Tagged: mobility

Visualize Your Way To Healthy Aging

If you have watched enough Olympics, you know that top athletes visualize their winning performances. In their mind’s eye, they see themselves performing perfectly before the actual performance. It’s called visualization, and it works...

More Thoughts and Some Action Tips

Here is the  introduction from my new book, Aging Intelligently, Small Bites, which you can check out and joyfully purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Aging-Intelligently-Small-Dempsey-Dybdahl-ebook/dp/B01KNNZO3G/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1472079360&sr=8-1&keywords=Dempsey+Dybdahl We begin life strong, flexible, and supple. We are curious, imaginative, and fearless...

Life Is A Process

All of us have a right to age intelligently, without restraints or judgement. It isn’t just for the wealthy, the gene-strong, the lucky, and the few deserving. It is everyone’s right to age well....

Change One Thing To Improve Aging

You can exercise more, eat less, sleep more. You can buy a dog for company, choose fun eyewear, and join meetup groups and mingle. The problem is, you still have the same thought patterns....

4 Ugly Things About Stress

Stay stressed. It leads to adrenal failure, fatigue, weight gain, and poor concentration. Or change. That’s Aging Intelligently.

Twist, And Maybe Shout

Start Aging Intelligently today, one step at a time. Just before you eat: Find a flat surface along a wall, and face it. Standing, leaving your feet facing the wall, twist so you are looking...

Nouns and Verbs

Think of aging as a verb. It implies movement. It’s a challenge, a privilege, and work, to age actively. That’s Aging Intelligently

How To Make Smart Aging Choices

Health is dependent on many factors; including genetics, family history, lifestyle, and diet. We cannot do much about genetics or family history, except recognize them. If both parents died from heart failure, it doesn’t...

ACTION TIP: Spine Lengthening

Start Aging Intelligently today, one step at a time. Just before you eat: Sit as tall as you can, lengthening the top of your head away from your butt. Hold this position (but not...

ACTION TIP: Spinal Flexibility

Start Aging Intelligently today, one step at a time. Just before you eat: While sitting, roll your forehead towards your knees, then straighten up. Lift your chest towards the ceiling, eyes and head looking...