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Things to Prevent Disability (with meditation)
Chronic disability accounts for nearly half of the cost of U.S. health care and because of health care costs, America is becoming less competitive. Spending on other important programs, like education and jobs, becomes increasingly difficult. This should humble every American.
Can you afford to be disabled? It used to be that people would ease into old age and retirement, either with intention (65 here I come: vacations, grandkids, pension!) or their bodies gave up due to neglect or trauma and they became retired. Those days are over. Simply, no one can stop working anymore.
People today are expected to live into their 90s, something that a pension geared for 35 years earlier will allow them to live on. You know the incentives the government offers for those looking at retirement: social security pays more per year if you retire at 67 instead of 65, even more if you wait until you are 71.
So you have many older people who can’t retire because they need the paycheck, the medical benefits the job offers (those medical issues become a greater issue every year that you live), and the socialization that retirement won’t offer them.
To avoid disability you need to understand that many things are within your power to stop decline and loss of your body. Get your diet on a healthy track by avoiding the Five Food Felons (added sugars and syrups, saturated and trans fats, and any grain that’s not 100 percent whole). Walk 10,000 steps a day, and get 30 minutes of strength-building exercise two to three days a week. Meditate for 10 minutes daily. Open your heart to your friends, family and strangers. Generosity and love are great health builders.
So many people talk about MEDITATION but how do you do it? Here’s how:
The beauty of meditation is in its power to change us. It is a personal scientific process whereby we are the both the experiment as well as the experimenter. Each time we sit in meditative pose, we have the opportunity to observe the functioning of our mind more clearly. This process–and it is an ever-unfolding process–is not intellectually of the mind but increasingly of the ability to reach to a different version of ourselves, the one we know is there when we are alone and thinking about our personal world.
This personal self exists within us always but it goes unrecognized and unacknowledged because the mind is so consuming. With the ever increasing relaxation into our true selves, where the mind is seen as a tool of ours, not who we are, comes the freedom found only in the present moment. Learn the simple basics of meditation here, so you can begin to feel the far-reaching, stress-reducing benefits:
1. Find a quiet place that you feel comfortable being in, where you find the energy calming. Either sit on a chair with your back straight, or on a meditation bench, or cushion. Settle into a comfortable position with eyes closed and hands cupped together in your lap or relaxed on your legs. You want to feel comfortably balanced but alert.
2. Notice your breathing without altering it; just notice the rhythm of it and focus on it coming and going through your nostrils. Thoughts will arise; allow them to come and go without following them. When you find yourself lost in your thoughts, without judgment or comment, return to focusing on your breath.
3. Begin with ten minutes or so twice daily, preferably morning close to awakening and evening just prior to sleep.
As you are more able to stay with the breath you will begin to notice that you are becoming more a witness to your thoughts. They become less who you are as you awaken to your higher self – the one you need to be in emotional contact with.
Try it. if this is impossible for you, find a meditation course or someone who can lead you. Meditation will not only help you to live longer but give you incentive to do so.
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