According to Ilchi Lee, originator of the Brain Education System Training (BEST) and author of In Full Bloom: A Brain Education Guide for Successful Aging, “Jangsaeng people carry a youthful vitality into their older years that may be otherwise missing in their peers. To have jangsaeng, you must have much more than long life.”
Ellen Peters, senior research scientist at Decision Research and the University of Oregon claims that by 2050 the number of people over 60 years of age will outnumber those 15 and younger for the first time in history. This is just one of many reasons why you should start creating your jangsaeng lifestyle now.
To create a jangsaeng lifestyle, put yourself first. Make yourself happy. Use your body and brain to create a healthy and youthful life. With the demands of business and daily life, it is easy to put your personal happiness aside as you take care of others and work to pay the bills. But living your life so that you are happy is more important. It helps you live longer…and healthier.
According to a report by Deborah Danner, a psychologist at the University of Kentucky, nuns that expressed the most positive emotions in early adulthood (using words such as “thankful” and “joy” in journal entries) lived up to ten years longer than those who had shown fewer good feelings.
By doing things differently today, things that make you feel fulfilled and happy, you are on your way to creating a jangsaeng lifestyle for tomorrow.
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If you have heard the Korean word jangsaeng before and wondered what it meant, you are not alone. Jangsaeng translates, roughly, as “longevity.” In Korea this suggests not only living for many years—as it does in America—it also suggests living those years in a truly vital way.
