The Threat of Alzheimer’s Led to My Extraordinary Life

Sometimes it’s what we don’t want that creates the biggest impetus for changing the course of our lives. That’s what happened to me when I started following in my mother’s footsteps after she wasted away with Alzheimer’s.

I was in my late 50s when she died, and for the previous ten years or so I had watched Mom slowly deteriorate. The last three years of her life she spent in a nursing home and every time I visited her, I focused on her mental and physical decline.

I had read that Alzheimer’s was hereditary so it was no surprise when I found myself in the early stages of the disease several years later. Then one day 20 years ago, I ‘woke up’ and realized my beliefs and programming about aging were creating a life that I did not want. I saw that I was just slipping into old age and having watched my mother, I was all too familiar with that path.

So I decided to change the course I was on. I had practiced mind/spirit techniques successfully for decades to manifest my desires – but it had never occurred to me to use those techniques to stem the tide of Alzheimer’s. I relied on books and seminars, conferences and meditation retreats to give me action steps to reverse aging, including ones for the body, like brain supplements and the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation. Soon a whole program started to emerge and I began making my daily program of youthfulness techniques into habits.

My results were so astounding I had to share these mind/body/spirit practices and my first book, The Secret Method for Growing Younger, was born. Because this program had reversed my early stages of Alzheimer’s, given me tons more energy and kept the breast cancer I had had in 1992 from recurring, I felt it was my purpose to help society change its views of what life can be in our later years.

Today at 87 years old, I’m living proof that this program really does work. Because of my daily practices, I am calmer, more focused, more loving, happier, wittier, my brain works better, and my creativity is supercharged. Sure, I’m still a work in progress, but this is fun work! You can have a youthful old age, too – if you have a strong desire and are willing to take some time to do the daily practices. At least do the Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation. Go to youtube.com, put in Ellen Wood Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation, and follow along with me.

Ten years ago I tested positive for the Alzheimer’s gene: APO-e4, but I’m still growing younger and so can you!