I Reversed Early Alzheimer’s
“Who are you?” my mother asked me again. It was the third time in twenty minutes, and a regular ritual during my visits to the nursing home in the last months of her life in 1994.
Alzheimer’s. They say it’s hereditary. I remember thinking: is that what’s going to happen to me? Will I get Alzheimer’s too?
Even if I manage to avoid that dreaded disease, will I deteriorate mentally and physically in other ways with age? Will I begin to lose strength and exibility as my joints creak and my bones thin? Will I become set in my ways and inexible in my thinking? Will I have to stay cooped up in the house, afraid of slipping and tripping?
As I advance in years, will my mind become less clear, less sharp, until I can’t remember what day it is, who my children are, or even who I am?
It was five years after Mom died, when I was in my early 60s that the symptoms of early Alzheimer’s did enter my life. It started out as minor short-term memory losses and not being able to find words I wanted to say. Then it progressed to greater memory loss: I wouldn’t ask a question because I couldn’t remember if I had just asked it. And my tongue kept tripping on words.
It was extremely frightening. For me and my children. They insisted I go to the doctor for testing, but the test in the late 1990’s was a series of questions the doctor asked the patient like, “What year is it?” and “Who is president of the United States?”I aced them all but regardless: I knew my mind was deteriorating.
Then when I was 67 years old, I had a “wake-up call” and became aware of what I was doing to myself. Even through the fog of early Alzheimer’s, I began to realize that my thoughts and beliefs were creating a life for me that I did not want.
Who am I? My mother’s last words to me were more profound than I realized at the time. Even though I knew that I am a spiritual being experiencing life in a physical body, it wasn’t until ten years after her death that I became conscious that I have a choice about who I am going to be in this physical body in my later years.
Let me say that once more. It’s a simple, quiet intention, but one that has made a world of difference to me: I choose how I will spend the rest of my life. All my adult life I’ve searched and studied and applied the ancient esoteric secrets for creating the life I want. Why not, I realized, use that same wisdom to turn my back on Alzheimer’s and develop a program for a clear mind and strong body for the rest of my life?
Why not think and grow young? Why not use the Law of Attraction and other agereversing techniques to give me vitality, stamina, exibility, love, creativity, exuberance, a sharp mind and a strong body?
Once I had a clear intention to reverse aging, the next step was to learn how. Soon a whole program, including youthfulness techniques for the body, started to emerge and I began making those mind body spirit practices into habits.
It worked! The results were so astounding, I had to share this program. It reversed my early stages of Alzheimer’s (In 2010 I tested positive for the APO-e4 Alzheimer’s gene), gave me tons more energy and kept breast cancer from recurring.
I felt it was my purpose to help society change its views of what life can be in our later years. We’re living longer and I had found a way to make the extended life a more dynamic and joyful experience. How could I not share it? And so I did. That was the birth of my first book, Think and Grow Young .