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

David Simon is quite an accomplished medical doctor. If you listen to the audio, you will get a clear history of his background.

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He is the co-founder of the Chopra Center in southern California. His style of healing and medical practice is an interesting cross between allopathic western medicine – including the latest technology – and ayurvedic medicine rooted in a 5000 year lineage of eastern health practices of intergrated mind-body medicine.

He presents a bit of background about the Chopra Center, his credentials, about amalaki and what Zrii is all about. Pretty interesting discussion…

As you listen to Dr. Simon talk, what he says really makes sense. I like this man, his intentions and long range objectives as a healer and his attention to excellence.

Check it out and see what you think.

There’s tons more information about Amalaki and Zrii here.

Why Web 2.0 and Social Bookmarking Really Works…

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One aspect of the internet that has always amazed me is how intimate digital communication can actually be.

Objectively you wouldn’t think so – letters typed on a screen. How can that be intimate? All I know is
that I have been brought to tears on numerous occasions through a touching and thoughtful email or
blog post.

Every so often I forget about my amazement until I am reminded by a passionate and emotionally open piece – created by a caring and tuned in person.

Maybe it’s the emotional honesty that is so striking ; maybe it’s authenticity. Maybe it’s intent. Maybe
it’s intention.

Some of us learn early in life that it’s ok to express emotion and it’s safe to be who we really are.

Others have a tougher challenge to overcome as adults because we learn early in our experience that it
isn’t safe and that individual expression equates to punishment, demeaned self esteem and retribution.

For the former, the realm of emotion and self esteem is a playground, a joyful experiment and an exciting
and interesting game. Mistakes are not only allowed and tolerated, they are encouraged. Life is fun.

For the latter – as a child – survival depends on being transparent, invisible, unheard and unspoken, because being seen and heard equates to pain – emotional or otherwise. Mistakes must be avoided because they are flags that draw attention.

Life is scary.

For the person with low self esteem, it’s a really big deal and it takes courage to express oneself openly in relationships, socially or on the Net, in contrast to who those already understand that it’s ok to be who they are in public.

The Impact on Baby Boomers…

These issues are particularly true for Baby Boomers because we are the generation once removed from the Great Depression and the direct social descendants of the WW2 generation.

Men were silent about their pain and fears. It was the way they survived the horrors so many of them saw in the war and their memories of hunger and scarcity in the Great Depression as kids.

As such, Boomers were trained to emulate this same emotional behavior en masse – just by observing the way many of our fathers maintained a distance and a consistent lack of emotional expression, masking all that pain.

We directly reflect these attitudes and social mores as a group and this self esteem polarity seems to be more pronounced in us as a result.

How One Person Really Makes A Difference

What was it, for example, about seeing Paul Potts – a frumpy, self conscious and humble cell phone salesman singing his heart out on Britain’s Got Talent, that so dramatically impacted observers emotionally?

And it did…

There was not a dry eye in the house when he finished his performance.

Was it the amazing power of his voice?

Yes, partially.

Was it the fact that he allowed his personal power and magnificence to shine through for the first time in his life – and expose his true spirit – in spite of his absolute internal discomfort and fear of failure?

Most definitely.

Was it because instinctively we all sensed that the magnitude of the risk he was taking was so large that most of us would never have taken that risk?

Yes, that too.

Was it because we knew he was taking the biggest chance of his life and that the risk didn’t just benefit Paul Potts, it benefited humanity?

There was a sort hush from the sense of awe that the audience experienced observing greatness unepxectedly. Somehow we all grew from his courage and simultaneously we all experienced emotional cleansing through a widespread “release”.

And a new understanding.

The collective human consciousness expanded a step further towards goodness and truth and the Creator within each of us just by his willingness to face his greatest fear and follow his true path for the first time in his life.

On some level we were all elevated. We rose up. We expanded. And we also learned – clearly – that if he could do it, we can too.

And this happens each and every time someone speaks his (her) truth authentically…

This amazing vehicle we call the “Net” is fast becoming a collective consciousness development program – that expands as rapidly as our ability to understand and utilize it – almost along the lines of the “holographic universe”. So through it all, truth (or the lack of it) permeates all communication. On some level, we can not hide who we truly are when we are active participants because somehow the collective consciousness can sense the authenticity and passion.

Many times in the past I have taken exception to the zealous attitude that blogging purists have taken regarding their antipathy towards internet marketers – somehow equating making money and self promotion with a lowering of standards and an intrusion into “their world”.

But the cool part is that in the bigger picture, we can’t fool anyone when we are not being authentic.

So as the Net consciousness continues to expand collectively, those who are not acting in truth and for the overall betterment and growth of all involved will begin to stand out more obviously through contrast – digitally and instantaneously.

Social bookmarking and web 2.0 are therefore part of the natural progression of free expression and the natural evolution of the Internet.

And those who do not adapt will become extinct Internet dinosaurs.

The days of the used car salesman types online are coming to an end naturally as the Net becomes a greater and more accurate expression of human consciousness.

Authenticity and integrity will overcome self serving behavior and manipulation as the default of expansion and growth. It is inevitable because it will cost too much money to sustain the facade as more and more people get the message and click away to something more in alignment with what they are looking for.

So Web 2.0 and social bookmarking really work because, on an individual level, it is a safe environment for self expression. There is safety of sorts simply through anonymity in and of itself.

But Web 2.0 has also inadvertently emerged as a development tool for self esteem because authenticity is encouraged, congratulated and supported time and again through comments, posts on other blogs, back links and active readership.

It is becoming a platform for high self esteem where we can grow self esteem through the process of helping others and by receiving complements and recognition for good work on a consistent basis.

It’s amazing how the universe works even through an electronic communication medium.

A couple of weeks back we bumped into a guy named Erik Olson (and his lovely wife, Heather) on Facebook.

Through a series of exchanges and communications, we quickly learned that we share a lot in common and that we could easily talk for hours at a time.

You can Meet Healthy Wealthy Boomer Erik Olson by listening to an 6/9/08 interview I did with Erik.. He’s a character, you’ll love this guy.

Erik is a classic example of a small business serial entrepreneurial.

However, Erik is a member of a fairly elite group because he has learned how to effectively put his entrepreneurial talent to work and rise above the ’serial stigma’ that plagues most small business owners. That stigma includes perpetually spewing forth new ideas and driving everyone around them nuts – business associates, friends, family and particularly spouses.

Through our interaction with the Olson’s on Facebook, on the phone and via email, it became obvious quickly how uncanny the similarities are between us.

I downloaded a copy of

Nine Simple Rules, by Erik Olson

and was astounded how much our philosophies correlate as well as our hands on experience in small business. As I read further it was kind of spooky how close his story felt like my own – even his statement that basically says we will never truly succeed as an entrepreneur until we create a business that is built around our life, instead of a life built around our business.

Quoting from Erik’s Nine Simple Rules,

“When you design a business for the express purpose of giving you more life, several things change. The first thing that changes is your choice of business. You can no longer be held hostage to your own labor. By this I mean that the business must be able to produce revenue for you without your constant involvement. If you are a plumber with no employees, you only produce income when you hold a wrench in your hand.
This makes you a slave to your business. On the other hand, if you invent a plumbing gadget, and license the rights to another manufacturer, you get paid every time any plumber around the world buys one. The first business sucks the life from you, but the second has at least the chance of giving you more life…”

And further…

“So why not take what’s behind door number two and create lots of value while generating lots of reward for yourself at the same time? You deserve to have a wonderful life… if you can stand it.”

This felt like a commonly shared thought and had a strong ring of familiarity to it but I didn’t realize how much so until I was doing some editing on my eBook last night and read the following:

The title of a sub-chapter in Chapter 11 of Healthy Wealthy Boomer is:

“The 9 Golden Rules for Online Business Start Up”

And rule # 9 is: Plan your business so you laugh, play and relax more than you work.

But, it’s essential to plan from the beginning to create a business that will not require your presence to operate, once you get things fully operational and stabilized. Begin with this objective in mind.

When you begin to plan how you want to create your business, factor in:

• Lots of vacation time
• Intimate dinners and nights out
• Rewarding your spouse with surprises that are generated from the business so that the subject of having a home based business is positive – create positive reinforcement for yourself as well
• Pay yourself first
• And don’t forget First Fruits…Be grateful – remember the attitude of gratitude that Zig Ziglar talks about.

Spend time enjoying your life and build your business around your life, instead of building your life around your business.

Erik’s book has value as a small business owner because it will give you a sense that you belong.

And that somebody really does understand you.

But The Value of Erik Olson’s Advice Goes Beyond That…

He explains the cyclic nature of the mind of a serial entrepreneurial in such a way as to explain:

• why we really do the things we do and
• what we need to do to compensate for our true nature
• a simple method for becoming effective business owners

Most small business entrepreneurs frustrate the heck out of consultants because they sit and listen to what the consultant has to say, they nod in agreement and then do exactly what they wanted in the first place – often ignoring the consultant.

Erik describes a method of management – kind of an Erik Olson-entrepreneur-version of Peter Drucker’s Management By Objectives. But Erik is smart because he knows if it gets complex, entrepreneurs will not follow instructions – not unlike trying to herd cats.

Instead Erik’s presentation – like placing the aromatic ‘fish’ strategically to attract the cats, rather than trying to herd them – is a appealing to the mind of the entrepreneur in a similar manner.

Erik Talks a Lot About “The Business Wheel” – A Cool Business Tool for Entrepreneurs

Throughout the book, Erik talks about ‘The Business Wheel’ – a kind of gadget that appeals to the mind of the entrepreneur like a lure for bass or something.

Erik Olson’s Business Advice Made So Much Sense, We Joined His Mentoring Program

Erik’s insight in the book about a practical and intelligent approach to converting useless, relentless hours of serial working behavior into effective, manageable results made a lot of sense to us.

So much so in fact that we joined his mentoring program. We highly recommend Erik’s professional expertise and if it sounds interesting to you, you can check it out at Erik Olson Profit Center

Healthy Wealthy Boomer is a concept based on the thought that man’s greatest
achievement in life stems from the pursuit of excellence.

As Boomer adults we have accumulated the practical experience we need to make good
decisions. And one of those decisions is a choice to be healthy. We are now at a place
in our lives where we can let go of the past mistakes and focus on creating the lifestyle we choose to live and and creating the life we deserve.

And the place to start is physical health.

True wealth is rooted in robust health. What is more costly than the loss of good health permanently? And conversely, what is a more valuable treasure than longevity coupled with vitality?

A great deal of the disease and illness in modern society is a function of toxins accumulated in the body. There has never been a greater biochemical assault on the human body – heavy metals, pcb’s, chemicals, pesticides, microwave technology and all types of other pollution are pushing the human body’s filtering mechanisms to the absolute limit.

In addition, the levels of stress in modern society are reaching unprecedented levels.As such, coupled with the toxins, our livers are maxed out for the most part and our adrenal systems are on tilt.

Recently, I read an article by Dr Mercola that said 80% of the immune system is located in the digestive tract.

Whoa…

Cleansing the Body Of Toxins Is Really Important

So cleansing the body now becomes a social imperative. We need to cleanse the colon and the liver regularly. Purge the toxins first and get the plumbing cleaned up so we can get the body back into a state where our great grandparents were before all the toxin in the environment. This must be done regularly like changing oil in your car.

This will enable to the immune system to get back on track and get strong again. And what is more fundamental to fighting disease than a strong immune system?

The cool part is that the body is amazingly resilient. It will bounce back quickly and start improving itself as soon as we provide the cleansing and the nutritional building blocks it needs to do the job.

Unexpressed Emotions Accumulate

There is a growing body of information that basically says unexpressed emotions accumulate in the body too and with time they can become toxic as well.

I firmly believe that my dad died of colon cancer primarily from unexpressed emotions that he had “stuffed” for the majority of his life – that combined with a mass of collected fecal material in his digestive tract that accumulated for many years. He was taught not to express his emotions from a very young age. But in terms of health, I am certain that if he had started receiving colonics and good nutrition a couple of years before his surgery, he would still be here today.

So Cleansing Takes on A Whole New Meaning

Once we get the physical body cleansed completely, many of the physical problems will go away naturally. We also require good nutrition for optimum performance.

After the system is running smoothly again, we can focus on purging old emotions and then learn new skills at expressing emotions in a healthy way – so that they do not accumulate again.

Next we start taking control of our thinking – first by becoming aware of what we think about all the time (which is a big step) and then choosing what we think about more carefully.

So cleansing becomes:

• cleansing the colon, the liver and the cells
• cleansing and purging old emotions
• cleansing our minds of the “stinkin thinkin”

So in order to be a healthy wealthy boomer, this is our recommended order of sequence:

Physical Health – feel great first…

Emotional Health – purge old emotions, create great relationships and learn how to express your emotion

Mental Health – learn to take control of the “voice in your head”

Spiritual Health

Financial Health

We have created a book that lays out the plan, it’s called “Healthy Wealthy Boomer: The Plan To Make the Second 50 Years Better Than the First”. It will be released soon. In the meantime, why not join our Healthy Wealthy Boomers on Facebook Group

Have Healthy Wealthy day…