Several of us “Baby Boomers” are each beginning to feel our age, and we’re beginning to live it too.  Each morning, clock radios everywhere announce the start of another day.  As a typical boomer rolls out of bed, an old ache, pain, and/or small worry makes its presence known, just like the day before.  The same beverage — coffee, tea, or possibly even caffeinated soda –  is ingested in an attempt to energize the exact same tired face reflected in the morning mirror.

By the time we hit our 50′s, we could have feelings that our lives are not as they could be.  Yes, there are pills, and  many varieties of the “fast fix”‘ (also referred to as the “Life Makeover”) — everything from creams to diets and Bo-tox injections, best-sounding and straightforward “fountains of youth,”  for ourselves.  Let’s face it , most of us are looking for methods to slow the ticking of our biological clocks.

I’m here to tell you that in order to truly slow that clock down, we should get “radical” in our approach to controlling our processes getting radical means that we can, in the words of Star Trek character Jean Luc Picard, “make it so”.  We can literally make our own clocks tick more slowly.

Getting radical is a method that occurs within ourselves.  Very first of all, it is the power of our intentions and the measure of our wills.  It is saying to ourselves — with conviction — “I want this to be!”  Next, it is believing, strongly, that we can!  When we commit ourselves to these beliefs, we are then capable of achieving many remarkable accomplishments of mind and body. All we have to do is to challenge ourselves and our perceptions of who we are.  The five radical guidelines follow:

1.  Firewalking:  How does walking on fire relate to youthing?  An art that is been practiced in many cultures for thousands of years, firewalking is about mind/body transformation.   Its objective is to” question”  the laws of nature.  The encounter becomes a powerful metaphor for anti-aging — which I refer to as youthing — and it’s a very radical way of challenging ourselves to stretch beyond what we think is achievable.  I have participated in dozens of firewalks, and the experiences taught me a lot more about myself, and about questioning nature’s laws as they applied to me, than I’d ever thought achievable.  Oh — and I walked on fire.

2.  Breathwork.  This is a basic but profound yogic breathing method that has a cleansing and healing effect at all levels of our awareness — physical, spiritual, emotional, and mental.  It is the quickest technique accessible that can aid us in healing from prior traumas, negative belief systems, and unwanted “baggage” that numerous of us unconsciously carry around with us.

three.  Fasting.   As I write this, I have just completed a four-day fast.  (How could I talk my talk without walking it?)  Fasting is perhaps the most effective tip for youthing.  Several of us, especially in the U.S., literally eat ourselves to death.  Note: there are many kinds of fasts and a lot of factors for fasting.  It is wise to check with your health care practitioner before fasting.

4.  Physical Immortality.  Now here is an notion whose time has arrived.  Let’s envision this idea:  “Life without having death is pure life.”  When we do this, we’re unraveling our personal death urge, which dwells somewhere inside us in that place where pain, aging, and negativity also dwell.  Even though I realize this is a radical idea, relax.  We genuinely do not have to get into this idea in order to let the idea work its magic, we just require to be open to it.

five.  Hypnosis.  As Deepak Chopra has written in AGELESS BODY TIMELESS MIND: “Aging appears to be something that’s happening to you, when in reality it is something your body has largely learned to do.  It has learned to carry out the programming fed into it by you, the programmer” (Harmony Books, 1993).  Hypnotherapy is basic, quite successful, and can be enjoyable, depending on its purpose and whether or not a hypnotherapy session is performed in person or by phone, it sets the stage for stretching beyond set limitations.  Hypnosis is the art of placing the conscious self in a state of heightened suggestibility.  Throughout this time the unconscious self is really open to alter and can literally set aside any limiting beliefs that could have been interfering with one’s ability to change.

It is a proven truth that our bodies are constantly producing new and healthy cells to replace old and damaged ones, and every single new cell gets its “replacing” directions from the DNA contained in the old cell.  So, it stands to reason that if our DNA programs our new cells with the healthiest and youngest data possible as a blueprint for development, the body’s cell memories will alter.  This method is referred to as “Cell Transformation”.  The question arises:  Can hypnosis actually be a powerful tool to us in order to literally tell our bodies cells to be younger?  From my experience,  I think the answer is yes.

My conclusion is that over 14 million hits on Google for  “mind/body connection” can’t be wrong.  From my own personal expertise I am pleased to report that indeed my quest for youth is paying off.  Now at the “calendar” age of 55, except for a couple of silver hairs I both look and feel not considerably over 35 years young.

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