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Y is for You and Youth

Posted on August 22, 2012 | Leave a comment

“Youth is a wonderful thing.  What a crime to waste it on children.” George Bernard Shaw.

So maybe you’ve got a little silver on your head and a few wrinkles on your face, but when you get up in the morning you still feel like you’re only twenty-one.  Join the crowd!  We naturally beautiful and healthy senior women keep looking youthful for longer and longer.  But, we still feel tortured and put upon by the commercials and ads that play into the youthful culture and say that beauty is in the face of youth and once you’re old, you’re done.

But think about those wrinkles and how you got them.  Life hands you a lot — and the longer you live, the more time we experience the pull of gravity.  That’s got nothing to do with “ugly.”  Quite the contrary, it’s a beautiful sign of having loved, served, lived; of having all kinds of experiences, good and bad.

Young people are in for some great big surprises as they live their lives.  Remember when you danced naked and wildly at Woodstock with flowers in your hair?  Remember how we thought this was the best time of our lives, and it would never get better?  Would you really want to turn back the clock?  Would you want to have to be young and have to start all over again?  Think about that.  Aren’t a few wrinkles and a few gray hairs worth it?

We grow wise and we grow older.  We get more hair on our faces and less hair in other places.  Now the only time you see 3 AM is when you can’t get to sleep.  You’d dance all night, but your feet hurt and your back aches.  You can go without sex, but not without your reading glasses.  Your favorite song is now playing in elevators.

You can’t stop the clock, but you can change your attitude.  As Bette Davis said, “Old age ain’t no place for sissies!”

 

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T is for Tina Turner – Too Too Totally Terrific and Talented!

Posted on December 31, 2011 | 1 Comment

Tina Turner – 72 years young and still going strong!  Talented, terrific, and a totally awesome Senior Woman!

Tina has had quite a life and she still came out on top.  Abused and beaten by her ex-husband and partner, Ike, Tina took a back seat to him and let him control her, as so many women do.  Then, out of the shadows she blasted back again on the rock and roll scene in the 1980s and took her rightful place right on top as the Queen of Rock and Roll.  (And by the way, Ike who?)

Tina, the tall and terrific, has sold about 200 million records, been in hit movies, sold more concert tickets than any other performer, and just when you thought she was ready to roll it all up the river and retire, out she comes with “Tina’s 50th Anniversary Tour!”

So what does this say to all of you (not me!) healthy senior women who are choosing to sit on the couch or stay in bed under the covers – Get Up! Get Out! Get Moving! Get Dancing and Singing and Jumping for Joy.  If Tina can survive spousal abuse, substance abuse, suicide attempts, and being married to Ike – and come out on top of the heap on the rock and roll scene for decades and decades – what can we do at 60 or 70 or 80?  While talking to Oprah Winfrey with her friend and fellow senior diva Cher who thinks getting older ‘sucks,’ Tina Turner said – “That number doesn’t mean a thing. It just doesn’t.”

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K is for Kegels – Keep Exercising These to prevent leaKs

Posted on October 24, 2011 | 3 Comments

Kegel Exercises for Natural Health

Healthy senior women, naturally beautiful women, all of us women work hard to eat right and exercise to stay fit. Are you just exercising your upper body and sucking in your abs, or are you paying any attention to your pelvic muscles?

What?  You’re thinking – there are more muscles that I didn’t know I have to pay attention to?  I’m lean and light and fit and trim, and that isn’t all there is.  Well, yes, my lady friends — there are more muscles and we have to keep them fit also.

The pelvic muscles grow old just like the rest of you and are subject to the same strains of time and gravity that every other part of your body is.  The Kegel muscles are the ones that hold up your uterus, your bowels and your bladder.  No leaky bladders for us, right?

Kegel exercises can be a bit tricky at first, but they are really easy once you understand where these muscles are and once you learn a simple technique.  And then, you can do them discreetly anywhere – while you’re driving, watching TV, or standing in the supermarket checkout line.

To find the correct muscle, you insert a finger inside your vagina and try to squeeze the surrounding muscles. You should feel your vagina tighten and your pelvic floor move upward. Then relax your muscles and feel your pelvic floor return to the starting position.  Another way to do the exercise is to try to stop the flow of urine when you urinate. If you succeed, you’ve learned the technique.  When you do the routine, empty your bladder first, then sit down or lie down on the floor. Contract your pelvic floor muscles, hold the contraction for five seconds, and then relax for five seconds. Repeat 10 times.

Now that you know where the technique and which muscles you are aiming for – one, two, three, one, two, three — you can repeat the process at least 3 times a day, doing at least 10 repetitions each time.  Any where, any time!  Keep those Kegels up!

 

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V is for Vim, Vigor and Vitality

Posted on July 22, 2011 | Leave a comment

Vim, Vigor, Vitality = Natural Health

When you’re a naturally beautiful woman and/or a healthy senior woman, you enjoy all the energy – the vim, vigor and vitality – of life because you eat right, you exercise your body, and you take care of your hair, skin, and most of all, your emotional well-being!

Here are some ways to increase your vim, vigor and vitality:

1.  Eat right and eat at the right time of day.  If you’re experiencing that mid-day slump, changing your eating times can help.  “Eat like a queen in the morning, like a princess in the afternoon, and like a pauper at night.”  Breakfast is the most important meal of the day (See Previous Post:  B is for Breakfast – The Meal for Champions 1 and B is for Breakfast – part 2).  When you fuel your engine (your body) in the morning when you wake up, you’ll have energy for the whole day!

2.  Get up and move.  Sounds crazy when you’re tired and all you really want to do is sleep, right?  But getting up and moving, taking at least a 10 minute walk in the fresh air and sunshine (vitamin D!) will restore your energy and give you a vitality boost!

See Next Post:  V is for Vim, Vigor and Vitality – Part 2

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Q is for Quality of Life

Posted on June 19, 2011 | Leave a comment

Quality of Life

The reason we are so concerned about our natural health and our natural beauty is that we hope to enhance the quality of our lives, right?  It’s often been said that nothing is more important that our health, and so if we are healthy we most certainly have a better quality of life.

But what about natural beauty?  Does that have anything at all to do with one’s quality of life, one’s natural health?  I believe it does.  If you look good, you feel good, and if you feel good, well it just might mean a better quality of life.

I’m not talking about beauty – although I have been known to talk about celebrity beauty – always with an eye to what does the particular celebrity look like without makeup, without the stylists and fashionistas and airbrush artists, etc.  What does the celebrity look like when she goes to the grocery store or to take out the garbage?  (Who am I kidding – Kim Kardashian taking out the garbage????  Beyoncé???? Marilyn Manson????)

I’m talking about you and me, naturally beautiful women, healthy senior women – women who get up every day and do the things that need to be done and hopefully we want to get done – and at the end of the day if we are smiling, we are naturally beautiful inside and out – and that is what makes for a good and joyful quality of life, quorrect?????

 

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