Anti-Aging : What Does It Mean?
Anti-aging adverts are everywhere. You will see them in cosmetics and cosmetic surgery mags. Supplements and exercise plans. But what does it mean? We all age, don’t we? Where does this anti-aging desire come from? Is it all about vanity?
No, it is more about our fear of death than it is vanity, though self-esteem certainly plays a role. Deep down, many of us are terrified of dying.
I don’t care what master of ceremonies’s says, fear of dying is big for every one of us. Toastmaster’s has been saying for years that most people are way more scared of public speaking than of dying. That might be accurate if you’re on the point of getting up on stage and talk to three thousand folk, because speaking is more imminent to us than death. But look deeper and you might even find that our fear of death is right there under the dread of public speaking. We are scared folk won’t like us such a lot that they might kill us.
We can apply creams, do laser treatments, enhance our torpedos and get face lifts until the day we die. But that day will still arrive. What if we could truly get close to this feeling? This fear of dying? What would happen?
Try something. Shut your eyes and imagine the instant of your death. It isn’t important how you die. I mean the very moment when you die. Not the instant before and not the moment after. The precise moment of dying. Imagine it. You may think this is frightening. Trust me. It is an experience you may never forget. If you can imagine the exact moment of your death, you could be very shocked what you find.
What do you feel? When I ask my clients to try this exercise, every single one of them responses with things like, Peace, Release, Letting Go, or Floating.
O.K, now you should buy all of the anti-aging wrinkle creams and cosmetic surgeries you would like. Let it be about looking good and your fitness.