This week, as I meditated on my thoughts about aging each day, what I learned surprised me. By watching my thoughts, I discovered that my thoughts are already youthful, and I feel at least 20 years younger than my biological age inside and am excited to continue to grow in wisdom and knowledge and experience.
It was my thoughts about my PHYSICAL APPEARANCE that weren’t so good. Like most of us, I am influenced by seeing magazines at the check-out with celebrities who are my age or older (Christie Brinkley is 58), but look much younger than they are. I know their photos are airbrushed and photo shopped, and they have a large budget and staff for beauty treatments, but there must be some secrets or lifestyle choices that play a part too.
While aging is normal and unavoidable, and I must accept it, my physical appearance looks much older than I feel. In our society, we automatically judge each other by our physical packaging; we have no other choice if we have never met the person before, so physical appearance is important.
When I looked in the mirror, Isaw what I could change – I can lose 20 pounds this year. With 48 weeks to go, that is less than half a pound a week, which I can do by eating healthier and exercising more.
I noticed my clothes are dowdy, so I bought a new outfit at a great sale price this week. I also noticed that my grey streaked long hair was being pulled into a pony tail, which made me look old, so I got an updated hairstyle.
I stumbled upon a really great hair stylist named Kalandra (what a pretty name!) at Aru Salon in White Rock who cut and styled my hair, and discussed coloring my hair to cover the grey and add highlights to create more body.
