We are surrounded from all four sides with anti-wrinkle treatments and highly developed skin regimen that are supposed to take years off the face microdermabrasion, botox injections, face lifts and toning. Moreover, we are joining the strength of technology to create a world of  new era of young boomers. While I have no objection in wanting to look young, I do think that being young is more a state of mind than a state of looks. Looks can be artificially manipulated; a state of mind can only be cultivated.

The word “cultivation” expresses us that the process of staying young takes time. And time is something that our society seems intent on making dispensable. Yet the best things in life takes time. Time deepens the experience; time ages the moment by fulfilling it with layers made accessible through memories. Without time, we are very tiny filled only with a pale and surface instant. Living the moment is a call for cultivating the layers of time within the time.

The marks on our faces are not the things we need to afraid off; they are not the indications of age. The indications of age that we fear are those that speak of a life unlived. A terrified urgency to keep everything as a fear of learning new ways of thinking, new ideas of doing things, a fear of going beyond right and wrong, or more specifically, a fear of understanding the world and its events from the heart without the prescriptive lens of right and wrong, a fear of change, of investing heart, mind and soul into someone or something lest it goes “wrong,” a fear of making mistakes, of having to start all over again because those blunders showed you a new and different path, a fear of putting yourself against the wisdom of the ages.

I have seen age of twenty in the eyes and endless youthfulness in people over 70.

Here are some anti-wrinkle treatments:

1. Explore something you love and pursue it till the end. Ignore all say-sayings; just listen to your heart.

2. Start every morning and end every day with enthusiasm in your mind; take out 20-30 minutes for meditation on all that is right in your world and what you have to be thankful for.

3. Develop the long-term vision, feel the coats of possibilities within each moment in time with such long-term vision you will never be unsettled by an individual event because you are open to what it will bring in its wake.

4. Eat healthy and nutritious foods as well as perform exercise. A strong body will allow your sense of inner side so that you can sustain the courage to do what is good for you.

5. Admire yourself and honor the world where all that lives, breathes, and moves.

Last but not least, understand your heart that will have no regrets for you because being young is understanding that you can begin all over again.