Aging With AttitudeSM
A coaching program offered in individual and group format
Come join the healthy, feisty, and wise club!
We’re all aging — it’s part of the life process. But how we do it is the question.
Do we fight and scream all the way? “Woe is me, I have another wrinkle!”
Do we buy in to our youth obsessed culture?
Or do we take the attitude — This is me! Every wrinkle, every life experience is part of who I am! Why should I diminish my own worth? I value the wisdom I’ve gathered from the years of living. For me, a lot of it is well earned wisdom!
In the Aging with Attitude Process, we work toward developing and strengthening a new healthier self image — healthy, feisty and wise.
Even though genetics play a part in our health, there is a lot we can do to keep ourselves as healthy as possible. We can develop resources and habits for living a healthy lifestyle. For example, there are powerful yet simple self help techniques (i.e. High Touch Acupressure) to learn for keeping our energy flowing physically, emotionally and spiritually. This has a huge benefit for maintaining and restoring health. Also in research studies, daily meditation, over time, has been shown to actually reverse, or slow down, the physiological aspect of the aging process. I offer many tools and approaches for enriching health and you can choose the ones that are easiest for you to embrace.
Most importantly, we can learn to laugh at ourselves and some of the predicaments we find ourselves in. One of these is the very process of aging. A great comedian once said: “Growing old isn’t always fun.. but just look at the alternative!”
How do we develop wisdom? Not just by living a lot of years. We need to take advantage of all our experiences, gain some perspective about ourselves and our journeys. We can give ourselves permission to embrace this bigger perspective, to develop healthier attitudes, and step into a more mature self confident version of who we really are.
Being flexible is incredibly beneficial to the quality of our lives. This is doubly true when looking at the aging process. When we see people in their later years that have a quality life, there has usually been some willingness to shift to what is and what can be, and not stay focused on what used to be. We are all in a constant process of change. The more we can engage with this process of change, the more rewarding life is!
The Aging With Attitude Process is about coming to terms with our limiting beliefs about aging, facing our fears and disappointments, developing resources for improved health and adopting an attitude that serves us. It offers an opportunity to step back and laugh at ourselves and the whole human predicament, to develop more flexibility, more pizzazz, and yes... an attitude!
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Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, though it may be necessary, from time to time, to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”Miss Piggy
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Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in the joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all; because once you are Real, you can't be ugly, except to people who don't understand.”The Skin Horse
in The Velveteen Rabbit
in The Velveteen Rabbit
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Inside every older person is a younger person - wondering what the hell happened?”Cora Harvey Armstrong
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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.”Helen Hayes (at 73)
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The Older the Fiddle, the Greater the Tune.”Willard Scott
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My eyes have seen much, but they are not weary.My ears have heard much, but they thirst for more.”
Rabindranath Tagore,
Bengali poet and mystic
Bengali poet and mystic
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To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the hardest chapters in the great art of living.”Henri Frederic Amiel,
Swiss poet and philosopher
Swiss poet and philosopher
Contact me to discuss your own unique needs, to inquire about fees, and to set up an appointment.
For a complimentary session, check out the Free Life Satisfaction Assessment
Cynthia Grace Luma 207-439-6600
cynthia@centerforinnerpeace.net