There
is much wisdom in aging. Wisdom may not make you live longer, but it may make
you live better as you age. Aging is difficult to define, but you will know it
when you see it or experience it yourself. In brief, aging is a steady decline
in health, which is instrumental in shortening lifespan; and the aging process
is the duration during which such changes occur. Aging occurs throughout most
of lifespan. Such a process is an accumulation of changes, which may be subtle
or even drastic, that progressively lead to disease, degeneration, and,
ultimately, death.
Whether
you like it or not, your biological clock is ticking, and this will happen to
various systems in your body: your heart will pump less blood, with your
arteries becoming stiffer and less flexible, resulting in high blood pressure;
with less oxygen and nutrients from the heart, your lungs will become less
efficient in distributing oxygen to different organs and membranes of your
body; your brain size will gradually reduce by approximately 10 percent between
the age of 30 and 70, often resulting in loss of short-term memory; your bone
mass will reduce, making it more brittle and fragile; your body size will
shrink with your loss of muscle mass.
Wisdom
may slow down your biological clock, although your mortality has been
pre-programmed into your biological organisms and you body cells by your genes.
Yes, you can still slow down the speed of aging—if you have wisdom to live your
life. Tao wisdom may play a pivotal role in how you age, as well as the speed
of your aging process.
Tao
wisdom—the ancient wisdom of Lao
Tzu, the author of the Chinese classic “Tao Te Ching” on human wisdom—may
show you how to live a stress-free life with no expectation, no over-doing,
focusing on the present moment, instead of the past or the future. More
importantly, Tao wisdom helps you let go of control of the self, others, as
well as the world around; what goes up must also come down, and everything
follows a natural cycle.
Living
with Tao wisdom is anti-aging. Live your life as if everything is a miracle.
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by Stephen Lau
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