31 Jul WANNA LIVE PAST 100 YEARS? SECRETS TO A LONG AND HEALTHY LIFE
Moss Jackson, PhD
Psychologist Success Coach
“I am aiming to live to 125!”
Ridiculous you might think?
Probably so but, then again, why not?
In a couple of weeks, I will be attending the annual meetings of RAADfest, a gathering of over 1,500 scientists, researchers, clinicians and interested parties where strategies to live long, well and healthy lives are presented and discussed. This is not a meeting of nutty or delusional dreamers. These are serious pioneers looking into radical life extension. What a treat it is to be in a community of innovative thinkers for five days in San Diego!
Today, in anticipation of this event, I want to pass on something I just read in The NY Times about Dr Shigeaki Hinohara, a leader in Japanese life longevity who recently died at the age of 105. His life expectancy, when he was born in 1911, was 40 years. What did he do to far surpass his predicted time of death? Given my goal to live until 125, I was very interested in what he did and his formula for Life Navigation.
SECRETS TO LONGEVITY
Here is what he said and actually did:
- Kept his youthful weight of 130 lbs all his life
- Avoided obesity
- Climbed stairs two at a time
- Walked 2,000 or more steps every day
- Carried his own packages and luggage
- Appreciated music
- Kept the company of animals
- Never retired
- Handled pain by enjoying himself
- Ate a Spartan diet
- Had a big life vision and never expected to fulfill it in his lifetime
- Lived an adventurous life
- Lived to serve others with a generous ️
- Worked 18 hours a day until two months before his death
- Lived through a lens inspired by a poem by Robert Browning:
“There shall never be one lost good!
What was shall live as before;
The evil is null, is nought,
Is silence implying sound;
What was good, shall be good,
with, for evil, so much good more;
On the earth the broken arcs;
In the heaven a perfect round.”
“What the poem evoked for him, he once explained, was a circle drawn so big that only the arch was visible. Seeing it in full, he said, could never be realized in his lifetime.”
How long do you want to live?
What are you doing to make it happen?
Do you bring determination and discipline to your dream?
If you want to learn more about extending and enhancing your life, order my new book here, “I Didn’t Come To Say Goodbye: Navigating The Psychology Of Immortality“.