Important Factors for Attaining and Sustaining
Optimal Health and Longevity

What You Can Learn from Those Who’ve Lived the Longest

If you’re really interested in living long and being healthy for as long as possible, learn how to maintain youthfulness and wellbeing on all levels. That’s what it takes, addressing all levels.

• Aubrey de Grey, Ph.D, author of Ending Aging – The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime

• Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zone – Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who’ve Lived the Longest.

Both agree that longevity is about far more than your genes. In fact, it is believed that your genetic makeup accounts for only about 10 percent of your potential longevity, while a variety of lifestyle factors account for the rest.

Buettner’s book looks at the lifestyles of centenarians across the world. Common denominators among the people who’ve lived the longest include:

• Eating a plant-based diet
• Drinking diuretic-type teas on a regular basis and plenty of filtered water everyday
• Living in areas that promote regular physical activity, such as daily walking as the main means of getting around or other types of daily exercise
• Associating with friends, family, practitioners and mentors who encourage a healthy, natural, active lifestyle
• Having effective strategies for coping with stress, such as prayer, meditation, strong social networks, and adequate rest
• Eating foods that are organically grown, avoiding genetically modified foods that are now suggested through research to pose problems to our health and the wellbeing of our offspring

In fact, being able to effectively cope with stress, it turns out, is one of the MAJOR common denominators for those who live long, healthy lives.

One of the proposed reasons for this strong link is that stress promotes inflammation, so being able to reduce the inflammatory response in your body can have a significant impact on your overall health. This is also believed to be one of the major reasons why so many centenarians appear to be more or less immune to brain degenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s.

What Can You do NOW to Maximize Your Lifespan?

Of all the healthy lifestyle strategies I know of that can have a significant impact on your longevity, normalizing your insulin and leptin levels is probably the most important  Elevated insulin levels are one of the key physical influences that contribute to rapid aging, and there is no question that optimizing insulin levels is an absolute necessity if you want to slow down your aging process.

Consuming sugar and grains will increase your insulin level, which is the equivalent of slamming your foot on your aging accelerator. There’s simply no more potent way to accelerate aging than sticking to a diet full of sugar and grains.

Top “Anti-Aging” Recommendations

• Learn how to effectively cope with stress: As discussed at the beginning of this article, effective coping mechanisms is a major longevity-promoting factor as stress has a direct impact on inflammation, which in turn underlies many of the chronic diseases that kill people prematurely every day. Meditation, prayer, physical activity and exercise are all viable options that can help you maintain emotional and mental equilibrium. I also strongly believe in using energy psychology tools such as the Meridian Tapping Technique (MTT) to address deeper, oftentimes hidden emotional problems.

• Eat a healthy diet: A nutritional plan is based on natural whole foods, is your first step toward increasing your chances of living a longer, healthier life. The heart of my program is the elimination, or at the very least, drastic reduction of grains and sugar in your diet, which is a far simpler way of restricting your calorie intake naturally, without suffering.

How to Live Longer…Starting Today

• Proper nutrition: Feeding your body the fuel it needs based on your individual biochemistry rather than a one-size-fits-all regimen, regular exercise is such a big key to Longevity, and maintaining emotional wellbeing plays a much larger role in this than you can imagine. This aspect should never be underestimated in the anti-aging quest.

• Rather than sitting idly by, waiting for some “magic pill” that will stop or even reverse the aging process, you can take control of your health, and increase your lifespan, starting right NOW. TOMORROW never comes, so start and continue from TODAY!!

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/22/Great-Tips-to-Add-Years-to-Your-Life.aspx

We are hearing all the time how STRESS is the biggest factor, by far, in all our health challenges. WOW, think about it, this is important information to be seriously considered! So, here’s a much needed, Quick and Easy Stress Release process that will transform your life. But truly, only if you use it…frequently!

Start with deep breathing, slow and steady breath into the abdomen. On the exhale, hold the intention that you are releasing the stress and sending it into the earth. The earth simply recycles it. Ask yourself where you’re holding this stress, a specific area, many areas or throughout your entire body.  Send the breath into these areas and keep releasing. You are in control here!

Ask yourself what primary emotion is connected to your stress. Acknowledge and embrace this emotion, and the source of the emotion, if you know what it is. Now, LET IT GO – let it pour into the earth or evaporate into space!!! You may have a secondary emotion or one that surfaces from the unconscious level. Repeat the process with any other stressful emotions that are ready to be released at that moment.

If you come up with a color that you feel good about, imagine that color circulating throughout your entire body and into your energy field around you, or direct it to a specific area where healing and release is needed. Dark and murky colors need to be released and replaced with beautiful, vibrant colors that energize and support you.

Now, see yourself in a great place, happy, enjoying yourself, confident, loved, well regarded and understood. You can employ a number of visualizations at this point, if you have time and feel like it. What you envision and intend…you absolutely create!! Notice how you feel. Repeat the process if needed. And That’s It!

You may need to repeat the process a few times, or many times, for more challenging issues. Each time you do this process, you should notice a lightening or dissolution of the stress and uncomfortable emotions you were holding onto. Often, with the general day to day stress, it is completely cleared in an instant. This process can easily be completed in 2-3 minutes, once you get used to the steps. If you are in a space to go with it, you can take longer and go deeper, but a lot can shift in a very short time, if you’re open to it.

All colors work great with this process. An excellent color to imagine is a metallic gold. Visualize a vat at the top of your head of metallic gold light, and see it pouring over your head, into your body and your energy field, clearing and cleansing you. Very powerful! My personal favorite is metallic gold with a light to medium pink hue. This color vibration is very spiritual in nature, and radiates harmony and compassion throughout your being. Enjoy!

Here’s to Vibrant Wellness and Living in the Flow!

Malaika

REPATTERNING reduces stress on all levels and is a powerful catalyst for deep, personal breakthroughs! In a Repatterning session, the stress release process described above is called an “Energy Constriction Release”. For more info click HERE.

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