So spake the great geriatrician, psychiatrist and elder advocate, Robert N. Butler, who died in December 2010. According to his biographer, W. Andrew Achenbaum, he helped
“…to transform the study of aging from a marginal specialty into an intellectually vibrant field of inquiry.”
Pat Carrington shares some information about an amazing society where “growing older” was very different from what most of us know today. “Wisdom” actually defined “age” for these people! Later (in the program itself) she leads you in tapping exercises that can radically change your entire experience of growing older…
Some people would argue that the fear people live with as they age comes largely from the fear of dying.
“The purpose of Conscious Aging, as a movement, is to join the growing chorus of elder voices proclaiming that the later stage of life has within it the unique potential for growth. It is a time for elders to make life as fulfilling as possible.… Read the rest
If you live long enough, it’s inevitable: you will, in one form or another, do some stock-taking of your life. A sizing up. An account balancing. Or a simple, “how’m I doing?”
There is no particular time or year of life when it comes along.