Do you have an attitude of gratitude?
People with Age Esteem express gratitude. Age Esteemers know the importance of not only feeling thankful, but also expressing appreciation and gratitude for what they have and what others do for them. They choose to recognize the blessings of each day, no matter how great or small.
- Keep a gratitude diary where you record the highlights of each day for which you are grateful.
- Count your blessings when things seem difficult. Remind yourself of all the good that surrounds you while you deal with a problem.
- Express openly to others your gratitude for what they mean to you.
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People with age esteem have a positive attitude. Studies show that people who enjoy life with a positive attitude live longer and happier lives. This is not to say that they don’t have aches and pains like anyone else. They simple choose to take a different view of life. Rather than focus on their pains, they chose to concentrate on what goes well and to develop their interests. They are engaged in living.
Age Esteemers know that when we focus on the brighter side of life, we draw other positive people and opportunities to us.
- Become aware of your thoughts and words. Are they positive or negative.?
- Turn negatives into positives. When you catch yourself complaining or discouraging yourself, change your phrase to make it positive and encouraging.
- Surround yourself with positive people. Drop those who hold you back or put you down. They don’t deserve your time.
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Acknowledge your age. Age is positive and natural. We have been aging since the moment of birth. If we are breathing we are aging. To age is to be alive. Age is a gift, a gift that not everyone receives. Rejoice and be glad that you are alive and aging.
Why should you acknowledge your age? Why not just ignore it? After all, today is just another day.
Is it? You’ve experienced and learned every instant on your journey to reach the age you are now. To look on today as just another day is ignore all you’ve gained by living. It is to miss out on living this moment. Today you are the youngest you will ever be. To waste it is to miss out on the present.
Age esteemers acknowledge their age and focus on the advantages it brings.
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Age Esteem begins when we are children. Research at Yale University and the American Institute on Aging indicate that the attitude that we have towards age and older people as children influences how we ourselves age. Children who are raised with a positive attitude and relationship towards older people age better and more healthfully and tend to live longer.
The relationships we have with older people, the language we hear others use to describe older people, and the images that we see illustrating older people will impact our whole life and even contribute to our longevity.
Age esteemers have a positive attitude toward aging. They embrace it with age esteem. Age esteemers value, admire and respect age and tend to live longer, happier lives.
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Carolyn Flowers, 58
When I hear the word Age Esteem what comes to mind is age that doesn’t feel like age. Although you’re aged, you still have some of that youth in you.
My own concern with aging is to think that somebody will have to take care of me. I don’t want anybody to ever have to take care of me.
Carolyn’s Tips: Stay busy: always learning, always looking for ways to make improvements. Giving of myself. I think if you give of yourself you feel good about yourself and when you feel good about yourself you’ll age more gracefully. I think that whether you’re young or whether you’re old you should always know what your passion is. You can’t go wrong if you are doing what you’re passionate about. It’ll keep you young.
Carolyn Flowers is regional manager of the YWCA’s of Southeast U.S.
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The childhood tongue twister, “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers” has a philosophy to it. If you picked a peck of peppers and ate them, you would be very healthy indeed! For peppers have a powerhouse of nutrients for the AgeEsteemer’s body. There are green, red, yellow, and orange bell peppers and smaller chili peppers. The lovely little vegetables are tempting to the eye in their shiny coats. They may be eaten raw or cooked, stuffed and baked, boiled, broiled, fried and mixed with other vegetables such as eggplant, zuchinni, and tomatoes as well as adding a hot spice to food.
Bell peppers are loaded with vitamin C, fighting off cancer, eye diseases and even conditions such as Alzheimer’s. Chili peppers, which are very hot, are good for unblocking clogged up lungs and bronchial tubes. The compound that makes them hot acts as natural aspirin. In addition, when added to food they speed up the metabolism, thus enabling the burning of calories. One interesting study shows that they do not destroy the lining of the stomach nor do they cause ulcers. Venture out now and pick a peck of peppers!
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This little white flower with its intoxicating scent is along, with the rose, a prime component of most perfumes.
Its main property is combatting stress. Used in aromatherapy it helps to alleviate anxiety and provide relief with a massage or bath of the essential oil. One study has shown that it is more effective than lavender for bedtime relaxation and sleep. Also skin conditions are improved with the use of its oil.
In addition to emitting a beautiful scent, it can relieve the pressures of the day! A wonderful secret for age esteem.
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Bonnie Fatio will be speaking at the YWCA Southeastern Regional Conference in Miami, Florida on September 17th.
The YWCA is a global movement of 25 million women and girls working for justice, peace, health, human dignity, freedom and the environment in 125 countries. Age esteem is important in the lives of those within the YWCA movement regardless of age.
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Planting sunflower seeds with Grandpa
Last year’s sunflowers are already enjoying a new beginning. Their precious seeds are being planted and a whole new cycle will begin. And thus they continue to live on and on.
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The sunflower eventually fades and dies. It’s leaves dry and its color dulls. But even then it has a beautiful lesson for us. Not only do we hold its beauty in our mind, but the sunflower continues to live on in multiple ways.
- Sunflower oil for cooking,
- Animal feed,
- Bio diesel fuel
- Healthy, tasty sunflower seeds, and
- Cleaning toxins from the environment.
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