Today is Tuesday and a rainy day that makes you want to curl up with a good book. I awoke this morning and decided to read before I started my day. My brain is quiet and uncluttered in the morning. I ran across a saying that made me think about my inner dialogue...others can say what they want and I get to choose how to react. The saying was about being angry at something that someone did and how we carry the anger from it. That anger is hurting our body and making us feel terrible and the person that made the mistake created in our mind has moved on. Think about your feelings next time you get angry over some one's mistake or unkind words. If we can train the mind to accept that a mistake is not ours it squelches the anger. Own your mistakes not someone else's.
I love elderly people and we can learn a lot from them. I have been studying the behavior of some of my elderly friends. I have some that are in their eighties to late nineties. They are all still physically able to take care of themselves. They are very cognitively up on current events and modernization of society. I am trying to learn what is keeping them thriving. Any help I can get on how to stay active and healthy as I grow older will help.
I used to think it was all genetic... the longevity. However if you look at the siblings of the elderly I have studied they did not all live long nor were they without health problems. I did look at their lifestyles. The nine that are still alive are ranging from 81 years to 96 years old. The number one common thing is they all socialize frequently with other people. Three are widowed and the rest married. They all do some kind of exercise everyday. Walking was the number one exercise. The 96 year old still golfs when the weather permits. They still take care of their homes. They take a multivitamin and they eat healthy. They read the newspaper and three of them I know have a computer.
One of the ladies has had lung cancer twice and been treated and is in full remission. She is a very joyous person who at 91 still goes out with her girlfriends and starts everyday with a plan on what she wants to get done. She takes no medicine that I know of. She is married and her husband despite some medications is till doing fine. They like to travel and play bingo. One couple still goes to Florida for the winter.
None of the nine elderly act like old people. They come across as much younger. I don't mean that they don't have wrinkles or that they walk a little slower. The way they present themselves and their poise and happy personalities makes them seem much younger.
So is it genetics or taking care of your body and mind. We take care of the flowers so they can flourish and we must take care of ourselves. Investing in your own health lifestyle allows you to plant the flowers. The nine still have beautiful yards and flowers.
May we grow old surrounded by friends, flowers, take our multivitamin and keep walking.
Life is beautiful !!
Elizabeth😊
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