The way you look and feel have very little to do with your chronological age, and positive thinking and changing your belief system are the most important factors in staying truly young.
In her book, You Can Be Younger, leading therapist Marisa Peer explains how you can arrest the aging process by harnessing the power of your subconscious mind.
-Why Ben and Marisa will never “retire”
- “When hope dies, old age comes to greet you”
- The more youthful things you do, the younger you feel and become
-How Marisa became involved with anti-aging and longevity
- As a therapist, age is an asset, not a liability
- You don’t “fight” aging, you defy it
- Many societies revere the elderly for their wisdom and insight (“sage-ing” rather than aging)
- People in these societies not only live longer but better
-Clues your body leaves that it is constantly rejuvenating
- The body is always regenerating itself (stomach, blood cells, etc.)
- The mind remains the same: “Use it or lose it”
- Neurobics newness: Neurons keep firing when the brain is always doing something new (new data stimulate the neurons), keeping the brain young and agile
- Use the opposite hand or foot to do routine things to stimulate brain activity
- Creators (writers, composers, etc.) keep their minds maintained
- Do what young people do
- Young body and an old mind is pointless; it should be young body and a young mind
- Three different ages: birth certificate age (least important one of all), age of our organs (biological age), the age you feel. The age of your organs is related to the age you feel
- Having sex, laughing, etc., actually sends a message to your organs that not only slows down but can also reverse aging
- Liver is one of the few visceral organs that has the capacity to regenerate cells; 2017 study wherein caloric restriction/ fasting-mimicking diet induces pancreatic regeneration
-How to think and grow young
- How you view aging will dictate how you age
- Thoughts are real; every thought produces a physical reaction and emotional effect (placebo effect)
- The belief you have about a drug will have more of an effect than the actual compounds of that drug itself
- Disregard your chronological age, keep telling yourself that you feel young and the age you feel will start to reflect that
- Studies where older people were placed in a closed environment that resembled life 30 years prior produced amazing results regarding people’s attitude, health, etc.
- Retired pilots’ vision improved instantly when placed in a flight simulator
- Your mind reacts to your thoughts
- You don’t react to the event, you react to what you think the event is
- It’s not the thing, it’s what you think about the thing; and what you think about the thing is yours to change
- You can choose what to say to yourself every day, but your body has no choice but to react to the words you use
- Every word you speak is a blueprint that your mind and body have to act on
- Whatever you tell your mind—good or bad, real or false, useful or not—it lets in, and the mind neither knows nor cares if it’s true; you can change your life by telling yourself better things
- Your perspective of circumstances is an important factor (positive or negative)
- Laughing frequency equates to more youthful persona
