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How to Feel Radiant at Any Age!

The Key to Feeling Radiant TERRI COLE | JULY 3, 2015 | LIVING 2612046524_9dc379956c_z Print Friendly and PDFPrint Good News to your Inbox GO emailTumblrRedditStumbleUponDiggLinkedIn I sat in the front row of a sold out event, Ageless Mindset, entranced by two glorious women I love. One was ob/gyn physician and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Christiane Northrup and the other Tony Award-winning activist and author of The Vagina Monologues, Eve Ensler. These ageless Goddesses were sharing their wisdom, insight and experience on female aging. This topic has been on my mind more in recent years for obvious reasons. If you are lucky enough to continue living, you age. Like many women I know, I never thought much about aging until I starting noticing changes in my face and body that I couldn’t attribute to anything but aging. So my interest was peaked when their conversation turned to this question; Is it possible for women’s beliefs about aging to be as powerful or more powerful than their own biology? Dr. Northrup’s answers were fascinating. In her inspiring new book, Goddesses Never Age: The Secret Prescription for Radiance, Vitality and Well-Being, Dr. Northrup shares a revolutionary perspective on aging. Women in American culture have inherited the belief that after a certain age, you can expect to see and feel an inevitable decline in your appearance, health and energy. Society has made billions selling anything they can market, from creams to clothing to surgical procedures, with the promise of restoring youth. Dr. Northrup believes that every woman has the power to transform her own aging process to an empowered experience instead of an inevitable tragedy. Society tells you that “young” is sexy. It tells you to strive to be tight and toned and perky. You are encouraged to do whatever it takes and spend whatever it costs to maintain your youth. Very often the voices around you can be so loud that it becomes difficult to connect to your own thoughts and feelings about what aging actually means to you and what you need to feel and look your best. As you age there is no denying that your body and appearance will change. However, you have more power over how you look and feel than you think. You get to define what thirty, forty, fifty, sixty, seventy and eight feel like. You get to decide what is sexy. You get to create your own radiance and vitality. Remind yourself with age comes wisdom, experience and character. However, before you do any of this it is important to get clear on what “aging” means to you. There is nothing SEXIER than Self-Acceptance & Self-Celebration @Terri_Cole (Click to Tweet!) Notice your thoughts and words when it comes to your own aging and the aging of others, especially women. Think about the way your mother experienced ageing as it has a tremendous impact on your downloaded psychological blueprint about your own process. Do you feel more empowered with each year, acknowledging accomplishments and wisdom gained or do you focus on what you are losing or what you are gaining that you might not want like wrinkles, sagging body parts or a few grey hairs? Do you find yourself harshly critiquing the appearance of other women your age? Or do you celebrate womanhood in its many shapes, forms, ages and sizes? In order to feel like a Goddess, which to me means recognizing your divine nature, you must see yourself that way. I also find it helpful to mourn some of the things that aging impacts. For me that has been a slight change in my memory, among other things, which used to be a readily accessible steel trap of information. I still have a great memory but it is not the same as when I was twenty or thirty so I have learned to become a little more patient. Mourning what has passed creates space to truly embrace what is amazing about being whatever age you are right now. I wouldn’t change anything about my life for a tighter butt or less smile lines. It is up to you to recognize and celebrate the inherent value and beauty of being a woman at every age. You are exquisite, but in order to feel it you must treat yourself and think about yourself in that way. If you feel bad about your skin, body, hair, energy level, sex drive or whatever, it will show. Perhaps not in how you look but in what you say, what you do and the energy you put out into the world. Which impacts what happens. You can shift your perspective and expectations about getting older. You can feel and look better than you used to regardless of how many years have passed. You can reject old paradigms and create your own ideals of ageless living. You just have to decide to do it your way. I am grateful to women like Dr. Northrup and Eve Ensler for leading this movement of empowered living. Now It is up to us to be a part of our own solution instead of being a part of the problem. In the comments below please share with me one old belief about aging that you are willing to transform. Share it for yourself and share it to inspire others. Together we can make a massive shift in how the world responds to women and their age. Keep rocking your inner Goddess and as always, take care of you. Love Love Love, Terri Lisa Ekanger

To practice neutral thinking is to live in total peace.

The longer I live, the more I realize the true neutrality of life. The micro nature (the world you see all around you) is neutral, this means the macro nature (the huge expanse of it all)...our earth and universe are too. Out there, is only the possibility or projection of what will and will not be based on our perceptions and then our actions. When I say what will and will not be, I'm referring to human creation, human invention and human reaction, not naturally occurring phenomena. I'm convinced that 100% of human emotions and feelings are a product of evolution. We, the smartest species with the biggest brain and the softest hide. A body of raw exposed skin with millions of nerve endings; skin the largest organ in our body. To be this smart and this vulnerable (at the same time) would require us to have a very sophisticated set of thoughts which are in fact our emotions. Doubt (self protection to keep us from making a decision that could lead to our demise) Fear (self protection from threats that could lead to our demise) Love (a way to make sure we create offspring and then protect those offspring so they live to also reproduce and to protect them from their demise)--we were duped into believing that any of this is real. It is CREATED, and you believe its real, but it is manufactured in your head through evolution and you have no defense against it. Your tendencies are already printed in your DNA well before you are ever born. The splitting of cells, the fusing of tissue, it summons evolution to protect you before you ever breathe in your first breath! Take a look at a cemetery with thousands of headstones, now think of each of those people who owned ALL the same emotions you currently have. Can you visualize thousands of tiny dandelion puffs floating above them? They represent the feelings of those below and when they passed, where did those feelings go? Thousands of individual stories of love and loss, strife and success...good times and bad. Just like you, they spent a lifetime assembling, disassembling and reassembling their thoughts and beliefs about their own experiences. We are constantly trying to make sense of our experiences and assign them meaning so we can keep living day after day in complete uncertainty. Because, life after all is 100% uncertain to us, and yet, we are 100% certain it will go on. Self protection is the theme of it all because we are wired to live and reproduce, but we are also equipped to manage our inevitable demise too. Where did all those 'real' feelings go? They passed with the individual and they were neutralized and absorbed and returned back to their beginnings. For they were never real, but imagined. The definition of real is: actually existing as a thing or occurring in fact; not imagined or supposed. Knowing this, should empower us to keep our emotions between the lines, right? Knowing this should make us aware of the amazing power of our minds, right? To practice neutral thinking is to live in total peace. Life is 1% what happens to me, and 99% how I react to it. Isn't it time to start living free from the stress of allowing your thoughts to define your happiness? Think about it. Lisa Ekanger