Dare to take a look into the future - rejuvenation training

How will life in old age look like? This rejuvenation training is about sketching a picture of your own future - and reinforcing what you have learned. You have now spent two months exploring how you can change your behavior and attitude towards life in order to rejuvenate yourself. Great! Because you probably haven't systematically addressed this topic before. And the small exercises we have developed here can make a big difference. However, it is very important to integrate some of the stay-young behaviors into your daily life in the long term. Perseverance is key in this topic - rejuvenating and health-promoting effects accumulate over decades. "The way we treat our bodies between the ages of 40 and 60 strongly influences how susceptible to illness or healthy we are beyond the age of 60," says Sven Voelpel, who researches demographic change in Germany at the University of Bremen. "That is why it is so important to persistently engage with the topic." The task of this final training week is to choose two of the previous tips and exercises that you want to continue. At least for a few months. And if it works and feels good, maybe for years. Select your two favorites from the list of previous rejuvenation training:

• Include "rejuvenating" foods in your diet
• Take longer breaks between meals or try intermittent fasting
• Integrate micro-adventures into your daily life
• Develop new skills in sports, music, languages, or fulfill a long-held desire, such as a trip
• Take short breaks and meditations during the workday
• Reduce the number of tasks on your to-do list for the day - and prioritize the most important ones
• "The gym is everywhere" - incorporate movement into your daily life
• Take a half-hour walk or bike ride three times a week
• Take cold showers and expose yourself more to the weather
• Remind yourself of your high level of experience and enjoy it
• Expand your role as an experienced person
• Improve sleep by reducing TV and internet consumption
• Recognize weaknesses: work on issues like "smoking" or "overweight" in small steps
• Include brief contacts and conversations in your daily life
• Feel gratitude and happiness

If you are fully motivated and the training has been easy for you, feel free to choose two or three points that you want to continue implementing. If you are unsure how much you can really maintain, it's better to choose just one point to stick with. How do you envision life in old age? Finally, there isone last task. Take a look into your own future: Later on. How do you envision your life in old age? We all have images of what a "good life" could be like as a senior and retiree, some of which we may have inherited from our parents' or grandparents' generation. So, in this final week, take a piece of paper and a pen and design your own picture. Write for ten minutes about how you want to live at 70 or 80: Do you still want to work or not? How do you want to live - with friends, alone, or in a relationship? What do you want to do with your wealth of experience? What about the years you have gained? Write down everything that comes to mind, even things that may not have been a topic for you before the training. Perhaps you will come up with some positive and personally relevant ideas. If not, you can continue to think about it. Because even beautiful and concrete plans for old age ultimately have a rejuvenating effect. If you are interested in further exploring the topic of "staying young" after the training, Sven Voelpel has written a book on it, titled "Decide for yourself how old you are." We wish you lots of fun with our exercises - and with staying young.