Aging

In a pleasant conversation
with a woman
about how stiff her
son is getting

i commented:
"Oh, he's just aging
ahead of time."

He sits a lot,
doesn't move much,
and thus accelerates the aging process.

I made this up
on the spot:

"Aging is 30% our beliefs that
we have to fall apart as
we get older

and 60% the accumulation
of our habits of both not moving
and moving in non-graceful
and effort-ful
ways

and 10%
the actual aging
itself."

Who knows if the percentages
are right
but how
many of us
feel
younger
and brighter
and more flexible
and maybe even stronger
than we did ten years ago.

This is a sweet possibility,
an actually, really
for those of us

who have their learning switches
alive
and can
activate and apply the creativity
of ongoing learning to the moving part
or our
lives.

If I feel older today
than yesterday
I probably wasn't present
yesterday
and
didn't learn anything new
and
didn't play with one of the
Feldenkraismovement
lessons,
of which
there are at least six hundred.

So:
if I'm present today,
as
in
right now,
and learn something,
and give myself
the gift of
a feldie movement
lesson,
then
wallah!
i'll be younger and perkier tomorrow.

good
news,
for me.
how about
for you?

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