Forty four years ago I was nineteen – I was at university in London, England. I drank a huge amount of beer, ate badly (whatever was there – actually I never thought about health), I walked a lot (you do that in Europe) and I weighed about one hundred and fifty pounds (ten stone, ten). [...]
I’m reading a book by Albert Ellis and Emmet Velten called Optimal Aging: Get Over Getting Older. I opened it randomly and came to a page which had: Accept and forgive yourself unconditionally. It also mentioned shame attacking exercises.
This was a piece of synchronicity because forgiveness is the linchpin of my change work and Transformative [...]
The other morning my wife and I got our seasonal flu shots. I asked the pharmacist who was giving us the vaccination how about the swine flu (H1N1) vaccine. She said that we were of lower risk than younger people since we were over sixty years old and had developed some immunity toward this strain [...]
I just burnt myself by spilling boiling water over myself. I was making some Chinese herb tea to get healthier and the instruction asked for boiling water. I boiled the water in the microwave. Trust me that’s not the best way to boil water.
Anyway, I have the tea inside a steel strainer and the cup [...]
The Buddha discovered that life is suffering and yet he learned to be happy in spite of the suffering.
So, how does one become genuinely happy? The first step is to accept whatever is and to love yourself. This is not narcissism but an unconditional love in spite of all our faults.
My theology professor once said [...]
Water is your body’s main chemical. On average 60 percent of your weight comes from the water content. Some of the water is obvious as in your blood other water is inside every cell of your body and some water is inside the molecules of your body. Every system in your body needs water for [...]
What is arthritis?
Arthritis is an inflammatory disease of the bones and the joints. It can happen even in babies but is aggravated by wear and tear of the aging process and physical and psychological stress.
What Is Pain?
Pain is the body’s warning system, alerting you that something is wrong. The International Association for the Study of [...]
A recent scientific study suggests the more time older people spend engaged in social activity, the slower their motor function declines.
"Everybody in their 60s, 70s and 80s is walking more slowly than they did when they were 25," says Dr. Aron Buchman, a neurologist at the Rush University Medical Center in Chicago and lead author [...]
Many elderly people suffer from age-related macular (AMD) degeneration. This is where central vision becomes a blur as the macula, the central part of the retina, deteriorates with age. AMD has until now been incurable.
Now good news comes from Northern Island for sufferers of AMD. Queen’s Belfast University academics have helped develop an antioxidant supplement [...]
As we grow older the chances are that we end up with joint pains and other symptoms of arthritis. If you have arthritis you probably have tried pain killers, heating pads, drugs such as Celebrex, and supplements such as glucosamine/chondoitin. Arthritis is caused partially by inflammation and anything you can do to lower inflammation will [...]
