Golden Rules For Aging Gracefully
One of my friend shared this with me. And I think this is interesting and encouraging.
So I like to share with you all in WA!
Lessons from a Japanese Doctor
LET'S LIVE TO BE A 100!!
A 97 year old Doctor has this to say...
Doctor Shigeaki Hinohara
Energy comes from feeling good, not from eating well or sleeping a lot.
As we all remember how as children, when we were having fun, we often
forgot to eat or sleep. I believe that we can keep that attitude as adults,
too. It's best not to tire the body with too many rules such as lunchtime
and bedtime.
All people who live long regardless of nationality, race or gender
share one thing in common: None are overweight...
There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than
65. To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff. I take
two stairs at a time, to get my muscles moving.
Pain is mysterious, and having fun is the best way to forget it. Â If a child has
a toothache, and you start playing a game together, he or she immediately forgets
the pain. Hospitals must cater to the basic need of patients: We all want to have
fun. At St. Luke's we have music and animal therapies, and art classes.
Don't be crazy about amassing material things. Remember: You don't
know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.
Science alone can't cure or help people. Science lumps us all together;
but illness is individual. Each person is unique, and diseases are connected
to their hearts. To know the illness and help people, we need liberal and
visual arts, not just medical ones.
Life is filled with incidents. On March 31, 1970, when I was 59 years old,
I boarded the Yodogo, a flight from Tokyo to Fukuoka. It was a beautiful
sunny morning, and as Mount Fuji came into sight, the plane was hijacked
by the Japanese Communist League-Red Army Faction. I spent the next
four days handcuffed to my seat in 40-degree heat. As a doctor, I looked at
it all as an experiment and was amazed at how the body slowed down in
a crisis.
It's wonderful to live long. Until one is 60 years old, it is easy to work
for one's family and to achieve one's goals. But in our later years,
we should strive to contribute to society at large. Since the age of 65,
I have worked as a volunteer. I still put in 18 hours seven days a week
and love every minute of it.
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