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What you have become is not what you are….it is a choice for this moment….

Secret of the Fountain of Youth
by Denny Waxman

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I am going to share with you the secret of the fountain of youth and it does not involve botox , collagen injections or plastic surgery. But first of all, what is youth? If we think about youth, we think of bright, fresh energy, maybe a little explosive, we think about curiosity, and about experimentation.

Youth is not encumbered by many concepts, many notions, responsibilities, all the things that weigh us down and take our energy and link us to age. In recent times, the period of youth has been getting less and less. When I was a kid, there was endless time and the word stress did not exist. Today, we see young people with so much homework and responsibility that they are now talking about stress and how there is no time to do anything. At the same time, puberty is getting younger and younger, in some cases even eight or nine years old. So already many young people are really not young in many ways and youth is kind of shrinking or disappearing.

Our body renews itself and changes in many ways. The first way is with our blood plasma, the liquid portion of our blood. It renews itself every ten days. Our white blood cells renew themselves every two or three weeks. Then we have our red blood cells and they typically renew themselves every 120 days. Our entire blood renews itself every three to four months. Even our skin renews itself every 28 days. Finally, our entire body renews itself every seven to eight years depending on whether you are a man or woman (seven for women and eight for men). Women have the ability to renew their bodies more quickly than men do.

The process of healthy aging means transformation from the physical world towards the spiritual world. So when we were young, we were more interested in physical and sensory things. We liked to be very active and we were interested in stimulating our senses often times with loud music. As we start to grow and mature, then we become more interested first in emotional and then later in social issues. Then as we move more towards old age, we start to become more interested in life issues and the value of our own life. We start to look back at our life and ask whether we did the things we wanted to do or are happy with our lives. Then finally, we start to think about moving on to the next world and this is generally the natural process of aging. It is a progress of growth and maturation, not getting old, hard and drying out. Healthy aging means we go into each area of our life and we can enjoy it fully and completely. As we are able to comfortably move on to the next level, it does not mean we are abandoning the level before. It just means our central focus is somewhere else. But we are free to move however we like, up or down continually. This is the most natural part of aging.

It is natural for our body to stop growing after twenty years. It is recent that people continue to gain weight as they grow older. After the first twenty years we continue to grow our personality, not our body. We decide what type of person we would like to become. What image do we have of ourself. How can we develop the understanding and ability to embrace life. This growing of our personality and consciousness depends on our gratitude or appreciation. So when we have this gratitude and appreciation then that always creates a kind of openness.

Openness is what allows us to have good circulation and nourishment. However, if we follow modern society and we start to blame and accuse, it cuts us off and makes us more isolated and narrow and then we automatically start to shrink from that. We start our lives open and full of curiosity then we have different experiences and responsibilities and we gain many concepts. Those concepts make us start to close off unless we break through and become open again. As a result, we can’t age in a healthy way and we start to age unnaturally. True aging is a result of being open…the same way a child is open. That is the meaning of growing our personality and our consciousness. How to become more open, but not exactly like a child, because it has greater maturity because of our experience.

I know it’s a lot hun…but see if there is something in there you can use….that’s all it takes…seriously

You are Loved
Amakua