Macbook lagging, becoming hard to use

I am running a late 2009, 13-inch Macbook with a 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor. I am running Mavericks OS X 10.9.4 with 4GB of Memory. I have a 250 GB hard drive, with 36.88 GB free. Over the past few months, I've noticed that my computer lags really badly with just about everything. Opening up applications takes forever, and then once they are open, they freeze up constantly. For example, opening safari windows often leads to freezing (spinning beach ball) and slow loading pages. But it's not just Safari...it happens with mail, iTunes, etc. I've run the basic Onyx Maintenance tasks every so often, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference in performance. Any tips on what I can do to speed things up and reduce the lag and constant freezing? I can provide any additional information that would help.
Thanks!

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Problem description:
Macbook lagging
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Hardware Information: ℹ️
MacBook (13-inch, Late 2009) (Technical Specifications)
MacBook - model: MacBook6,1
1 2.26 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo CPU: 2-core
4 GB RAM Upgradeable
BANK 0/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
BANK 1/DIMM0
2 GB DDR3 1067 MHz ok
Bluetooth: Old - Handoff/Airdrop2 not supported
Wireless: en1: 802.11 a/b/g/n
Battery Health: Check Battery - Cycle count 559
Video Information: ℹ️
NVIDIA GeForce 9400M - VRAM: 256 MB
Color LCD 1280 x 800
System Software: ℹ️
OS X 10.10.1 (14B25) - Time since boot: 12 days 3:0:30
Disk Information: ℹ️
TOSHIBA MK2555GSXF disk0 : (250.06 GB)
EFI (disk0s1) <not mounted> : 210 MB
Macintosh HD (disk0s2) / : 184.00 GB (43.67 GB free)
Recovery HD (disk0s3) <not mounted> [Recovery]: 650 MB
BOOTCAMP (disk0s4) /Volumes/BOOTCAMP : 65.20 GB (13.93 GB free)
MATSHITADVD-R   UJ-898
USB Information: ℹ️
Apple Inc. Built-in iSight
Apple Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
Apple Inc. BRCM2070 Hub
Apple Inc. Bluetooth USB Host Controller
Gatekeeper: ℹ️
Mac App Store and identified developers
Launch Daemons: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.fpsaud.plist [Support]
[loaded] com.microsoft.office.licensing.helper.plist [Support]
User Launch Agents: ℹ️
[loaded] com.adobe.ARM.[...].plist [Support]
[running] com.spotify.webhelper.plist [Support]
User Login Items: ℹ️
iTunesHelper Application (/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/MacOS/iTunesHelper.app)
BootChamp Application (/Applications/BootChamp.app)
Caffeine Application (/Applications/Caffeine.app)
Dropbox Application (/Applications/Dropbox.app)
Internet Plug-ins: ℹ️
FlashPlayer-10.6: Version: 16.0.0.257 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
QuickTime Plugin: Version: 7.7.3
AdobePDFViewerNPAPI: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
AdobePDFViewer: Version: 11.0.09 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Flash Player: Version: 16.0.0.257 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Default Browser: Version: 600 - SDK 10.10
SharePointBrowserPlugin: Version: 14.4.6 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
Silverlight: Version: 5.1.30514.0 - SDK 10.6 [Support]
3rd Party Preference Panes: ℹ️
Flash Player [Support]
Time Machine: ℹ️
Time Machine not configured!
Top Processes by CPU: ℹ️
      4% mds_stores
      0% Dropbox
      0% AppleSpell
      0% fontd
      0% mds
Top Processes by Memory: ℹ️
159 MB Mail
137 MB com.apple.security.pboxd
116 MB com.apple.MediaLibraryService
94 MB iTunes
77 MB Safari
Virtual Memory Information: ℹ️
34 MB Free RAM
1.12 GB Active RAM
1.10 GB Inactive RAM
644 MB Wired RAM
13.46 GB Page-ins
441 MB Page-outs

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