From Rejuvenate Naturally. This book is expected to be available by end of March, 2018.
A Healthy
Elder. There are real live people who are vibrant at an advanced age.
In Sept, 2014, my sister, Sharon, and I visited Emma Lommasson
in Missoula, Montana. Emma lives in a
retirement home there. When we knocked
at her apartment, she came to the door and greeted us, wearing her usual: A dress, shoes and nylon stockings. I wish my legs looked as good as hers!
I said, “Emma, I’m giving a workshop on rejuvenation, and I
would like to know your secret for staying so young.”
“Well”, she said, “you know I’m 102 years old.” When I nodded, she continued, “I guess you
could say my secret is that I associate with young people. However, I do eat dinner
now, in the dining room with others who live here. They’re all old, you know. When I started eating in the dining room, I
said ‘there will be no talking about aches and pains. There are lots of interesting things to talk
about besides getting old.’ So dwell on
the good, not the bad.”
Emma thought for a moment and then added, “I can’t just sit in
the parlor here and play tiddlywinks. I
don’t fixate on pills. I don’t smoke or
drink alcohol or coffee.”
On Dec 10th, 2016, she celebrated her 105th birthday, still living in the
same apartment. Emma wanted nothing
special on that birthday, but a friend insisted on treating her to dinner. Knowing her friend liked hot dogs, Emma
instructed her, “Go to Dairy Queen. Buy
us each a hot dog and a milk shake and bring them here. We’ll eat in my apartment.”
What
you focus on is what you get.
Focus on examples of failure, disease, death. Or focus on examples of success, such as Emma, in Part I of Rejuvenate Naturally, who celebrated her 106th birthday on
December 10, 2017, stilling living in her retirement apartment in Missoula.
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