Quantum physics today has revealed that our bodies are not solid at all

– they are a mass of molecules moving at a high speed of vibration. Science has also confirmed that our bodies are perpetually being renewed as old cells die and new ones replace them. Deepak Chopra MD, one of the great thinkers of our time, describes the process like this:

"It’s as if you lived in a building whose bricks were systematically taken out and replaced every year. If you keep the same blueprint then it will still look like the same building. But it won't be the same in actuality. The human body also stands there, looking much the same from day to day, but through the process of respiration, digestion, elimination and so forth, it is constantly and ever in exchange with the rest of the world."

Long before electron microscopes, Marden understood the process of aging on a cellular level:

“As a matter of fact, Nature has bestowed upon us perpetual youth, the power of perpetual renewal. There is not a single cell in our bodies that can possibly become old; the body is constantly being made new through cell renewal, the cells of those parts of it that are most active being renewed oftenest. If must follow that the age-producing process is largely artificial and unnatural”

Sounds more science fiction than science.

If you have convinced yourself, or if the idea has been ingrained into the very structure of your being by your training or the multitudes of examples about you, that you will begin to show the marks of age at about fifty, that at sixty you will lose the power of your faculties, your interest in life; that you will become practically useless and have to retire from your business, and that thereafter you will continue to decline until you are cut off entirely, there is no power in the world that can keep the old-age processes and signs from developing in you.

Thought leads. If it is an age-old thought, old age must follow. If it is a youthful thought, a perennial young-life thought, a thought of usefulness and helpfulness, the body must correspond. Old age begins in the mind. The expression of age in the body is the harvest of old-age ideas which have been planted in the mid. We see others about our age beginning to decline and show marks of decrepitude, and we imagine it is about time for us to show the same signs. Ultimately we do show them, because we think they are inevitable. But they are only inevitable because our old-age mental attitude and race-habit believes.

If we actually refuse to grow old; if we insist on holding the youthful ideal and the young, hopeful, buoyant thought, the old-age earmarks will not show themselves.

The elixir of youth lies in the mind or nowhere. You cannot be young by trying to appear so, by dressing youthfully. You must first get rid of the last vestige of thought that you are aging. As long as that is in the mind, cosmetics and youthful dress will amount to very little in changing your appearance. The conviction must first be changed; the thought which has produced the aging condition must be reversed.

If we can only establish the perpetual-youth mental attitude, so that we feel young, we have won half the battle against old age. Be sure of this, that whatever you feel regarding your age will be expressed in your body.

It is a great aid to the perpetuation of youth to learn to feel young, however long we may have lived, because the body expresses the habitual feeling, habitual thought. Nothing in the world will make us look young as long as we are convinced we are aging.

Nothing else more effectually retards age than the keeping in mind the bright, cheerful, optimistic, hopeful, buoyant picture of youth, in all it’s splendor, magnificence; the picture of the glories which belong to youth – youthful dreams, ideals, hopes, and all the qualities which belong to young life.

every time a cell divides and procreates a very small portion of the DNA is lost or scrambled

over the years the deterioration of the DNA is called aging


I'm not sure if this is correct. But I think I remember reading that when they cloned Dolly the sheep she was born at the same DNA age as her donor and lived only as long as the donor

I need botox!!!

Dont let me do this----> or this---> or this------> ANYMORE!!!

DON'T TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY

One great trouble with us is that our imaginations age prematurely. The hard, exacting conditions of our modern, strenuous life tend to harden and dry up the brain and nerve cells, and thus seriously injure the power of the imagination, which should be kept fresh, buoyant, elastic. The average routine habit of modern business life tends to destroy the flexibility, the delicacy, the sensitiveness, the exquisite fineness of the perceptive faculties.

People who take life too seriously, who seem to think everything depends upon their own individual efforts, whose lives are one continuous grind in living-getting, have a hard expression, their thought outpictures itself in their faces. These people dry up early in life, become wrinkled; their tissues become as hard as their thought.

The arbitrary, domineering, overbearing mind also tends to age the body prematurely, because the thinking is hard, strained, abnormal.

People who live on the sunny and beautiful side of life, who cultivate serenity, do not age nearly so rapidly as those who live on the shady, the dark side.

DON'T STOP GROWING AND LEARNING.

Another reason why so many people age prematurely is because they cease to grow. It is a lamentable fact that multitudes of men seem incapable of receiving or accepting new ideas after they have reached middle age. Many of them, after they have reached the age of forty or fifty, come to a standstill in their mental reaching out.

Don’t think that you must “begin to take in sail,” to stop growing, stop progressing, just because you have gotten along in years. By this method of reasoning you will decline rapidly. Never allow yourself to get out of the habit of being young. Do not say that you cannot do this or that as you once did. Live the life that belongs to youth. Do not be afraid of being a boy or girl again in spirit, no matter how many years you have lived. Carry yourself so that you will not suggest old age in any of its phases. Remember it is the stale mentality, that ages the body. Keep growing, keep interested in everything about you.

I am who I am, I look the way I do and however I look (old or young)if my mind is happy who cares what my body looks like.

If I die at 70 looking like 40 or at 30 looking like I'm 50 I'll still be dead.

It has been shown that the conviction that one is going to die at about a certain time, a certain age, tends to bring about the expected dissolution by strangling the life processes.

There is no reason to die at any given age.

If you wish to retain your youth, forget unpleasant experiences, disagreeable incidents. A lady eighty years old was recently asked how she managed to keep herself so youthful. She replied: “I know how to forget disagreeable things.”

"No one can remain youthful who does not continue to grow, and no one can keep growing who does not keep alive his interest in the great world about him. We are so constituted that we draw a large part of our nourishment from others. No man can isolate himself, can cut himself off from his fellows, without shrinking in his mental stature. The mind that is not constantly reaching out for the new, as well as keeping in touch with the old, soon reaches its limit of growth.

Nothing else is easier than for a man to age. All he has to do is think he is growing old; to expect it, to fear it and to prepare for it: to compare himself with others of the same age who are prematurely old and to assume that he is like them."

There is, however, a mechanism in place that changes the way dna works. It's like a flashlight in that the power of the machanism fades over time and that can't be changed.

Does anyone know what that mechanism is or what causes it to work? And how do you know this? And how do you know it can't be changed?

"To think constantly the “end,” to plan for death, to prepare and provide for declining years, is simply to acknowledge that your powers are waning, that you are losing your grip upon life. Such thinking tends to weaken your hold upon the life principle, and your body gradually corresponds with your conviction.

The very belief that our powers are waning; the consciousness that we are losing strength, that our vitality is lessening; the conviction that old age is settling upon us and that our life forces are gradually ebbing away, has a blighting, shriveling influence upon the mental faculties and functions; the whole character deteriorates under this old-age belief. "

The mental attitude has everything to do with the hastening or the retarding of the old age condition.

Dr. Metchnikoff, of the Pasteur Institute of Paris, says that men should live at least one hundred and twenty years. There is no doubt that, as a race, we shorten our lives very materially through our false thinking, our bad living, and our old-age convictions.

Interesting

Don't forget and

(The following was from a book written in 1909, so "a few years ago means a hundred plus.)

"A few years ago the London Lancet, the highest medical authority in the world, gave a splendid illustration of the power of the mind to keep the body young. A young woman, deserted by her lover, became insane. She lost all consciousness of the passing time. She believed her lover would return, and for years she stood daily before her window watching for him. When over seventy years of age, some Americans, including physicians, who saw her, thought she was not over twenty. She did not have a single gray hair, and no wrinkles or other signs of age were visible. Her skin was as fair and smooth as a young girl’s. She did not age because she believed she was still a girl. She did not count her birthdays or worry because she was getting along in years. She was thoroughly convinced that she was still living in the very time that her lover left her. This mental belief controlled her physical condition. She was just as old as she thought she was. Her conviction outpictured itself in her body and kept it youthful. "