On Line Shopping and Aging – A Proactive Approach

 

 

What does on line shopping have to do with aging? On line shopping makes it way too easy to find a bargain, way too quick to push the confirm order button, a surprise when the package arrives so fast and a wonderful feeling when the stuff fits! Aging is way too easy. It just happens. It also happens way too quickly commanding you to hit the confirm your age button.  It is such a surprise at how fast a certain age appears and a nice feeling when it fits with a sense of comfort. After all isn’t comfort one of the great things about aging?

Shopping is no longer about a trend. It is about finding something cute, comfortable and stylish enough to not make me look my age, but also cover up the unappealing wrinkling and cracking parts of my body. Most particularly I mean the knees and the arms. To me nothing gives a woman’s age away like a pair of shorts showing her sagging and wrinkling knees. Now you may say well at this age shouldn’t we just let it all hang out? No problem, I say, but do it with a little thought.  That’s why the short Gods made capris. Sexy, cute, summery and covering those sagging knees capris are ageless.  

I wish I could stop online shopping. I wish I could stop aging. But just like the same old clothes get boring staying the same age forever would also get boring. There is a thrill in pushing the place order button on my computer.  It means something new. Isn’t that what each birthday brings; a new year?  So if I can only get that same thrill when my birthday rolls around as I do hitting the place order button I will have a proactive approach to aging.

Doctor Lynn

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Proactive Anti-Aging - I can’t get my head around it any more

 

 

 

 

 

Repeatedly this week I heard from my students and my friends, “I can’t get my head around it anymore.” The world is moving at such a fast pace. Technology is over whelming and quite frankly I just don’t want to keep up with it. My brain just doesn’t want to struggle and strain with the nuances of YouTube and Facebook, let alone all the other sites and bites of the techoverse. So I am adjusting my thinking process and deciding to visit with my friends over coffee or old fashion landline phone calls and leave the skyping and texting alone for a while.

In yoga struggling and staining will get you hurt. In life struggling and straining will get you hurt. It’s not that we can ignore the direction of the world. It’s that we need to make adjustments. Just like the body changes as we age and the sins of our past show up in the form of arthritis, back problems and knee problems, so does the mind begin to ache from an over load of stress and information. It just doesn’t want to process all that “stuff” any more. It’s time to adjust to the technoverse, not to compete, but to be comfortable enough to stay connected without getting hurt. That’s how we adjust to a yoga pose, adjust to life and get our head around the ever changing dynamic of technology and take a proactive approach to aging.

Doctor Lynn

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Stop and Smell the Flowers - Proactive anti-aging

 

 

 

 

On my desk sits a bouquet of lilacs. When I smell lilacs I always flash back to my youth. One of the wonders of spring in New England is the blooming of lilacs. I would pick them and fill the house with the sweet smell of spring. After the long harsh winter the color and scent promised warm and sunny days ahead.

Your sense of smell brings an acute awareness of the world without words to describe.  What do lilacs smell like? They are sweet and sharp. But what does sweet and sharp smell like? We lack a language to describe scents and yet we all know what flowers smell like.

One of the first senses to fade as we age is our sense of smell. Along with it goes our sense of taste. Is there something proactive we can do to keep the senses sharp?

A change in hormones and body chemistry affects all of our senses.  Mostly we focus on sight and sound, but our sense of smell is also an important sense that fades as we age.  However, it is the first sense to be awakened when we are born.

 We know that the number of fibers in the olfactory bulb, along with olfactory receptors decrease with age^.  The bulb losses may well be secondary to sensory cell loss along with a general deterioration in our central nervous system and cognitive ability to process information. Mammals have the ability to replace these cells; however this process degenerates with aging.

The old adage “if you don’t use it you’ll lose it” Is a truism. Unfortunately we live in an artificial world full of artificial smells and taste. So the best way to keep the sense of smell strong is to focus on the scent of real flowers, real spices and real food.  Dull the sense with artificial “stuff” and you dull the mind. So what is your flower of choice? What scent takes you back to your childhood? One whiff and you’ll drift back in time and like my lilacs the harshness of aging will subside and bring to you, body and mind a proactive way to keep your sense of smell youthful and strong.  

Go ahead take a whiff of youth and linger in the moment. Just smell the flowers.

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Proactive Anti-Aging – Brain Power - Does White Matter Really Matter?

 

 

 

 

Here’s another reason to keep active. Studies show that older adults who are active regardless of type (light, moderate of vigorous) have more white matter in the structure of their brains. But what does this mean? White matter connects the grey matter (cell bodies) of our brains and carries nerve impulses between the nerves. More white matter increases the speed of the transmission. Those with more white matter scored higher on mental test than those with less. What scientist discovered was those with more white matter had more brain variability. Brain variability is associated with greater cognitive functioning. Scientist used blood oxygen levels to measure cognitive  functioning of older adults and found that it’s not how hard you work, but how active you are that counts when it comes to increased brain power.

So go ahead and thumb your nose at all those young tech savvy kids sitting for hours glued to their computers and smart phones. Get moving and grooving and you will add variability to your thought processes at accelerated speed because when it comes to the brain power (and wisdom) white matter matters!

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You Earned It - Proactive Anti-Aging

 

 

 

 

 

Last week I worked seven days in a row. This week I really feel it. It’s not that I didn’t feel it when I was younger. It’s just that now I have no problem kicking back and slowing down. I don’t want to push, compete, run, worry and stress anymore.  Stressful worry adds years to your life. Putting your feet up and taking a breath adds health to your life. I’ll take health over years any day.

I’m trying to do a project using the computer and I must say I am at a loss. What I really want to do is hire some young kid to come in and solve my problem while I have my feet up, breathing and may-be even sipping a glass of wine.

I taught my classes this week and did a talk radio interview. After each class I found myself wanting to take a break.  I’m pacing myself by taking time to put up my feet, take a breath, sip a glass of wine and smugly smile because I know that the best thing I can do for my health is to take a proactive approach to aging; I’ll get to it, whatever it is,  when I feel like it. Put your feet up and smile.  You earned it!

Doctor Lynn

Proactive Anti-Aging - Purifying the Soul

 

 

 

 

 

They say that a drenching of water from the Ganga River in India will purify the soul. It is also said that adventure awakens and enlightens the soul. If you want to stay young you have to be willing to venture out and attempt to do something that expands your horizon. But it must be done with care and a little thought.

When chronologically young we feel the invincibility of youth. Everything is a new challenge. Experience is yet to be earned. As we age we begin to pay for our youthful escapades.  There are the  times when we jumped head on into rollicking and rolling feats that left us in our later years with memories of pain and arthritic tenderness as our badge and testament of our courage or stupidity. Experience teaches us that sometimes it is best to pause for a moment and assess the situation before jumping in. Maturity teaches us to evaluate the risk.

As I arrived in Rishikesh India and headed for my lodging at the upper end of the Ganga River I was met by a group of young water sports guides. They greeted me with such enthusiasm as they informed me that part of my stay included a rafting trip down the Ganga. OMG I thought, can I really do this?

There were two levels of rafting. One was a short four mile easy ride and the other was a sixteen mile rather intense ride. I opted for the short ride. Suited and ready to go my team mates (all three about thirty-five) kept pestering me to complete the full ride. They needed me to balance out the raft and to balance out the energy and fun. So after the first four miles will little more than a bit of paddling and one small set of rapids I was easily persuaded to finish the sixteen mile ride. OMG I was now committed.

Three hours, sixteen miles and about ten really wild rapids later I finished the ride soaked from the Ganga River. I purified my soul and awakened it to the youthful joy of doing something for the first time that left a lasting impression on my being.  I’m not invincible and I know enough to pick my challenges wisely.  I am strong and in good shape so I knew I could handle the job of navigating the rapids on the Ganga. I also knew my soul felt free flowing with the river in the midst of nature on a beautiful spring day in the land of peace and serenity. Now I can honestly say the Ganga purified, awakened and enlightened my soul and that is proactive anti-aging at its best!

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