Getting Older without Aging

So many good things about getting older. The best one for me has been learning to appreciate what I can, and remembering to do that often. That has become so much easier to do the more I have practiced. I wouldn't have thought it would be so difficult since it's such a more comfortable way of being, but it does take effort to recognize when I've drifted into old patterns of thinking.

One of these is an idea I grew up with from watching how people became old. I used to think it just happened, no matter what you did, or that it was genetic. And once that began, it was only a matter of time for the disease process to call all the shots. It felt like something I didn't want to think about and just put it out of my mind, knowing one day it would catch up with me. In other words, even though I was interested in health and healing, I also enjoyed a lot of the good stuff, and too much of it for a while, because even though you know its coming for you someday, when you're young that day is so far away.

I was lucky I had an edge on healing from the effects of what damage I had done through the teaching I received, and continue to receive, in Chinese medicine, so that helped me when I was ready take better care. My overall health definitely would have been better if I had started receiving regular treatments sooner. Prevention is the best stage to include acupuncture in your care routine. But if you haven't yet started, and have some issues, don't worry, it's not to late to make acupuncture work for you. It

can improve symptoms after a disease has already developed, and improve the environment that allowed the condition to take advantage within the body, reducing the need for medications that can have negative side-effects and sometimes cause an additional condition to develop.

Getting older doesn't have to include the multitude of problems we might see when we look around. That situation has been too normalized. Acupuncture can deliver you a completely different picture of what's possible. The limiting factor is the willingness to try something different.

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