Years ago, Eldon and I conducted an informal experiment that produced some results I still find rather extraordinary.
Eldon had been researching the effects that our beliefs, expectations, and perceptions can have on the aging process. That work eventually led to something we called Quantum Younging, and we invited a group of volunteers to work with the technology and report back to us about their experiences. Some of what they told us was remarkable.
One woman started going gray at 27, but after participating in our experiment, the graying simply stopped. She also told us that her weight, which had fluctuated considerably for years, stabilized. A scar on her face from an accident when she was 17 faded until it was barely noticeable, and she reported that the wrinkles on her face had disappeared. There were other changes too — enough that when she and some friends pulled out her old wedding photographs and started making comparisons, even she was surprised by what she saw.
She wasn’t the only one. Another customer told us, “My hair is thicker. My skin looks younger. I have a younger attitude. I play on the slide with my grandchild. I even chased a robber down the street!”
Someone else wrote that after playing Quantum Younging overnight, “I feel one stone lighter and ten years younger (I’m 64) and much more positive.”
And another told us that people kept commenting on how much younger she looked.
Correlation Is Not Causation
Of course, correlation is not causation. I would never promise that someone using our younging programs will suddenly lose their gray hair, watch their wrinkles disappear, or wake up looking ten years younger. But there is no denying the fact that, over the years, we have kept hearing these kinds of stories after people use our InnerTalk younging programs.
And perhaps we shouldn’t be quite as surprised by them as we might initially think.
How Old Does a Body Have to Be?
Take a look at some older bodybuilders and you begin to realize just how misleading the number on a birth certificate can be.
Ernestine Shepherd didn’t even begin exercising until she was 56. She began serious bodybuilding training at 71 and went on to become a competitive bodybuilder and Guinness World Record holder. Look at photographs of her in her seventies and eighties and you don’t see the body most of us have been taught to associate with those ages.
She worked for it, and that distinction matters. She didn’t simply decide to believe that she was younger and wake up the next morning with muscles. She trained, exercised, watched what she ate, and repeatedly asked her body to become stronger.
Research confirms that older bodies can respond remarkably well to that kind of challenge. Studies have found that resistance training can increase strength and muscle size even in people over 75 and 80.
Chronological age doesn’t change. But some of the physical characteristics we automatically associate with chronological age most certainly can.
Another Candle on the Cake
I think growing older should be about putting another candle on the cake and celebrating. It should not be about taking on board all the ideas, limitations, and worst experiences that other people have had and assuming they must inevitably become ours.
The problem is that insulating ourselves from those messages is virtually impossible. They’re on television. They’re in advertisements. They’re the subject of countless jokes. They’re repeated in conversations with friends and family, and often by people who genuinely care about us.
- “Just wait until you get to my age.”
- “You can’t expect to have the same energy anymore.”
- “Memory goes as you get older.”
- “You need to slow down.”
Eventually we start repeating the same things ourselves, and that is where seemingly harmless beliefs can begin changing behavior.
Permission to Grow Old
If you accept that memory loss is simply part of getting older, you have tacitly given yourself permission to forget things. Instead of questioning a lapse in memory or doing something about it, it becomes evidence that you are “getting old.” If you accept that getting older means slowing down, you give yourself permission to become less active. Move less and, unsurprisingly, you may lose strength and flexibility. Eventually your declining ability appears to prove the belief that started the process. This can become a remarkably effective feedback loop. Belief influences behavior. Behavior produces consequences. And then we point to those consequences as proof that the original belief was true.
It is simply too easy to succumb to the ideas about aging that surround us. Which brings me back to the bodybuilder.
Just as someone who wants to maintain a strong body has to keep challenging and training that body, those of us who want to maintain younger, stronger expectations of ourselves need to deliberately challenge and train our beliefs. The bodybuilder works the muscles over and over again, gradually strengthening them. We need to do much the same thing with the beliefs that support our goals and dreams rather than allowing a lifetime of cultural programming about aging to quietly betray them. Fortunately, this part of the training is a lot easier.
Training the Mind to Expect More
You don’t need to spend hours in a gym to begin changing the messages your subconscious is receiving. Put on an InnerTalk program while you’re working, reading, relaxing, or going about your day, and allow healthier beliefs and expectations to be repeated until they begin replacing the limiting messages that have been reinforced for years. That is really the idea behind our younging work.
Instead of continually absorbing the message that age means decline, the InnerTalk younging programs were created to reinforce very different expectations — about vitality, capability, health, memory, appearance, attitude, and what growing older is supposed to mean.
Does changing those beliefs explain the extraordinary physical changes some of our customers have reported? We don’t know. But beliefs don’t exist in isolation. They influence what we notice, what we attempt, how we behave, how active we remain, what we expect from ourselves, and whether we interpret a birthday as another year of experience or another reason to retreat. That makes them worth training.
Forever Young
This is also why Forever Young isn’t simply one program telling you to think young. It brings together nine complementary programs using four different InnerTalk technologies because aging isn’t something we experience in just one way. The programs address different pieces of the picture — including vitality and enthusiasm for life, health and well-being, memory, accepting change, physical self-image, and the expectations we hold about ourselves as the years pass.
Together, they were compiled to create a much broader younging environment: reinforcing the belief that you can remain engaged, capable, mentally sharp, healthy, enthusiastic, and excited about what comes next.
The objective isn’t to deny your chronological age. I see no reason to deny mine. I simply don’t want the number to become an instruction manual.
Eldon and I are still learning, working, creating, exercising, changing our minds, starting projects, making plans, and becoming interested in things we didn’t know anything about before. Neither of us is interested in accepting someone else’s definition of what we should be capable of at this point in our lives.
I don’t want to go backward. There is far too much wisdom, experience, and perspective that I would have to give up. I want to take all of that forward with me.
Special Offer
For a limited time, you can purchase the complete Forever Young collection, a $314.55 value, for just:
- $99 for downloadable MP3s
- $119 for physical CDs
The collection includes nine programs using four different InnerTalk technologies. Rather than focusing on one narrow aspect of aging, the different titles work together to reinforce a much wider set of beliefs and expectations surrounding vitality, health, memory, adaptability, appearance, enthusiasm, and continuing to live fully as the years pass.
I’m also including Cognitive Enhancement at no additional charge. It complements the younging collection beautifully by adding additional support for the mental sharpness, focus, and cognitive abilities that so many of us want to protect and strengthen throughout life.
So by all means, keep adding the candles. Just don’t let anyone else tell you what they are supposed to mean.
Warmly,
Ravinder Taylor
*Please note: this is a limited time special offer that expires at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on Monday, October 5, 2026.
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