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Don’t contaminate yourself with toxic emotions
By Cory Quirino
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:41:00 08/18/2008

MANILA, Philippines—Aging isn’t just about physical biology, it is also an emotional and spiritual phenomenon.

1. Listen to the wisdom of your body. When you adopt a certain habit / behavior, ask yourself, “Am I feeling good or bad?” If your body sends a signal of discomfort or distress, stop what you are doing. If your body feels comfort / satisfaction, continue what you are doing.

2. The power is not in the past or the future, it is now. Live in the present. Do not struggle against the flow of the unwise. In short, no sense in worrying. Take it one step at a time.

3. Meditate. Make time for silence. Pay close attention to your inner life.

4. Drop your need for social / external approval. You are the sole judge of your worth, not society.

5. Respond to every situation no matter how painful. Anger will only delay your healing.

6. Know that your outer world is guided by your inner world. Attune your wants or desires from within to reflect from without.

7. Withhold judgment. Everything in your life can be forgiven and understood. Don’t judge others, least of all yourself.

8. Don’t contaminate your system with toxic food, emotions, actions.

9. Replace fear with love. Remembering a past hurt will only weaken your capacity to love again without fear.

10. You are connected to the earth and to every person in this planet. Raise your consciousness to embrace this truth.

Eating plan

Five nights a week, eat fish or poultry (boiled, broiled, roasted). Remove skin before eating.

Have a large raw salad (not more than 1 tsp of oil in dressing).

Eat a small boiled potato.

Avoid alcohol as much as you can.

Don’t have dessert everyday. Skip a day in between desserts.

Take chromium pecolinate complex (200 mg 1-3 times daily) before exercise to speed up weight loss.

Take amino acids argimen 2000 mg and ornethine before bedtime when cells are regenerating. For the natural release of growth hormones, best on an empty stomach and taken with water or juice. (Caution: contraindicated for children and persons with herpes or schizophrenic conditions)

Truths to remember

Cells are influenced by every feeling, thought and action. Thus if you think old, you will speed up the clock.

Stress hormones play a huge and critical part in aging. Therefore when you make a lifestyle change, your cells will respond better by producing less stress hormones.

Taking drugs like growth hormones may have an anti-aging effect on the body but, science still doesn’t know its long-term side effects. Once withdrawn, you are hooked because it isn’t permanent. Studies show that even if an abnormal hormone balance causes aging, what can have a more dramatic effect on your look is the message you send your body. In short, by enhancing your sense of fulfillment and happiness you can prolong your youthful looks. But the responsibility for changing your awareness is up to you.

Here are some more pointers:

Never rush through your meal. Eat calmly.

Don’t be controlled by deadlines.

Eat freshly picked vegetables. Don’t eat leftovers which are considered harmful.

Food preparation should only be raw or boiled—nothing fried.

Light eating is better than heavy eating.

Affirm youthfulness: Because life is a creative endeavor, you are constantly creating and recreating yourself. Believe that you can and you will.

Affirm “Life flows through me endlessly.”

Love and light!

Reference: Deepak Chopra’s “Ageless Body, Dimless Mind”