Dr.Josefina. Life Coach www.drjosefina.com How do you picture aging? Do you anticipate wisdom, energy or Do you see yourself or weak and forgetful? Looking and feeling young as time goes on begins with believing that you can look and feel young, as you age. Being “pro-aging,” or satisfied with your own aging, can HELP you to implement healthier behavior. Being pessimistic about aging,” or perceiving aging in a negative way will do damage to your health. The way you perceive aging as well as anything else in life will influence your attitude and behavior. Aging, like many aspect of life, is a self-fulfilling prophecy. Your attitude will affect your behavioral health. Psychological HEALTH. Biologically health. Here are five powerful benefits of “pro-aging” thinking: First, it can help you live longer In 2001, researchers from Yale and Harvard University Found that participants who held a positive attitude about their own aging they lived, on average, 7.5 years longer. They found that perception of aging influenced our longevity even more than: Blood pressure. Cholesterol. Body mass index, Or our personal tendency to exercise. Second, it can reduce disability Loss of independence is among the greatest fears most people have about getting older. Staying physically and cognitively active can protect against disability. In a study published in the Journal of Gerontology: participants who held a positive self-perception of aging had a greater ability to carry out daily activities over an 18-year period, regardless of their functional health Third, it can help you to practice prevention Preventive habits have been proven to continually improve our health and quality of life at any age. However older adults are less likely to engage in preventive behaviors. BECAUSE THE OLD BELIEVE THAT AN OLD DOG CANT LEARNED NEW TRICK. THAT IS FALSE. HERE ARE SOME MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT AGING. BELIVING THAT HEART DISSEASE AND OTHER ILNESSES ARE TO BE EXPECTED. THAT KIND OF THINKING WILL WEAKEN YOUR MOTIVATION TO PURSUE HEALTHY HABITS. PROMOTING THE ATTITUD TO GIVE UP. In a study CONDUCTED IN 2004, the participants who had more positive perceptions of aging were significantly more likely to have physical exams, eat a balanced diet, AND exercise. FOURTH HAVING A “PRO AGING ATTITUD” can boost your memory. ACCORDING to RESEARCH IF YOU EXPECT memory decline GUEST WHAT? THAT KIND OF THINKING can actually contribute to memory loss over time. Negative stereotypes of cognitive aging had a 30.2 per cent greater decline in memory performance than those who held less negative stereotypes about memory and aging. FITH It can help your heart. When negative stereotypes are formed early in life, they can have a profound impact on health decades later. Young adults who held negative age stereotypes were significantly more likely to experience a cardiovascular ILLNESS over the next 38 years. However, by making a significant positive change in their stereotype of aging, these young adults could reduce their risk of experiencing a cardiovascular event by 80 per cent. HERE ARE FEW POINT THAT I WANT YOU TO REMEMBER. Being “pro-aging,” or satisfied with your own aging, can HELP you to implement healthier behavior. OLD DOGS CAN LEARN NEW TRICKS. MAKE A COMMITMENT TO BE HAPPY AND HEALTHY

Prescription for unhappiness

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Prescription for unhappiness

George Bernard Shaw said “I do not believe in circumstances the people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them they make them.

I know is difficult to accept the fact that you are the cause of your own misery it is very upsetting when you begin to see yourself as your own worse enemy.
On the other hand, this understanding is your biggest blessing. If you know that you can create your own misery; then you know that you can also create your own happiness.

I am not asking you to believe you are responsible for all your experiences in life. Rather I am asking you to believe you are the cause of all your experiences on life, meaning that you are responsible for all your reactions to everything that happens to you.

Keep in mind that whenever you are not taking responsibilities, you put yourself in a position of pain, and consequently decrease your ability to control the things that you can in your life.
Recently, I came across of a prescription for unhappiness. Which I believe has been the functioning philosophy of many people.

I always wonder what makes unhappy people thick. If you are looking for a new way to be unhappy perhaps one or two of these ideas will motivate you to greater power of despair

1. Make little things bother you. Don’t just let them, make them.

2. Loose your perspective of things and keep it a lost. Don’t put first things first.
3. Get your self a good worry. Worry about that which you cannot do anything about. Just worry.

4. Be a perfectionist condemn yourself and others for not achieving perfection.

5. Be right, always right, perfectly right, all the time. Be the only one who is right and be rigid about your rightness.

6. Don’t trust or believe people or accept them at anything but their worst and weakest be suspicious impute and accuse them of ulterior motivations all the time.

7. Always compare yourself to other people which is the guaranty of instant misery

8. Take personally, with a chip on your shoulder everything that happens to you that you don’t like

9. Don’t give yourself whole heartily or enthusiastically to any one or anything.

10. Make unhappiness the aim of your life. And you are guaranty to be unhappy for the rest of your days.

If you follow this prescription regularly you will be guaranty to be the must miserable creature God ever created