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Aging GracefullyWhat exactly does it mean to age gracefully? Making peace with our age is a good start. What exactly does this
mean: aging gracefully? Max Erhmann
writes in his famous poem, Desiderata: Take
kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth. The definition of counsel in this quote means: “private,
guarded thoughts or opinions.” And take kindly, I
believe, means: “be grateful for.” So we
are to be grateful for -- our own private thoughts and opinions? And why should we? Well, the only reason can be because they are valuable. Our own thoughts and opinions are valuable. We hold in our own mind a literal gold mine
in our cumulative life experience. We
have banged around here enough to have learned a thing or two. And that is valuable. So much so that it can make the coming years not
only easier to navigate, but richer and more fulfilling as well. Gracefully means: “seemingly
effortless beauty or charm.” (I like the
sound of that!) Some of us go kicking
and screaming into our later years.
Trying beauty treatments and surgeries to appear more youthful. This strategy usually takes a ton of effort
(and money) and still the result is the same: we age. We get older. But when we make peace with our age, we begin to realize that
every age has its benefits, its lessons, its gifts for us. And we are always the perfect age for what we
need to learn right now. We don’t regret
the past, because we learned from it.
Even more importantly -- our past experiences have contributed to the
wealth of “counsel” that we now have.
Good or bad experiences - we learn from them both. And the culmination of all we have lived and
learned is ours to do with as we will.
We can use it or we can waste it. Using it means to continue to listen for that “call of
Source.” That whispering in your ear of
things you’d like to do. Ways you’d like
to express yourself in the world. These
inner promptings are the directions to your next destination. More efficient than a GPS system, these
hunches are showing you the next step to take to express the desires of your
heart. Your job is to listen and follow.
To ignore them is to waste your opportunity to contribute. We are happier when we are contributing. And the law goes: give first Wait no longer. The time is now. Source: Free Articles from ArticlesFactory.com
ABOUT THE AUTHORChristina Watson is a life and business coach and founder of
Breakthroughs Life Coaching. She believes that every person has the
ability to live the life they have imagined and loves supporting them to
do it.
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