Sea Salt For Healthy Aging
Feeling good and being healthy are important factors to enhance your age esteem. Sea salt can benefit both.
Sea salt makes the skin look cleaner and softer. Seawater increases moisture retention in the skin and purifies it. It is very therapeutic in treating eczema, psoriasis and acne. It disinfects sores and wounds.
To alleviate aching muscles and joints, take a hot seawater bath. Bath salts are easily found in many shops or simply buy the coarse sea salt for cooking at the grocery store.
Grandma Nature
Eating Alone – With Age Esteem
I love to travel, but I do admit that it took me awhile to feel comfortable eating alone.
Usually when you are welcomed to a restaurant the person who seats you says, “Just one?” as though there is something objectionable about being alone, and that you must therefore be lonely. As a result, you do feel alone. I used to pull out a book or writing paper to seem busy. Then a friend shared this story.
She and her business partner closed a huge contract in New York. Although her partner had to fly out immediately, my friend decided to celebrate with a delicious dinner and wine at one of the top Manhattan restaurants.
When she arrived the maître d’hôtel looked down his nose at her and announced, “Ah, I see Madam is alone tonight.” My friend’s prompt reply was, “Oh, no, tonight I am with myself!”
Her story changed my outlook from eating alone, to eating “with myself”. I now savor the moment, the food, and the joy of being in my own good company.
Today at the Tampa airport the woman who greeted me asked, “A party of one?” I responded, “Yes. And it is going to be a great party!” – And it was.
Next time you eat out alone, glow with age esteem and make it a party of one.
Bonnie Fatio
Esteem At Every Age
LIFE is a little like these rhymes:
It doesn’t “jingle” all the time!
You need to stop and try to find
The LYRICAL within your mind.
POETRY is a way to say
“Ah ha”, there is another way
For making every age to seem
So VERSEatile and so esteemed!
Start with A and go to E
It really works…just try and see!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Age Esteem – A Poem
Age Esteem
Is when you’ll seem
To like the age you are.
There is no old
If you are bold
To be your shining star.
It isn’t hard
To draw the card
That’s highest in your hand…
The one which wins
Your youthful whims
And slows the hour-glass sands!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Sitting Can Be Hazardous To Your Health
Sitting is considered the new smoking. It can be hazardous to your health.
It is especially important to keep active as we grow older and to avoid sitting for long periods of timeA recent study in the British Journal of Sports Medicine shows that sitting less often and standing for longer periods of time is an excellent anti-aging technique. Spending more time on two feet protects DNA.
A Swedish study showed that people spend more time exercising, but they are also sitting for longer periods. It seems that this is a new health hazard of our times.
The time that people spend standing helps to increase their life span.
People with age esteem know that it is important to remain active and to nurture activities that necessitate movement even if that movement may be limited in scope.
Grandma Nature
Aging Has Changed
A long time ago
Or so it does seem,
We endured growing old
But without AgeEsteem.
We drooped and we sagged
With the burden of Time,
We stooped and we dragged
With heedless decline.
But now all has changed,
Our future is bright!
Our age is arranged
By the Esteem in sight!
We can face every day
With delight, NOT dismay,
And I hasten to say:
Two New Hips and Hooray!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
My 15 Age Esteem wishes for you during 2015
- Live each day fully.
- Stretch your body, mind and spirit.
- Inhale happiness and love; exhale pain and fear.
- Embrace new experiences.
- Build play into your day.
- Share your talents with others of all ages.
- Learn something new each day.
- Laugh often.
- Celebrate frequently.
- Love yourself unconditionally.
- Seek the positive in each person and experience.
- Give thanks for the blessings of your life.
- Meet new challenges with a sense of adventure.
- Greet each new day with anticipation and zest.
- Become a living model of Age Esteem for those who meet you!
Happy Age Esteem 2015!
Bonnie Lou Fatio
Age Esteem – at Any Age!
Age Esteem – at Any Age! will be the theme of the lunchtime seminar by Bonnie Fatio, founder of AgeEsteem, sponsored by the WHO (World Health Organisation) HQ Staff Association on Wednesday 1 October to mark the International Day of Older Persons. Bonnie will be giving tips and facts to help you to feel good about yourself, whatever your age. Whether you are preparing for retirement with two or three more years with the Organisation, or younger in your mid-forties, it is time to start now to build for a meaningful future.
Age Esteem’s vision of a world where people of all ages are respected as contributing members of society aligns well with the International Day of Older Persons.
Autumn Leaves
Autumn leaves are turning
From green to red and gold,
The elderly are yearning
To keep their years on hold.
Each tree of Life has seasons
It’s the same with people, too,
Our ages all have reasons,
Esteem each one anew.
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
Gratitude Is My Attitude
When I was born,
In a Hotel Suite,
With Mother, Father, and brother Pete,
Our cast of four was thus complete,
An absolutely perfect feat!
All was perfect, or so it seemed,
And then we grew and grew much older
(We’d not yet heard of Age Esteem!)
each year braver, brighter, bolder.
Now I am in a Twilight zone,
My future’s not as long as yore,
The family’s gone, I’m left alone
But positive there’s much in store:
Depending on my attitude
And facing Life with Gratitude!
Written by Alexandra Taylor for AgeEsteem®
