After age 40, most
of us look back at the decades of decisions we’ve made, and we begin to think
even more seriously about our future. We observe that people seem to age at
very different rates. Some are happy, but many are not. We notice our peers who
seem to be doing better and worse than we are, and we wonder why.
Some of our friends
have wonderful business and personal relationships. Some have good retirement
plans. Some are happy, healthy, fit, motivated, and full of positive energy and
vitality. Some people have made a lasting contribution to society. Some are
thankful for the life they are living, while we also know many sad people who
complain constantly. Some happy people are just plain fun to be around.
Countless others are not.
This is a growing
collection of aging-and-lifestyle-choice information sources, which may
help you make better decisions, which will improve your future success and
happiness. We now know that lifestyle changes and behavior modifications CAN
add greater joy, happiness, and high quality years to our productive lives.
With this material, we offer solid reasons for making many such (difficult)
changes, based on our research into many pleasant lifestyle alternatives.
Much of this
material is targeted at a general audience of men and women over 40 (and
anyone who merely hopes to live long and be happy). You may be interested in
this information for yourself, or to share "lessons learned" with
your parents, children and other loved ones that you care for, or just want to help.
Part of Joyful
Aging material is intended for above-average thinkers, who seek
intelligent modern research summaries about antiaging nutrition, fitness,
intellectual enhancement, finances, and support for wise, joy-enhancing,
lifestyle behavior modifications. Antiaging
Mental Aerobics recommends that you challenge and continually expand your
cognitive capacity with lifelong learning, to improve your problem-solving
capacity, and thus slow the onset or avoid various forms of common senile
dementia.
Joyful Aging subject matter is both broad and deep. No single source provides all of
the answers. Sometimes an unconventional point of view that you have never
heard before, will greatly enhance your understanding of a complex topic. We
have invested decades of diverse research, consolidated related materials, and
applied these integrated principles in our own lives. We hope you will become
interested in our belief in:
“Lifelong learning in an ever expanding
universe of endless possibilities”
Life should not
focus only on our ultimate destination. Life is the great adventure we
experience along the way. Life is all about asking many simple and profound questions,
and persistently searching for interesting answers. Those who stop searching
for life-improving truths from many sources have begun to die through
intellectual atrophication.
Humans have a
powerful mental capacity to continually learn new lessons, summarize and
organize what they have learned, and integrate the essence of these lessons
into their lifestyle decision-making mental models. Our perception, mental
images and creative imagination control who we are, and what we will soon
become.
We are what we imagine.
Everything we will become begins with our
imagination.
With our images, we create the world.
Joyful Aging offers the result of lifetimes of valuable
research, consolidated and categorized to help our readers digest it, and thus
to avoid expensive, tragic, long-term trial-and-error mistakes. Those who study
the research of others do not have to rediscover or reinvent it themselves. By
shortening the time to digest these lifestyle lessons, Joyful Aging
information can even help its readers outperform the authors. We will all be
pleased if you do.
What are your motivating goals?
We have accomplished many of our own
challenging lifetime goals.
Our current goal is to help intelligent
people (like those who have read this far) to achieve their own challenging
goals and thus discover The Meaning Of Life.
We hope we can assist you in becoming wealthy
in the things that you value the most.
If you share similar interests, please
contact us.
We seek friends and associates who believe
in lifelong learning:
Please let us know which Joyful Aging
topics interest you the most.
We will be glad to provide you with
information about our current research.
We invite and appreciate your feedback,
constructive suggestions
and references to other sources of valuable material.
Nothing on
this entire website is intended to diagnose or treat any individual’s specific
medical problems. If
you have any medical problems, write down your detailed symptoms, questions,
concerns and related medical history, and then see a licensed physician who
understands your problems and has time to get to know your unique
characteristics.
General information
offered freely on this website is an attempt to help you ask better questions
of the health care professionals who help you. Our research materials and the
comments that we discuss about particular foods, drugs, supplements, exercises
(mental and physical) consist of broad overviews that cannot possibly include
every subtle detail known to mankind.
None of this
material applies to everyone equally. Much of it (like low fat versus low
carbohydrates) is extremely controversial with strong and valid professional
opinions on both sides (that can NOT both be true for everyone). Much of such
information will change next year, as new research is done.
If licensed
physicians offer you no hope of a treatment for your specific problems, you should very carefully consider
fervent prayer and alternative approaches, but proceed with great caution
and skepticism, since alternative medicine often involves unregulated areas
with many extremely-complex unknowns.
Sometimes, regulation
inhibits innovation and exploration. Everything that is common, regulated,
“good practice” today, was at some time unknown, unregulated, and viewed by
many as the wrong thing to do.
(See also Medical Minefield – Avoiding Common Errors)
Joke of the day: There are NO true universal
statements.
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