"Awareness has the power to change aging, but..." begins Chopra, it also is a two-edged sword. It has the power to heal and destroy. The difference is how you condition your awareness and train your attitudes, assumptions and beliefs explains Chopra. You can have destructive mental patterns or positive ones. Non-aging would be to give up "...habits, rituals, rigid beliefs, and outworn behavior." Chopra points out that as the saying in the Tao Te Ching goes, "Whatever is flexible and flowing will tend to grow, whatever is rigid and blocked will wither and die."
From before we can remember, external ideas, cultures, and beliefs have been suspended upon us. I remember when my mom would worry about getting sick as she got older. Just her simple belief is imprinted on me that when I age, sickness is normal. I'm conditioning my thoughts and beliefs based upon this. Not to blame my mom since she has also been conditioned by others including our whole culture; medications for when you age, botox to reduce wrinkles, Metamucil for when you get older. The list goes on and on imprinting on us that age must happen, imprinting on your body to believe this and age itself. What aging beliefs are you holding onto?
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