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The Mandate

At Sixes & Sevens Multimedia is creating a new national audio program about and for Americans in their sixties and seventies. The program's mandate is to serve this age group with information and insight into the benefits and opportunities, issues and challenges they face to reinvent themselves for more rewarding and fulfilling lives as they age. The program will do so through stories, factual information, philosophical and spiritual discussions that connect, enrich and inspire. As a part of this focus, the program will also examine and address myths and ageist ideas in our society about the elderly and their capacity to contribute to the nation's life.
We will feature a full range of audio formats including podcasts, radio programs, CD's and live streaming.

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Time to Talk and Listen is an Opportunity for Everyone!

Having a good conversation is a gift. There are many reasons for enjoyment but here are some other important outcomes. In a real conversation you might find yourself saying things you didn't know you knew. Or from another's words you might find thoughts or feeling or memories you thought you'd lost. A good conversation brings both people to a new place. And a conversation that sings stays indie for a time to be enjoyed again.

Link: http://winncollier.com/loneliness-and-the-art-of-conversation/

Being Ourselves

Sound Mind in a Sound Body

Meditation calms nerves, relieves stress, improves focus, and extends lives by slowing aging.

Modern living overloads us! The result is stress.

Stress elevates the hormone cortisol which helps people cope with changes in the environment. A steady stream of cortisol circulating with the blood in our bodies, however, is toxic.

It makes people eat too much and contributes to obesity. It triggers insulin resistance which makes us sick. It contributes to anxiety and depression. It sabotages the enzyme, telomerace, which rebuilds our telomeres which are among the basic structures that keep us alive.

Banish stress for at least ten minutes a day!

Start with a two minute deep breathing exercise every day for one week. Do it while walking if you are able. Do it anyway even if you need to sit.

Increase your breathing time by two minutes a week for five weeks until you are able to breathe in this focused way for ten minutes each day.

March 2915 Newsletter

Dear Members and Friends: Devote Yourselves to Exercise!

"Exercise is the only thing--and you should underline that--that helps everything associated with aging", "and anyone can do it" advises Dr. Janice Schwartz, professor of medicine at the University of California at San Francisco.

The YMCA reports that among its 22 million members people aged 65 and older number 1.9 million. This age group joined in record numbers over the last three years according to the national director of membership, Cindy McDermott. She notes that this trend is expected to continue as the number of people over sixty-five will grow from 43 million to 78 million over the next two decades. The YMCA is planning to offer classes in basketball, tennis and other sports exclusively for people who are in this age group.

Exercise has been proven to help strengthen bones, improve balance, promote emotional well-being, and support cognitive functioning. Exercise keeps people vital and independent well beyond middle age. Walking for 30 minutes, weight lifting, strength training, and aerobics even when taken in 10 minute increments every day, boosts energy and in the long run increases life expectancy.

Movement exercises, such as Tai Chi, dancing, and labyrinth practice have two additional benefits in an exercise regimen. They focus on physical flexibility, not only strength. They usually have a social component which helps with motivation and enjoyment.

Enjoying Life?

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At Sixes and Sevens radio program is created to be entertaining, insightful, and edgy. It is conversational and uses multiple styles to tell authentic stories about people in their sixties and seventies, looking at their opportunities and challenges.

The program addresses a void in broadcasting - programs aimed at a significant under-served population. It asserts the value to society of aging citizens. The program portrays, with nuance, the realities of their lives through humor, information and compassion.

The program and its stories illustrate the diversity of the aging population with integrity and insight. It gives the elderly their own place and voices in the nation's dialogue. It does not shy away from asking difficult and troubling questions. The program is topical, timely, and compelling.

The program engages its audience, shares their community, and identifys who they are. It acknowledges them for the changes they brought and continue to bring to America and the world.

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