You might feel burdened by the many aches and pains in your body that have besieged you for so many years now. You hobble through life with a depressed sense of your old self and a hopelessness that you can ever feel better. You blame your situation on "Father Time" who has finally caught up with you and has ripped your youthful body away. Each morning is a curse just to get out of bed. You avoid traveling or putting yourself in situations that might be too risky for a frail body like yours. You live on painkillers just to get through each and every day.
This is how most people are taught to think about their bodies as they age. The common myth being told is that you are supposed to harden and stiffen as you age. This wide scale belief has put the finger of blame on the aging process for the decay of your body. From the media to the medical culture, you are taught to believe that you are supposed to stiffen and harden as you age and that pain and joint failure are natural.
The absurdity of this belief is rather pronounced. The reality is that aging is not responsible for the stiffening of your body. The aging process will intensify as the body becomes stiffer. The actions and thoughts one engages in throughout one's lifetime are chiefly responsible for the hardening and stiffening of the body. The number of calendar days one accumulates over time have little to do with the degeneration of the body.
Stiffness comes first and then you will quickly age after that.The human body is essentially like soft plastic. It can be shaped and contoured based on the forces being applied to it. Most people spend the majority of their lives
practicing movements and activities that lead to stiff and hard bodies. This includes our current popular exercise practices of joining a gym and practicing cardio workouts and strength training. As you continue this practice you will only be adding more stiffness and hardness to your body.
We are besieged by lies like the popular adage that "a hard body is a healthy body." This is the furthest notion from the truth. Hardness is death to the body and all of its corresponding tissues.
