As years creep into forties and fifties, and for some late thirties, people start to look for signs of aging when they look into the mirror. With each new wrinkle found, they get a little more depressed. They are aging. This phenomenon does not apply only to women as most people believe although it is the women who make the most fuss out of it. For men, it is felt but not discussed least they are seen to be vain. Nonetheless, whether people own up to their fears of aging or not, it is there lurking in the background.
The worse impact is in the psychological state for the beliefs in the mind control our physiological well-being. Of course it is not just the aging that prompted the mid-life crisis syndrome. It is during this time when things start to slow down a little, when you have time to ponder over what you have achieved or not, when you have less energy for things you once loved to do, when every change appears bigger than at any time in your life, that you feel the aging most. Because time is running out to do all those things you want to have done but haven’t; you are struggling to find the time and opportunity to do them but find none. If you are feeling this, you are in an unhealthy state of mind and you need to do something about it. Continue reading