Longevity for You
Stephen Lau
Stephen Lau
Mobility for Longevity
by
Stephen Lau
by
Stephen Lau
Physical activity extends longevity; it is regarded by some health experts as the closest thing to an anti-aging pill. Unfortunately, many a time an individuals lifespan is cut short by falling. Over-concern or fear of falling may result in the repercussion of immobilizing the aged.
Truths and Myths of Falling
Falling is the most common cause of death in the elderly. Falling is the 2nd leading cause of death in women aged between 65 and 85, and the leading cause of death for most individuals over 85.
MYTH: Aging makes you fall, and falling is part of growing old.
TRUTH: You fall because your muscles have lost their flexibility and you have lost your body balance.
MYTH: Falls are mostly accidental occurrences.
TRUTH: The majority of falls are neither accidental nor random events: they are predictable occurrences due to many environmental and human factors.
Falling is the Number One factor in aging because it creates fear among the elderly, thereby immobilizing them into a mental and physical state of inertia, which often brings about rapid decline in the mental faculty.
Aging does impose certain limitations on the physicl body, but aging does not necessarily make you fall. You fall because you are immobile. Being physically active and maintaing good posture hold the key to preventing falls, and hence to anti-aging living. Maintain your mobility for longevity.
Causes of Falling
Falling is due to external and internal conditions.
External conditions: inadequate lighting and scattered objects
Internal conditions:
o Body imbalance caused by circulatory
problems
o Diseases (arthritis, osteoporosis)
o Medications (sedatives)
o Mental problems (confusion and dementia)
o Muscular weakness
o Poor vision (Visit my web page: Vision Health)
These conditions make you become either more immobilized out of fear of falling, or more prone to falling. Maintain your mobility for longevity.
Preventing Falls
Strengthen some of your inactive muscles that cause body balance problems, contributing to falling. For anti-aging, always maintain good posture. (For more information go to my web page: Good Posture to find out how to reduce aches and pains through good posture.)
Also, concentration plays a pivotal role in preventing falls. Enhance concentration through daily meditation, which is complemented by healthy breathing. (Go to my web page: Meditation Techniques to find out how to concentrate through meditation.)
Fear is not anti-aging: in fact, it is the Number One obstacle in practicing and repeating certain movements on a regular basis aimed at enhancing your body balance to improve your flexibility for both physical and emotional well-being.
Fear is an obstacle to your general fitness. Use positive affirmations to overcome your fear. Change your attitude about the fear of falling:
Do not conserve your mobility; fully utilize mobility for longevity to your advantage.
Fear makes you feel inadequate and insecure, making you more prone to falling.
Over-caution constricts your muscles, making them more tense and inflexible, and thus further impairing your body balance system.
Make what is impossible become fun to you.
Dont be afraid to be physically fit - it is your right at any age!
Exercise all your life. Qi Ggong, Yoga, and walking are some of the exercises you can do irrespective of your age to maintain mobility for longevity and anti-aging living.
Indispensable Qi Gong For People On The Go is an excellent book on Qi Gong exercise with step-by-step instructions to help you perform 3000-year-secret exercises to reverse bone loss due to osteoporosis, and to revitalize an aging body for better balance and flexibility. These anti-aging exercises are especially good for people who are aging because they promote muscle flexibility, enhance internal life energy, and promote clarity of the mind and physical well-being to maintain mobility for longevity and anti-aging living.
Yoga Health Secrets is a comprehensive book on the longevity health benefits of Yoga: physical health and relaxation; motivation and willpower; clarity of mind and concentration; self awareness and insight; inner peace and happiness. It provides all the information you need to know about Yoga practiced by millions of people all over the world to keep their mobility for longevity.
Or, you may do your weight training exercise to maintain your muscles even as your body continues to age.
The closest thing to an anti-aging pill (if there is any) is MOBILITY for longevity. Do not avoid any situation that might cause you to fall; instead, move to avoid, and thereby preventing falls. Movement, activity, and exercise promote and enhance your mental, emotional, and social well-being, which are the main ingredients of a happy and long life.
Mobility for longevity serves several functions:
Improving eye-hand-foot coordination
Improving motor skills
Improving reaction time
Improving spatial awareness
Improving good posture and poise
Improving mental capability due to more oxygen
from the blood
Improving overall confidence and self-esteem
Go to my web page: Physical Exercise to find out all the resources you will need to make yourself physically fit and mobile at any age. For example, even with compromised mobility, you will need full-body, low-impact exercise, with a resistance chair to do the exercise while sitting down.
Balancing Activities for Body Balance
Set aside a specific time each day to practice balancing activities for body balance, and stay with it.
Learn body balance.
Find your own focal point by focusing your eyes on an object.
Practice your body balance by slightly raising one foot, either right or left, in the following positions:
Both hands on your hips
Both hands at your sides
Both hands outstretched sideways
Both hands raised above your head in a V position
Warm up by stretching.
Stretching has substantial health benefits:
Increasing your mobility range
Increasing your muscle flexibility
Increasing your energy level
Increasing your blood circulation
Increasing your protection against injury should you
happen to fall
Strengthen your leg for balance, equilibrium, and mobility.
Sit on a chair, and relax, with feet apart, and hands on your sides.
Stand up a little, with legs bent, and hands on your sides, and HOLD at a count of five.
Next, stand up a little more, with legs still slightly bent, and hands on your sides, and HOLD at a count of five.
Now, stand up straight and tall, and HOLD at a count of five.
REVERSE and REPEAT the process until you sit down on the chair.
Strengthen your ankles and feet for body balance and flexibility.
Stand tall with your feet slightly apart.
Slowly raise both heels from the floor, and HOLD for
a count of five.
Slowly lower both heels, and relax.
REPEAT five to ten times.
Enhance and improve your body balance and flexibility to maintain mobility for longevity.
Stand tall, feet slightly apart, with arms stretched out sideways for body balance.
Slowly bend your right knee, and cross your right foot in front of and to the outside of your left foot, touching your right toes to the floor.
With your right knee still bent, slowly and gently SWING your right leg from the front position to behind your left leg, touching your right toes to the floor. Use your stretched out arms to balance if necessary.
REPEAT activity using your left foot.
Words of Wisdom on Mobility for Longevity
No matter how careful you are, there will be times when an accidental fall may happen to you. However, if your body remains loose and flexible, your injury may be reduced to a minimum.
As you continue to age, the joints and muscles in your body may become stiff and inflexible due to arthritis pain. It is therefore important to control your arthritis.
Arthritis Free For Life provides practical information on naturally freeing yourself from inflammation, stiffness, and pain of arthritis, a debilitating disease affecting many of the elderly population as they continue to age. Do not let arthritis immobilize you. Reclaim your mobility for longevity!
Make yourself mobile at all times. Good posture is also important to body balance. Improving body balance reduces your vulnerability to falls. Falls are associated with immobility, and subsequent functional decline further increasing the risk for additional falls, and thus reinforcing the fear of falling -- perpetuating an endless vicious cycle.
The more fit your feet and legs are, the more resistant you will be to falls. Frequent and repeated falls may impair your long-term mobility, and deteriorate the quality of your anti-aging living. Strengthen your feet and legs, and maintain your mobility for longevity and anti-aging living
Mobility adds years to your life. Mobility for longevity gives meaning to anti-aging living.
Return from Mobility for Longevity to Home Page.
Copyright©2007 by Stephen Lau
Read other related web page by Stephen Lau
Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue or depression may handicap your longevity living. Overcome it through exercise, restful sleep, life energy, and mind power.
Good Health Management
Daily good health maintenance requires wisdom in healthy eating, digestion and elimination, restful sleep, and healthy vision.
Truths and Myths of Falling
Falling is the most common cause of death in the elderly. Falling is the 2nd leading cause of death in women aged between 65 and 85, and the leading cause of death for most individuals over 85.
MYTH: Aging makes you fall, and falling is part of growing old.
TRUTH: You fall because your muscles have lost their flexibility and you have lost your body balance.
MYTH: Falls are mostly accidental occurrences.
TRUTH: The majority of falls are neither accidental nor random events: they are predictable occurrences due to many environmental and human factors.
Falling is the Number One factor in aging because it creates fear among the elderly, thereby immobilizing them into a mental and physical state of inertia, which often brings about rapid decline in the mental faculty.
Aging does impose certain limitations on the physicl body, but aging does not necessarily make you fall. You fall because you are immobile. Being physically active and maintaing good posture hold the key to preventing falls, and hence to anti-aging living. Maintain your mobility for longevity.
Causes of Falling
Falling is due to external and internal conditions.
External conditions: inadequate lighting and scattered objects
Internal conditions:
o Body imbalance caused by circulatory
problems
o Diseases (arthritis, osteoporosis)
o Medications (sedatives)
o Mental problems (confusion and dementia)
o Muscular weakness
o Poor vision (Visit my web page: Vision Health)
These conditions make you become either more immobilized out of fear of falling, or more prone to falling. Maintain your mobility for longevity.
Preventing Falls
Strengthen some of your inactive muscles that cause body balance problems, contributing to falling. For anti-aging, always maintain good posture. (For more information go to my web page: Good Posture to find out how to reduce aches and pains through good posture.)
Also, concentration plays a pivotal role in preventing falls. Enhance concentration through daily meditation, which is complemented by healthy breathing. (Go to my web page: Meditation Techniques to find out how to concentrate through meditation.)
Fear is not anti-aging: in fact, it is the Number One obstacle in practicing and repeating certain movements on a regular basis aimed at enhancing your body balance to improve your flexibility for both physical and emotional well-being.
Fear is an obstacle to your general fitness. Use positive affirmations to overcome your fear. Change your attitude about the fear of falling:
Do not conserve your mobility; fully utilize mobility for longevity to your advantage.
Fear makes you feel inadequate and insecure, making you more prone to falling.
Over-caution constricts your muscles, making them more tense and inflexible, and thus further impairing your body balance system.
Make what is impossible become fun to you.
Dont be afraid to be physically fit - it is your right at any age!
Exercise all your life. Qi Ggong, Yoga, and walking are some of the exercises you can do irrespective of your age to maintain mobility for longevity and anti-aging living.
Indispensable Qi Gong For People On The Go is an excellent book on Qi Gong exercise with step-by-step instructions to help you perform 3000-year-secret exercises to reverse bone loss due to osteoporosis, and to revitalize an aging body for better balance and flexibility. These anti-aging exercises are especially good for people who are aging because they promote muscle flexibility, enhance internal life energy, and promote clarity of the mind and physical well-being to maintain mobility for longevity and anti-aging living.
Yoga Health Secrets is a comprehensive book on the longevity health benefits of Yoga: physical health and relaxation; motivation and willpower; clarity of mind and concentration; self awareness and insight; inner peace and happiness. It provides all the information you need to know about Yoga practiced by millions of people all over the world to keep their mobility for longevity.
Or, you may do your weight training exercise to maintain your muscles even as your body continues to age.
The closest thing to an anti-aging pill (if there is any) is MOBILITY for longevity. Do not avoid any situation that might cause you to fall; instead, move to avoid, and thereby preventing falls. Movement, activity, and exercise promote and enhance your mental, emotional, and social well-being, which are the main ingredients of a happy and long life.
Mobility for longevity serves several functions:
Improving eye-hand-foot coordination
Improving motor skills
Improving reaction time
Improving spatial awareness
Improving good posture and poise
Improving mental capability due to more oxygen
from the blood
Improving overall confidence and self-esteem
Go to my web page: Physical Exercise to find out all the resources you will need to make yourself physically fit and mobile at any age. For example, even with compromised mobility, you will need full-body, low-impact exercise, with a resistance chair to do the exercise while sitting down.
Balancing Activities for Body Balance
Set aside a specific time each day to practice balancing activities for body balance, and stay with it.
Learn body balance.
Find your own focal point by focusing your eyes on an object.
Practice your body balance by slightly raising one foot, either right or left, in the following positions:
Both hands on your hips
Both hands at your sides
Both hands outstretched sideways
Both hands raised above your head in a V position
Warm up by stretching.
Stretching has substantial health benefits:
Increasing your mobility range
Increasing your muscle flexibility
Increasing your energy level
Increasing your blood circulation
Increasing your protection against injury should you
happen to fall
Strengthen your leg for balance, equilibrium, and mobility.
Sit on a chair, and relax, with feet apart, and hands on your sides.
Stand up a little, with legs bent, and hands on your sides, and HOLD at a count of five.
Next, stand up a little more, with legs still slightly bent, and hands on your sides, and HOLD at a count of five.
Now, stand up straight and tall, and HOLD at a count of five.
REVERSE and REPEAT the process until you sit down on the chair.
Strengthen your ankles and feet for body balance and flexibility.
Stand tall with your feet slightly apart.
Slowly raise both heels from the floor, and HOLD for
a count of five.
Slowly lower both heels, and relax.
REPEAT five to ten times.
Enhance and improve your body balance and flexibility to maintain mobility for longevity.
Stand tall, feet slightly apart, with arms stretched out sideways for body balance.
Slowly bend your right knee, and cross your right foot in front of and to the outside of your left foot, touching your right toes to the floor.
With your right knee still bent, slowly and gently SWING your right leg from the front position to behind your left leg, touching your right toes to the floor. Use your stretched out arms to balance if necessary.
REPEAT activity using your left foot.
Words of Wisdom on Mobility for Longevity
No matter how careful you are, there will be times when an accidental fall may happen to you. However, if your body remains loose and flexible, your injury may be reduced to a minimum.
As you continue to age, the joints and muscles in your body may become stiff and inflexible due to arthritis pain. It is therefore important to control your arthritis.
Arthritis Free For Life provides practical information on naturally freeing yourself from inflammation, stiffness, and pain of arthritis, a debilitating disease affecting many of the elderly population as they continue to age. Do not let arthritis immobilize you. Reclaim your mobility for longevity!
Make yourself mobile at all times. Good posture is also important to body balance. Improving body balance reduces your vulnerability to falls. Falls are associated with immobility, and subsequent functional decline further increasing the risk for additional falls, and thus reinforcing the fear of falling -- perpetuating an endless vicious cycle.
The more fit your feet and legs are, the more resistant you will be to falls. Frequent and repeated falls may impair your long-term mobility, and deteriorate the quality of your anti-aging living. Strengthen your feet and legs, and maintain your mobility for longevity and anti-aging living
Mobility adds years to your life. Mobility for longevity gives meaning to anti-aging living.
Return from Mobility for Longevity to Home Page.
Copyright©2007 by Stephen Lau
Read other related web page by Stephen Lau
Chronic Fatigue
Chronic fatigue or depression may handicap your longevity living. Overcome it through exercise, restful sleep, life energy, and mind power.
Good Health Management
Daily good health maintenance requires wisdom in healthy eating, digestion and elimination, restful sleep, and healthy vision.
Truths and Myths about Falling
Causes of Falling
Preventing Falls
Balancing Activities for Body Balance
Words of Wisdom on Mobility for Longevity
Causes of Falling
Preventing Falls
Balancing Activities for Body Balance
Words of Wisdom on Mobility for Longevity
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