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Looking Forward...

I receive a hundred or more comments and reactions to our newsletter every month.  I read them all.  I listen to you and I hear your thoughts on aging or not aging, as the case may be.  How you view aging becomes more and more apparent to me.  I adjust the newsletter content with your thoughts and feelings in mind.
There seems to be still, yet, and always two distinct camps.  One large group is the healthy, active, experienced and wise category.  The other is smaller but just as firm in the certainty that aging is simply less than a positive experience.
Well, I want to share  the research reported by Yale University that found,  people who see aging as a good thing live an average of 7 1/2 years longer than people who focus on weakness and dependency as they age.
I want you to be well.  I want you to be engaged.  I want you to be happy and fulfilled.  Much depends on the attitude and sense of purpose you decide to live with every day.
As Marianne Williamson said, "The key to abundance is meeting limited circumstances with unlimited thoughts."
 
 



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June 2016 Newsletter
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Dear Friends,


Let's explore the connection between exercise and becoming mindful.  Staying in the moment can give a motivational boost to physical activity and achieving exercise goals can motivate a habit of being mindful.  Rather than being mutually exclusive, they are remarkably intertwined.  In fact, they work together to improve your health as well as help you to succeed in living a balanced life.

Jon Kabat-Zinn, in his book "Full Catastrophe Living" discusses the many ways mindfulness helps improve mental states which in turn improves physical health and overall well-being.  
I promote mindful walking on the labyrinth to guide people to frequent, moderate exercise that brings comfort and confidence that motivates having more activity in their lives. Walking the old paths of the labyrinth raises awareness of new directions for exercise and other life enhancing choices.  In my book, "Bringing Life to the Labyrinth", I show that familiarity with mind/body skills very easily transfers to many other areas of life.

Mindfulness overcomes many of the obstacles to regular exercise as we age.  Some of the common barriers are feelings of inadequacy, self-consciousness, and unrealistic expectations. In short, various fears arise that are detrimental to attitude and chip away at commitment. Being mindful cuts right to the heart of these matters - slowly and surely!

The benefits of mindfulness and exercise has a spiritual component, too.  In "Body Prayer" which is highlighted in this Newsletter, I describe the personal empowerment that comes from body awareness.  Focus on the body systems that include breathing and sensation and perception, as well as muscles and nerves, grows a habit of personal respect and mastery over thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.  As a consequence we are open to spiritual, even religious experience.



Dr. Margaret M. Rappaport's books are available at Amazon.com



Body Prayer contains the guidance you need to connect your mind, body, and spirit - and live your best life.

Featuring detailed pictures that illustrate the concepts laid out by Dr. Rappaport, Body Prayer demonstrates the inexorable link between all facets of the human body and experience - and how cultivating mindfulness through prayer or meditation can improve physical well-being and spiritual enlightenment.


Bringing Life to the Labyrinth
Margaret M Rappaport
Just a reminder:

Our readers who have regularly followed the monthly Newsletters starting in 2013, may easily remember Dr. Rappaport's book, Bringing Life to the Labyrinth: A Labyrinth Companion that was published in 2014.  

If you want a cost free introduction to the practice of the labyrinth, our blog At Sixes and Sevens is archived and easily available by clicking on the link.


 

Dr Margaret M Rappaport, Founding Executive Director