There is a famous phrase about being young.
A well used one we have all most likely heard in our life at some time or other.
It goes, ‘You are as young as you feel you are’.
Sounds great, but did you know that it’s actually true?
This is not just some positive affirmation, it’s a type of command from your mind which controls your body. When that order is obeyed, and it always is, the mind starts ‘persuading’ or initiating the body in renewing itself. Yes, this happens biologically to some extent, but this persuasion actually heightens and speeds up this process.
It becomes a belief that becomes a response that becomes a kind of regeneration.
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Great, let’s keep as young as possible through the mind.
Young after your time.
Have you heard the other well known phrase?
This one says, ‘You are old before your time’.
That people begin to consider they are old (even if they are in their 50’s) and so effectively become an elderly person in their demeanour, mindset, and even their movement. Suddenly, all manner of aches and pains develop, their eyesight worsens, and they are always tired.
Maybe you know somebody like this!
Their whole body lives and feels the label the mind has put on it.
It is similar to people who have a killer mindset where they are a victim all the time and destined to lose in any situation. They project an aura of loser before they start anything. And so, they never start anything. They remain small, insignificant, and forgotten. Again, living the mental label.
Well, I’m not thinking like that, and I recommend you don’t either. You aren’t old before your time, you are YOUNG before your time. And this is the precise message your mind should hold as it sends the very same definition to your body. To every cell, muscle, corpuscle, gene, and organ.
It is the same when confidence is oozing through your veins. You are full of beans, high in energy, and feel you can take on the world. You feel alive and dynamic. That is the mind powering it all.
And your mind can also help power your feeling younger again.
But don’t just trust me. Trust the scientists who have actually done tests on many people that prove feeling young transfers to your body.
The proof is out there.
Feeling young helps staying young!
Mentally mature, physically young.
The great advantage of age is wisdom and understanding.
Longer years of living have provided these benefits. But these mental advantages come with an aging body. To most people, the second outweighs the first.
Well, to some maybe. That’s not what scientists have discovered. Two specific studies prove my point powerfully about thought and age.
In 1979 Ellen Langer of Harvard University experimented putting 75 year old men back in a 1959 type environment and asked them to think ‘as if’ it was that year again and they were that age. This famous ‘counterclockwise’ study only lasted 5 days, but in that time all members experienced pronounced improvement in hearing, memory, vision, posture, joint flexibility, IQ, and physical strength. IN 5 DAYS!!
The other was by Yannick Stephan of the University of Montpellier who studied 1352 men and women aged between 50 and 75 years of age. Those that felt they were younger than their age were found to have better cognitive results even 10 YEARS LATER!
The other side is also true as Yannick reported from his studies. He found ‘those who tend to age themselves have a higher than average risk of cognitive decline’. Or in short – believe you are old and your body will agree.
There you have it – science confirms. Feeling young can almost reverse the aging process and CERTAINLY delays it.
There is a new truth that is being revealed.
Science is proving that what comes naturally to the young, comes mentally for us as we age.
Feeling young works wonders!
Feeling old, think again!
The mind is the fountain of youth we have been searching for.
Yes, it’s been within us all along.
For those over 50 years of age, altering the mindset to believing they are much younger, sees the body equally believe it. The mind says you are in your 40’s or even 30’s and the body does its best to support that in almost every single area possible.
So, how do you do it?
Pick an age. Be realistic, selecting being ten again isn’t going to achieve results as it’s too far past. If you are 55 choose being 35 and reactivate feeling like you did then. Truly believe you are as energetic and active as you were at that point and imagine as you go out each day it is the 35 year old you that is doing it.
Superimpose THAT person onto yourself today in your mind. THEY will be living your life now. THEY will be undertaking your duties and schedule. Keep that younger age person in mind in all you do. Blend time in effect. You are STILL 35 right now.
Keep this up. Day after day. Thought to thought, belief to belief, imagined activities you have to do to imagined activities you are doing.
Soon, it may take a week or two for us less scientific sorts, you will feel a difference. Record them and all areas of the body that have shown improvement. Then repeat, and go again and so on.
In the months ahead your body is going to live a journey back in time led by your mind.
Your younger days are on the way back – I can feel it…make sure you do!
References – National Institute of Health – Aging as a mindset.
Universite de Montpellier – Feeling younger to to age less quickly.
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