Aging does not have to be a bad thing. I mean if you are getting older it beats the alternative... If you are pushing up daisies it is a tad late to make changes. Sure, some things that used to set up high and taut might be pointing southward and sagging, but that is just part of the aging process. While I might grumble about my waistline not being the size it was in my youth or that my body feels aches and pains after doing chores that used to not make me break a sweat, I am not obsessing about my weight nor am I trying the newest diet fad to correct my perceived imperfections. Instead I am taking a page from one of my very wise clients who at age 60 made some changes for the better and now at age 70 she has made a few more.
My client told me at age 60 she committed to "fixing" herself. This fixing included having her eyelids lifted because she thought they made her look too old. She had surgery on her feet which was somewhat cosmetic but also improved her gait. Then she bought herself a convertible. She told me that she used to think sixty sounded so old.....til she arrived there and she knew that she was not going to be an old woman so she did what she could to feel younger.
Last week my client decided seventy was not the age of an old woman and she made a few more changes to improve her health. She said she was not going to hit golf balls out of sand bunkers anymore. She started doing yoga because she thought she was too old to take up running. Then lastly she decided that massage therapy was going to become part of her regular health maintenance. She told me when she was MUCH younger she had always considered massage an extravagance that had no real health benefits, but her 74 year old gal pal had persuaded her to see me for shoulder pain and she now knew that therapeutic massage was not "just rubbing".
This lovely young at heart lady said she would let me know her new list when she turned eighty. :)
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