Aging – It’s better than the alternative!
I live by the concept that it is better to age than not to age. Why do we get (or act) older?
Mentally we all like to think of ourselves as in the mid twenties. But physically we can?t kick the football so long anymore. Or stay up late and feel good the next day. Or work in the garden all day and go partying that night. So what has happened?
We think, ?We are getting old, have to expect that sort of thing?.
So why does a forty year old act like he is in his late twenties? Or worse, act as though he was in his sixties?
Genetics seems to be the ?in? word on this subject at this time. And there is no doubt some element of truth here. But in every case? So nice, so easy to blame someone or something else.
But what if the major component of aging was wear and tear of the system through our work? After all the majority of us work a third of our lives. And that work, whether at the office, in the home, in the field usually requires some form of repetitive moves. This requires some muscles working on one side more than the other.
Just like a professional athlete, such as a tennis player or a golfer. Think of these professionals plying their trade day in and week and month out for the whole year and over the course of their lives. The professional athletes knows that if they are going to continue in their trade successfully, they have to do warm ups, they have to do exercises, both strengthening and stretching, to allow them to remain competitively active. To remain balanced.
Now think of the housewife, vacuum cleaner in one hand, a number of times per week perhaps, always out of balance, done over a lifetime. Muscles building on one side, slack on the other.
The office worker, at his/her station with the computer in front, the printer off to the left, reaching a hundred times per day to retrieve a printed article.
The field worker, working a tractor on the road, always looking over the same shoulder day in and day out.
Not like the professional athlete, they probably, more than likely, haven?t done any warm ups or balancing exercises on a daily basis.
A third of their life they are out of balance.
Any wonder they are seemingly wearing out (aging) and feeling old. Part of the body is working overtime, the other parts are on the dole.
And for only 10-20 minutes per day of simply stretching to help rebalance the body, make you feel younger, and slow down the deterioration of the body, it seems a small price.
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