The key, the article reports, is not to try and kill off old habits; those are set and there to stay. The key is to find new things that we love to do and then repeat them until they become new habits. By changing our behavior in this way, the story reports that we not only make our lives more rich and interesting, we also develop new neural networks that eventually replace old patterns of habit with new pathways of awareness. That, it turns out, can make all the difference as we go through the aging process.
The article includes an interesting critique of our education system, as it seems to weed out the innovative and collaborative mental functions. Through awareness and intentional activity, we can reinvigorate those functions on the way to the life of our dreams. Sound intriguing? Read the article to learn more and then get started, perhaps with the help of a coach.
Erika went on to note that the article quotes Dawna Markova, author of "The Open Mind" and an executive change consultant for Professional Thinking Partners. Dawna happens to have written one of Erika's favorite poems, which I think you will enjoy:
Fully Alive
I will not die an unlived life.
I will not live in fear
of falling or catching fire.
I choose to inhabit my days,
to allow my living to open me,
to make me less afraid,
more accessible,
to loosen my heart
until it becomes a wing,
a torch, a promise.
I choose to risk my significance;
to live so that which came to me as seed
goes to the next as blossom
and that which came to me as blossom,
goes on as fruit.
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