the next 50 years, which would be more airworthy at the end of those fifty years? The one that rested for fifty years, or the one that flew a tough schedule for 50 years and was fueled and maintained the way it was designed?

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