Want to practice conscious aging?
The Institute of Noetic Sciences, a member of the Conscious Aging Alliance, has identified nine practices to help people engage in life fully:
… Read the rest1. Reflect on your worldview, beliefs, stereotypes, and assumptions. How might they be limiting you or holding you back?
From Dr. Wayne Dyer
The direction we take in life is far more significant than the placeego parks us in, in the present moment.
If we persistently listen to the demands of ego, we move away from our Source of being.… Read the rest
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.”… Read the rest
A poem from Shel Silverstein nicely captures the invisibility that cloaks people as we get old:
Said the little boy, “Sometimes I drop my spoon.”
Said the old man, “I do that too.”
The little boy whispered, “I wet my pants.”