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Aging Like a Guru - Who Me? is a fun and inspiring show about the process we're all stuck dealing with-AGING! Dr. Rosie Kuhn shares a perspective that will empower you to age gracefully + mindfully, and with a smile on your face. You will find yourself laughing, and relieved, as you find pieces of yourself revealed in every episode. Come laugh along with us!
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Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Wednesday Nov 13, 2019
Advice from Old People
Searching online gives anyone looking for anything waaaaay more information than one needs. But, wow! You can learn a lot, if you are curious.
Some friends of mine who lived nearly to 100 shared a couple of things that I took to heart. Here's their advice:
Never, Never Fall Down, and Never Take Prescription Drugs!
Side effects of prescription drugs creates a serious problem. Both doctors and patients do not realize that practically any symptom in older adults and in many younger adults can be caused or worsened by drugs. Some doctors and patients assume that what are actually adverse drug reactions are simply signs of aging. As a result, many serious adverse reactions are entirely overlooked or not recognized until they have caused significant harm. from Worst Pills, Best Pills (Worstpills.org)
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Monday Nov 11, 2019
Revealing Allows Healing: Doing the Deep Dive and Coming Up Ecstatic
What limits me from having exactly the life I want to have?
Well, most people believe it isn't possible to have that life, and so they continue to suffer, settle, and survive until the bitter end.
But it doesn't have to be that way! Listen in to see what I mean!
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Friday Nov 08, 2019
Friday Nov 08, 2019
I’m My Own Executioner and I Didn’t Even Know It!
We can bend spoons and we can heal ourselves of disease. Which of these is more fun to practice?
There are a lot of people who dabble in the metaphysical world, with astrology, tarot, dowsing, or bending spoons. So many possibilities are at our fingertips. And curing ourselves of disease and what ails us as we age is also very realistic, according to Kelly Turner, who wrote the book Radical Remissions. So, where do most of us put our energies - in dabbling or in healing ourselves of what makes us sick?
Recently, I came across this aspect of me that seems to want to make my life difficult. It steers me towards poverty, loneliness, and wondering if I’ll ever amount to anything. I named this part of me my Executioner. It doesn’t care whether I’m a good person or a bad person. It is very much like the Queen of Hearts in Alice In Wonderland, who is famous for saying “Off with their heads!”
To manifest a life of whole-being and well-being, I’ve had to do some very deep digging to discover this part of me that punishes me for a choice I made a long time ago. It was a choice that I know was the very best choice given the circumstance. My executioner doesn’t care. It’s off with my head, regardless.
I believe a lot of us aging gurus live with circumstances in our past that we had no good choice about. We did the best we could, and yet we still punish ourselves for some reason. I believe these inner executioners keep us from being healthier, wealthier, and fulfilled. And for what?
What’s the point of self-punishment, self-abuse, self-flagellation?
I don’t have answers to this question. However, I can begin to notice when I’m in a state of self-degradation. I can feel that visceral angst that used to be so normal that I didn’t know it was really a not good way to be towards myself.
What I want for you is what I want for everyone, including me: to come to acknowledge that you’ve always been doing the very best you can do; to respect that the conditions of your reality brought you into every circumstance; to honor that who you were decades ago - who you may still be punishing, knew not what he or she was doing; and to honor what it has taken for you to courageously live life with all the calamities and insanities.
We can restore our sanity, our health, and our well-being once we retire our executioner. We all deserve a rest from past mistakes - even our executioner.
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Wednesday Nov 06, 2019
Wednesday Nov 06, 2019
Doing What I Do Only for the Right Reasons - My Reasons!
I used to believe life was about struggling - well into my forties. But somewhere, somehow, something shifted, and I came to see that I didn’t want life to be about struggling. I wanted life to be fun. I came up with the the three most important qualities of being that I wanted in my life, no matter what: Freedom, Fun, and Flexibility!
Every one of us aging gurus figures out sooner or later what the right reason is for doing what we do. We are all different and so we don’t always agree with what the right reasons are for others - especially if we have aging parent.
How we come to allow ourselves and others to have their right reason is a practice of grace and grit. But to honor ourselves - to our own selves be true - is the greatest gift we can give to ourselves.
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Monday Nov 04, 2019
Falling Happens
We fall. Sometimes we can't get back up. Not a happy thought!
So many of us live as victims to our circumstances.
Aging gurus take a different perspective. They are proactive, engaged, and present to who they are and how they are living every day. This is what I want for all of us.
We have access to all the information we need on how to live healthy lives. We are all at choice to how we choose what we choose.
In the end, it doesn’t really matter what you choose. You’ll either be resilient and vital until you are dead or you’ll be something other than that. We have so much potential to live happy, thriving lives. And I so want that for you!
Please listen in!
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Friday Nov 01, 2019
Friday Nov 01, 2019
The End Times - How Will They Arrive for Me?
We all die. Every living organism dies. So why do we spend so much time ignoring, denying, avoid, and distracting ourselves from consciously talking about our end times?
Our context/paradigm regarding aging and old age focuses primarily on decline and decrepitude. But it doesn't have to be that way! If we willingly choose to talk about how we choose to see ourselves, we can choose to see ourselves differently. Most of us see ourselves as victims of life and death, medicare and social security, the needs of caretakers and the community that surrounds us. Yet we can choose differently!
My intention is not to fall down, to get sick, or to be depressed or lonely as I age. I intend to go to bed one night and not wake up. No hardship, no burden, no trauma or drama - just ease and a sweet AMEN!
How do you wish your end times to be for you?
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Wednesday Oct 30, 2019
Stillness - Wisdom or Aging?
Over the past few weeks I've been taking a nap almost daily. Sometimes it's fatigue that's driving me to lay down. Sometimes I just want to create an emptiness in my mind.
I use my mind to think about, discover, and unconceal patterns in my life that limit my capacity to be the fullest expression of my essential self. All that thinking makes me want a break! When I lay down, I'm calling a "time out!" And, I can then focus my attention to where there is no thought - only emptiness.
Sometimes, I'll say, "Okay, you've had a really productive morning. You've done some really good work. Now you get to clear the decks and just be still." I then say, "I empty myself of everything." Most of the time this works. I focus on an empty space that exists somewhere in my field and be in that space. It's quite refreshing.
Anyone who's been interested in meditation knows that stillness is what one is seeking. So, for me to wonder if it is wisdom or if it's that I'm just getting old, I think it's the former. I've always loved taking naps. And to follow my body and mind's requirement for a break, it's a very good thing.
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Monday Oct 28, 2019
Monday Oct 28, 2019
There is No Such Thing as Dysfunctional!
The truth is, we grow up in families, cultures, educational, political and religious environments that condition us to think, feel, need, and want what is considered normal for our culture. If we deviate from the norms of our environment, we are considered a black sheep, and perhaps become an outcast. So, regardless of how sick and crazy our culture might be, we learn to bend to their rules. And, within this, then we are "functioning."
When we venture out into the world where other cultures meet or meld, we might find ourselves limited in our ability to be ourselves, to be resilient, to understand and allow others to be who they are and for us to be who we are. Our ability to work, play and love in the mix of others is where we can see how we empowered ourselves to be, and to survive in the culture of origin.
It is here that we can begin to explore perhaps choosing to be different that what we were conditioned to be.
I believe that there is no dysfunction really. There is only one's ability to choose how they want to be their natural and fullest expression in the world. Fear always wants to interfere with this, and it's up to us to empower ourselves to be ourselves in relation to fear in the best way possible. In fact, every one of us is highly functional and has the capacity for creating optimal conditions in our lives. We just have to declare that we are ready!
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Friday Oct 25, 2019
Friday Oct 25, 2019
How Old Do You Feel?
In a recent article in the NY Times, it was shared that how old you feel, or how young you feel, is a great indicator of your health. Generally, the younger you feel the healthier you are. This is good to know, right?
We have the power to create health and vitality. We can choose how healthy we want to feel and then make choices in alignment with that commitment, or not.
Essentially, we are 100% responsible for our own lives. We have 100% potentiality to flourish to the degree to which we wish to flourish.
How old do you want to feel? How responsible to you want to be for making that happen? These are questions that you get to answer for yourself.
Truth is, it doesn't matter what you want or what you do about what you want. I only encourage you to choose what you want and then let go of any guilt or remorse about having your life be different. Just enjoy who you are now as you are, and you'll be doing far more for your health and well-being than anything else. Enjoy who you are!!
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
Wednesday Oct 23, 2019
I'm Aging My Way
In a couple of weeks you'll be listening to an interview I'm doing with Rajiv Nagaich regarding aging options. He is the founder of a company in the Seattle area called Aging Options. He and his staff support and empower people to stay in their own homes, not go broke, and not be a burden to their loved ones. We all want that right?
An interesting fact is that over 85% of the population of the US want to die in their own home. However only about 20% actually make that happen.
What is it that has that be so?
Check out this podcast for some clues to what has this be so and how to perhaps increase you potential to age your own way.
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For more blogs, books and videos, or if you are interesting in coaching or training with Dr. Rosie, check out her website: www.theparadigmshifts.com