How do we age?
How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?… Paige Wallet
– Chronological age
Chronological age measures the number of years, hours, minutes and seconds that we have been alive. If this is our only criteria for healthy aging, we will feel older and older every year we are alive. We will feel less energetic, less passionate, less flexible, and less alive with each passing day. Fortunately, this is just one of many measures of healthy aging.
– Biological age
Biological age is determined by outward physical appearance and critical vital signs such as thinning and graying of hair, wrinkled and sagging skin, brown, white, and red spots, cloudy, puffy eyes with bags under them, and a weak body and fragile. Many of these signs can be improved with a healthy lifestyle or camouflaged with makeup or cosmetic surgery. Some of the signs of biological aging can actually be reversed through proper diet, exercise, positive and creative thinking, and pleasurable life experiences.
– Functional age
Functional age is measured by our level of physical fitness, including respiratory capacity, cardiovascular efficiency, muscular strength, flexibility, vitality, energy, rate of recovery from injury and illness, and strength of the immune system. High energy symptoms, absence of neuromuscular aches and pains, ability to participate in and enjoy strenuous physical activities, as well as being able to adequately manage the basic needs of daily life.
– Psychological age
Psychological age is subjective, determined by how old we feel we are. It is a measure of our enthusiasm and passion for life, our interest in life’s activities, including sexuality, and our willingness to explore new activities and learn new skills. The more we experience emotion and passion, the happier our thoughts become, the more others want to spend time with us, the more we can enjoy sharing our selves with others.
– Emotional Age
Emotional age is the quality of our emotional stability and maturity. It’s a measure of how we respond to others, interact with them, and handle conflict, especially when we don’t get our way. It is also a measure of whether we are following our dreams, pursuing our set goals, handling our responsibilities and commitments appropriately, and how we feel about ourselves and others. It is determined by how we adapt to changing circumstances and the normal ups and downs of life.
– Intellectual Age
Intellectual age is determined by the strength of our memory, our ability to concentrate, to think critically about the world around us, to solve problems, and to remain curious, creative, intellectually sharp, open-minded, and flexible in our thoughts and attitudes. . .
-Social Age
Social age is determined by how we share our time with others, whether we are totally entangled with others like a newborn baby with its mother, or totally defiant, distant and aloof from others like an abandoned child, or if we are able to give and receive. , share and enjoy the company of others and also being alone.
– sexual age
Sexual age is determined not only by how we behave sexually, but also by how we think about sex, sexuality, men, women, our own bodies, the bodies of others, and actual sexual acts. Sexual maturity is determined by our awareness of, appreciation for, and attraction to the very real human beings in our social sphere with whom we share intimate relationships.
