“I invite you to consciously choose how you want to age. Specifically, how do you want to feel, look, and live in the decades to come?”
Aging Well From the Inside Out
Hello Beautiful,
What does it mean when I say “Aging Well From the Inside Out”? This month I would like to elaborate on this concept and its implications. Everyone gets to choose how they want to age. Most people make their choices in harmony with the expectations they internalize over the years watching people in their family and social group age. If the group they identify with spends a lot of time and money on fitness, cosmetic procedures, and customized hormone replacement, then that’s what they’ll do. If a softer, fuller figure, decreased emphasis on outer appearance, and greater emphasis on community involvement & gentle living is the norm, they go with that. I invite you to consciously choose how you want to age. Specifically, how do you want to feel, look, and live in the decades to come?
There are many approaches you can choose to aging well in your own way. In my work, I offer resources to those who wish to age in the following ways:
- They want to maintain (and even improve) their health and fitness with each passing year. Knowing adaptations may be required, but living with the intention of maintaining full function of the body over the course of their lifetime.
- They want to maintain their femininity, sensuality, and style as they age. They believe that they have more to offer with each birthday they have celebrated and want to embody the richness of beauty that can be developed over time.
- They want to release the baggage of bitterness, disappointment, and skepticism that can callous a heart after decades of life. Instead, they embrace the beauty of alchemizing hurts and disappointments into discernment, compassion, and wisdom. They maintain a bright Spirit and sparkle. They embrace the journey they have traveled and find insights that can benefit others. They have a sense of hope for the future that gives them a lightness in their Being.
- They are informed about ( and opt to use) non invasive approaches to enhance their appearance. Rather than freeze the movement of the face or injecting fillers, they practice facial yoga, acupressure, lymphatic drainage, and other techniques to sculpt a face that moves naturally to reflect their emotions but is smooth and firm -not holding past negative emotions as deep lines or having areas deflated by muscle atrophy. They learn to create a lovely face through a combination of emotional and physical awareness and skillful exterior care of the skin, fascia, and muscles of the face.
- They use strategic workout methods, wellness tools like infrared saunas, rebounding on a mini trampoline, and lymphatic drainage to reduce and eliminate cellulite, nutrition protocols to enhance skin and hair beauty, and an overall approach to wellness as the root of beauty.
- They curate a vitality producing diet that enhances their well-being and gives them the energy to live an active and full life. They listen to their bodies and make modifications to their regime in educated ways, so that they can be deeply nourished as time alters what they need to thrive. They have basic principles that serve them and are able to adapt.
- They remain life long learners-curious, open, and engaged. Life is an adventure. Our moments here are to be savored. Creating beauty is a service that enhances our lives and the lives of others. Joy is a choice. Happiness is a habit. Health is a set of skillful habits. Miracles are inevitable for those who cultivate the eyes to see them.
If you feel inspired by, and curious about, the above ideas -you are in the right place! Through my online courses and personal coaching sessions, you can learn how to incorporate all 7 of these principles into your life…allowing you to age beautifully from the internal to the external. I encourage you to find role models who have aged well in each of these ways. It make take several people who’s combined efforts embody them all, but you can then use their example as your own target for how to Age Well From the Inside Out. If we cultivate character and evolve our understanding and habits over the years, we can embody qualities that inspire and serve others while being the best we can be.
Cheering You On,
Rachel