Holistic Strategies for Healthy Aging Aila Accad, RN, MSN .

Holistic Strategies for Holistic Strategies for Healthy AgingHealthy Aging

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Stress & AgingStress & Aging

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Several studies now link chronic psychological stress

with accelerated telomere shortening

whichaccelerates the aging process

What can you do?

Healthy AgingHealthy Aging

• Culture Norms• Idea of Normal Influences

Health Related Behaviors• Focus on Aspects of

Well-Being/Integration• Balance and Wholeness


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Energy Principles & PracticesEnergy Principles & Practices

1 Everything is Energy

Observe & manage your energy

2 What You Focus on Expands

Focus on what you want

3 What You Resist Persists

Let go of resistance

4 Energy Entrains

Support your energy field

Principle #1Everything is EnergyEverything is Energy

• Albert Einstein - 1920

• “All Matter is energy”

• E = mc2

• Western healing sciences ignored this concept until recently


http://www.th.physik.uni-frankfurt.de/~jr/gif/phys/einst_7.jpg

Aspects of Well-BeingAspects of Well-Being

Physical Energy Mobility

Mental Thoughts Beliefs

Emotional Range Expression

Social Give Receive

Spiritual Purpose Self-love

Meaning Generativity

Well-Being Integration

Environment

Nurture

Protect


Physical HealthPhysical Health

• Air• Water• Food• Movement• Rest• Sun

Increase Energy


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Aging BeliefsAging Beliefs


What Does Aging Look Like to YOU?

Mental HealthMental Health

• Mind-Body Connection• Life-Long Learning• Mental Stimulation

Focus on what you Want


Emotional HealthEmotional Health

• Capacity to Feel Deeply• Sensitivity to Feelings in Self & Others• Willing to Experience Feelings• Appropriately Express a Wide Range of Feelings


GOOD BAD

. . .. Let Go of Resistance

Emotional HealthEmotional Health

• Childhood Trauma• Old Resentments• Lingering Regrets• Chronic Pain• …….

Tap On It!

Social HealthSocial Health

• Dependence• Independence• Co-Dependence• InterDependence


Give & Take

Social HealthSocial Health• Acknowledge need for belonging, love, value,

acceptance, play• Build a network of support/connection• Ask for what you need• Offer support when able

Energy Entrains


Social/Vocational HealthSocial/Vocational Health

• Fulfillment• Motivation• Accomplishment

Follow the Passion

(energy)


Spiritual HealthSpiritual Health

Mid-life Crisis or Re-Assessment?

• Who Am I?• What Do I Stand For?• What Is At The Core of My Life? Of Me?• Memoir, Memory Board• Generativity


Spiritual HealthSpiritual Health

• Acceptance of Death as Part of Life• Meaning and Purpose• Value-Based Priorities Guide Choices• Awareness of Inner Wisdom/ Intuition


Focus on Inner Knowing Choice

Environmental HealthEnvironmental Health

• Safety• Order• Simplicity• Light• Color/Sound

Energy Entrains


The 12 Days of WellnessThe 12 Days of Wellness

On the First Day of Wellness My True Love Gave to ME…

A Hammock in a Shade Tree


A Hammock in a Shade Tree

2 Aerobic Shoes3 Square Meals4 Compliments5 Bright Ideas6 Goals Accomplished7 Meditations8 Hours for Sleeping9 Laughs from Joking10 Toes for Walking11 Feelings Flowing12 Less Commitments

On the First Day of Wellness On the First Day of Wellness My True Love Gave to MEMy True Love Gave to ME



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