Ready to Rejuvenate?
Be full of vitality and
health throughout your long life.
FIRST: Believe that it’s possible
for you!
Become aware that there ARE
healthy humans over 100 years old, and then it’s easier for you to believe you,
too, can stay full of vitality your whole life.
In 2011, Dr. Walter Watson, age 101, was still
making the hospital rounds each morning, after having delivered over 18,000
babies. (He died at age 102 after a
brief overnight hospital stay.)
In Sept, 2014, my sister, Sharon, and I visited
Emma in Missoula, Montana.
Emma lives in a retirement home called The
Village. When we knocked at her
apartment, she came to the door and greeted us, wearing her usual: a dress,
shoes and nylon stockings. I wish my
legs looked as good as hers!
I said “Emma, I’m giving a workshop on
rejuvenation, and I would like to know your secret for staying so young.”
“Well”, she said, “you know I’m 102 years
old.” When I nodded, she continued, “I
guess you could say my secret is that I associate with young people. However, I do eat dinner now, in the dining
room with others who live here. They’re
all old, you know. When I started eating in the dining room, I said ‘there
will be no talking about aches and pains.
There are lots of interesting things to talk about besides getting
old.’ So dwell on the good, not the bad.
I can’t sit in the parlor here at The
Village and play tiddlywinks.
I don’t fixate on pills. I don’t smoke, drink alcohol or coffee.”
On Dec 10th, 2014, she celebrated her
103rd birthday.
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