Your Mind Doesn't Age the Way Your Behaviour Does

Walter Carrington aced it in his comments about ageing. 

(I'm quoting from memory - can a reader out there direct Chancer to the source?)

"Our mind doesn't age in the same way that our behaviour does."

Walter had been talking about an accident he had on the stairs - he attributed it to his optimistic expectations of what he was capable of doing.

Your behaviour at 20 years isn't a model for when you turn 70!

This week I have been rabbiting on about RI (Real Intelligence). I am defining it as your ability to adapt and stay healthy. 

Just this morning, my daughter videoed me in tears – a girl she knew from school had just suicided. This is what unhappy minds do: they implode; or they explode, as witnessed by the mass shootings in the USA.

This is not how you adapt and stay healthy.

Health is a sign of RI at work – I don't care what your IQ is. A world full of healthy people is a world full of happy people. And a species with a better chance of surviving intact.

Happy people don't make wars. They don't complain or blame others. They usually find pleasure in helping others – Alleluia to RI.

The key feature of RI is your ability to adapt to changing circumstance in an appropriate and healthy way. This is no other skill more valuable than this. It sits at the centre of Darwin's theories of Evolution, and it is a core value within Alexander's discoveries.

Every day at BodyChance, students are discovering how to adapt to a multitude of stressful demands: from their hobbies, their jobs, their relationships, their beliefs.

If you’re still taking people in and out of chairs: are you adapting to the needs and changes of a vastly more complex society than FM encountered?

Maybe you are, and good luck to you.

But if you are looking for an alternatives approach, then the place to start is backing up your analysis of movement with a dose of reality. That’s what I am doing in my BodyThinking Online course; and if you purchase it this month, you get a coaching session with me included in the price.

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