Your Daily Lift April 4, 2011 Issue

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Ageless living

Maryl Walters

There’s always a lot of talk about aging—how to avoid its effect through exercise, diet, and all kinds of other things. Personally, I’ve traveled a pretty long way, and it looks like some of the roads I traveled on weren’t paved. But that just means I’ve had some really great adventures, and I’m sure you have too. I prefer to think that I’m “saging,” growing wiser, rather than aging. 

A very wise woman, Mary Baker Eddy, wrote: “Time-tables of birth and death are so many conspiracies against manhood and womanhood. Except for the error of measuring and limiting all that is good and beautiful, man would enjoy more than threescore years and ten and still maintain his vigor, freshness, and promise” (Science and Health, p. 246).  Mary Baker Eddy was certainly a wonderful example of that. She went from poverty, homelessness, illness in her 40s and 50s, to accomplishing more in her 70s and 80s than most people would be able to accomplish in several lifetimes.

So how do we do this? Like a tree, how do we consistently put on new growth? How do we grow new, rather than growing old? I find it helps to keep engaged with new ideas; otherwise, we get stuck into a set of fixed beliefs and unmovable opinions—kind of like frozen water pipes. Turn on the faucet, and nothing happens. It takes some warmth to get the water flowing again. Let’s warm up our thinking today with compassion, freshness, receptivity, and keep growing new!

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