How to Feel Young and Live Life to the Fullest?
Staying healthy and feeling your best is important at any age and
that doesn’t change just because you have a few more grey hairs. As we grow
older, we experience an increasing number of major life changes, including
career changes and retirement, children leaving home, the loss of loved ones,
and physical changes. How we handle and grow from these changes is the key to
staying healthy. These tips can help you maintain your physical and emotional
health and live life to the fullest, whatever your age.
Finding and following your formula for staying healthy over 50
Coping with change is difficult, no matter how old you are. The particular
challenge for adults over 50 is the sheer number of changes and transitions that
start to occur—including children moving away, the loss of parents, friends, and
other loved ones, changes to or the end of your career, declining health, and
even loss of independence. It’s natural to feel those losses. But if that sense
of loss is balanced with positive ingredients, you have a formula for staying
healthy as you age.
Healthy aging means continually reinventing yourself as you pass through
landmark ages such as 60, 70, 80 and beyond. It means finding new things you
enjoy, learning to adapt to change, staying physically and socially active, and
feeling connected to your community and loved ones. Unfortunately, for many,
aging brings anxiety and fear instead. How will I take care of myself late in
life? What if I lose my spouse? What is going to happen to my mind? However,
many of these fears stem from myths about aging that are exaggerated by the
media or simply untrue. The truth is that you are stronger and more resilient
than you may think.
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