When it comes to turning back the clock, I’m very interested in knowing more about your experience of growing older and what piques your interest about Youthening.
I want to design my Youthening Program around the experience YOU are having and the results YOU want.
Over the next few day, I’m going to post some questions here that will help me create a Youthening Program that feels as though it was designed just for you.
Today, I’d like to know -
“What’s your biggest frustration about growing older?”
Leave a comment below.
And if, like me, you’re curious, about what others in your circle would say their biggest frustration with growing older is, pass the question along to them too.
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I just don’t want to run out of time to do all that I want to do. Yes, aging is a natural process, and I want to embrace every new chapter as it comes along, and stay ACTIVE! I find most and, I mean most women in my age group (55-59) just don’t want to exercise, and I do! And I believe that is the key to feeling youthful.
Yes, Linda. That was the point being made. If we are not looking at it, giving it our attention, it is “off the radar.” BEing TV/media-less has been a priceless gift that I gave myself ☺ Nothing exists unless we are looking at it or giving our attention to it. We are making it all up, so let’s make it up the way we want it to be ☺
On another note, if we were in a certain Vibe, wouldn’t the “bombardment”, the negative inputs and social dictates of how someone who is age X is supposed to appear, behave, and generally BE, simply be off the radar for us? Is this possible?
My biggest frustration about growing older is two-fold. First, when I look in the mirror, that person looks nothing like my more youthful inner energy, how I feel inside. Sometimes I am startled by the size of that difference. Second, the way I feel inside isn’t “stable”, it fluctuates. I feel younger in many moments, within; then there are other times when I don’t. It wavers. I actually caught myself “shuffling” one day at work – walking like the older women there – until I became aware and chose consciously to “Walk like my 30-year-old- self”.!
Thanks so much, Kathe, Jill, Pat and Claudia – your comments give me great food for thought for my next blog topic.
A big virtual hug to each of you.
More of a challenge than a frustration – feeling I need to seek out 29-year-old activity partners as some I know have given up on new adventures! Thank goodness I get to talk to many “retireds” at my job who are doing interesting things. I think we need to change “retired” into Aligned – as in doing/being what you love!
As Jill said, we are literally bombarded with the message that we’re on one big down-hill slide of aging (skin, appearance, metabolism, memory, energy, etc.). This programming is so pervasive, it’s almost impossible to ignore, much less reject.
I experience these frustrations to some degree (especially appearance and physical flexibility), and I’m not sure what to thing about it. I become impatient and/or annoyed if people seem to perceive me as diminished by aging. Sometimes it just seems amusing, because I’m still the same person I’ve always been. Why should I appear so different now?
We have been so conditioned and bombarded with “information” about bodily deterioration w/age, metabolism, foods, skin care products…letting go of those notions, putting that on “ignore” and choosing useful thoughts has been/would be most helpful to me. I’m not a parent, but I am given to understand that parents have a secret power to “tune things out
” It took me longer than I would have liked for it to, but going TV/media-less has been HUGE!!! I still know what I need to know and the peace is, well, priceless. Thanks, Wendy 
That would be the energy level, once being able to run circles around things they now run circles around me….