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Instant Inspiration: If you're looking for instant inspiration to help you age successfully, then these are your pages! Follow the directions and links below for seven great ideas to live more fully beginning right now.


1. Nature is Best - Visit a National Park: There is nothing more inspiring than nature. Whether it's a walk in the noonday sun, keeping flowers on your desk, a landscape painting on the wall...whatever access you have to nature is the best way to relax you. Time and again older people have told us it's important to "stop and smell the roses." It's also the easiest thing to forget to do in our nonstop, hectic day. Don't let that happen to you. Take some moment today to stop and notice or be in nature.

Click on the Nature is Best title above to visit the National Parks Search Page of Yahoo.com and then visit a park online!


2. Meditation: Meditation is often considered a solely spiritual or religious activity, but it can be a "secular" or "generic" activity as well. If you've never meditated before it can be an enlightening experience, emphasis on the "lighten" part of it. It can help to improve your attitude and slow down your hectic day. Here's the secret to meditating:

1. Sit in a chair, preferably a straight-backed one, with your feet firmly on the floor.
2. Take a couple of deep breaths and slow your body and mind way down.
3. Don't close your eyes but either look slightly down or focus on some neutral object in front of you like a vase on a shelf or the wall itself.
4. Don't try to think about anything in particular but don't try to stop thinking either.
5. Just be there in the chair breathing and relaxing and looking down and don't pay any particular attention to your thoughts.
6. Try for 10 minutes and build to 20 or so.
7. After the 10 to 20 minutes, stretch, stand up and return to regular activity.

You'll feel more relaxed and alert. That's the beginning of meditating. If you want to read a good book on meditating, click on the title above.


3. Humor Works Best to Lighten Your Attitude: Aging is seen as serious business...most of the time. But it's important to take time and laugh too. To go to one of the most visited sites on "clean humor" click the title above or try these quotes to lighten your attitude:

"Aging is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter." Mark Twain

"You know you're getting older when the candles cost more than the cake." Bob Hope

"Aging would go slower if it had to be passed through Congress!" Anonymous


4. Move Your Body with Tina Turner: The best way to feel good right now is to get up and move your body. Take a brisk walk, do jumping jacks in your hallway or get a copy of Tina Turner's new album - Twenty Four Seven - and play it as high as you can stand and move your body! Click on the title Tina Turner and you'll be taken directly to Amazon.com's secure server where you can get your own copy today. But don't wait to move your body...put on your favorite music and move around right now!