BALANCE
"Youth is wasted on the young" -
George Bernard Shaw
Attaining the optimum life of a human being, which should be our
duty, our role - not a side-show issue - is to achieve wisdom, grace,
beauty and health. Often these only come to us with the years, not
decline, as is sometimes perceived. You will know the saying "life
begins at forty" and if you are beyond those years, you will
have discovered this is true. In the main, we do not find ourselves
or learn much about the process of living until we have had years
of practice.
That's logical.
But the old way of looking at things was that, by then, it was too
late; we had missed our chance.
Trash this belief at once! At forty you have barely lived half your
life -often the painful half. The remainder is the reward or pay-off.
It's the part which brings about the reckoning or balance, if you
like.
Now that's a contrived way of introducing the key anti-ageing topic
for this site, which is BALANCE.
As in so many endeavours, bliss, success or achievement only comes
about from a harmonious balance of counterpoised forces. Buddha advocated
the Middle Way; the Chinese introduced us to yin and yang; whereas
we might talk of male and female virtues; nowadays we have the concept
of right and left brain.
These are NOT competing elements. These are co-operative elements.
Each plays its part. There is no good or bad side. It's the balance
between the two which counts. We need both, like night and day, sweet
and sour or fast and slow. Some combinations invent each other, like
good and bad, high and low, or old and new; you need one to create
the other (much advertizing, for instance is to create the destructive
unbalanced notion that "old" is bad, only "new" is
good, but that's just to get you to part with your bucks).
Other combinations seem to exist in the nature of things. You can't
have a left without a right, really, otherwise you would just walk
around in circles. And that's a good way to think about this all-important
issue. All left turns or all right turns is an idiots way to get
nowhere!
So it is that health and vitality, your main passports to a long
and happy life, are built around many balances: balanced nutrients,
balanced energies, balanced hormones and a balanced view of life.
We'll be looking at ways of achieving all these desirable
states on this website.
In the meantime, I suggest you make it your mot
juste for the third age. Think it, speak it and act on it! You'll
be calmer, happier, healthier, livelier and wiser.
That's a promise built into the fabric of life!
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