Nancy Line, a geriatric scholar and marriage and family therapist in Mill Valley, California, has helped about 40 seniors prepare and process later rituals, including hours of reflection and reflection, art and music. I did. “They are considering legacy, life reviews, and stock acquisitions,” she said. “It’s that search, pondering practice.” Her oldest such client was 81.
This spring, Kris Govaars is 70 years old and mourns his wife, Vicki Govaars, who died in 2019, just weeks after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “I was a tetherless boat,” said Govaars, a former Bay Area architectural consultant. “I was having a hard time trying to understand my next step.”
He came across Center for conscious elderly peopleFounded by Ron Pevney, author of “Conscious Living, Conscious Aging,” he has decided to attend a week-long retreat at Ghost Ranch in Abicu, New Mexico. Spiritual training, exercise, discussion.
For his best ritual, called “Traveling Alone,” Govaars chose a private spot on the riverbank. After passing through a portal made of two trees (and after encountering Bobcat closely), he fasted, remained silent, read poetry, wrote a diary, and for two children, ” I wrote “Legacy Letter”. “I spent a lot of time thinking and meditation,” he deeply said. Impressed by the experience..
“I hope the result will be a greater sense of happiness and purpose,” he explained. “I feel calm. I feel much more introspective. I open my heart and listen. I may look the same, but I am different.”
In addition to helping people see old age as a purposeful and rewarding stage of life, Leardi said that older rituals affect others, along with more commonly recognized challenges and deficits. Pointed out that it may be given.
