Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
. By Deepak Chopra, M.D.. New York, Harmony Books, 1993. Index, 342
pages.ISBN: 0517592576.
Being 70, Doing 70
Seventy Suggestions for Better Living at Seventy Years of Age
Growing Older, Maturity, Senior Living, Old Age, Wise and Old, Mature Lifestyle
Psychology,
Self-Help, Self-Therapy, Lifestyle, Self-Improvement, Practical Wisdom
Mental Self-Help, Practical Living, Biblio-Therapy
Research by Michael P. Garofalo, M.S.
Bibliography Quotations Lifestyle Advice From Wise Persons A Good Life Subject Index
1. Walk some every day. Walking is the essential exercise to help with well-being, improved cardio-vascular conditioning, strength, and flexibility of the hips. Walking is universally recommended for improving one’s fitness by every physician, health organization, fitness expert, and nature lover.
2. Read some portion of a “good” book every day. This means reading a
book you can learn from, that presents an extended and well developed
presentation on some topic, and written by a qualified author. We are talking
about great books, outstanding non-fiction, classics, great literature,
outstanding novels, famous plays, renowned poets, great essays, landmark works.
This reading activity is not the same as being randomly entertained by Internet
text/image blurbs: Facebook posts, Twitter posts, email, news summaries, or an
ad encased “info spot” on some topic. To help keep costs lower for books: use
and support your local public library, share books with friends, and purchase
used books.
3. Sleep comfortably every night.
4. Use many
practical techniques for improving your mood, uplifting your spirits,
shaking off the blues. Consider various ways to:
Uplift Your Mood, and Banish the Blues.
5. Listen to, contemplate, and adopt the advice of many wise women and
men. Contemplate these suggestions:
How to Live a Good Life:
Advice from Wise Persons.
6. Be tougher, be more resilient, be braver. Aging is not easy.
You will need increasing toughness, a greater tolerance for pain, and new coping
skills for dealing with sorrow and loss Some degree of a
Stoical attitude is
required.
Bibliography, Links, Resources
Aging Well, Growing Older, Maturity, Senior
Living, Old Age
Psychology,
Self-Help, Self-Therapy, Self-Improvement, Practical Wisdom
Mental Self-Help, Lifestyle, Practical Living, Biblio-Therapy
These are books I am reading, studying, using or have read that are in my home library in Red Bluff, California or from books borrowed from local public or university libraries. Also, many links to online resources are included. The most up-to-date version of this list of recommended reading on Aging Well is found here.
Advice From Wise Persons: Quotations, Guides, Maxims, Principles
Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old
ISBN: 0517592576.
Aging as a Spiritual Practice: A Contemplative Guide to Growing Older and Wiser
Aging Blog Posts
to the Cloud Hands Blog
Aging Well: Surprising Guideposts to a Happier Life from the Landmark Harvard Study of Adult Development
Brown and Company, 2002. Index, 373 pages. ISBN: 0316989363.
Three separate
groups of 824 persons were studied during their entire lives. Dr. Vaillant
provides
some summary analysis, and provides dozens of detailed case studies to
illustrate
these summary observations. Expanding upon Erick Erikson's Childhood
and Society (1950) model for the development of individuals, Dr. Valliant proposes that the
six adult life tasks are: identity, intimacy, career consolidation, generatively,
keeper of the
meaning, and integrity.
Aging with Grace: What the Nun Study Teaches Us About Leading Longer, Healthier, and More Meaningful Lives
Aligned, Relaxed, Resilient: The Physical Foundations of Mindfulness.
By Will Johnson.
Boston, Shambhala, 2000. 137 pages. ISBN: 1570625182. VSCL.
American Association for Retired Persons (AARP)
American Senior Fitness Association
Links, resources, training, certification.
Anatomy
of Movement. By Blandine Calais-Germain.
Seattle, Washington, Eastland Press, 1985, 1993. Translated from the
French by Nicole Commarmond. Index, 289 pages. ISBN: 0939616173.
VSCL.
Arthritis Therapy -
Exercise - Tai Chi Chuan and Qigong Bibliography, links, notes,
quotes, and references to medical studies.
Awakening at Midlife
Books, 1996. Chapter endnotes, 373 pages. ISBN:
1573226327. Encourages
us to work with our dreams, express ourselves in creative ways, enhance
relationships,
meditate and prayer, honor the body, and expand consciousness. VSCL.
Be an Outrageous Older Woman. By Ruth H. Jacobs. Perennial Books, 1997. Revised edition. 320 pages. ISBN: 0060952539.
Bodybuilding,
Weightlifting, and Strength Training for Persons Over 60 Years of Age
Bodymind. By Ken Dychtwald, M.D. Tarcher, 1986. 320 pages.
ISBN: 978-0874773750.
Breathing Techniques and Exercises Links,
bibliography, quotes, notes, resources.
Bringing
Yoga to Life:The Everyday Practice of Enlightened Living. By
Donna Farhi.
Harper San Francisco, 2003. 250 pages. Notes. ISBN: 0060091142.
VSCL.
Buddha Is as Buddha Does: The Ten Original Practices for Enlightened Living
Buddhism: Notes, Reading Lists, Guides. By Mike Garofalo.
Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions
Chico State University: Osher
Lifelong Learning Institute at Chico State, Chico, California
Chi Kung (Qigong)
Chinese yoga for seniors.
Cloud Hands Blog. By Mike
Garofalo. Online since 2005. A blog with
reflections, notes, suggestions, bibliographies, references, questions and answers, links and quotations about Philosophy,
Mind-Body Arts, Gardening,
Walking, and The Eight Ways.
Concepts of Leisure: Philosophical Implications. By James F.
Murphy. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, McGraw Hill, 1974. 267 pages. ISBN: 0131664395.
Death and
Dying, Impermanence: Quotes and Sayings
The Denial of Aging: Perpetual Youth, Eternal Life, and Other Dangerous Fantasies
Eight Section Brocade
Qigong Eight Treasures Chi Kung (Energy Exercises for
seniors).
By Michael P.
Garofalo. Instructions, notes, links, bibliography, quotations, and charts.
Ellis, Albert (1913-2007), Ph.D. Very influential American
psychologist. Formulator of Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT).
.
Edited by Albert Ellis and Shawn Blau. New York, Citadel Press, Kensington
Pub., 1998. Index, bibliography, notes, 375 pages. ISBN: 0806520329.
VSCL.
Ellis, Albert.
A New Guide to Rational Living.
Ellis, Albert, Ph.D., and Emmett Verlten, Ph.D.
Optimal Aging: Get Over Getting Older
Essential
Spirituality: The 7 Central Practices to Awaken Heart and Mind.
By Roger
Walsh, M.D., Ph.D.. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1999.
Index, bibliography,
306 pages. ISBN: 0471330264. The Seven Practices include:
"1) Transforming Your
Motivation: Reduce Craving and Find Your Soul's Desire; 2) Cultivate Emotional
Wisdom: Heal Your Heart and Learn to Love; 3) Live Ethically: Feel Good by Doing Good; 4) Concentrate and Calm Your Mind; 5) Awaken Your Spiritual
Vision:
See Clearly and Recognize the Sacred in All Things; 6) Cultivate Spiritual
Intelligence:
Develop Wisdom and Understand Life; 7) Express Spirit in Action: Embrace
Generosity
and the Joy of Service."
VSCL.
Exercise
for Frail Elders. By Elizabeth Best-Martini and Kim A.
Botenhagen-Digenova.
Human Kinetics Publishers, 2003. 228 pages. ISBN: 0736036873.
Exercise
for Older Adults: ACE's Guide for Fitness Professionals. By Richard T.
Cotton,
Christine J. Ekeroth, Holly Yancy, and the American Council on Exercise.
Human
Kinetics Publishers, 1998. 230 pages. ISBN: 088011942X.
Exuberance: The Passion for Life
Fallproof!: A Comprehensive Balance and Mobility Training Program. By Debra J. Rose. Human Kinetics Pub., 2003. 299 pages. ISBN: 0736040889.
Fifty-Plus Lifelong Fitness - Senior Fitness
and Health
Fitness Educators of Active Adults
Fitness
for Seniors: Amazing Body Breakthroughs for Super Health. By
Frank K. Wood. FC&A Publishing, 2004. 392 pages. ISBN:
1890957755
Fitness
Over Fifty: An Exercise Guide from the National Institue of Aging.
By the National Institute on Aging. W.W. Norton and Co., 2003. 136
pages.
ISBN: 1578261368.
Five Animal Frolics
Qigong. Chinese energy exercises for seniors. Links, bibliography,
quotes and notes. By Michael P. Garofalo.
Foundation for Health in Aging (American
Geriatrics Society)
The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully
The Grace in Aging: Awaken as You Grow Older
Green Way Research Subject Index.
The hypertext notebooks and websites of Mike Garofalo.
Growing Old is Not for Sissies II: Portraits of Senior Athletes. By Etta Clark. Pomegranate Communications, 1995. 113 pages. ISBN: 0876544782.
Growing Old: The Ultimate Freedom
Grow Younger, Live Longer: Ten Steps to Reverse Aging
289 pages. ISBN: 0609600796. Practical suggestions for
improving your health and
enhancing chances for longevity by changing your perceptions and beliefs,
getting deep rest, nurturing your body with healthy food, using nutritional supplements
wisely,
using mind/body integration techniques, exercising, eliminating toxins, becoming
more
creative, living with loving-kindness, and maintaining a youthful mind.
"The mind/body
techniques of tai chi and qigong are centuries old. Their graceful slow
movements
improve balance, flexibility and strength, enhancing both physical and mental
well-being.
We encourage you to find a local tai chi or qigong class and use these beautiful
movements
to awaken mind/body integration." p. 123. VSCL.
The Healing Promise of Qi: Creating Extraordinary Wellness Through Qigong and Tai Chi
Health and Fitness:
Taijiquan and Qigong Links, bibliography, quotes, notes.
Healthy Aging: A Lifelong Guide to Your Well-Being
How to
Feel Good As You Age: A Voice of Experience. By John Barnett.
Acton,
Massachusetts, Vander Wyk and Burnham, 2000. Index, bibliography, 346
pages.
ISBN: 1889242071. Practical advice by a very active senior citizen from
Seattle.
Good tips on planning, positive attitude, assertiveness, lifestyle changes,
communicating
your needs, direct action to improve you life, social relations, spirituality,
and managing
the details or life.
How
to Live a Good Life: Advice from Wise Persons
I'm Too Young To Be Seventy
By Judith Viorst. Illustrated by Laura Gibson.
Integral Life Practice: A 21st-Century Blueprint for Physical Health, Emotional Balance, Mental Clarity, and Spiritual Awakening
Lifestyle Advice from Wise
Persons
The Longevity Diet: The Only Proven Way to Slow the Aging Process and Maintain Peak Vitality Through Caloric Restriction
By Brian M. Delaney and Lisa Walford. De Capo Lifelong Books, 3rd Edition,
2010. 352 pages. ISBN: 978-1600940385.
One Old Druid's
Final Journey. Notebooks of the Librarian of Gushen Grove, Mike
Garofalo.
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute
at Chico State, Chico, California
Qigong (Chi
Kung, Tao Yin, Chinese Yoga): Lessons, History, Bibliography, Links, Quotes,
Research Chinese yoga for seniors.
Religion, Theology and
Spirituality: My Own Opinions and Ideas I am an Epicurean and
atheist. I think organized religions are a negative influence.
Rules for Aging: Resist Normal Impulses, Live Longer, Attain Perfection
SeniorNet SeniorNet's
mission is to provide older adults education for and access to computer
technologies to enhance their lives and enable them to share their knowledge and
wisdom.
Seven Strategies for Positive Aging.
70 Things to Do When You Turn 70
Strength Training for
Persons Over 60 Years of Age
Tai Chi Chuan (Taijiquan) Chinese exercise for seniors.
The Thinker's Way: 8 Steps to a Richer Life (Think Critically, Live Creatively, Choose Freely)
Thinking Critically
By Robert Grudin. New York, Ticknor and Fields, 1982. 189 pages. ISBN:
0899197892. VSCL.
Touching, Touch, Hands,
Fingers
Toward a Psychology of Being. By Abraham Maslow. Reprint of 1962
First Edition. Martino Fine Books, 2011. 228 pages. ISBN:
978-1614270676. VSCL.
Trail Guide to the Body: How to Locate Muscles, Bones and More.
By Andrew Biel, LMP. By Andrew Biel. Illustrations by Robin Dorn, LMP. Boulder,
Colorado, Books of Discovery, 1997, 2005, 3rd Edition. Index, glossary,
422 pages. ISBN: 9780965853453. A very good resource and
reference tool written by an experienced massage therapist. A good book
for learning palpatory and anatomy skills. VSCL.
Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
VSCL = Valley Spirit Center Library, Red Bluff,
California
Well Being: Bibliography,
Links, Resources, Quotations, Fitness
Willpower, Behavioral
Change: Quotes, Sayings, Notes
Yoga: Bibliography,
Links, Resources, Fitness
Lifestyle Advice from Wise Persons
Index to A Philosopher's Notebooks
Quotations, Sayings, Quips, Maxims
Aging Well, Senior Living, Growing Older, Maturity, Aging Gracefully
Tips for a successful exercise program for the elderly:
1. Make a realistic assessment of your current physical fitness
condition.
2. Start off slow and be patient.
3. Include exercises for improving your aerobic capacity, your
strength,
and your flexibility and range of movement.
4. Establish and maintain your exercise program. Develop a positive
habit for exercise.
5. Find exercise activities that your enjoy. Vary your exercise
rountines.
6. Enjoy exercise activities with others, but don't depend upon others to
exercise.
7. Be realistic about your exercise goals in the long run.
“It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life
appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.”
- Andy Rooney
"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you
was?"
- Satchel Paige
"But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of
you accomplishments
either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when
you get time
of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go
after dreams
or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a
self."
- Barbara Sher, It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now, 1998, p
228
“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The
essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives
are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as
when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to
anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself.”
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"America is growing older at an unprecedented rate. The number of people
65 and older is larger than ever before, and those 85 and older constitute the fastest growing
segment of the population. When the baby boom generation enters its senior years, between 2010
and 2030, it is projected that one in five Americans will be over 65."
- American Geriatric Society, What
is Geriatrics?
“The older I get, the more I see there are these
crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them
back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move
forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about
who is.”
- Alex Witchel
Aging Quotations: Compilations, Links, Resources
“Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they
grow old because they quit playing.”
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
“I've reached the age where bruises are formed from
failures within rather than accidents without.”
- Nicole Krauss
"Ten Ways to Inspire People to Keep Fit: Be a role model; make
fitness fun; be both active
and productive; make workouts short and sweet; extol the benefits; train for a
charity event
together; set short-term goals; offer to be a workout partner; use inspirational
music; don't preach, lecture or nag. "
- American
Council on Exercise
“There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your
talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love.
When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.”
- Sophia Loren
"So far as motivational status is concerned, healthy people have
sufficiently gratified
their basic needs for safety, belongingness, love, respect and self-esteem so
that they are motivated primarily by trends to self-actualization (defined as ongoing
actualization of potentials, capacitates and talents, as fulfillment of mission
(or call,
fate, destiny, or vocation), as a fuller knowledge of, and acceptance of, the
person's
own intrinsic nature, as an unceasing trend toward unity, integration or synergy
within
the person. .. These healthy people are there defined by describing their clinically
observed characteristics. These are:
1. Superior perception of reality.
2. Increased acceptance of self, of others and of nature.
3. Increased spontaneity.
4. Increase in problem-centering.
5. Increased detachment and desire for privacy.
6. Increased autonomy, and resistance to enculturation.
7. Greater freshness of appreciation, and richness of emotional reaction.
8. Higher frequency of peak experiences.
9. Increased identification with the human species.
10. Changed and improved interpersonal relations.
11. More democratic character structure.
12. Greatly increased creativeness.
13. Certain changes in the value system."
- Toward
a Psychology of Being. Abraham Maslow. New Jersey, Van
Nostrand, 1962. 3rd Edition, Wiley, 1998. 320 pages. ISBN: 0471293091.
pp.23-24
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don't take anything personally.
3. Don't make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
- Don Miguel Ruiz,
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
“And meanwhile time goes about its immemorial work of
making everyone look and feel like shit.”
- Martin Amis
"The great secret that all old people share is that you
really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but
you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."
- Doris Lessing
"With 3.3 million residents age 65 and older, California is home to the
largest elderly population in the United States. This age group is expected to have an overall 112 percent
increase between 1990 and 2020."
- CSU Sacramento Gerontology Program
"Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life
in the aging and changing of my body."
- Malcolm Boyd
“Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything
else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.”
- Phyllis Diller
"Preparation for old age should begin not later than one's
teens. A life which is empty of purpose until 65 will not suddenly become
filled on retirement."
- Dwight L. Moody
"The wiser mind mourns less for what age takes away than
what it leaves behind."
- William Wordsworth
"Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and
strength."
- Betty Friedan
"An estimated 13.4 million Americans practice yoga or other mind-body
exercises such as tai chi, according to a 2003 survey by the Sporting
Goods Manufacturers Association. Of those, an estimated 1.6 million
were 55 or older."
- Red Bluff Daily News, 8 Feb 2005, 6A.
"Exuberance" derived from the Latin
exuberance― ex, "out of," + uberare, "to be fruitful, to be
abundant"― is as its core a concept of fertility. Exuberance in nature is
defined by lush, profuse, riotous growth; it is an overflowing, opulent, and
copious abundance. ... In our time, "exuberance" usually denotes a mood or
temperament of joyfulness, ebullience, and high spirits, a state of overflowing
energy and delight. It is more energetic than joy and enthusiasm but less
intense, although of longer duration, than ecstasy. The origins of the
concept of exuberance in the cyclic fertility of nature, now largely forgotten,
remain critical to understanding it as a primitive life force vital to
survival."
- Kay Redfield Jamison, M.D.
Exuberance: The Passion for Life
"I think you have to relax about aging. What else
can you do?"
- Felicity Kendal
"The Greeks understood the mysterious power of
the hidden side of things. The bequeathed to us one of most beautiful
words in our language― the word 'enthusiasm'― en theos― a god within.
The grandeur of human actions is measured by the inspiration from which they
spring. Happy is he who bears a god within, an who obeys it."
- Louis Pasteur
"Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.
- Leighton Meester
“Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor
weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too
late for the health of the soul. And to say that the season for studying
philosophy has not yet come, or that it is past and gone, is like saying that
the season for happiness is not yet or that it is now no more. Therefore, both
old and young alike ought to seek wisdom, the former in order that, as age comes
over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been,
and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old,
because he has no fear of the things which are to come. So we must exercise
ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we
have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed towards
attaining it.”
- Epicurus, Letter to Menoeceus
"Through processes embedded in valued subjective
experience we have learned that disciplining how we think and feel about
ourselves and our health is as important to well-being as any physiological
markers of disease. Positive Aging describes a process whereby we take
control of our own late life experiences by discovering meaning in growing old
that transcends the deteriorative processes of aging. Positive Agers
posses four characteristics: (a) mobilizing resources to meet the challenges of
aging, (b) making life choices that preserve well-being, (c) cultivating
flexibility to deal with age-related decline, and (d) focusing on the positives
(verses the negatives) in old age."
- Robert T. Hill
“Wisdom comes with winters.”
- Oscar Wilde
"I will never be an old man. To me, old age is
always 15 years older than I am."
Bernard M. Baruch
"There is no old age. There is, as there always
was, just you."
- Carol Matthau
"Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of
opportunity and strength."
- Betty Friedan
"Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years.
We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to
give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul."
- Samuel Ullman
"Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age.
Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age.
But only if the grapes were good in the first place."
- Abigail Van Buren
"The problems of aging present an opportunity to rethink
our social and personal lives in order to ensure the dignity and welfare of each
individual."
- Daisaku Ikeda
"We are not victims of aging, sickness and death.
These are part of the scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of
change. The seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being."
- Deepak Chopra
"Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't
mind, it doesn't matter."
- Mark Twain
“Now is the time to become a myth.”
- Diane Von Furstenberg
“Spring passes and one remembers one's innocence.
Summer passes and one remembers one's exuberance.
Autumn passes and one remembers one's reverence.
Winter passes and one remembers one's perseverance.”
- Yoko Ono
“The wisest are the most annoyed at the loss of time.”
- Dante Alighieri
"No one can avoid aging, but aging productively is
something else."
- Katharine Graham
"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At age 40, we don't care what they think of us. At age 60, we discover
that they haven't been thinking of us at all."
- Ann Landers
"Age appears to be best in four things: old wood is best
to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
- Francis Bacon
“The curse of mortality. You spend the first portion of
your life learning, growing stronger, more capable. And then, through no fault
of your own, your body begins to fail. You regress. Strong limbs become feeble,
keen senses grow dull, hardy constitutions deteriorate. Beauty withers. Organs
quit. You remember yourself in your prime, and wonder where that person went. As
your wisdom and experience are peaking, your traitorous body becomes a prison.”
- Brandon Mull
“In terms of days and moments lived, you’ll never again
be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future,
in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something
important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you’re just a kid, but a kid with
enough years on her to know that every day is priceless.”
- Victoria Moran
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or
eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in
life is to keep your mind young."
- Henry Ford
"He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel
the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age
are equally a burden."
- Plato
"The deepest definition of youth is life as yet
untouched by tragedy."
- Alfred North Whitehead
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy
man has no time to form."
- Adre Maurois
Seven Strategies for Positive Aging
1. You can find
meaning in old age.
2. You're never to old to learn.
3. You can use the past to cultivate wisdom.
4. You can strengthen life-span relationships.
5. You can promote growth through giving and receiving help.
6. You can forgive yourself and others.
7. You can possess a grateful attitude.
- Robert T. Hill, Ph.D.,
Seven Strategies for Positive Aging,
2008
"You can free yourself from aging by reinterpreting your
body and grasping the link between belief and biology.
- Deepak Chopra
"Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't
want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know; your bank
account of knowledge is much richer."
- William Holden
"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them
if you wish to keep them in working order."
- John Adams
A New Weekly Workout Plan
Monday
Beat around the bush
Lift myself up by the bootsraps
Make mountains out of mole hills
Get all fired up
Jump to conclusions
Climb the walls
Tuesday
Drag my heels
Make my point
Push my luck
Pull my own load
Hit the nail on the head
Wednesday
Bend over backwards
Jump on the Band Wagon
Grab all I can get
Run around in circles
Shoulder my share of responsibility
Thursday
Shop till I drop
Hang loose
Grind to a halt
Rest and recuperate
Friday
Push it to the limit
Pull out all the stops
Add fuel to the fire
Pave the roadway to hell
Throw it all away
Saturday
Open a can of worms
Put my foot in my mouth
Start the ball rolling
Go over the edge
Sunday
Pick up the pieces.
Wade through the morning paper
Lift my spirits
Toot my own horn
- Mike Garofalo, 2005,
Aging Well
Twenty Rules for Optimal Living in the 21st Century
1. Face Reality
2. Take Action
3. Create Yourself
4. Accept Responsibility
5. Do It Now
6. You Can't Change the Past
7. Act Like a Scientist
8. Work, Work, Work and Practice, Practice, Practice
9. Push Yourself
10. Do and Feel
11. There's No Gain Without Pain
12. Accept and Forgive Yourself Unconditionally
13. Live for Now and for the Future
14. Commit Yourself
15. Take Risks
16. Be Interested in Yourself and in Others
17. Remain Flexible
18. Use It Or Lose It
19. Accept Uncertainty
20. Don't Expect Heaven on Earth
Chicago, Illinois, Open Court, 1998. Index, Recommended Reading List, 288 pages. ISBN:
978-0812693833. VSCL.
Lifestyle Advice from Wise Persons
Index to A Philosopher's Notebooks
Michael P. Garofalo, A Brief Biography
Green Way Research, Red Bluff, California
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Index to A Philosopher's Notebooks
Green Way Research Subject Index
Older Persons Fitness, Exercise, Strength
Training, Tai Chi, Qigong, Personal Trainer
Senior Fitness, Exercise, Yoga, Taijiquan, Chi Kung, Yoga, Pilates, Meditation,
Walking
Mature Persons Fitness, Exercise, Strength Training, Walking, Meditation, Yoga
Senior's Fitness, Exercise, Strength Training, T'ai Chi Ch'uan, Qigong, Yoga,
Meditation
Instruction, Classes, Lectures, Seminars, Training, Lessons, Group Instruction
Over 55 Fitness, Over 60 Fitness, Over 65 Fitness, Over 70 Fitness, Over 75
Fitness
Exercise, Strength Training, Tai Chi, Qigong, Yoga, Meditation, Walking
Grandmother, Grandfather, Older, Elderly, Great Grandmother, Great Grandfather
Aging, Aged, Old, Senior, Seniors, Octogenarian, Old Ones, Elder, Elders, Senior
Quotes, Quotations, Sayings, Quips, Maxims, Wisdom, Observations, Wit
Golden Years, Codger, Codgers, Old Man, Old Woman, Patriarch,
Matriarch, Oldster, Golden Ager, Old Timer, Geriatrics, Gerontology,
Retired Person's Fitness, Retirees, Retirement,
Retiree Fitness, Senior Fitness, Seniors' Fitness
Easy Workouts, Light Exercise, Mild Exercise, Moderate Exercise
Hatha Yoga, Raja Yoga, Fitness Yoga, Pilates, Mat Exercises, Mindfulness
Exercises
Fitness, Exercise, Strength Training, Tai Chi, Taijiquan, Chi Kung, Qigong,
Yoga, Meditation, Walking
Personal Instruction, Classes, Lectures, Workshops, Seminars, Training, Lessons
Group Instruction
Red Bluff, Tehama County,
North Sacramento Valley, Northern California, U.S.A.
Cities and small towns in the area: Oroville, Paradise, Durham, Chico, Hamilton
City,
Corning, Rancho Tehama, Los Molinos, Vina, Tehama, Proberta, Gerber,
Manton, Cottonwood, Olinda, Cloverdale, Dairyville, Bend, Centerville,
Summit City
Anderson, Shasta Lake, Palo Cedro, Igo, Ono, Redding, Shasta, Colusa, Willows,
Richfield, Fall River, Montgomery Creek, Alturas, McCloud, Dunsmuir, Yreka,
Happy Camp,
Shingletown, Burney, Mt. Shasta City, Weaverville, Williams, Chester, Orland,
Susanville, Weed, Gridley, Marysville, Yuba City, NorCalifia, CA, California.