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.

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

Meditation

Meditation is a key ingredient to health in today’s world. Like it or not that’s a fact.

Baby Boomers, like myself, need meditation more than ever. Depending on our individual experience, we may need an introduction to meditating, a refresher course or perhaps even just a reminder how valuable this practice is as a tool for modern society.

Recently, Spirit rang my ‘memory bell’ to remind me that I was neglecting an essential element in the self love department and boy did I need it.

Over thirty some years, I have been a meditation fan in some form or another. I remember originally trying to meditate because it was the cool thing to do and to catch the attention of the great looking young ladies in the local meditation class.

In retrospect there are segments of time where I meditated frequently and developed a ‘relative proficency’ at the process. Then periodically, changes rolled into my life – like fog rolling in off the coast – obscuring my normal life patterns for however long it took for ‘my’ fog to lift.

Life events like:

• having 4 kids
• working 16 hours a day in a new business
• travelling constantly to bring home the bacon
• divorces
• tarting a new business

You get the picture…

Every so often, since my 20’s I rediscover meditation and am always surprised

1. how much I like doing it
2. how much I missed it when I wasn’t meditating and
3. why I had lost touch with this familiar practice again

In my latest ‘rediscovery’, I notice a profound difference and understanding for me this go-round.

Maybe it’s because I have thrown a little wisdom into the overall mix. Maybe it’s because my ego is shrinking gradually. Maybe it’s because fewer things are getting between my Spirit and my authenticity. Maybe the real ‘inner’ me is finally emerging as a permanent fixture after 55 years of trial and error.

It’s all those things and another specific one.

About 3 months ago, my wife and I drove by Ananda Sangha in Palo Alto, California – and almost simultaneously we both said to the other.

“That place feels good, let’s go there on Sunday and check it out.”

Without getting into a lengthy tale, Ananda is an amazing place and the people in it are truly Light Workers and completely dedicated to empowering as many people as possible to find the Divine Light within themselves.

Aside the great friendships we have made and a true sense that we have finally found our Spiritual family after all these years of looking, they teach a very simple and profound method of meditation that – in my experience - is highly effective.

The Ananda meditation practices are directly derived from the teachings of Paramahansa Yogananda – the original guy chosen by the amazing Yogi aesthetics in India – to come to America with the express intention to teach Kriya Yoga to the west. The overall purpose was to merge Eastern expertise in Spiritual knowledge with Western strength of material skills.

Anyway…

Ananda Palo Alto is on their game. Lots of really dedicated, truly loving and generous souls frequent the place. The choir oftens sounds like a band of angels – bringing tears of joy to my eyes on many occasions.

The meditation class has – for me – brought a new dimension to my prior meditation understanding and experience.

The results are obvious to me on a personal level:

• Dramatically improved sleep cycles and deeper rest
• Less noticeable stress
• A more frequent sense of calm
• Less internal reactivity to outer stimulus and emotional discord
• A growing deeper understanding of who I am – deep inside
• More joy

If you haven’t yet taken a meditation class, track down an Ananda group in your area and do so. You’ll love how it feels and you’ll like the people. They’re really cool people.

Take it from one who has done most things incorrectly at least once. Study the Ananda meditation and chanting classes and get your meditation on the right track quickly – instead of wandering around trying things for a long time (like I did) until you find a method that works. Go right to the results.

This time around – meditation is here to stay for me – every day for the rest of my life. Even after only a couple of weeks into the course, I find myself looking forward to the next chance I will have to practice again.

It doesn’t take a lot of time and it doesn’t cost much money. But it makes a lot of difference.

If you haven’t already – take a meditation class and start practicing every day. You’ll see a big difference in a short time if you are sincere.

Meidtation for Baby Boomers is a must do and it’s so rewarding and easy.