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Dr Donna Blevins's avatar

Surprise. Surprise! I read this ten minutes after it published. I am lucky!

Since the body smacks you in the forehead at 50, what do you think it does at 76?

It talks. Loudly.

I'm better at listening after I had a massive brain stroke in 2013, and I'm blessed with great longevity genes, and one helluva mom.

Mama Peggy's motto:

"To stay above the grass, get your butt up. Now!"

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Daniel P. Hirschi's avatar

Thanks so much for your inspiring comment, Donna! Good timing I have to admit :-)

Sorry to hear about your health struggles. But you’re much better now, I hope?

And I love that slogan! Bother, if I steal it for a future article? :-)

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Dr Donna Blevins's avatar

Loved your post, Daniel! Of course, when you read and continually agree, "Yeah, that too!" you know you are reading exactly what you are supposed to read.

If the Law of Attraction is real, I manifested the stroke by demanding proof that MindShifting works in real time. Despite the healthcare teams proclaiming it would take me nearly a year to talk, I could speak clearly in three days using my Signature MindShift Exercise. I got proof in spades!

Feel free to use Mama Peggy's motto if you credit her. It was her lifelong slogan, and will be the subtitle on her upcoming book, Mama Peggy's Wisdom.

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Kristin van Tilburg's avatar

use it or lose it…amazing story you have, Donna!

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Dr Donna Blevins's avatar

Thank you, Kristin! Just what helps me to keep going

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Daniel P. Hirschi's avatar

Yeah! An amazing woman, right? And her career - wow!

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@mindset&mythos's avatar

Good or bad, small choices will compound with time.

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Daniel P. Hirschi's avatar

The bad ones faster… unfortunately :-)

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@mindset&mythos's avatar

Yes. Choosing matters so much because the compounding is serious on the bad choices.

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Keith Fey's avatar

Very thought provoking article Daniel, indeed, i am late 60s now, and would love to add something I am always remembering to be aware of... May I share this with you .... Thank you I will.

Take care of ALL of your senses Daniel, as well as those we tend to discard. I think I have incorrectly started ... what I truly think, is not taking care, rather USE all your senses all the time, not just relying on them as some kind of forgotten disused relative, who responds when you are crying., oh its all going to be ok! because its not all going to be ok.

I really do think we missed out 25 other little thought about senses... each and everyone critical for our well being, her ( Unintentional spelling , but in my case she is my most valued sense ! ), is my list in mind...

1. Your sense of wonder and awe.

2. Your sense of LOVE.

3. Your sense of justice,

4. Your sense of compassion

5. Your sense of Order

6. in this regard Love (The Verb) the doing word Moves up to number one.

7. Your sense of Humor

8. Your sense of Value

9. Your sense of Soul

10 Your sense of Ballance

12. Your sense of numeracy

13. Your sense of relevancy ( especially with regard to genetics and inheritance, in Humans)

11. Your sense of order.

14. Your sense of Body position in time and space

15.Your sense of balance and motion

16. Your sense of temperature

17.Your sense of pain

18 Your sense of Hunger

19 Your sense of thirst

20 Your sense of breathing

21 your sense of well being generally

22 your sense of Time

23 your sense of the seasons

24 your sense of sensibility

25 your sense of taste

26 your sense of hearing

27 your sense of smell

28 your sense of touch

29 your sense of sight

30 and not least of all,,, your sense of MEMORY.... trigger and exercise this with vigor.

I trust I have given you all some things to print out and put on your fridge doors,,,

lastly,,, 31... your sense of LOVE... Please remember to exercise love in every way every day..

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Milan D's avatar

I just wrote about my experience of how even after doing everything right, your body will make you slow down.

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