It's wonderful to see organizations like this one showing up more and more. There seems to be a new set of values and insights emerging regarding aging and elderly wisdom. This group, called 'The Center for Conscious Eldering', supports a healthy perspective on aging as a paradigm which recognizes and builds on the importance of lifestyle choices and the potential for new careers in the senior years, but moves beyond these.
Conscious Eldering holds that, built into the human psyche, is a call to the archetypal role of elder, that true “elders” are urgently needed in today’s (and tomorrow’s) world, and that “elder” is a role that is consciously chosen and requires preparation at all levels—physical, psychological and most importantly, spiritual.
The following are the core beliefs of The Center for Conscious Eldering
- Age brings both diminished ‘and’ peak experiences.
- Senior years are a unique stage of life that bring opportunity for deep fulfillment.
- Elder-hood can be a time of passionate engagement and service in our communities. Elderhood is the result of choices that are consciously made.
If this organization is near you, contact them! If not, why not start one of your own? After all, we are what we eat, both in body AND in mind. Change your mind, change your sense of well-being. Elder-hood is an honor. Lets encourage our aging loved ones to start thinking and acting that way. And watch how their wellness, or at least their sense of well being, changes for the better.
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Theresa Tucciarelli
Elder Specialist
(831) 539-1000
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