Tai Chi – The Perfect Balancing Act
Tai chi combines the concentration of breath, slow movement, and meditation. It’s a wonderful form of exercise that reaps amazing benefits for anyone. But when it comes to exercise for an older senior, Tai Chi couldn’t be more perfect.
Your aging parent or loved one may have difficulty performing more demanding exercise, but Tai Chi, with its gentle movements, packs a big positive punch for good health. In fact, some seniors find that after practicing Tai Chi, they can perform tougher workouts they previously couldn’t, such as running and lifting weights.
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The Power of Energy
There are many alternative approaches to wellness that are recognized as complementary therapies to conventional medical practices. Energy medicine recognizes that our bodies have unseen energy pathways, often called meridians or channels, which run vertically and diagonally through the body. The purpose of these rivers of energy is to make sure that all areas of the body receive adequate circulation and oxygenation, which can happen if those rivers of energy have strong currents and good levels.
Blockages, stagnation, and deficiencies can develop in these flows in response to impacts on the body, including: daily living, stress, habits, illnesses, actual injuries, chronic conditions, environmental influences, attitudes, emotional upsets or traumas, mental confusion or too much thinking. Whatever it is, if the consequences of the impact are allowed to stay within the body, the energy system will become depleted.
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Build Your Immunity
The thing that most people probably fear the most about the coming winter season is
catching a cold or flu. But now you can have some instant prevention – your very own
fingertips will balance your energy, which will in turn aid your immune, endocrine and
adrenal systems to become strong. Strengthening those systems will give your body a
firmer foundation and help it function in a state of wellness and fight illness.
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Fitness for life
Exercising together comes naturally for Mary Lou and Glenn B., who show no signs of slowing down despite their ages. They take walks around their neighborhood for fitness, and visit a circuit training facility three or four times a week to work out side-by-side on the low-impact machines.
"When Glenn and I belonged to a country club, we exercised three mornings a week for about an hour each time," says 92-year-old Mary Lou about their life in a northern California beach community. "We also used the club's swimming pool three days a week and played endless games of tennis."
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Could 85 be the new 65?
Absolutely, if you're Pat P., whose fit appearance and active lifestyle defy her calendar years by a couple of decades. The slim, petite, and attractive octogenarian looks as if she barely qualifies for Medicare, and her doctors are amazed that - for her age - she's in such good health.
Even as a young girl during the Depression, Pat was athletically inclined. In high school she was a drum majorette and played team sports. She met her husband Everett during World War II while bowling, and before long they had eloped. They eventually raised four children together, the first born in 1945.
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