Law of Attraction and Aging
With our human mind's penchant for assigning meaning to things, we have all assigned meanings to certain ages. I know you will easily be able to imagine a 2-year-old, a 22-year-old, a 70-year-old. Easy, you say. You may all have a different picture of each age because your mind assigns it one "look" and mine assigns it another but it'll be close. I'd guess that this is somewhat societally and/or culturally influenced also. But if we could draw what we imagined, we'd probably often have a similar picture.
Other places on this site and other things you might have read have informed you how we create our lives. We have a thought; the thought creates feelings; our feelings create a certain vibration; our little super highway in our brains, our neuronet, keeps thinking the thought and we keep creating the feelings which create our predominant vibration and - voila! - it (whatever we've been thinking about over and over) is created in our lives. So over and over and over we think and picture and feel about being 35 or being 60 and when we get there to that age, there we are. We created just what we thought of over and over and over.
I am 71. My mother died at 57 so I don't really know what a 71-year-old woman looks like in my family - and that's a good thing (not good that my mother died so young but good that I have no picture of it). So I just look like and feel like a person who has woken up each morning for over 69 years, breathing and in the same body.
So to me any age means how long you have woken each day and fulfilled the requirement of breathing through that day . That's all it means.
So what does age mean to you? The thing is, you are free to choose.
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For years I agreed that aging was largely a state of mind, and I still do. However, recently I have been struck with the number of comments about their troubled knees that I am hearing from friends and acquaintances who are also in their 60's. And on a day like today (raining) mine is giving me fits. So maybe it's a state of mind and joints. On the other hand what we think and feel about the joint pain and how we handle it may really be the determining factor in whether we are aging in a healthy or unhealthy way.
ReplyDeleteI enjoy reading your blog.
I think you are so right. the way I see it is this: we all have bodies that we created(?) with a certain lifespan and ability to keep functioning well. They aren't the "last forever" kind so no matter how healthy we are or how well we mentally/emotionally create, we're still going to leave the body and feel it happening - hopefully in little bits - along the way..
ReplyDeleteAge! Oh, yes! I am 61. Mentally, I'm still in my late 20's. I have a theory that I've tried out on a lot of people and so far no one has disagreed with me. The theory is that everyone mentally stops aging somewhere in their 20's. That our underlying assumption is that we are still there. Now, that does not mean that we don't get wiser, or we don't age physically, etc. It doesn't mean we get magic mirrors either. Think, mentally, do you think of yourself as the age you are? Do you go to do things without thought and it's not until you are in the middle of them that you go "what was I thinking?" If you are and have been physically active all your life, those moments might not come as often, but if you haven't, like most of us, then I'll bet you've had them. Do you always remember to accommodate that extra weight you're carrying around?
ReplyDeleteIt grieves me to see people I know, or people I meet who are my age or younger and they have accepted and nurtured this 'old age' thing. I want to yell 'hey, you don't have to be that way'. Of course, I know that each of us copes and that, as you said, our models and thoughts about them will create that reality.
I'll accommodate teeth falling out or hair turning white, those things don't really matter. Zest for life and learning are what matter to me and I'm staying at 29!
This is a great post, and it really gave me some perspective. Thank you so much for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your perspective Maia, a wonderful post! Age is the blessedness of having the opportunity to learn, grow & evolve.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stormie. It is and it really brings home the face of how short life is.
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