TRUE WEALTH IS HEALTH. The main enemy of longevity is not poor ecology, hard work, or even stress.

A great elder, who retained a clear mind until the age of 108, discovered a harsh truth: the body begins to die at the very moment a person internally gives up.

As the maxim goes:

‘You don’t fail when you fall down. You fail when you fall down and refuse to get up again.’

Total disconnection from life ages us dozens of times faster than the inexorable passage of time.

True old age doesn’t begin at 60 or 80. It comes the day you stop being interesting to yourself. Old age kicks-off when you completely close yourself off from new knowledge. When you decide that no one in this world needs you anymore.

Existing ‘by inertia’ is not a well-deserved rest; it is the slow suicide of your spirit. Our physical body is merely an obedient servant of our thoughts.

As soon as the mind signals, ‘I don’t care anymore,’ the body instantly picks up on it.

Your energy plummets, your energy evaporates, and your sleep deteriorates.

The body simply goes into austerity mode and begins to shut down biological processes, deciding that your mission on this earth is complete.

But this law also works in reverse. When a person has a higher purpose, when they are eagerly engaged with the world and feel connected to reality, hidden reserves are activated within.

This isn’t motivational esotericism, but the pure mechanics of life. As long as you have an unfinished task and a sense of ‘I’m needed,’ nature will give you the strength to fulfil it.

Withering always begins not with wrinkles on the face, but with destructive attitudes:

‘My time is gone forever’ and ‘there’s only empty living ahead.’

If you find yourself wanting to hide from the world, know that it’s not your physical age signalling this, but your lost connection to meaning.

And this fire can be rekindled. What makes you wake up in the morning, a genuine, eager interest in the new day or just an automatic habit?

When on throwing the duvet aside, you are eager to change your life for the better, change the world, and recover your soul, then this is the real rebirth of you. LPMW

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