How To Grow Younger — Mind Body Spirit Practices
The idea of growing younger is a shift for most of us because society has been indoctrinated with the prevailing ideas and beliefs about aging. We’ve been taught that growing old is grim, that aging unavoidably involves the loss of many of our aptitudes and abilities, that aging isn’t fun or graceful and that it is often painful. Not so many decades ago, we were also taught that people couldn’t fly – until a few forward thinkers chose not to accept the impossibility of flight. Instead, they figured out how to do it. We were taught that polio couldn’t be prevented – until Dr. Jonas Salk invented the vaccine. Today, I and other age-reversing pioneers are shaking the roots of the prevailing belief system and figuring out how to grow younger as we age. The first step toward making it happen is to conceive of becoming youthful.
Science is helping to move us closer to the day when the progressive deterioration of aging is a thing of the past. Many fields of discipline, including life-extension science and medicine, have jumped on the bandwagon of age reversal, so the possibility of growing younger is being examined and tested from many vantage points. Astounding advances are taking place every day in molecular biology, organ and tissue regeneration and nanotechnology. Breakthroughs in these fields will potentially eliminate agerelated illness and give us youthful skin, organs and brains. A younger you is within your reach. Just keep yourself vitally alive and vibrant so you’ll be healthy and ready to take advantage of the scientific advancements when they happen.
When you allow the belief that you can grow younger, you’ve taken a significant step toward making it happen. I focus a great deal on consciousness studies and mind body spirit practices, both ancient and modern, and apply the shift of consciousness to growing younger. As expressions of the Divine, we are all interacting in a field of unlimited potential. Our conscious connection to the Divine and our beliefs and behaviors determine the degree to which we express radiance and joy and this applies to every area of our lives.
New scientific discoveries are revealing what many wise teachers and healers have taught for centuries: our thoughts and beliefs create our reality. Quantum physicists have found, to their complete surprise, that matter is affected by thought, a discovery that rocked the boat for the scientific community. Scientists have since peered into the life of our trillions of cells and found that they are actually responding to the environment of our thoughts and beliefs. What we say to ourselves about who we are and how we age does matter! As Henry Ford once said, “If you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
As the science of epigenetics shows, our fate is not controlled by our genes. Instead, non-genetic factors over which we can have control send signals to our genes to express themselves differently. More specifically, our beliefs and behaviors including diet, exercise, skincare, prayer, and our thoughts about and responses to life strongly influence the expression of our genes. This is good news, my friend! For me it means the APO-e4 Alzheimer’s gene I have inherited has the opportunity to remain in the off position. I spent five years accepting the symptoms of Alzheimer’s as my fate. Then, fourteen years ago, I made a conscious choice to grow younger. My behaviors and my genes followed my belief, and now Alzheimer’s is just an unexpressed potential in my life.