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.
Stephen
Lau
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by Stephen Lau
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