Anansi and your mind are both tricksters, so beware. Don’t listen to them, learn from them.
Welcome! Life is good, if you make it so!
If you think it’s too late to change, read this book and think again.
If you neglect your mind-body when you’re young, you’ll reap the benefits (or lack of them) as you age - however, it’s never too late to start an exercise program. Where there’s life there’s hope.
As my old body heads towards being 71 years of age, I look around at many of my peers in despair.
A life of little or no exercise, lots of smoking and drinking, and general bodily and mental neglect, or even abuse, including poor sleep patterns, render’s them unfit for the vicissitudes of old age, especially when it comes to the challenges of the almost inevitable life-saving surgery.
Preparing for major surgery is similar to preparing for a marathon - wing it at your peril.
Do you know that olives with their pits taste so much better than the pre-pitted kind - I bet that skin keeps in all sorts of savory odorants and volatile gustants, don’t you?
If you’re not used to training either your mind or your body, where will you start training for life as a senior? At the beginning, of course, but you have to make it fun.
Exercise that is not fun will not last.
You will need to find a way to enjoy challenging your thought processes and that magic machine, your body. For instance: I enjoy running 40 times around a running track, Deb likes to run somewhere, but not, absolutely NOT around the track. We are different - Deb likes to get there (wherever there is), and I like to enjoy my meditation as I run 1-mile repeats.
We each know how to make this process enjoyable for each us.
Overcoming resistance to change (misoneism) is a mental process, whether you are challenging your mind or your body - the trick is to epiphanize.
Deb will run at the track sometimes, which I enjoy, and I’ll run somewhere with Deb, from time to time. You have to work to make it work, but mainly do what you enjoy, and remember this:
It was tough when you struggled to learn to read all those years ago, as I did when my elder sister, Janet, taught me to read about “Anansi the big spider, the big black spider, the big black bold spider…” But once I got it, the sky was the limit, and within a few years I’d read much of Dickens and many more besides.
My world expanded dramatically.
Exercise is the same - you have to overcome that initial resistance to change, and once you do there is no resistance, or to quote The Matrix (thank you, Gary), “There is no spoon!”
-k @FitOldDog
Important Note: These posts do not provide medical advice. You should always consult your physician before undertaking or significantly modifying an exercise program.
Copyright © 2010 Kevin T. Morgan aka FitOldDog, Old Dogs in Training, LLC.
Post Footer automatically generated by wp-posturl plugin for wordpress.
