Ep. 185: Dr. Susan Sands. Gives The Inside Story Of An Aging Body
Description:
So many of us fear aging, but what if the secret to healthy aging has been inside you all along? Dr. Susan Sands talks with Doro about growing old gracefully and mindfully, the advantages of being older, and better aging through embodiment for women at midlife and beyond.
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Quotes:
Each part of the life span has its own advantages and benefits. It's much better to just accept what it is, rather than fighting it. Fighting it is a way of not accepting ourselves. Susan Sands, PhD.
I really believe that as we get older, the most important thing we can do for ourselves is to tune in to our inner bodies, our inner sensations, and build body awareness. Susan Sands, PhD.
If you're thinking about triumphing over aging then you're really talking about death, because that's the bottom line. As we get older, we're closer to death. It's important to try to look mortality in the eye. Susan Sands, PhD.
Show Notes:
Susan Sands: I became a journalist in my twenties. I actually worked for Newsweek for a while and I worked for a local paper.
Susan Sands: I got my PhD in psychology. Then I started writing professional articles,
Susan Sands: I started thinking, I'd really like to write a book for a wider audience and selfishly, something that I could learn from.
Susan Sands: I'm entering this new stage of life. I'd like to learn everything I can about it, so I can do it as well as I can.
Susan Sands: I really believe that as we get older, the most important thing we can do for ourselves is to tune into our inner bodies, our inner sensations, and build body awareness.
Susan Sands: Science shows that having what's called introspective awareness, which means awareness of your inner body sensations, that that's good for everything.
Susan Sands: I wanted to write about body awareness just because I knew it was good for me.
Susan Sands: I discovered this whole new branch of science called introspection.
Susan Sands: The brain is monitoring our body all the time to see how it's doing. This ensures our survival.
Susan Sands: You can learn to actually build your what's called introspective awareness, your body awareness.
Susan Sands: It's all about getting out of the mind, the worried mind, and into the body where it's much calmer and where things are more real.
Susan Sands: We have this ability to put all this information together and create something out of it that keeps us alive.
Susan Sands: We're so focused in our society on our appearance, on how we look rather than how we feel.
Susan Sands: I'm saying that from experience, that you really do feel better if you're living in your body.
Susan Sands: Each part of the lifespan has its own advantages and benefits. And we can learn a lot from it.
Susan Sands: The women's positivity movement has made a lot of strides with having full size women in ads.
Susan Sands: Studies show that the majority of Western women throughout their lives are dissatisfied with their appearance.
Susan Sands: There's this other measure called body appreciation. So we actually appreciate our bodies more for what they can do.
Susan Sands: Of course we're happier if we're just focusing on things that make us more happy.
Susan Sands: We're really primed as we get older to become more embodied, to really live in our bodies.
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