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Table of Contents Title Page Acknowledgments How to Use This Book Introduction Chapter 1 The Quantum Possibilities In the Language of Spirit The Window to Renewal The Science of Aging Research into Aging Restoring Your Life Energy Chapter 2 Change Your Perception of Aging SETTING YOUR BIOSTAT Change Your Perception of Time ACCESSING THE NONCHANGING FACTOR Change Your Perception of Your Body The Body of Energy, Transformation, and Intelligence EXERCISE—YOUR BODY OF LIGHT PERCEIVING YOUR LIGHT BODY Chapter 3 The Restful Awareness Response Restful Sleep PREPARING FOR RESTFUL SLEEP Harmonize Your Biological Rhythms with the Rhythms of Nature Chapter 4 Making Sense of Taste SWEET SOUR SALTY PUNGENT BITTER ASTRINGENT Delicious and Nutritious Optimizing Digestion EATING AWARENESS TECHNIQUES Eating as Celebration Chapter 5 Vitamins—The Vital Nutrients Water-Soluble Vitamins Fat-Soluble Vitamins Nutrients as Medicines NOURISHING YOUR HEART KEEPING AWAY CANCER NUTRIENTS AND MEMORY HEALTHY JOINT NUTRITION THE NUTRIENTS OF IMMUNITY Nutrients on the Horizon S-ADENOSYL-METHIONINE (SAME) GROWTH HORMONE DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE (DHEA) PHENOLIC COMPOUNDS Our Daily Vitamin Recommendations Nutrient Ritual Chapter 6 Breathing Integration ENERGIZING BREATH SOOTHING BREATH RELAXING BREATH Mind/Body Movement REVERSAL-OF-AGING YOGA REVERSAL-OF-AGING TAI CHI AND QIGONG CONSCIOUSNESS IN MOTION MIND/BODY COMMUNICATION Chapter 7 Total Fitness Flexibility Building Strength The Basic Seven Circulating the Life Force CALCULATING YOUR TARGET EXERCISE LEVEL Exercise on the Road Staying Active Chapter 8 Relinquishing Toxic Substances THE INTENTION TO DETOXIFY PRACTICE MINDFULNESS SYSTEMICALLY DETOXIFY REJUVENATION WATER—NATURE’S PURIFIER ELIMINATE TOXIC FOODS RELEASE TOXIC EMOTIONS Transform or Release Toxic Relationships MEETING YOUR NEEDS THE DIALOGUE OF NEEDS Release Toxic Work Reversing the Appearance of Aging PURIFY REVITALIZE REPLENISH SUN PROTECTION Chapter 9 Flexibility PRESENT-MOMENT AWARENESS FORGIVENESS BREAKING HABITUAL PATTERNS Creativity TAKING A CREATIVE LEAP OPPORTUNITIES FOR CREATIVITY Chapter 10 What Is Love? Personal Love as Concentrated Universal Love Communicating Love Love, Sex, and Spirit SEXUAL VITALITY FOR PLAY RITUAL COMMUNICATION FINESSE Ojas—the Essence of Love Nutrition for Ojas HERBS AND OJAS The Soul of Love Chapter 11 A Youthful Mind ENTHUSIASM SPONTANEITY FLUIDITY AND ADAPTABILITY YOUR QUANTUM MIND NOURISHING YOUR BODY/MIND THROUGH THE FIVE SENSES EXPAND YOUR IMAGINATION MULTISENSORY IMAGINATION Learning and Growing Playfulness, Lightheartedness, and Laughter Epilogue Grow Younger, Live Longer Recipes Appendix References About the Author Copyright Page The information presented in this book is intended to help improve your overall well- being. It is not a substitute for appropriate medical care. If you are facing a specific medical condition, be sure to discuss any lifestyle changes with your health-care provider. Acknowledgments There are many souls contributing to the collective dream that is transforming our vision of health, aging, and life itself. To each of you who remind us on a regular basis of our essential purpose and meaning, we thank you from the depths of our being. In particular we wish to acknowledge: Carolyn Rangel, Nan Johnson, Jennifer Pugh, Nicolette Martin, Jenny Hatheway, Roger Gabriel, Dennis Sugioka, Jude Hedlund, Sara Kelly, Veronique Franceus, Brent Becvar, Chantal Kovatch, Debbie Myers, and the team of immeasurably nurturing and talented people at the Chopra Center for Well Being and MyPotential. Leanne Backer, for developing our age-reversing menu and for her power to transform love into food. Peter Guzzardi, our beloved editor, who continuously encourages us to push the envelope. We would also like to acknowledge the love and support of our families, which enable us to do our work: Rita Chopra, Mallika Chopra, Sumant Mandal, Gautam Chopra, Pamela Simon, Max Simon, and Sara Simon. Introduction In 1993, the first edition of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The Quantum Alternative to Growing Old was released. The essential message of the book was that the human body is not a piece of biological machinery that deteriorates steadily and inexorably over time. Rather, human beings are magnificently organized networks of energy, information, and intelligence in dynamic exchange with their environment, fully capable of transformation and renewal. Since the publication of Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, thousands of patients at the Chopra Center for Well Being have experienced profound changes in the quality of their lives by applying the principles presented in that book, which at this writing is in its eleventh printing. According to many readers and literary critics, Ageless Body, Timeless Mind remains a classic, consciousness-based approach to the reversal of aging. Grow Younger, Live Longer: 10 Steps to Reverse Aging extends this consciousness- based approach and includes ten practical steps that can become habit-forming, enabling you to reset your Biostat (your biological, or functional, age) up to fifteen years younger than your chronological age. We have intentionally made this new book simple and practical, so you can begin implementing these approaches right away. By integrating these insights and practices into your lifestyle, you will notice immediate improvements in your physical and emotional well-being. As you begin to reverse your biological age, you will reclaim the ability to tap into your inner reservoir of unlimited energy, creativity, and vitality. You will feel younger and you will function like a much younger person, too. Our generation has been celebrated for its willingness to challenge the prevailing assumptions of society. Rather than viewing the second half of life as a time of progressive deterioration in body and mind, we see aging as an opportunity for greater wisdom, love, creativity, meaning, joy, and increased mental and physical capacity. More people than ever before are living into their eighties, nineties, and beyond with sound bodies and clear minds. This book is designed as a manual for renewal. Three very practical recommendations are suggested for each of the ten steps. Each week we encourage you to implement the action steps so that by the end of ten weeks you are taking full advantage of all the resources available to you. Although awareness is the essential first step in any transformation, unfortunately, reading this book is not enough for you to begin reversing the aging process—you have to actually executethe recommendations on a daily basis in order to reap the benefits of this program.