Life Fit Chat with Laura Lewis: Slow aging with your mind

Life Fit Chat with That's Fit Life Fit Expert Laura Lewis brings conversation provoking tidbits to your table, served up with a touch of spice! Byte-sized information that pack some punch, brought to you every Wednesday and Thursday!

If you want to look young, you have to live young. The state of mind that we choose to live in has a direct impact on how we age. So, what is a young state of mind? You only have to look as fas as the playground to answer that question.

4 Ways To Live Young
1. Be curious. One of the most effective ways to keep your mind young is to learn something new everyday. Just as children go through each day exploring the possibilities and asking the never-ending question--why?--so to should we. Our brains are created to be curious. Stay young by feeding it new information all the time.

2. Play. When was the last time you did something that had no purpose other than for fun? If you are like most people you can't even answer that question. If you want to stay young you have to play every day. Now, what you call play may be work to someone else. Maybe gardening is "play" for you but would be a chore to your friend. Whatever it is you consider to be fun ... do it every day.

3. Laugh. I used to live across the street from an elementary school. I could always tell what time of day it was by the noise on the playground. The youngest children had recess first, and the older ones had recess late in the afternoon. The older the children, the less laughter there was on the playground. I always thought that was so sad. Somewhere along the way, we stop laughing. Laughter truly is the fountain of youth. Laugh loud and laugh often.

4. Connect. Children show us that we are innately social beings. Watch how children will walk up to anyone on the playground and start playing with them. They know life is more fun when you experience it with a friend. To a child, a friend is whoever happens to be on the playground. Stay young by making a point to connect with the people you experience every day. When you make a point to connect with people, you get outside of the busyness of the present moment and experience the world around you.

Staying young starts as a state of mind and becomes away of being.