Recently, I’ve been running across a lot of online writing about growing old with grace. Most of them are saccharine and say the same few things:
Stay active
Be social
Serve others
Laugh
Some throw in the phrase “stay in love.”… Read the rest
Conscious Aging
9 Practices for Conscious Aging
By: Marilyn Schlitz
As I live into my own process of aging, my worldview has been informed by the depth and insight of many great teachers. These include masters from different wisdom traditions, health care practitioners, friends facing end of life, and researchers studying the transformative nature of death, dying, and beyond.… Read the rest
Ram Dass – Lessons on Gratitude
One of the spiritual lessons I have found quite useful over the years is that there is a great deal of difference between pain and suffering. Pain is a sensation in the body or in our psychological bodies. Suffering comes only because of the way we choose to interpret the pain as something NOT GOOD – and therefore Not GOD!… Read the rest
Embracing the Aging Body
Is This My Body?
© 2011 Brenda Dineen | Reprinting permission with credit to author
I first injured my knee in 2003. I was jogging on a treadmill and noticed pain in my knee. The pain didn’t go away that night, but I went back to the gym the next day.… Read the rest