by Deborah English

Created on: October 09, 2007

Your body has an amazing capacity for repair and renewal. However, to begin the process of restoring your good health, it is imperative that you fully appreciate that your physical body and your mind, are two parts of one whole entity: You.

Only when your body and mind are working harmoniously together, can you achieve optimum health and well-being.
So, in order to reverse your biological age and therefore, grow younger, you must create both a healthier mind and body.

How do you achieve this? Eliminate toxins from your life by choosing regenerative life practices over those which lead to accelerated old age and degenerative disease.

The very moment you begin this life-affirming journey, your body will respond positively by repairing and renewing itself.

Step One: Change Your Perception about Aging
We are all conditioned to accept that we deteriorate physically and mentally as we age and that normally, the rate at which this happens is out of our control. After-all, DNA is everything isn't it? This is not always so.
According to the United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention, hereditary factors in physical and mental degeneration, accounts for less than 20% of illness and disease. That means a whopping 80% of illness is caused by outside influences such as lifestyle choices, and exposure to environmental toxins.

Isn't it liberating to know that the small everyday decisions you make regarding the foods you eat and your exercise and recreation preferences, essentially determines the rate at which you will age, and the effectiveness of your immune system in protecting you against illness and degenerative disease.

The instant you change your mindset about what it means to age, is like taking a quantum leap into another world brimming with possibilities. No longer do you have to feel like a slave to the "Fate God!"

Step Two: Breathe

As humans, the most fundamental requirement for physical life is oxygen. Deprived of it, even for only a few moments, we cease to exist.

The fact is by the time we are twelve years old, most of us cannot perform even this most elementary prerequisite for a healthy life properly!

Breathing to increase longevity entails filling our lungs with fresh, clean air and expelling all of that breath back into the atmosphere, releasing toxins from our bodies as we do so.

The many benefits of improving breathing technique include: increased energy levels, enhanced absorption of nutrients in food, accelerated healing, improved circulation, lowered

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