The Aging Mask- A Lifestyle Medicine Podcast
The Aging Mask is a Life Style Wellness Podcast, where Lifestyle Medicine meets curiosity, learning and great conversation.
The Aging Mask is a Podcast dedicated to exploring the transformative power of Lifestyle Medicine. Here is where I will share with you what I have learned, and continue to learn as an "Ayurvedic Health Counselor".
Life Style Medicine is a complete healing system focused on giving you the tools and practices to create greater health and happiness on a daily basis by using your innate healing ability. We will also discuss, and do a deep dive into the
six (6) most important pillars of health; which are; sleep, movement/physical activity, healthy emotions, meditation, nutrition and self-care.
There is no" one size fits all" prescription for your well- being, it is experiential, which means the choices you make about your experiences shape your body and mind, including your choices about food, personal relationships, sensory experiences, sleep, work social interactions and daily routine. As you shift your experiences, your biology will shift because your biology is the metabolism of experience.
Please join me for engaging and educational discussions that highlight how every aspect or your lifestyle contributes to your overall health and happiness!
The Aging Mask- A Lifestyle Medicine Podcast
Loyalty: The Fading Virtue
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A Virtue is both a quality and a habit. It’s not just something you believe in. It’s something you practice until it becomes a part of who you are.
Some of the most common virtues:
Honesty
Courage
Kindness
Integrity
And Loyalty
A virtue is a good quality of character. They are the character traits that make you trustworthy, dependable, honorable and good to others.
A virtue is also a habit; a habit of doing what is right over and over again until it becomes part of who you are. Virtues are built through repetition.
Virtues were often talked about as the “opposite” of what are known as the 7 deadly sins. Those include: pride, greed, envy, and anger. Where those qualities, the 7 deadly sin qualities, tend to breakdown trust and pull people apart, VIRTUES are the qualities that build trust and hold relationships together.
Today I want to focus on one of the most important Virtues when it comes to all of your relationships, and that is loyalty.
Loyalty is the quality of remaining committed to someone or something through both good and bad moments- it means standing by the people you care about and honoring the relationships you have chosen.
Loyalty is a quality that most of us say that we value- we want loyal friends, loyal partners & loyal family members. We want people who we trust to stand beside us.
Without loyalty in your relationships you may start to feel uncertain about where you stand.
Loyalty is often misunderstood.
Loyalty is NOT blind obedience and it’s NOT staying in harmful situations.
Loyalty is:
Commitment
Reliability
Standing by someone you love
And choosing your “relationship” when things get hard.
This is where loyalty matters most- and that is your romantic relationships.
When you chose to spend to build and spend your life with someone- loyalty becomes the foundation that keeps your relationship stable and secure.
Relationships inevitable experience stress, disappointments, and periods of uncertainty- Attraction may fluctuate, responsibilities grow heavier and life becomes complicated. Loyalty provides reassurance that both people are committed to protecting the relationship during those times and you feel like you are on the same team, and working toward the same future.
Committed relationships rely on 3 major pillars:
Trust
Respect
And loyalty
When it comes to loyalty in a relationship most people think about “physical cheating”-but loyalty is much broader than that. it shows up as emotional loyalty, physical loyalty, and in how you protect your relationship.
Today, it feels like “loyalty is fading out”, relationships are ending at record speed, marriages are 50/50 divorce rates, friendships feel temporary ,families seem to be growing distant, and even workplaces today operate like short term arrangements.
Many people feel that loyalty is not really a “thing” anymore. It’s definitely not what it used to be.
Our culture now celebrates independence, instant satisfaction, and walking away. Technology makes it easy to imagine endless alternatives, and constant competition encourage self focus- and - ADD to that the fact that fewer of us grow up seeing loyalty modeled, no wonder long term commitment feels much harder today.
Two people who repeatedly chose commitment, trust, and loyalty to each other- this is why loyalty remains one of the most meaningful virtues a person can have.
Enjoy!
Joanne Demers
The Aging Mask- A lifestyle Medicine Podcast
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