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ergy in managing her mind. As a result, this investment has given her a far more positive view of aging. Her vigilance about living with purpose and intention keeps paying great dividends year after year. As I witness her response to life, I keep being reminded to deepen this habit myself.
“Don’t get me wrong,” Louise admits. “I’ve faced the same challenges most people do as they age—wrinkles, weight gain, stiffness, and noticing that young men no longer look longingly at me. But there’s no use making myself miser- able about things I cannot change. We’re all going to age. I’ve just made a decision to take care of myself and love myself no matter what.
“I eat well. I consume foods that are very good for my body, foods that support me. I eat very little that drains my body or that doesn’t support me. I also do things like acupuncture and craniosacral sessions once a month as a general tune-up. And I do my best to choose thoughts that make me feel good as much as possible. This is the big lesson that I’ll
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keep repeating: Our thinking either makes us feel good or it makes us feel bad. It’s not the events nearly as much as it’s the thoughts.”
So it’s not the wrinkle, it’s the thoughts you have about the wrinkle?
“Absolutely. The wrinkle is just there. And it’s there for everybody. You haven’t been singled out to be the one person who has that wrinkle. It’s foolish to make yourself unhappy about something like that. We want to enjoy every phase of life as much as pos- sible.”
a woman who’s 50 pounds overweight and hates what she sees in the mirror? How do you look at yourself and say “I love you” when you don’t like what you see?
“Well, that’s the point of what we’re doing,” Louise replies. “As I said before, I no longer believe in working on a single issue. In the early days, I worked with individual problems like weight loss. Then one day I discovered that if I could get clients to love themselves, we didn’t have to work on problems anymore. Self-love was the core issue for everybody and everything. And that’s a dif-
“This is the big lesson that repeating: Our thinking makes us feel good or it m feel bad. It’s not the even as much as it’s the tho
Speaking of wrinkles, I men- tion, let’s talk about the body. You said that the secret to your success at 84 has to do with loving yourself and your body, but what if you’re
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ficult realization for a lot of people to accept or acknowl- edge—that it could be that simple.
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