Elise Marie Collins - Super Ager: You Can Look Younger, Have More Energy, a Better Memory, and Live a Long and Healthy Life

Copyright 2018 Elise Marie Collins

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Super Ager: You Can Look Younger, Have More Energy, a Better Memory, and Live a Long and Healthy Life

Library of Congress Cataloging
ISBN: (p) 978-1-63353-738-5, (e) 978-1-63353-739-2
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018939403
BISAC - HEA049000 HEALTH & FITNESS / Longevity

Printed in the United States of America

I want to thank my parents, Marie and Leonard, who taught me to never stop striving. I dedicate this book to the memory of my grandparents, who taught me to Super Age: Mama, Papa, Louise, and George. Thank you to my son Krishna for your support and understanding. I also thank my action partner Jean, Cate Stillman, and the Yogahealer community. May you be happy, may you be healthy, may you be at peace.

Contents

When Elise told me her book was titled Super Ager , I was ignorant that there was a term, even a concept, by that name. I was also ignorant of the research regarding the Blue Zones. My initial reaction was to contract. My mind skipped the super and went straight to ager. How is she going to sell a book with the word ager in it , I thought.

Super Ager , like Elise, is bold, brave, innovative, and sweet. Rather than shying away from our cultural aversion to aging, she goes into the heart of what is happening in these tiny pockets around the planet where our human elders are thriving into their eighties, nineties, and beyond. Elise shares the stories of these Super Agers, in their voices, in their cultures, so these experiences of common, everyday Super Agers ignite your vision for your future.

If youre a smart cookie, youll read each and every page of this book. Youll keep it as a scientific reference guide and a go-to source of spiritual and inspirational wisdom to direct your personal aging process.

The fundamental question you will come back to as you read Super Ager is this: how do you want to play your aging game? Elise is a wise, modern-day yogi, practicing jnana yoga. She enlightens through innovative, inspirational wisdom that stimulates you into aligned action.

You too can be a Super Ager.

You are in the drivers seat, making small choices daily that compound into your aging future. Super Ager awakens you to discover how you want to do your aging. Elise scientifically explains the rules of the game if you want to be a Super Agerif you want to thrive into your later decadesif you want to experience the connectivity possible for you as a human being, in your decades ahead.

Elise explains what is working for Super Agers and why, through the lens of Ayurveda, the holistic wisdom tradition that co-arose with yoga as the path to radiant longevity and everyday growth. Ive devoted my career to sharing Ayurvedic wisdom, and Elise has been a partner on my path as the editor of our Yoga Health Coaching blog. Her generous heart and brilliant mind consistently escort me to new ways of thinking. In Super Ager , she has created a boon for Yoga Health Coaches and wellness pros from all traditions, to guide our society in thriving together.

As you read Super Ager , you will re-inspire yourself in the ancient truths about how we age, and discover what is possible for you. You will stimulate the path you must take to evolve right now and into who you truly want to be.

No joke.

You know there is room for you to grow smarter, more fun, more in the flow, and more connected.

If you want to be continually thriving with each day and each decade, get a few pals togetherand start a Super Ager book club. Be smitten by your potential. Evolve together as a core Super Ager strategy.

Cate Stillman

Founder of Yogahealer and Yoga Health Coaching

How you age is based mostly on what you do on a daily basis, and this biological fact remains true all throughout life. No matter how many candles are on your birthday cake, it is always possible to change how you are aging. By conservative estimates, 75 percent of how we age depends on lifestyle, not geneticsand even this genetic component is not set in stone! Changing how you live changes the way your genes express themselves in your body, through an on/off switch phenomenon called epigenetics. Our genes can act differently, depending on the way we act and behave, the way think and believe, and even the way we view and handle our social and environmental circumstances. Epigenetics is still somewhat of a mystery, but some scientists believe that we will someday be able to influence over 90 percent of what our genes do! This optimism may be premature, but the emerging field of epigenetics promises to give us even greater control over our longevity and health. And since daily behavior already accounts for 75 percent or more of how you age, the opportunities are vast. You can Super Age.

While its true that there is no exact formula on how to live to one hundred, your activities, the food you eat, how much you sleep, how you move, who you see, how you view your life, and more have massive impacts on how you age. To Super Age means to slow down your relationship with time, to grow younger, and to grow older more slowly. The good news is that Super Aging is more accessible than ever before. With the right tools and knowledge, you can Super Age with ease. And because each person is unique, the recipe for Super Aging is as individual as each human. Super Ager will teach you to tune in to your inner knowledge of what works for you. You will start with the simplest baby step, and then make small changeschanges that meet you where you are currently atin order to Super Age. You will be inspired by Super Agers such as Tao Porchon-Lynch, a 99-year old-yoga teacher who once marched with Gandhi, or Whang-od Oggy, a 101-year-old traditional tattoo artist living in the Philippines, or Virginia McLaurin, a 109-year-old who spins basketballs with the Harlem Globetrotters and has danced with the Obamas. You will uncover doable steps to extend your life and create an even better life for yourself right now.

These steps are not chemicals or pills, although your chemistry does go along with your behavior. The steps that you take to optimize your life and to use slow-down time will also enhance your life. Super Aging may not always cause you to live longer, because life holds no guarantees, but the steps you take will always cause you to live more fully. You will learn to get together more often with friends, eat more plants, take more classes, play more, dance more, see more sunrises, and feel more satisfaction with your life. The best-kept secret is that there are so many ways to slow down the paths to aging, many of which are lots of fun. This book presents simple, easy-to-follow tips and tricks taken from Ayurveda, the worlds oldest holistic healing modality. Each will give you tips and tricks to Super Age. Finally, this book enables you to build your Super Ager plan, a vision of organic growth through a plan of deliberate action and new habits. You will decide what you will do to Super Age. Use this book as your guide to change old habits and lifestyle choices into habits of Super Agers. Start by changing easier things first. As your confidence grows, you can say, I got this. Soon you may find yourself taking on more challenging routines to increase your lifespan and your health span. You may even change behaviors that you never dreamed you would reverse. Its all up to you. In the end you will write your plan for life as a Super Ager, and you will think of your life as a beautiful garden that you will plant, prune, weed, and care for daily. Get ready: the time is now, so get set to Super Age!