A term well used throughout the health and beauty industry to the marketing benefit of the company selling one of the millions of anti aging products.
Aging- a word that has lately been whispered with a shudder and glance as a tsunami wave of panic starts to overcome that fearful individual who truly believes that his very survival depends on any product that can alleviate the ‘disease’ of aging.
Aging to this individual is not necessarily based on warding off an untimely death but usually becomes synonymous with his or her loss of beauty, loss of mental faculty, loss of ambulatory freedom, loss of income and loss of control.
Who wants to be ugly, dim, poor and bound to a wheelchair at the mercy of some sullen, hungover, nurses aid who decides when and where you go? So yes, we are all of one accord to be anti aging as it is described above.
Remember when aging was considered a good thing? Do you remember when you were a child and someone asked you how old you were, you proudly announced that you were six and a half? Or 8 and three quarters? Or that you were ten almost eleven? We were so anxious to be ‘older’ and perceived wiser, smarter, ‘bigger’ and more ready to be accepted in general society.
What is one of the most common identifiable denominators evident among industrialized nations that seems to presage the unwanted and most feared elements of human aging? An influx of too much good healthy food? Fluoride in the water? Climate change? No. The most common easily identifiable detail is lack of movement by millions of stationary and physically immobilized people.
Do you recall how annoyed you got when the cup holders in your car did not accommodate the size container filled with your favorite beverage? My point is, that well, we hardly have to move a muscle to get what we want and where we want.
From ancient times, wise doctors with their heritage in Chinese culture and medicine have always said that lack of movement is one of the main components that bring on disease and early unwanted aspects of aging.
Perhaps it is not aging itself that is the ‘bad’ thing.
Perhaps it is aging in an unhealthy condition brought on by an unhealthy life style that inspires unhappiness and discontent.
Is less wrinkles your definition of aging happily? Creams from the organs and skin of every imaginable animal, and lotions from every fruit, vegetable and mineral are ready for you to purchase that claim to heal, cure or treat the anathema of the dreaded wrinkle!!!! Weight gain interfering with your happy walk into your golden years? You know you have tried at least 7 different approaches to eliminating that ‘ugly fat’ from your beautiful body.
Because just as was mentioned before, martial arts in it’s numerous and various styles, is all about movement.
Exactly how is it that this movement becomes such a cure all and benefit? Basically our bodies are machines that require fuel, a way to process that fuel and turn it to energy, and a way to get rid of the by-product waste.
In most martial arts, from the softer style of Tai Chi to the harder styles such as Taekwondo, the components taught are comprised of learning how to move every part of our bodies and how to mentally learn to breath for maximum focus and concentration.
Some are known as ‘hard styles’ because of their proclivity to use their bodies defensively with hard punches and fast, quick strikes in training.
Whereas the softer styles techniques are usually performed slower, with more liquidity and a softer approach.
There is a martial arts style for you that will benefit you and help you overcome the ‘fearful’ aspects of aging.
There is no limit to how much you can learn and train in.
Your personal requirements as to your own definition of what constitutes anti aging will be noticeable to you.
Aging will not be scary word; a the word that you perceive that somehow diminishes you.
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