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Younger by the Day
365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit
January 1
Amazing Things Are Possible
Having a fresh year stretched out ahead of you like untracked snow speaks of boundless possibility. As you embark on this year of becoming younger by the day, let possibility be the keynote. It is fully possible for you to look and feel younger this time next year than you do right now. It is absolutely possible that you can come to love the age you are, and the ages you'll be in the future, even if that seems like a stretch today. It is completely possible that as you go through this year, you'll come to see midlife and later through your own unbiased eyes, without society's often skewed opinions clouding your vision.
All these things, and what you yourself want from this year, are possible. You can't force them to come about, but you can think and act in a way that allows them access to your life. Today, all you have to do is have a holiday. Eat black-eyed peas -- good luck for the New Year according to Southern tradition, and a way to get some fiber and disease-preventing phytochemicals while you're at it. If making New Year's resolutions is a tradition for you, make them, but consider altering the process a little. Call them "possibilities" instead of "resolutions" -- that takes the pressure off. Write them in the present tense as statements of fact dated January 1, Next Year. This way, instead of the standard "I will work out every day," you'll write "I am fitter and healthier than I've been in years" -- a statement of possibility fulfilled.
Rejuvenate yourself with action: Keep in mind through the month of January that all manner of wondrous things are possible, and that you are open to all possibilities.
Younger by the Day
365 Ways to Rejuvenate Your Body and Revitalize Your Spirit. Copyright © by Victoria Moran. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.
