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Wellbeing Study

Wednesday Nov 25 2009

What leads some people to be healthier than others? Researchers have been studying this question for decades. However, most have focused on disease and disorder. Few have looked at strengths and wellbeing.[Read More]

Written by eldering at News

Tagged with: aaron_jarden research wellbeing

Our Food and Health: At the Tipping Point

Wednesday Sep 02 2009

By Sharon Knoll | Bio

I come from generations of food growers. And it is clear to me that eating is one of the most intimate of actions. We take into ourselves the whole of the plant or animal, including the environment in which it was raised and killed. We take in the work and the well-being, or lack of well-being, of those who feed us. When my daughter was younger and went through a McDonald’s phase she wanted to know why the meat didn’t taste as good as the grass-fed beef raised by some friends of ours. Their beautiful cattle were allowed to roam and eat the grass, rather than be fed in filthy feedlots, standing in manure.

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Written by eldering at Health
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Tagged with: animal_welfare david_leonhardt food food_safety health sustainable_agriculture wellbeing

Staying Engaged

Wednesday Oct 22 2008

By Jim Selman | Bio

I’ve been thinking about aging and observing the human phenomenon for a long time and I know that most of the chatter in my head isn’t ‘me’—it’s just the tapes of my past and my ego playing the tune to which my culture expects me to dance. For example, I believe and know from experience that the key to health and wellbeing is “participation”—staying engaged in whatever games I choose to play. Yet, that little voice in my head insists that I should rest more, take it easy, slow down and just enjoy life. I can observe myself being seduced by the reasonable and conventional wisdom that as I get older I should participate less.

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Written by eldering at Retirement

Tagged with: energy health participation retirement time wellbeing

Friendship

Friday Sep 05 2008

By Jim Selman | Bio

I am spending a few days with my best friends—11 guys who get together a couple of times a year to share our experience of our lives and support each other through difficult times or to celebrate accomplishments. We usually meet at Vince's farm at least once a year. It is a magnificent property in Western New Jersey with geese, chickens, horses, a couple of llamas and lots of deer on a rolling green framing a revolutionary era stone house and two imposing red barns. [Read More]

Written by eldering at Fearless Aging

Tagged with: commitment friends growing_older unconditional_love wellbeing

Participation

Friday Oct 05 2007

One of the concerns ‘older’ people share with us is how important it is to keep our health. Hypochondriacs aside, the majority of us still hear and believe that the older we get, the more difficult maintaining good health will be. It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if we lose our health, we lose most—or all—of our other options. I confess I am not a health expert: the latest developments in nutrition, dieting and exercise are not my key concerns. Yet I am healthy and, while I could be more fit, I am told I am somewhere in the normal range. When it comes to health, I acknowledge there are numerous events, accidents, and externally caused diseases that can destroy the best of intentions. However, I believe a great deal of declining health (physical and mental) is actually a function of ‘giving up’, becoming resigned and becoming less active.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Personal Empowerment
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Tagged with: ego health participation responsibility wellbeing

Prayer: Connecting with Possibility

Tuesday Aug 14 2007

My friends and I have been told by a couple of our wives and girlfriends that we are a unique group of men. It is ironic that we don’t really understand why, but we are all extremely open, vulnerable and nurturing in our relationships with each other, as well as with other people in our lives. I don’t know why, perhaps it comes with time and the fact that we’ve all worked in some form of transformational training for most of our careers. Whenever we ‘Souls’ get together, we follow a simple format: each one of us shares what’s going on in our life and what’s bothering us, and then the rest of us say whatever we have to say.[Read More]

Written by Jim Selman at Personal Empowerment
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Tagged with: possibility prayer relationship trust wellbeing