On how to age gracefully, like you have the option to??? Translated…
Try Using the Household Appliances on Our Own
After a certain age, there would be people from an assortment of orders to ask me the key to staying healthy as we age. The inquiry that came to me the most often was, “Dr. Takahashi, what is the secret of staying healthy for you?”
I’d heard, that the phase, “Anti-Aging” is what’s in right now, and how do you keep your body and mind forever young, perhaps, it’s of everybody’s concerns? But, unfortunately, I’d never set the goal of “staying forever young” for myself, so, I don’t have, any tips or secrets to shar
that sense of achievement from knowing how you made something thrive, photo from online…
And, if I’m pressed for an answer, the most I can tell you is, “Do things you’d never done before, live everyday to its happiest, in other words, doing everything in your day on your own, and try not to rely on anybody else’s assistance.”
Although I’d hoped, that everyone can use this measure, but, as you’d made the decisions to do so, your lives will, become busiest as ever.
Let’s take, for example, the most trying, “Cooking”. I’d cooked my three meals a day myself right now. I’d gone shopping for my groceries for an entire week, asked my niece to drive me to the nearby supermarket, and bought a week’s worth of produces. I’m not making anything hard, just things I enjoyed eating, and still, making the three meals myself added to my workload, and I’d needed to, think about the procedures of how to tackle it effective and efficiently, and although, it’d made me even busier, but, it’d also, added a lot of fun into my life.
This sort of a task, because the procedures are sequential, it’d made me work my mind. This was, my daily brain training exercises that’s easiest to do.
Moreover, because I’d needed to keep moving my hands and mind, I didn’t have time to worry now. This way, is perhaps, closest to occupational therapy. If you are often compressed by “being troubled by things you can’t find answers to, but can’t get them out of your minds”, try cooking. Filling up your life with the zests, and you’d, reduced your times for worries greatly.
exercise, and socialize, both very important, to keep oneself active and healthy in the elderly years, not my photograph…
Humans are an organism, that with nothing to do, the mind seemed to wander a lot, if you want to keep young forever, don’t just make cooking your every day routine, it’s also very important, to try new and different things.
No matter how old we get, we should be able to challenge ourselves in new things. For instance, I’d often suggested to others, “Try a new kind of appliances”, especially in the setting up of the household appliances, you should do it yourselves.
Don’t rely on someone to help you to use the appliances you’re not familiar with, read the user manual first, then, do it, this is, a very effective brain training. And, with that heart of excitement, it can make your hearts younger. And, finding a hobby is an important thing too, I shall describe this in an alternate chapter of this book.
With the coming of age, we’d found the thoughts of “I can no longer…”, “because it proves to be painful, I’d best not…”, it’s warranted, that these thoughts are valid. But, don’t admit defeat just yet, the will to challenge anything in life is very vital. Maybe you’ll fail, but, the smaller matters, they shouldn’t, take up your minds. When you’d expanded your interests, increase the number of things you wanted to do, you’d added to the active mindset. Accumulating these moments of joys, perhaps, it’s, my own kind of anti-aging.
So, from this you can see, how important it is, to stay ACTIVE, even as we age, and yet, most elderly people just, stopped moving, they’d become, lethargic in life, stopped socializing with the outside world, and just, locked themselves in, and their social circles are shrinking, with the deaths of their old friends, their children living separate lives, and only visiting them every now and then…so, this is quite simple in theory, but not at all easy, to do physically!
If You Feel Lonely, Keep Some Plants Then!
When someone tells me, that s/he is tired of life, is lonely, and tired of living by oneself.
At this time, I’d recommended, “Would you like to live with a plant then?”
Not having a pet that would run around like a cat or a dog. You’d only needed to water them from time to time when you have a plant, and make sure that it gets enough sun. I’m sure, that the laziest of all people can accomplish it, and can find companionship in a plant.
It was probably around seventy-five, when my niece gave me a bonsai, ever since, plants had become, a part of my life.
Keeping plants has many perks. First, it helps sharpen your observant nature, this is helpful in training your minds, to prevent dementia. Through observing, you’ll also be able to activate your senses of imagination, it’s a great way, to pass the time.
And, so long as you’d discovered, how hard the plants “worked hard to keep on living!”, the loneliness of heart will go away instantaneously.
having someone to share your lives with, photo from online…
The human heart, if exposed to loneliness long-term, the level of sensitivity will decline greatly. For instance, the mood swings will become, so even and leveled, then, it’d, slowly, receded away, then, dried up. I’m not saying, that the emotions you experience should have highs and lows to the extreme, but not having anybody to talk with, anybody to live with, it’s easy to be settled in the mindset of “nothing’s happening now”, in order to prevent the complete halt in mental activities, try using plants as a tool in your daily lives.
My younger sister often said, “Plants are living things too, they are, surely, alive. So, if you talk to them more, they’d flourish.”
Her reason being, “When we talk to plants, we’d exhaled carbon dioxide, and, the plants that absorbed more carbon dioxide should grow better.” I’m still doubtful of her beliefs, but, I’d agreed with her on how “plants are living, and they are, alive”. I believe that the weeping willow I have, should know what I mean.
And, in caring for plants, we’d experience a dramatic moment, “budding”. Translating into human world, budding is equivalent to “coming into the world”. But, in reality, something moving like this don’t happen frequently enough. Or maybe, it’s safe to say, that through watching the life cycles of plants, we can “feel alive through them.”
So, this is a good way, to keep one active, but, it’s still best, that you have someone that can respond back to you to socialize with, keeping plants is a good way to stay health, because like the perks the writer mentioned, but sometimes, we require some intimate, body-to-body contact, and we can’t get it from a plant, but we can surely, get it from a furry pet like a cat or a dog (I prefer dogs, however!)…
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