Health is a composite of everything that we are.

Let me rephrase that. Let’s use the analogy of making bread to describe health.

Everything we think and say and do goes into a big spiritual mixer and gets mixed up like bread dough. Whatever is in that dough determines what the bread is like when we bake it. It can have too much yeast, it can fall during the proofing process. It can be fluffy and light and marvelous coming out of the oven. Or it can be dense and have pockets of air when we slice through the loaf.

It all depends on what we throw into the mixer.

Health is much more than our physical condition. It is also a reflection of everything thing that we are at any given moment – including our physical condition – and it changes constantly.

What we think about is critical because we now know from Quantum physics that when we focus our attention on something we actually affect what we focus on. We literally change the world around us
and create the world that ‘we are thinking’. Eastern mysticism has been saying the same thing for centuries.

So it is important that we pay close attention to WHAT we think about and HOW we think.

Our emotions play a big role in our health as well. Recently I read that our emotions are the primary tool God uses to communicate with us. For the vast majority of us earthlings, emotions are complicated. Generally, we associate deep feelings and emotions with FEELING PAIN – something we want to avoid.

This is rooted in our experiences as children. We are taught, in most cases, fairly early on that when we allow ourselves to feel deep emotions and when we feel that is where we get hurt. So as a culture, most of us run from emotions and have a tendency to shut them down or deny them because it is safer – and definitely simpler.

What I have learned over many years is that avoiding emotions is the worst way to handle them because unexpressed emotions are the ones that make us sick. They accumulate in the body and get ’stuck’ if they are not expressed. Year after year they accumulate and in time they become toxic and painful almost like an infection. While we may not be aware of it on a conscious level, these emotions are constantly nagging at us to let them out. Emotions want to be expressed. In time, this turns into physical pain and manifests itself as ‘illness’ or DISease. Notice the word, it really means not-ease.

I heard a definition of emotion by a very tuned in lady in 1984. She said emotions are energy in motion and spelled it this way: E-motion.

Emotions are powerful tools and empower us to really feel and experience the greatest aspects of our lives fully and to feel LOVE to it’s intended depth and capacity. And if they really are the way God talks to us, it seems like we better figure out how to use and understand emotions effectively – just in case we miss something really important.

Aside from the spiritual aspect, which is actually an integral part of balanced health, we need to express our emotions or they will make us sick. And if we have a lot of them bottled up inside of us, it’s a good idea to get them out and clean out the “toxin” they have become.

Energetic health is critical to everything and yet it is probably the most misunderstood aspect of health from the perspective of western scientists, researchers and allopathic medical practitioners (although this is starting to change to some degree).

The Chinese call life energy CHI (QI) and refer to the energy pathways in the body as meridians, or channel chi meridians. East Indians refer to the “chakras” and the energy body. While Western medicine is still waking up – and/or in denial entirely, I can tell you from personal experience that not only are the meridians real, balancing energy, storage and refinement of energy is the real key to good health and longevity.

Spiritual balance is a big piece of the pie. And I am not talking about a particular religion or religious practice. I am talking about becoming spiritual, developing a spiritual awareness and aligning with that part of yourself deep within that knows the truth. It is getting good at remembering your connection to God.

In that context, whatever religious perspective you have, everyone should meditate. It is a key component for health and has a direct and profound influence on so many aspects of health that it could be the subject of an entire book or library.

Health is also the reflection of our physical condition. What we eat, how much we eat, how we take care of our body in all capacities – including exercise, removing toxins, rejuvenation, replenishment, and relaxation – all makes a difference.

Financial health is important in today’s world. Lack of money is the greatest destroyer of marriage today. It create stress, worry and a multitude of problems and most of us are raised with an inaccurate money consciousness. Most of us are taught a poverty consciousness. So part of real health in the 21st century includes recreating our (as Harv Eker calls it) MONEY BLUEPRINT.

To recap, according to my way of thinking and the way I describe it in my book, Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd Fifty Years Better Than the 1st, true health is a balance of the:

• Physical
• Mental
• Emotional
• Spiritual
• Energetic
• Financial

aspects of our lives.

Physical health is the real starting point because if we don’t feel good when we get up in the morning, it’s a really poor way to start each day and to live our lives. The body is very tolerant and also very resilient. You can choose health or not, it’s up to you.

Abundance is the true default of the universe – abundant LOVE, prosperity, joy and health. It is our job to remember that we deserve and have the right to manifest everything we want in our life and that we are worthy.

We were designed to be healthy and the universe wants us to have abundant joyful lives in all aspects. Feeling good every day and vibrant health is our right.

I’m serious about making my life everything I want it to be. Right now, I’m working on the 7 Steps to Manifesting the Life of Your Dreams, it’s a free course, it fun and it’s helping me. I recommend you do the same thing. Find out about Manifest Mastermind and build the life you want including amazing health. It teaches you how to use the Law of Attraction to get whatever you want in your life.

It’s not too late for Baby Boomers to change our health and our lives.

First off, I work at it.

I am a baby boomer. I care about people in my age group who are starting to show the signs of wear and tear and who aren’t doing anything about it. I want to help Boomers change this in a big way and I know how.

If you’re wealthy and sick, are you really wealthy? If you had a terminal disease, what would you pay to get your health back? The fact is that millions of Boomers are headed there right now unless they start doing something about it.

For the greater part of my adult life, I have been very consistent about taking care of myself. I love to feel good and I have lots of energy. Ask people that know me well and they will verify my vast reserves of energy and untiring ability to keep going after most people burn out.

I’m not a superstar, just a guy who has a system that works well for me.

I am not a tri-athlete, a marathon runner or a weight lifter. But I have amazing endurance, useable strength and overall excellent physical tone. I can’t run 26 miles but I bet I could walk 100. I can’t lift 400 pounds, but I have a healthy back and that’s what hydraulics are for – not the human body. I’m almost 56 (and that picture was taken less than two weeks ago), but most people think I’m in my 40’s and that’s not just from the way I look, it’s also how I use my body. It’s physical expression as well as surface appearance.

In my book, Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan to Make the 2nd Fifty Years Better Than the 1st, I go into detail. I also wrote a companion course to implement the plan and get it working in 60 days, called “How To Look Better and Feel Better in 60 days.”

I created checklists and instructions that I keep in a binder and check off the list as I follow the program everyday. I have found this to be effective for me because it creates a visual map of my consistency, diligence and where I need to improve my efforts. At a single glance, on one sheet I can see everything I have done (or not done) for 10 days.

Over the course of the last 35 years, I have read and studied all kind of programs and been a diligent student of natural health and how to create a healthy lifestyle with the objective of a primary goal:
LONGEVITY.

Here ’s a quick summary of what I do all the time.

• I walk.
• I drink lots of water.
• I eat really healthy food and know a lot about what fuel works best for my body.
• I practice qigong regularly.
• I do Tibetan rejuvenation exercises.
• I do a 6-7 minute set on the Total Gym (although right now it is in storage in another state after a recent move and I have not retrieved it yet)
• I stretch.
• I love my body and let him know often how much I appreciate everything he does for me.
• I love myself.
• I focus on positive thoughts and language.
• I think healthy thoughts.
• I work at balancing my emotions and being present.
• I MEDITATE everyday.
• I recognize SOURCE ENERGY as the root of my strength and the source of my health and I express my gratitude every day

I do lots of other things regularly – but not every day. I choose health and always take responsibility for three things:

• What I put in my mouth everyday
• What I think about and the words I use
• How I use my time

I have developed a system that really gets long range results. It is designed to work for anybody – just regular people who want to improve themselves. You simply start wherever you are and get started doing whatever you can handle to begin with. You add more to the regimen as you develop skills, expertise and the ability to handle more.

Nothing extravagant, exotic or difficult to learn.

The key is to get started and keep doing what you can everyday. I can show you how.

I’m no super star professional athlete, just a guy who has figured out how to keep thinking right and really loves to feel good. Most of it is common sense, but it helps to have a coach to bring out the best and learn how to improve – at least until you have the system down yourself.

I’m going to start introducing live workshops, online training and various programs in the near future. I am also now focused on publishing my book with three more coming after that.

For now, if you’re feeling lousy. Do something about it.

• Start walking everyday and increase the distance as your legs get stronger and your breathing improves.
• Drink a gallon of water a day forever. Start with a few glasses of water and work up. I fill a half gallon container up 2 times a day and drink it all day long. You can drink a glass every hour. Whatever works for you. Just do it. Hydration is so important.
• Start eating smaller portions of the food you are eating right now. And eat more frequently. Cut way back on fried foods – period. Eat more raw food and organic is way better.
• Elminate toxic thinking and emotions.

None of that costs anything or is a big transition. Anybody can do what I just wrote.

• Choose to start loving yourself.
• Decide.
• Take responsibility.
• Do it.

You are perfect, whole and complete and you are loved Divinely just the way you are. There is nothing you need to change or be, just to to remember that you are perfect and really believe it.

With some practice on your part, the rest will take care of itself. Before you know it, you’ll be a healthy wealthy boomer too.

It seems as if I have reawakened the Warrior Energy within me lately and it has taken a forward position in my thinking and contemplation.

I have decided to focus on different aspects of meditation for a while because it is becoming more clear all the time that the whole world needs to meditate right now and get things back on track.

It plays such am important role in health. Baby Boomers have a greater need to focus more internally – than externally – just to shut out the noise, the mental clutter and information overload. It is an integral part of achieving balanced health and integrating a healthy lifestyle into today’s world.

Listen to this with headphones on and see what you think.

I find this meditation incredibly stimulating, yet very relaxing.

I call it the Celtic Warrior Meditation but the people who created it call it the Celtic Tranquility Meditation.

Men it’s time to awaken the WARRIOR ENERGY WITHIN YOU AGAIN.

Step into your power, your women need you.

May you be blessed in the Light of Source Energy in strength and serenity.

Aum, Peace, Amen

Healthy Wealthy Boomer – Chuck Norris, A Role Model

If there were ever a healthy wealthy boomer role model, it’s Chuck Norris.

He’s actually a “pre-boomer” born in 1940 which makes him 68 in 2008. This guy is the epitome of success and health. And if fact, for many Boomers, he has been a role model for a long time.

I remember Chuck Norris as a competitive Karate professional in southern California in the late 60’s and early 70’s. In 1974, Chuck retired after six years as the undefeated World Middleweight Karate Champion at age 34. I was not yet 21 but frequented the East Bay Karate dojo 6 times a week at the time. One of the guys I worked with had studied from Chuck in So Cal and was often relaying tales of accomplishment and prowess as a first hand witness of this amazing fighter.

And of course there was the fight scene with Bruce Lee in the 1973 martial arts classic, Return of the Dragon – filmed and released while Norris was world champ. He would go on to win another championship the following year.

He set a lot of precedents over the years.

While Chuck Norris preceded the Boomer Generation by a few years, he has set a standard both for success and physical fitness that exemplifies an intelligent and applied approach to longevity and prosperity.

Coupled with a profound spiritual awareness, Norris has consistently emulated:

• a sense of fairness
• kindness
• honor
• character

woven through the many characters he has portrayed throughout his career as an actor, a fighter and martial artist, and benefactor to millions of kids and fans. Through it all is a sense of balance and respect for principle and values.

Baby Boomers can look to Norris as a torch bearer demonstrating what the individual can do on their own if they put their mind to it. At 68, in top physical condition, he’s got a long life yet to live and many things left to accomplish.

Recently Norris wrote a column for Town Hall talking about his friend Bruce Lee:

Bruce Lee vs Me

I found a number of the comments on the column to be a sad reflection of much of our society today, people speaking what they do not know.

To quote Lao Tzu, “Those who speak know not, and those who know speak not.”

In 1989 a friend of mine, Bob Gairing, took up Kick Boxing as a training practice at the age of 53. This guy was a psychotherapist – par excellence – and I guess he needed to relieve some of the weird energy he dealt with on a daily basis through his workouts. He and I became very close that year. I attended a workout with him as an observer one time, and I can tell you, I have never seen tougher training – ever.

He studied from a Martial Arts legend in Missoula, MT named Jim Harrison. You can read about him and what Bruce Lee said about Jim Harrison here.

Bob told me that Harrison and Norris were old friends and that as many times Norris had invited him to appear in movies with him, Harrison always declined and chose to stay out of the limelight and maintain a lower profle. Harrison said Chuck Norris was the real McCoy and really dangerous on the street – which isn’t too typical of martial arts actors.

The fact is we need more tough guys teaching the younger generation, accomplished experts in their fields who can help a generation – and a nation – desperately seeking direction. That is – tough guys with a heart and compassion.

For me, when it comes to listening to advice about fitness and health, I always listen to healthy people. When it comes to marital advice, I listen to people with healthy and successful marriages. When it comes to money and wealth, I listen to people who have a lot of it.

Chuck Norris has all of these things.

More Boomers would do well to emulate his behavior, his training self discipline, his health and vitality and his life and financial success – as opposed to many in Congress, in the media , on Wall Street and in professional sports.

On his official website, in the fitness category, there is simply a brief discussion about The Total Gym with a link to a couple of videos with his wife. He’s been using it multiple times a week for about 20 years. Enough said about fitness. We love The Total Gym and we have one at home that we use.

Finding Your Passion in Life and Doing What You Love

As we learn more in our lives, it is becoming imminently clear that the real key to success – living a long, healthy life and achieving wealth – is by being passionate about what you do and finding your true purpose. Chuck Norris has found his passion in life and lives it fully.

Chuck Norris is not just a healthy wealthy boomer role model, he is a symbol and an icon of the American dream and success.

Healthy Wealthy Boomer – Longevity and Life Extension

Read an interesting post today about longevity and life extension written by this guy: Attila Csordas, Budapest born and raised, is a trained molecular biologist and biotechnologist trained in mitochondrial and stem cell biology with a focus on regenerative medicine.

His post politely implies the following question:

What is up with Kurzweil? I particularly like his Chris Patil quote: “You first.”

My comments about this post are here at newsvine

Intelligent science has always been appealing – as has longevity and life extension.

The human body is the finest example of engineering ever.

Developing scientific capability that will empower the system to regenerate itself and “activate” the built in self-repair mechanisms is a noble and sensible goal of medical research.

One aspect not mentioned is that aging and physical deterioration begin in the mind.

If one plans to upload consciousness into a ‘bio-physical’ structure that offers life in perpetuity, just remember the old computer adage:

Garbage in garbage out.

But taking the discussion further, Kurzweil’s focus on his own life extension borders on fanaticism.

Nutrition is absolutely a piece of the puzzle regarding longevity. But ~200 nutritional supplements a day plus intravenus treatments is off the chart and has to be wreaking havoc on the natural flow of his biochemistry. Coupled with his vision of a 2030 Bionic Humanity it brings the following images to mind:

• The Terminator
• The mad scientist in the Spider Man movie

The idea of making scientific errors in judgment that have potentially serious long range impacts is not a subject to be taken lightly.

Ethics, Science and Social Responsibility – Key Factors Impacting Longevity and Life Extension

Because of the nature of such rapidly changing technology, mistakes made now have devastating potential implications regarding life extension: like extinction.

An interesting factoid regarding Csordas, that may equip him better than many scientists to do this type of research. He also has a Masters degree in Philosophy.

Being able to visualize a glimpse into the future at the potential ramifications of your work and the ethics involved may be enhanced significantly by its study if you consider the definition of philosophy.

• Love of wisdom; rational investigation of theories and principles or knowledge, existence, and conduct.
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• concerning possibility, impossibility, necessity or contingency
  www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/glossary/m.htm

By implication, he is well equipped to consider: contingency, wisdom and conduct.

When you consider the ever growing influence of the federal government on science and medicine, the concept of ethics and the gravity of potential errors magnify our need as a society to really look long and hard at the influences that are driving political decision making within the halls of government.

Frankly, looking at how social security has been handled and almost every other major government program, how could anyone with intelligence want the government to take control of health care or science?

The Increased Need for Watchdogs to Monitor Ethics in Government and in Science and Medicine

A current example of the need for ethics in the decision making process as the application of science in society is genetically engineered sugar beets.

My question is this:

What possible nutritional benefit to the human body can be derived from making the sugar beet root completely resistant to the effects of Roundup?

Frankly, I’m not sure how you feel about it, but I don’t want to eat the stuff or it’s residue.

In fact I already spend an inordinate amount of time concentrating on getting toxins out of my system. Why then would I want to ingest them? There is an increasing body of evidence suggesting that accumulated toxins are a primary cause in many modern diseases and a contributor to accelerated aging.

And further, if bioengineered food is going to be used in food processing or sold in the produce stand in my local grocery store, I want to know about it.

Give me the choice to decide if I want to eat it or not.

And if bioengineered food is so good for us and SO SAFE, why don’t the producers put big signs up at the produce stands telling everybody?

They should be proud of marketing their success in technology.

But the fact is they know that many people will not buy the produce if they are given a choice. That’s why they do not identify produce that has been “irradiated, genetically modified or bioengineered” and they do not identify these processes or ingredients on the labeling of their packages.

If I were you, I’d be pissed off about this and very concerned.

Surely the manufacturer is not sincerely considering:

• the long range implications to the degree that social responsibility would dictate
• nor the actual preferences of the consumer.

Here is a good example of the market place holding the manufacturer accountable:

ICCR is calling Monsanto to task by urging:

63 top U.S. restaurant, food, beverage, candy companies to oppose spring planting of genetically modified sugar beets

With assets in the $100 Billion range, this is a good use of financial leverage to affect change and protect the population; particularly when:

• the lawmakers and
• federal beaurocrats have not done so
• and

have already allowed the situation to progress this far along in the approval process.

That this has happened indicates some type of conflict of interest or at the very least a lack of due diligence by Congress to protect the interests of their constituency.

Not to mention the fact that about 50% of the population does not want genetically engineered foods in the marketplace. It’s not just a group of religious fanatics that think this way either. It is widespread opinion on both sides of the political aisle.

Take also the example of the HAARP project in Alaska. It was brought to my attention by Dr. Nick Begich’s book, Angel Don’t Play That HAARP that I read in the 90’s.

Many scientists interviewed in the book said the research was very dangerous and unpredictable. Read it and form your own opinion.

Fast forward about 10 years and the implications of this wave science are now showing up in the form of “microwave and wireless” pollution on a unprecedented level. The human body, in the history of our society, has never before been exposed to this level of microwave technology and new research now shows that it may directly affect certain protein expression in the skin.

Personally, I think a strong defense is intelligent.

But the magnitude of the potentially irreversible global damage from a scientific experiment gone wrong is not an incidental matter. This type of decision making exemplifies the need for ethics and integrity – in the “fox guarding the hen house scenario”.

Technology is awesome. It is now achieving unprecedented accomplishments that have the potential to create a totally new global consciousness coupled with the potential for an unparalleled lifestyle for most global citizens. However the more awesome it becomes, the greater the care and handling that is required.

Longevity and life extension should be a mandate for science using the kind of science that Csordas is suggesting – by focusing on enabling the body to repair itself and by also counteracting the negative influences being created as a by product of social expansion and change.

To be a Healthy Wealthy Boomer – Longevity and Life Extension is an important issue. It’s a matter of taking responsibility:

for what you put into your mouth everyday

what you think about and

holding your Congressmen and your government accountable to the people regarding science, technology and medicine.

It’s not just a personal issue anymore, it is now global.