What Ages You And What keeps You Young?

By Linda Lin

You have the ability to be as old or as young as you would like to be. You have the power, the knowledge and the ability. And I was watching a television show today called BRAIN FITNESS. It is on Channel 13, and the show is giving an amazing narrative, documentary story about the brain and brain functions. After watching about thirty minutes of this show, my hunches were certainly clarified and confirmed. The more you use your brain, the more use you get out of your brain. The Brain Fitness program, from Channel 13, is this awesome media program that helps you learn how to use your brain better than you normally do. The doctor on the show says that to do the program, you just need access to a computer.

That means that even people who do not own computers can take part in this positive brain change program.

I have proof of the fact that brain-programming does change your thoughts, your actions and even your success or failures. A long while back I was using certain cassette tapes to program my brain to be positive. I was after a certain goal and my goal required I think certain things. I cooperated with the entire cassette program and I was able to reach all of my goals for that year. I remember the name of the program and it was called The Power of Winning and it was a Nightingale-Conant set of tapes. You can train your brain by using your own kind of brain-washing program. If you are looking for one, try The Power of Winning and you will surely succeed at all of your goals.

So how often do you use your brain or exercise it? Do you sit in one chair all day and look out the window? That is no kind of brain-training. You need to be more active than that. Years ago, when my grandmother was alive, that is what she used to do. When she wasn't on the bus or in the house, she was training her brain to sit by the window and look out into the world. She never took a step outside. And that is what she did. When I arrived she would get off of the rocking chair and make some cake and tea for me. Sometimes she would cook potatoes. I enjoyed the time with her but I always wondered why she sat in the chair by the window. She did that instead of watching television, and she did that instead of reading a book and she did that instead of going for a walk outside. That was her life in her later years, just rocking by the window, even though, physically she was able to do so much more. She did more for me and more for others but she did not do for herself.

Sometimes I feel like that myself except that my rocking chair is the my camera. Sometimes I feel like I can do nothing except take pictures. Silly as this seems, I am like my grandmother, only my window on the world is not a real window but a camera. I watch the entire world go by as I click the camera and make beautiful pictures of everything that passes in front of me. I get joy from taking pictures and doing this makes me happy. So perhaps I now understand my grandmother, better, now that I understand my camera and me. So many times in my life I can do much for other people and do little for myself. There must be something in my brain that programs me to procrastinate in my own goals.

Perhaps my grandmother got great joy of sitting by the window in her rocking chair. Perhaps that was her own camera. She took the photographs with her brain and with her eyes and had them in her memory forever. Perhaps that is why she rocked and rocked.

Sometimes when people feel overwhelmed or helpless about certain situations, they prefer to observe rather than be more active in their lives. And that quietness, that solitude, that separation that they have from others is what gives them joy because in that solitude, there is no commotion, no arguments, and no stress. After all how stressed can you be if you are just rocking in a chair? How stressed can you be if you are just taking photographs of your life?

I am me. And though I am like my grandmother, I am not her. I cannot begin to wonder how to figure her out, and I really cannot begin to think that I know why she sat and rocked. Perhaps she had her own reasons for doing that. Perhaps her rocking gave her joy the way a golfer gets joy from hitting a silly small ball with a metal stick. Perhaps it was the bird by the window that brought her great joy. I have been there myself so many times. I stayed at the window just to watch the birds go by. I listened to their songs. I watched their beautiful flight.

Birds are beautiful. And though the years have passed since I last saw her sitting at the rocking chair, I do remember her and her face. When I came in the room she smiled. And that was what was important. I like making people smile. So, my brain tells me something more about myself as I wonder about the brain fitness program that was offered on Channel 13. Yes, my brain is fit enough, with enough thoughts and training and practice to last a lifetime. I can sit here with one single thought, that the brain program looks excellent, and go from that to another thought and another and another until I am thinking about something so unrelated to brain fitness, that it isn't even funny.

Wow. As I sit here typing this, the Hang On Sloopy song came on; it's an oldies music show on Channel 13. "Sloopy I don't care what your daddy do. Cause you know Sloopy Girl, I'm in love with you. Hang on Sloopy, Sloopy hang on!' Interesting song, interesting period of music. So, there you go, now you see how a blog might be a little different than an article. In this article, I have written a little in blog style. I began with a few thoughts, a few facts and drifted off into a memory or two. Got a little sentimental and a little disorganized but kept on writing. Yet, everything that I wrote here is exactly what I wanted to write and it all fits in with the exercise your brain program. For a few moments, I allowed my brain to rest, to be at parade rest! Just for a few minutes, a few minutes of memories and a few minutes of Hang On Sloopy, wrap it all together, and head towards the end of the article about brain programming. Oh, no, smiling here, laughing here, now, my brain and I are are such a sentimental pair. Never My Love, a song from the sixties, a time when some music was slow and some lyrics could be understood by almost everyone. Never My Love, "you say you' feel I'll change my mind, Never my love, never my love. How can you think love will end when I've asked you to spend your whole life with me? " -- sentimental lyrics from a sentimental song. Wow, what a difference from the songs that we sing and hear today. Today, you would be sentimentally singing, "Because of you" by Kelly Clarkson. So there you go, a little blogging, a few memories, a few songs and this is my complete article on brain training.

Train your brain today, but train it positively . Add everything positive inside your brain and keep your face smiling. Yes, you can cry if you need to, but always have a smile in your heart. When you keep the smile inside your heart, you will always be able to bring that joy forward. Remember the song, Don't Worry, Be Happy ? So take that advice. Don't worry, be happy. You can be as young or as old as you want to be. And if you want to be younger, start by making your heart smile. You are as young as you think you are. So what are you going to think today? That is up to you. Your future is up to you. Everything you do is up to you, so whatever you do, do it with a positive attitude and you can never go wrong.

The author of this article has had many works published in the USA. She has traveled extensively throughout the East Coast and through the South while observing people and writing about life and everything that is in it. You can reach the author by sending a private or public message through this website: http://www.opendiary.com/entryview.asp?authorcode=D750826&entry=10002

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