Eric Stevens

Fitness Speaker, Author & Personality

Eric Stevens is a health and fitness coach, trainer and practitioner. Eric has broadened that body focused fitness with writing, presenting and acting in order to reach people, change lives, and create dialogue.

What If Getting Older Can Also Make You Healthier?

Today we’re talking about everyone’s favorite topic — aging. We’re all getting older, whether we like it or not. It’s not necessarily a good or bad thing. It’s just something we all have to deal with when it comes to our fitness and wellness.

One thing that can help us immensely when it comes to aging is our perspective. So many cultural influences tell us to “fight” aging and make us feel that looking older is “wrong.” In truth, aging bestows us with many gifts, including wisdom. This wisdom can help us shift our perspective from how we look to how we feel.

Ironically, if we focus on a state of feeling — working toward listening to our bodies, hearts, and minds and doing what’s best for them — then we end up looking better, too. Healthy, happy people have a grace and flow to them that no beauty product can provide.