Sometime before my 92 and a half year old mother passed away and after years of diminished living and pain, she turned to me seriously and blurted emphatically, "Had I known I would live so long, I would have taken much better care of myself!" We both bust out laughing after her comment but the truth is she absolutely meant it. She knew she never really did take care of herself and that although she had lived a long time, she experienced more than a decade of suffering. And for a vibrant dancer, as mom was in her younger days, aging was a nightmare. The major paradigm shift from daily living, daily dancing to daily survival can be a mind blowing phenomenon for some. It seems just yesterday I was in my 20's and the day before a funny, skinny little kid playing in the streets of the Bronx and tomorrow?... well tomorrow I'll be a senior citizen! It goes that fast and we all wake up eventually. So here's your wake up call "kids."

 

          Remember the Aesop fable about the Grasshopper and the Ant? Don't be a grasshopper. New Year's is just around the corner, 2012 is on its way. It's time to get your house in order. Plant a seed, let's get with it. That means building a strong foundation physically and spiritually to handle the winds of life's adversity. And oh yes...adversity is on the way, rest assured. I don't care if you go to India regularly or Indiana and sit at the feet of Swami Mama Lama ding dong, the daily basics are the hardest to accomplish. In the long run the most empowering and eventually liberating of pathways is to master the basics.

 

1. Eat a low calorie, anti inflammatory diet of primarily organic grains, beans, soups, salads, fruits, land and sea veggies, seeds, nuts, green leafy's like kale, collards, watercress and broccoli sprouts, fermented soy products like miso, use alkaline water, Himilayan pink salt. Eating healthy makes a profound difference! What you eat turns into your blood, your blood makes up your cells and your cells make up every organ of your body. Your brain is also an organ. Crap in..crap out! Eat beautifully and become beautiful.

 

2.  Taking a great supplement program will add years onto your shelf life, years....!

 

3.  Get your body flexible with deep tissue medical massage, yoga, tai chi, pilates, or Kathy's outstanding Xtend Ballet Exercise Program etc. Every 4-inch increase in waist size is associated with a 15 to 25% greater risk of death.  Flexibility and spirituality are synonymous with each other. Thou shalt have rhythm.

 

4.  Meditate every day; it starts with your breath.

 

5.  Be incessantly optimistic, uplift and inspire wherever you go.

 

6.  Think outward.

Open your heart and "Be Love Now."

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