The Anti-Aging Power of Thought

Summary

The Anti-Aging Power of Thought explores how positive thinking, faith, and resilience can reduce stress, uplift spirit, and renew vitality from within.

The Anti-Aging Power of Thought: Using Your Thinking. I am not a Bible thumper. Yet, there is a certain verse in the Bible that I have been considering lately. It reads, “Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Psalms:102:5). What is this verse saying that I should take to heart?

The “Who” in this verse, is, of course, God. The word “mouth” in this verse can be seen as a reference to the mind. It refers to the way that we rationalize and reason. It also refers to our thoughts. “good things,” “youth,” and, “renewed,” should be self-explanatory. The word “eagle’s,” in this verse likely refers to flight. It symbolizes a free spirit, soaring and unencumbered.

Now that I have a few basic definitions of certain words in this verse, I can work with them. I can start deducing insights from this verse. These insights should be put to best practices. My thinking influences my temperament and disposition at any given moment. What comes out of my mouth is a product of my thinking. My thinking also has an influence on the way that I physically feel (my health).

What does all this mean? How can I use this to combat the appearance of aging? It disquiets me when I see my reflection looking old and ugly in the mirror. Mirror, mirror on the wall, gosh darn it.

This could mean that I have the cognitive ability to manage my aging processes. Not that I can think myself back to youth or stall the aging processes. There comes a point in everyone’s life, if they live long enough. At this point, becoming old and ugly is a given. There is nothing that can be done about this, except somehow learning to comfortably live with it. Many factors interact with each other to produce physical aging.

Many of these factors are beyond our ability to control. Examples include the radiation of the Sun, even when we try to hide ourselves behind sealed shelters. Other factors are micro-organisms that live and breed on and within our dirt bodies. Additionally, our Solar System and our Galaxy move into different regions of the Universe, to name a few.

Nevertheless, if the way I perceive myself is unadulterated and wholesome, it will produce words of refreshment. It will bring renewal from my mouth. Many wrinkles, blotches, dark spots, and sagging skin come from stress and worry. The quantity of stress and worry within me affects my health directly. It also impacts my physical appearance. Some factors contribute to the processes of my aging that I can’t control. My thinking, though, is not among them.

Unproductive thought habits drain the electrical charges that sustain every cell in my body. As the energies of these cells are reduced, deformations start appearing in my physical appearance. They also affect the way that I feel. The consequences of this damaging thought habit are many. One consequence is wrinkles appearing prematurely. These wrinkles are exaggerated beyond what they would have been under natural aging conditions.

Some people who claim themselves to be in the know attribute sagging skin to gravity. Gravity may be a cause of sagging skin. Still, gravity is just a theory and does not really exist. The loss of collagen and elastic in the skin occurs as we age. These are two factors that result in sagging skin. How positive thinking can combat sagging skin is an experiment in progress. I will give you an update on the progress of this experiment in roughly one hundred and ten years. Please stay tuned.

“Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle’s” (Psalms: 102:5). “Mouth”, a tool used for broadcasting my thoughts among other things. “Good things”, wholesome and uplifting things and personality traits given and received. “Youth is renewed”, reducing wrinkles, blotches, dark spots, and sagging skin and invigorating my mind by thinking positively. “like the eagle’s”, letting go of stress and worry as much as possible. I take a lighthearted view of myself. I think graciously and kindly of others. I accept the inevitable whether I like it or not. I soar in free flight even in the face of metamorphosing into a walking fossil.

Practicing this Bible verse daily might help me live better if you are of that temperament. It is also an inexpensive supplement to an anti-aging regimen that I have undertaken without success.

Thinking realistically and not relying on fantasy uplifts and inflates me. Even so, one day can feel like months of physical aging.

This happens if my thoughts are negative. This also happens if I am constantly in the company of negative acting and thinking people. Using this Bible verse to hide and improve the effects of aging may or may not work for me. But when I look at myself in the mirror, I think, why not give it a go.