Do You Want To Defeat Old Age?

I was in a public hospital ward with a group of other men discussing their prostate problems.

“I’ve heard about alternative methods to defeat prostate problems,” said one indicating that he’d never heard of it until It was too late.

I think it would have been too late for the others too.

I had.

A few years earlier my GP had advised me to have an autopsy.

I knew I had a prostate problem.

I thought, no way.

I declined his offer and decided to educate myself on the issue before agreeing to surgery.

I found a book by a man who had overcome his serious prostate condition with alternative therapies.

I threw myself into six months of all the alternative therapies I knew.

Supplements. Reflexology. Reiki. Aromatherapy. Affirmations. Yoga. Chakra balancing. Diet.

After six months my prostate problems had gone.

To this day it’s not an issue.

I was left feeling so sad for those aged men who believed in what they had been told.

Without questioning it.

Not even thinking there might have been an alternative.

Today I’m experiencing much the same.

A year ago I had a stroke following a Covid vaccination.

I was hit on my right side.

Couldn’t move my right arm and leg.

So I couldn’t walk.

Now twelve months later I’m fighting back.

I can use my right arm and I’m learning to walk again.

Now I can go out for coffee with my daughters in their car.

I’m overcoming a stroke which, I’m told, old people just don’t do.

What is my secret?

Make an effort.

Do the exercises.

Use my mind.

Will power.

We all have it.

Using our mind is, hands down, the best alternative therapy.

I’ve learned that alone will keep you young.

From experience.

Stay healthy and keep using your mind.

Even while you’re still young.

Love and Peace.

Neil.

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I’ve Done Some Crazy Things In My Life.

I’ve swum at the nude beach on Fire Island off Long Island, New York, with a cute school teacher from New Jersey.

I’ve been to the Statue of Liberty.

I’ve known the delight of floating down the Grand Canal in Venice in a water taxi with an Italian nurse with the voice of Sophia Loren.

I helped to launch Animal Liberation here in Australia.

I was the first member of the Permaculture Association started in the 1970s by two academics from a Tasmanian (Australia) university.

It’s become a world phenomenon in the race to save the planet helping individuals and communities introduce a sustainable agriculture into their lives.

I was kicked off a commune a group of us started on 40 acres of land north of Melbourne in the 1970s for opposing questionable practices that would turn it into a religious sect.

I’ve sat with channels who’ve had books published of their words (for example, ‘Earth to Tao’ and ‘Tao to Earth’).

An article I wrote for a local newspaper about the Swiss-Italian gold miners who came to the Central Highlands goldfields in the 1850s was the inspiration for the annual ‘Hepburn Springs Swiss-Italian Festa’.

For a while I ran ‘The Springs Whole Health Group’ with monthly speakers on subjects ranging from hypnotherapy and reflexology to water divining and ley lines relating to health.

I’ve lived in a caravan parked by the roadside in a small country town in the Aussie bush where I became lovingly known as King of the Hippies.

On the side of a hill near a lake in the north of Italy I enjoyed an outdoor family feast of Italian food and wine served beneath a canopy of vines in a magical setting resembling a movie set.

I’ve run my own one-man freelance advertising copywriting business for over 10 years in Melbourne.

My first big ad presentation was at a week long client conference on the steamy tropical South Pacific island of Fiji.

How did I survive being left homeless, penniless, jobless and friendless when my business and I were declared bankrupt and I lost everything?

Before all of that I worked at the Melbourne office of the second largest ad agency in the world now known as McCann’s.

A campaign I created, wrote and produce for meat pies and donuts won an award at the annual National Television Society Awards in 1972.

I had a fairytale reunion with my 21 year-old daughter living on the famous Gold Coast of Australia.

I’ve been twice married, have 2 grown daughters and 3 adorable granddaughters.

I live now in a beautiful seaside resort town across the bay from the city of Melbourne where the Annual Mussel Festival and Annual National Celtic Festivals are held.

I’ve authored 4 books (not novels).

“Either write something worth reading,” wrote famous American author Ernest Hemingway, “or do something worth writing.”

I reckon that’s what I’ve done in my crazy life.

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Best wishes.

Neil