Age Wise
Anti-Aging Secret Revealed: Embrace Getting Older
A pro-aging mindset will help you enjoy rather than fear the inevitable
Maria Shriver this week revealed an anti-aging secret that people of all ages need to know about: “I’m pro-aging — and officially ditching the term ‘anti-aging’ from my vocabulary,” she writes on Oprah Daily. “The old storyline about aging — how we need to ‘fix’ ourselves or do everything in our power to look the way we did when we were in our 20s and 30s — needs a major revise.”
Amen. And then some.
The idea that we must fight aging is rooted in fear, which produces stress and anxiety which — and here’s the rub — accelerates aging of the body and brain.
You will get old. I will get old. We all will get old. And then we’ll die. Meantime, shouldn’t we all try to live a little instead of worrying incessantly about something we can’t change, particularly on the cosmetic front?
Aging is not so bad after all
An anti-aging mentality fuels billions of dollars in spending on mostly worthless anti-wrinkle creams, hair-loss remedies, and plastic surgeries, not to mention magical memory potions, all of which leave most folks another year older and deeper in fear of…
