Ageing

Once I read somewhere :”You know you are getting old when you know more dead people than alive ones”. Now, many years later I feel it just maybe true. Though, today however it is an accepted fact that 60 is the new 40-but it depends what you say to your self and self perception. Everything comes from within-we all have all the knowledge on our hard drive, we just need to access the information-and change the text sometimes. This I believe whole heartedly-and re-generation, life extension is not a probability but a definite possibility –it is an actual choice. True, lifestyle comes into play, genes and outlook-but that is a very small percentage. You can actually turn on and off genes-I wrote about this before. But-the thing is it is hard work-there are no magic formulae, neither a silver bullet, neither a short route. TV is full of misinformation and illusions about many products.

Now, the mind is a different matter, also the brain-but one needs to use it or lose it. Many are losing it in front of TVs and sports fields-; observing-it is different who plays and going mad-sweating and stressing, worrying  over small stuff. So, neurogenesis slows down, and more neurons die and ageing is sped up. So get off that butt and get moving. Learning new things, doing new things, reading about new things increases neurogenesis-but also increases awareness. There is a great book by a psychiatrist-Dan Siegel titled:” Aware-the science and practice  of presence. He has some interesting insights in how to slow down the ageing process-also now there are techniques and certain supplements which can actually repair and slow down the “fraying” of the telomeres.

I wasn`t touched by death until I was in my 20, when my grandmother died, but it didn`t stir too much in me as she was in the “old country”. I didn`t even have a dog that died at that point-now there seems to be death everywhere-maybe it is the media, though there were all kinds of gory, murder mystery movies-and westerns way back, but it all seemed fiction. Now it is different-its in your face daily-the news are never good, only bad filled with fear mongering and it all just generates negative energy.

Sure-everyone gets down at times; like myself in the last post, - but it is how one feels generally, and how one looks at things most of the time.  I think the atheist and agnostics really have it-be always in the present, be aware and the rest we shall see when we get there-or not see. However. I plan and have decided  to live well over a 100 with great quality of life;that is a must for all. If you really decide this, it will be so, that is what will happen. We are the creative force-we have free will. It is really all a matter of decision. This is the basis of miracles-faith and belief –but God is within, we are divine sparks-so we are capable. We are the image of God-(metaphor).  Each drop of ocean contains the whole. Maybe we are just fractals of the divine and that is what all the ancient writings have told us-all is possible. We are such a miracle of creation, a miracle of light, a miracle of consciousness, a miracle of pure love.