One of the two best ways I know to not age (or to “Youth”) is learning. Learning exciting and interesting new things.
What do YOU want to learn? Is there something that you’ve cut yourself off from – out of some old belief? Is there something that makes you giddy to think about doing? Maybe belting out a song like Aretha Franklin or Christina Aguilera (OK, I know I’m dating myself!).
How about learning to play guitar? Or going deep into your knowledge of a particular time in history, or a particular event, person, or a particular building?
Would you like to learn to write poetry or a screenplay? Tell a joke? Reupholster your favorite chair?
Would it light your fire to change your style?
Are you longing to deepen your spiritual practice, but you’re afraid to ask for guidance?
Do you want to run a marathon? Or climb a mountain? Cross country ski? Snowboard?
Have you been feeling like you “missed” the technology age – and now it’s too late to catch up?
Where can you grow, change, improve? Start small. Give it your attention. Give it your love. Get the resources and support you need. Don’t give up if you fail at first. Use this as a practice for Life!
If you approach each day of the rest of your life with this new outlook, I guarantee you will feel and look younger. Let’s really LIVE!
Here’s a Tapping audio to get you motivated:
Begin by saying this phrase out loud:
“I can’t learn new things!” or “I don’t want to learn anything new!” and rate how true that feels for you, using the 0-10 scale. Write the number down. As you tap, notice any thoughts or images that come up for you and STOP the recording to write them down. Go back and tap on those later.
Here we go.:
ET I’ve put off learning new things, ID&CL&AM
ET I’ve limited myself because of my past experience, ID&CL&AM
ET I’m afraid to try something new – I’m too old, and I might fail, ID&CL&AM
-Learning new things
-I’m too old to learn those things
-I’ve tried in the past
-I’ve failed in the past
-I’m afraid to try again to learn it
-I’ve never really THOUGHT about trying again to learn it
-I just gave up
-I thought it was too late
Learning new things
It takes a lot of time to learn new things
I’m too busy
Busy doing things that are stressing me
I’m busy
Busy, busy, busy
I’m resisting learning new things
I don’t even know why I’m resisting
Now that I’m aware of my resistance
It doesn’t seem so strong
Maybe I’ve been resisting unconsciously
Fighting without even knowing I was fighting
That’s a lot of hard work
A lot of energy wasted
I wonder if I could harness some of that energy
And put it into learning something new?
Learning something new
It doesn’t seem quite so scary now
I’m not so afraid of failing
It might be kind of fun to learn something new
It might give my life some pizazz
Maybe if I just pick one thing to focus my attention and energy on
Learn everything I can about that one thing
I’m feeling lighter and more excited already
Breathe. Re-rate the intensity of “I can’t learn new things.” . Tap again as needed.
