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These results were as valid among younger
subjects as among older subjects. Further research

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on the overall health status of 2, 000 meditators in a group insurance plan

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confirmed that they enjoyed remarkable good health
in all age groups. Those who practiced

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m t visited the doctor and entered
hospitals once for every two of those who

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were members of the control group.
Marked reductions were noted in 13 major health

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categories. Heart disease, for example, was less common than in the control

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group, by more than 80 percent, cases of cancer by more than fifty

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percent. Significantly, the greatest improvements
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sixty- five years of age.
A decade later I had to play my

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part in demonstrating that these benefits were
precisely related to the type of hormones that

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I have analyzed as the main markers
of aging in my medical condition since nineteen

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eighty, I recommended practicing it to
MT. Besides practicing it myself. At

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the end of that decade, a
colleague of mine, Dr jacosm invited me

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to collaborate in his investigation of a
very intriguing spherroid called hydropiandrosterone DHA. DHA

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is an abundant substance, but we
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adrenal cortex, circulates in the blood
thousands of times larger than both sex hormones,

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estrogen and testosterone. However, the
specific function of DHA in the body

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is elusive. Glaser decided to investigate
a DHA property. The one about being

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the only hormone that declines with age. In a straight line. DHA levels

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peak at around twenty- five years. They fall in increasing proportion after menopause

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and are reduced to five percent in
the last year of life. She was

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known to be a precursor to stress
hormones, such as adrenaline and cortisol.

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That means that when the body makes
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that we were born with should be
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DHA declines over time. However,
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but a reflection of stress, as
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At the end of the 1980s there
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the University of Champole, administered dh
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of aging. The old mice regained
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again and soft disappeared incipient cancers were
induced by artificial means or by natural causes.

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Obese animals regained normal weight, increased
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diabetes improved dramatically. The race began
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although there was a worrying risk of
serious side effects as with all hormones,

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and it was not useful to administer
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was broken down in the digestive system. But glacer agreed with me that DHA

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was a marker of the body'
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with the acceleration of stress glucocorticoids increase, while decreasing the DHA reserve. On

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the other hand, high levels of
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of coronary artery disorders, breast cancer
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these aging ailments can be associated with
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of DHA are also associated with increased
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disease in older men. As further
evidence, it was also discovered that cortisol

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levels increase markedly among those awaiting surgery
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with a slight elevation of DHA.
Two weeks later, cortisol follows, but

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dh has decreased, supporting the theory
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reduced by nervous tension. The logical
conclusion of this evidence is that if someone

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can keep their DHA levels high,
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less stress reactions, aging should be
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those who practiced MT had a lower
biological aging. Apparently, Glaser took three

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hundred and twenty- eight experienced meditators
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one, four, six two subjects
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it sought the level of hydropandrosterone sulfate, which has a close relationship.

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He classified his subjects by sex and
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DHA levels were higher among those who
meditated. The same was true of eight

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of the eleven groups of men As
the highest level of DHA occurs in younger

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cláser people, this was interpreted as
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of MT. The interesting thing is
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older objects. Meditators older than forty- five years had twenty- three percent

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more DHA, women forty- seven
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depend on factors such as diet,
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In general. Pleasure estimated that DHA
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those of people between the ages of
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mind. If DHA is as significant
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aging and meditation is very important,
but the implications are even deeper. Meditation

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is a spiritual practice. That is
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East, millions of occide such mistakenly
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physical, something that is done inside
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the head or alone in the body. When I knew his most wonderful holiness,

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it was Yoggi, who introduced the
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a profound impression on me with a
predominant assertion. Spirituality should not be separated

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from the body. Sickness and old
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achieve its natural goal, which is
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At all stages of spiritual growth,
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This statement surprises you. Almost all
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the opposite ends of the spectrum.
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such as hunger and thirst pain and
pleasure, we do not consider them spiritual

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experiences. We often believe that the
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is rude compared to the heights that
the soul can reach. But spirituality must

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also be sensual, for it is
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of the present moment, and that
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made me see that using meditation as
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spiritual goal. Unfortunately, our culture
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human body is a machine, an
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own intelligence. This erroneous concept led
to a second mistake, that the most

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spiritual persons are those who renounce the
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the very least, try to control
their desires. This kind of prejudice against

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the body is contrary to the way
nature created us. Nature balanced body and

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spirit as co creators of our personal
reality, cannot be done from falling in

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love to uttering a prayer, to
metabolizing a molecule of sucrose without affecting all

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that is. The body is the
shape plant that allows all experience to arise

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and see the light of day.
It is a three- dimensional projection of

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millions of individual processes that occur at
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as getting to know the reality of
God In our society. People suffer from

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the feeling that the spirit is basically
separated from it. The body processes,

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food, air and water to perfection. No need for the spirit. The

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mind thinks of a million things without
touching it. It is easy for us

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to rule out spiritual life in anticipation
of the day when some still impossible leap

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will take us out of everyday reality
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All aspects of reality are a piece
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totality of what exists. Atoms,
molecules, rocks, stars and the human

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body. They are material expressions of
what is pleasure and pain. They are

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psychological expressions of what compassion and love
exist. They are spiritual expressions of what

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exists when when the dimensions of the
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balanced, life becomes a whole and
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Only if you feel secure of your
place in the universe can you begin

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to face the fact that you are
surrounded by the creation and destruction that are

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constantly unfolding. Entropy cannot be challenged
as a physical force, but it is

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possible to rise to a plane of
understanding that entropy cannot touch in the deepest

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plane. Intelligence is immune to decay. Your cells come and go, but

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the knowledge of your body, which
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passes from generation to generation. Evolutionary
intelligence, corporatized by DNA, has many

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planes. As human beings, our
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each one a part of ourselves.
In the middle of change. There are

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five perceptions that entropy cannot affect.
They are expressed in all spiritual traditions and

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form the core of personal evolution.
It was back. One. I'

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m spirit two. This moment is
what it should be. Three, uncertainty

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is part of the total order of
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with no change. Five entropy offers
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of infinite organizing power. These perceptions
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rise above the world of duality that
is inevitably caught in the battle of reaction

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and destruction. There is a prospect
that the New Testament calls seeing with one

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eye Unity state in which all the
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be at the time, serve an
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This unified perspective cannot be imposed on
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accept it. If you find yourself
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drama of your life, that'
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to it. But we all want
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At a certain height of your personal
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the trail that leads the mind out
of suffering. Let me translate each point

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according to the new paradigm. One
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limited to space and time, my
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aware of the whole field as a
game of creation and destruction. Matter and

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energy come and go burning and extinguishing
their existence as fireflies, But all the

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facts are gathered together and ordered by
the deep intelligence that runs through all things.

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I' m one aspect of that
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unfolds in local events. My spirit
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of perception. But even if I
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I am still an eternal presence of
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perception that becomes real when no outward
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who knows spirit, never loses sight
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experience, this inner truth says I
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of mortality two. This moment is
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is an event of space, time
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it' s me, nothing that
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Therefore, everything is acceptable as part
of my greater identity, just as each

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cell reflects the total process of the
body. Each moment reflects all other past,

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present and future moments. This perception
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dominate reality. That need is a
natural response to past pains and frustrations,

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as it is the memory of old
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and anticipate the future in Unity.
Every moment is what must be the shadow

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of the past. It does not
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present time. Therefore, each moment
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the possibility of equal joy, equal
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The voice of inner truth says my
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I need is provided to me here
and now three. Uncertainty is part of

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the total order of things. Certainty
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On a plane, things must be
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On another plane, things must be
uncertain, otherwise the new would not

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exist. Evolution is progressing by surprising
facts. The most illusory attitude is to

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understand that the unknown is only a
synonym of creation. This perception saves us

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from the fear that arises whenever we
resist uncertainty in unity. The human being

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appreciates the wisdom of uncertainty. He
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next heartbeat or the next thought are
totally unpredictable. But in this total openness

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the order is maintained. The opposites
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it encompasses felt all opposites, just
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opposites, entropy and evolution. The
uncertainty of things does not arouse fear in

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those who are in the consciousness of
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The voice of inner truth embraces the
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see new aspects of myself. Four, the change is imbued with no change.

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Life is an eternal dance. The
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consciousness. Your wishes and attentions guide
the course of your growth. As attention

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flows constantly, dance never ends.
This is the essence of living. Each

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movement is part of dance. So, it' s s nr space event.

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Time is important and necessary. It' s order in chaos. When

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you realize he' s safe.
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free will arises. It will be
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you fear it will bring you uncertainty
accidents and calamities. However, whoever is

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in the unit accepts each choice within
the total scheme. If you choose the

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field, it will suit your choice. If you choose b the field,

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it will adjust to it. Although
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all possibilities are acceptable, because,
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of all possibilities. The voice of
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Playing here in relative five, entropy
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under the control of infinite organizing power. Your body reflects the simultaneity of order

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and chaos. Food, air,
and water molecules swirling in your blood wings

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move chaotically, but when they enter
cells, they are used in exact order.

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The neurons that shoot in your brain
produce a chaotic thunderstorm of electrical signals,

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but what emerges are meaningful thoughts.
Therefore, chaos is just a point

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of view. The things that a
limited consciousness perceives as randomly delivered fit perfectly

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to its site. When consciousness expands
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towards decay, dissolution and destruction is
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When your perception can see the birth
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of truth says through alternate steps of
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I walk the path of immortality.
These are mere descriptions. There are no

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written words that can replace personal perception, what I have called an inner voice,

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as it unfolds for each individual.
But we all intuitively want to get

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rid of the annoying and we need
satisfactory answers about who we are and why

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we are here to put an end
to internal discontent. In its true nature,

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life is comfortable, easy, unforced
and intuitively correct. This means that

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the state of self realization is the
most natural. The accumulation of stress,

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along with the aging it produces,
indicates that tensions and discomfort are still present

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While we do not realize life is
a struggle. We constantly try to relieve

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old wounds, escape old fears and
impose control over the uncontrollable. The next

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section in practice is dedicated to ending
this struggle by means of the technique that

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finally results in learning to accept your
life not as a series of events of

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chance, but as a path of
awakening, whose purpose is the maximum of

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joy and fullness. He practices it, the wisdom of uncertainty. The uncertainty

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of life exerts constant demands on our
usher coping mechanisms. There are basically two

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ways to deal with uncertainty, acceptance
and resistance. Accepting means allowing the facts

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to unfold around you and react spontaneously
to them without suppressing them. Resisting means

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trying to change the facts by moving
them away from what they really are and

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reacting to them. In family and
safe ways. Acceptance is healthy because it

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allows you to clear any tension as
soon as it occurs. Resistance is unhealthy

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because it accumulates residues of frustration,
false expectations and unfulfilled desires. In his

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book I show and was emotionally free, the notable psychiatrist David Besket refers to

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the accumulation of feelings as a state
of emotional debt that directly links with aging.

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Grief ages us prematurely when you are
in emotional debt you are pessimistic about

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the future and even in your years
of fullness, you long to go back

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to the past to remedy the lack
of love and opportunity that you have suffered

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sometimes you crave more attention, spend
more time with someone who is no longer

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having the opportunity to speak frankly and
get rid of your emotional burden, or

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just solve your confusion by finally discovering
what really happened to you. Countless people

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find themselves with an emotional debt that
grows over the past few years. Ageing

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is a psychological state in which emotional
debt increases until the coping mechanisms of the

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body can no longer properly handle current
stress. The result is weakness, sickness

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and death. A conscious effort is
needed not to fall into this trap,

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although every new moment is unknown and
therefore a potential threat. There is no

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real security in turning to the past. Just like Discott writes. You can

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speculate, you can mourn, you
can long, but as much as you

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wish to go back and perfect your
emotional experience. You' ll never be

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able to go home. Your real
home is in this place and right now.

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The present is for action, to
make, to become and to grow.

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Biologically, your body is perfectly equipped
to live in the present and there

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it acquires its greatest joy and satisfaction. Your body never knows what its blood

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pressure will be the next moment.
That is why it has a built-

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in flexibility that allows for a wide
range of pressures. The same flexibility is

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found in any other involuntary response.
This is the wisdom of uncertainty, which

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allows the unknown to happen and receives
it willingly as a source of growth and

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understanding. We see this wisdom expressed
in the spontaneity of each cell, of

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each organ. Your brain' s
electric shock patterns aren' t the same

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twice in life. However, this
radical uncertainty allows you to have new and

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original thoughts. At every minute about
three hundred million cells die that will never

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be seen again, and this torrent
of death is assimilated into the greater torrent

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of life that keeps your body running. However, it is much more difficult

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for the mind to accept. Uncertainty
fears change, loss and death. This

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is the source of resistance that the
body translates into stress. By imposing mental

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resistance, you create a threat that
your body must face. On the roller

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coaster, some shout with enthusiasm others
of terror. The journey is the same,

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but those who pull back and strain
the body by generating a stream of

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stress hormones experience terror. Those who
let themselves be carried away without resistance experience

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exaltation in the following exercises. You
will learn to restore in your consciousness a

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state of acceptance so that living in
the present will be as satisfying as possible.

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However, you must first give yourself
an idea of the resistance you are

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now presenting. Our psychological defenses are
too good to hide this from us.

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By definition, the contained emotions are
the ones that we cannot feel. However,

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longing resistance gives rise to a revealing
pattern of conduct. The need to

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have control is a compulsion that takes
root in fear and threat. Even if

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you cannot reach the threat your dominant
behavior betrays its presence control questionnaire put a

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mark on it along with the following
statements if they apply to your case often

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much of the time or almost always. Some of these statements don' t

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sound very flattering, but try to
be as frank and honest as you can

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about yourself. One likes to master
work situations and I feel much more comfortable

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working alone than with two others.
When I' m under pressure. The

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most easily demonstrated emotion is anger or
irritability. Three, I rarely tell someone

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I need it, four tend not
to forget the old offenses, instead of

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telling someone who made me suffer,
I prefer to fantasize about taking it out.

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Five I keep several resentments about the
way my brothers treat me. Six,

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the more money I spend on someone
else means that I want it.

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Seven. I don' t usually
say unfairly that it' s the others.

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Stop me. Eight. If a
relationship starts to go wrong secretly,

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I wish I could get back everything
I bought for that person. Nine.

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If the house is mine, the
ones in it should follow my rules.

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Ten. I find it hard to
admit that I' m vulnerable I rarely

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say I' ve really made a
mistake eleven. It' s better to

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hide my wounds than to show someone
my weakness. Twelve. I' m

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better at talking than listening. Thirteen. What I have to say is generally

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important. Fourteen In secret, I
think the others don' t take my

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opinions as seriously as they should.
Fifteen. I know pretty well what'

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s good for people. Sixteen,
at least once in my life, I

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' ve been caught opening other people' s correspondence. Seventeen. Sometimes I

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' ve been treated cynically or negatively. Sixteen. In fact, I have

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high standards that others sometimes confuse with
a tendency to criticize. Nineteen I tend

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to be a perfectionist, it bothers
me to let go of poor work.

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Twenty I feel uncomfortable if someone gets
too close to me in the emotional.

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Twenty- one when a relationship is
broken, I look back and think that

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in general I was right. Twenty- two. I' m clean and

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tidy, I like my way of
doing things and I have a hard time

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living with a careless person. Twenty- three I know how to plan my

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day and give a lot of courage
to punctuality. Twenty- four I know

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how to meet the needs of others, but I am disappointed that they do

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not think so much of mine.
Twenty- five I have a logical explanation

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for my way of acting, although
the others cannot always accept it. Twenty

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- six. I don' t
care too much that other people don'

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t appreciate me. Twenty- seven. In my opinion, people don'

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t usually express the real reasons for
their cut- off purchase. Twenty-

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eight I do not serve to deal
with noisy or naughty children. Twenty-

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nine. I still blame my parents
for a lot of my problems, but

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I haven' t told them.
Thirty. When I argue with my spouse

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or lover, I can' t
help but bring up old complaints. Total

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score, biion bass script, low
score zero to ten points. There is

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no excessive need to control your personality. You tend to feel comfortable with your

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feelings and be tolerant of others.
As you know, imperfect. You understand

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other people' s faults. It' s easy for YOU to let events

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take their course and surprises don'
t make you lose your balance. You

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probably give a lot of value to
spontaneity and the expression of emotions. Ten

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to twenty points control for you a
frequent problem you have more fears and wounds

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than you let see. But you
don' t try too hard to solve

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these feelings. Mandar doesn' t
seem fundamental to you, but get away

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with it. Yes, you consider
yourself organized and efficient, but don'

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t worry too much if things get
a little loose you' ve found someone

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you can be honest and frank with, but it' s limited what you

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can say or do safely even with
that person. More than 20 points.

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You' re a dominant person.
You think control is necessary because people hurt

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you a lot and you have memories
of this guy that go back to your

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painful childhood to keep them from hurting
you you try to control your feelings.

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That basically means you' re very
selective about being honest with others. Your

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predominant need for command or for things
to be done in your own way drives

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people away from you even though you
strive hard to take care of their needs.

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The only emotion you express easily is
anger or irritability. You spend explaining

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your motives and giving reasons to be
like him, but that doesn' t

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help you get what you want,
which is the love and affection of others.

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The purpose of this questionnaire is not
to label someone as bad because they

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are dominant. For most it is
very unpleasant to lose control and we all

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apply our energies to preserve it.
But there is a healthy way to control

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and an unhealthy way. The healthy
one is to have enough assurance in yourself

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as to your courage, your merit
of love, and your achievements so that

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external events do not jeopardize your coping
ability. The unhealthy way is to manipulate

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people and facts to cover your weaknesses
and your insecurity to adopt. The first

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must be frank with yourself you need
to know your limits in various situations,

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which make you feel weak and which
ones bring out your strength. Self-

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knowledge is an anchor that makes the
unpredictable tolerable. Once a wise person told

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me if my approach to a situation
doesn' t work. I trust there

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' s more to learn Either someone
can give me help, or the flow

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of facts will reveal what' s
needed. In any case, I won

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' t get to the solution if
I don' t. I start by

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admitting that my answer is not perfect. Those who apply unhealthy control lack this

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flexibility and humility. They insist on
handling the facts and on seeking excuses to

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put themselves on the convenient side of
all conflicts. This conduct causes a lack

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of harmony both within themselves and with
the environment. As they are unable to

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allow, they simply pay the price
of never truly experiencing the emotional food that

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is achieved when life is allowed to
flow within and through us exercise one frees

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your interpretations. Your life can only
be as free as your perception of it.

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Every time we look at a situation, we see in it our past,

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because all facts receive an interpretation and
interpretations take root in the past.

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If you were scared of spiders as
a child, you will project that fear

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of spiders at tins today, if
your father was an alcoholic, your way

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of judging those who drink will be
tarnished by your painful past experiences. Just

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understand that you' re giving an
interpretation to everything as trivial as it is.

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It' s an important step to
free you from the past. You

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have to understand that you always see
things from a point of view. If

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you' re surprised to rhyme with
someone, for example, holding on to

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your point of view will make the
other a threat. On the other hand,

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recognizing that two opposing views can be
valid equally removes the threat. Remember

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that the second stage of stress response, appreciation, is the only one in

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which you can master your body'
s reaction. Once you have interpreted a

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situation as a threat, your body
will automatically experience some kind of stress reaction.

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That' s why it' s
important to verify your interpretations. Generally,

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the old ones do not remain valid
outside the original situation. You can

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only end the stress by sensing its
end. Much remains to be said about

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how to achieve this, but in
my own life I try to deal with

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every tense situation with the intention of
defusing its threat in myself. These five

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steps have been of immense help to
me. You become aware that you have

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an interpretation in a conflict situation.
I' m trying to tell me my

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point of view is limited. I
don' t own the truth. Two

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put aside your old mental position.
When I feel tense, I take this

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as a sign that it held me
too close to my point of view.

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Three, look at things from a
new perspective. I focus on the sensations

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of my body. In doing so
my mind always begins to see things in

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a different way. Four, evaluate
your interpretation to see if it' s

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still valid. Five, focus on
the process, not the outcome. Tensions

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will always arise if you concentrate on
the end you must obtain is the downside

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of thinking that events can be controlled. Two forced to end in a predictable

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manner. To overcome this tendency to
impose false control, I remind myself that

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I do not need to know where
I am going to enjoy the road I

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walk. When I follow these five
steps, those daily nuisances that create inadequate

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tensions are soon dissolved. I'
m trying to be tolerant of myself.

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Sometimes, some situation pushes too many
buttons and the response to stress starts before

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I realize it. In such cases, the only sensible solution is to let

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the body go, it will not
loosen its tensions, but when the reaction

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has completed its course. The exercise
is to read these five steps and think

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of them to change your interpretations.
Then you have to apply them. At

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first, you should apply these techniques
to a worrying event of your past.

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Think of someone who hurt you a
lot and who you can' t forgive

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the five steps can lead you to
this kind of reasoning. I feel hurt,

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but that doesn' t mean the
other person was bad. Or he

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' d want to hurt me.
You don' t know my whole past

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like I do. I don'
t know yours. There' s always

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another side to the situation. Despite
my pain two. It' s not

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the first time I' ve been
hurt like that. Therefore, perhaps I

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hastened to judge this incident. I
have to see every thing as three.

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I don' t need to see
myself as a victim when was the last

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time I found myself in the same
situation. But on the opposite side,

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I didn' t feel quite wrapped
up in my own motives. Did I

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give other people' s feelings more
importance than they gave to mine this time?

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Four Let' s forget for a
second my feelings what that other person

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felt. Maybe he just lost control
or. Maybe he was so absorbed in

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his own world that he didn'
t realize I was hurting five. This

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incident may be useful to me.
Actually, I' m not interested in

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criticizing that person or taking it out
on me. I want to discover the

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kind of things that make me feel
threatened. The more I think about that,

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the more it seems to me like
an opportunity to accept responsibility. From

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what I feel that will make it
easier for me to forgive, since whoever

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teaches me something about myself deserves my
thanks when you begin to acquire the habit

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of examining your old interpretations. Thus, consciously and carefully, you create a

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space for spontaneous moments of freedom.
It' s the moments when your old

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mental position clears up in a flash
of psychological penetration. With that flash comes

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a sense of revelation, because you
are looking at reality itself, not a

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reflection of your past. The most
valuable things in life. Love, compassion,

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beauty, inspiration must come spontaneously.
We can only prepare the way for

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a spiritual friend of mine calls this
to open a hole into the fourth dimension.

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There is great freedom in psychological penetration. I know a man in many

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years could not visit the father'
s home on the day of Action of

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Grace, without binding himself in a
violent dispute with his father. There came

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a Thanksgiving day when he was forty
years old and his father seventy- five.

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When I got off the plane,
my father greeted me and, as

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always, we set out for the
luggage storage room in a friendly manner.

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It takes about half an hour for
us to assume our usual roles as combatants.

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I tried not to get tense,
but I knew as soon as we

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got in the car, he would
criticize my driving and start boiling my blood.

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While we were waiting for the luggage, we didn' t say much.

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Usually that' s when we'
re left with nothing to say.

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When my suitcase came down the hopper
I reached out to her and he pulled

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me aside to take another part of
the rite, which has not changed in

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twenty years. On this occasion,
however, he staggered a little bit to

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lift that heavy suitcase. For the
first time I noticed he was getting old.

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It may seem to you that it
was not a great revelation, but

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I realized that during all that time
I had been fighting with my father as

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if I was still seven years old
and he was an immensely powerful and strong

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adult. I didn' t take
his suitcase because he' s proud,

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but on that occasion I didn'
t follow him to the car like the

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boy driven by an arrogant father.
I realized that I wanted to help and

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that that was his way of showing
me affection. It is difficult to express

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how powerful that transformation seemed. This
is a perfect example of how a different

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reality emerges when we get rid of
old interpretations. For my part, I

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began to notice that losing the plane, which happens to me with strange frequency

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on my lecture tours, caused me
to become increasingly tense. One day,

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as I was running down the runway, I saw the ramp slowly being removed

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from the plane. I stopped with
a knot in my stomach and a crazy

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feeling of frustration. But then it
occurred to me to wonder how my life

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will change within a year because I
lost this plane. The effect was almost

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magical. My heart stopped beating hastily. My breathing calmed down, my muscles

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relaxed, my stomach knot disappeared and
my intestines stopped stirring. In questioning my

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interpretation, I realized that my stress
was not on the lost plane, but

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on my supposed inexpressions. My body
was conditioned to think oh not again the

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same, as happens in almost all
stress reactions are expectations. You remember your

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last marriage brawl, the last time
they criticized your work, the last hostile

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question of an assistant to your lectures
and a complete reaction to stress arises.

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I felt like the rat jumping horrified, even if the discharge didn' t

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happen. Well, look at things. Losing the plane didn' t matter.

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By eliminating false interpretation, my body
got rid of its old habits exercise

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two peeling the bag from the past. The past forms in us many intricate

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layers. Your inner world is full
of complex relationships, for it contains the

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past, not just as it happened, but in every way you would like

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to review it. Everything that should
have turned out different does change, in

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that place where you escape fantasy,
revenge, longings, sorrow, self reproach

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and guilt. To get rid of
those distractions, you must understand that there

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is a deeper place where everything is
fine. If Darth German Ness writes inside

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you there is a quiet and inviolable
place that you can withdraw from at any

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time. To be yourself. This
sanctuary is the simple awareness of comfort that

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cannot be violated by the whirlwind of
events. This place doesn' t feel

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trauma if it doesn' t build
up wounds. It is the mental space

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that one seeks in meditation, to
which I believe, one of the most

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important activities that we can devote ourselves. However, not but pretis meditation you

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can approach that place of calm by
means of the next exercise. Write this

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statement. I' m perfect,
just like I am everything in my life.

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It happens for my last good.
I' m loved and I'

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m love. Don' t stop
to analyze the statement. Just write it

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down. When you finish, close
your eyes and let any reaction that comes

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to mind bloom. Then write the
first words you can think of. Write

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that answer directly under the statement.
It is likely that your first thought contains

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a lot of resistance and even anger, because no one lives in a perfect

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way and it is hard to believe
that everything is working as it should.

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Typical stupid answers. This is silly. Not if your reaction expresses a similar

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emotion, it is sincere. Now
without stopping, write the statement again,

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close your eyes and re- write
the first words that come to mind.

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Don' t stop to analyze your
reaction. Continue the exercise until you have

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repeated the statement and your response twelve
times. You' ll be surprised how

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much your reactions change. In most
cases, the last response will be much

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more positive than the first. Essentially
this exercise allows you to spy on the

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deepest levels of your consciousness. Most
people have the strongest resistance on the surface

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of the mind, as that is
where their most public and circumspect reactions operate.

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Your social self who behaves as expected
of you is superficial. He was

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primarily trained to make a good impression
and not reveal too much. These upper

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layers of your consciousness will not respond
very deeply to statements as powerful as I

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am love. In depth we touch
planes of frustrations, desires and more recent

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contained emotions. When you touch these
layers unexpected or irrational reactions may arise.

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The statement I am love can trigger
an angry outburst that relates to a recent

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episode in which you did not feel
loved. By the way, deeper still

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are the layers where your most entrenched
feelings are kept. If you feel basically

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unworthy of love, on this level
there could be a lot of pain and

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resistance, but under the more rigid
conditioning, there is a layer of consciousness

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that fits without hesitation with words I
am love. If you can love and

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be loved, it is because this
layer of your consciousness evokes that feeling.

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That is where the deepest human values
are known. Without that knowledge not only

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of love, but of beauty,
compassion, trust, strength and truth,

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these words would have no meaning.
Love is part of essential human nature.

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We recognize it because it vibrates in
us far below the plane. Conscious that

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it is being able to live from
this plane provides complete satisfaction. But that

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only happens when you solve the layers
of conflicts and contradictions that constitute your resistance.

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When you resist the flow of life, what you are really resisting is

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your own inner nature, for all
that happens to us is a reflection of

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who we are. This is not
a mystical affirmation, but part of the

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apparatus of perception. To perceive is
to grasp the meaning of something. A

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rock is not rock unless you are
familiar with the concept of rock. Otherwise,

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the rock would be a meaningless sensory
data, such as Arabic or Russian

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writing. If you do not understand
those languages, you must learn a foreign

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language and you must know all the
objects that are there, out in the

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world, but you have no obligation
to learn to exist. Existing is something

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that occurs, naturally, to have
a human nervous system is to exist.

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Included in that nervous system comes human
consciousness, knowing that you are human as

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opposed to being part of another species. With this knowledge emerge the primordial feelings

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that make us respond to love,
trust, compassion and other states of essential

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sensations are our beginning, but they
are also what we seek, because each

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one of them can grow. Living
from the plane of consciousness that says I

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am love means living from a level
where love can grow. In the early

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stages of personal evolution. Almost all
doubt these essential States. They are not

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sure that they are worthy of love, confident, strong, valuable, etcetera.

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You can' t know anything about
these States trying to prove them to

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yourself. If you try to get
love, acting well, being nice,

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learning the game of social appeal,
etcetera, you always end up in failure,

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because when you stop behaving as you
have been taught, the basic attitude

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that remains is the doubt that was
your starting point. The end of the

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search for love is beyond conduct,
for in due time the mind decides to

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look inward. When it does,
the search becomes a search for the essential

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self, the self that knows that
its onus and love on all sides of

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your consciousness. There is the truth
about yourself but after removing all layers of

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the onion, this is the most
basic truth. You are love, you

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are compassion, you are beauty,
you are existence and he is consciousness and

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spirit. Any of these statements can
be used as an affirmation, which,

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as you insinuate, the word,
is just a way of saying something,

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of saying yes. The technique is
extremely powerful to make you remember your nature.

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But more still it reminds you of
your purpose, which is to grow

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to the point where I am love
be on the surface of your consciousness.

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Not buried in the dark, deep
exercise three living in the present. Everything

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you think and feel reflects who you
are. If you think and feel from

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a superficial level of consciousness, that
is you to dive deeper into yourself and

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00:43:55.480 --> 00:43:59.920
be lucky enough to get to the
place where you are love, compassion,

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trust and truth must follow the path
of your current answers. Those who do

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not feel loved may find love in
its purest form, but they must make

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their way through the layers of resistance
that block the feeling of pure love.

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Your current emotions reflect the current state
of your nervous system. With all his

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past prints. Every time you have
an experience, these footprints come into your

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answer. This means that most of
your reactions are echoes of the past.

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You don' t really live in
the present. However, at least you

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react in the present, and that
is where the search for your true begins.

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I your emotions are the most present- centered thing that you have an

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emotion. It' s a thought
tied to a feeling. Thought usually refers

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to the past or the future,
but the feeling is in the present.

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Your mind soon connects sensations with thoughts. But when we were babies, our

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first experiences and emotions looked much more
like physical sensations. We didn' t

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have inhibitions or think twice before we
browned, when we were wet or we

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felt cold, loneliness, fear,
etcetera. Our mind didn' t know

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those pompous words bad and not bad. It teaches you that certain thoughts are

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shameful. It doesn' t teach
you to resist your own impulses. Then

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came more complex words and interpretations.
Already grown- ups. When we deny

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the immediate experience of an emotion,
the mind raises a biomo of words and

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this takes us out of the present
to throw us already into the past,

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already into the future. To feel
a total and complete emotion, to experience

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it and then to let it go
is to be in the present. The

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only moment that never ages stripped to
the basics, emotions only awaken two sensations,

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pain and pleasure. We all want
to avoid pain and seek pleasure.

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Therefore, the complex emotional states in
which we find ourselves are the result of

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not being able to obey those basic
impulses. Psychiatrist David Ves reduces emotional complexity

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to a simple cycle that repeats countless
times in the life of the whole world.

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This cycle begins in the present,
where only pain and pleasure are felt,

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and ends with complex feelings centered exclusively
on the past, such as guilt

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and depression. The cycle of emotions
is as follows. The pain in the

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present is experienced as an offense.
Pain in the past is remembered as anger.

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Pain in the future is perceived as
anxiety. Inexpressed anger, redirected against

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oneself and contained within is called guilt. The energy depletion that occurs when anger

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redirects inwards creates depression. What this
cycle tells us is that the accumulated suffering

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is responsible for a wide range of
psychological distresses. Buried wounds are disguised as

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anger, anxiety, guilt, and
depression. The only wrong way to treat

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these layers of pain. Find out
who errs when the pain occurs, resolve

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it, and move on. Living
in the present means having the honesty to

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avoid the easy emotion that is anger
and expose the pain, which is more

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difficult to face. When pain does
not resolve in the present, the cruel

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accumulation of anger, anxiety, guilt, and depression can only get worse.

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Exercise consists of learning the steps to
feel in the present. One understands that

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pain is the most basic negative feeling. You can' t be in the

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present without being willing to feel hurt
two. Stay with your feelings, don

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' t give in to the urge
to deny what you feel or turn it

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into anger. Three say what you
feel to the person who caused that pain.

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Four solve your emotion and go ahead. This may seem like an exercise

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in suffering, but it is actually
an exercise in freedom. His suffering r

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s NS is pleasant, but it
does really put you in the present,

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while the conditioned reactions of anger,
anxiety, guilt and depression get you out

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of it. Once you are in
the present, you can follow the trail

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of your emotions to their source,
which is not pain, but love.

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Compassion, truth, the true you
suffering has no purpose, except to guide

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you to your truth. In itself
and in itself. The pain is only

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worth as a sign that it will
get you out of the pain. When

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a baby suffers, she cries,
takes the suffering out of her body,

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and then relaxes. Return to the
basic state of the body that is pleasure,

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tranquility and comfort. If you want
to feel those things, just be

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yourself. But being yourself means going
beyond the tendency to repress or divert your

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emotions, which we all learned in
early childhood. Getting to the moment by

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focusing your attention on pain allows you
to free yourself from it. As soon

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as he shows up. That liberation
occurs in nothing. Naturally, it is

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what the body wants to do and
attention is the healing power that activates it.

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Focusing attention on your feelings, which
is closer to the witness state,

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you observe suffering without letting yourself be
involved in secondary attitudes that usually follow evasive

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and negative guilt in the act of
witnessing psychological penetration becomes possible. Objectivity is

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required to achieve understanding. If you
let yourself be caught up in suffering,

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you won' t see the motive
behind it. Today no one can hurt

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you without activating a wound from your
past. You have to understand that in

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order to find yourself. When you
learn to say I feel hurt and to

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really be with that feeling, a
greater openness will develop. The emotions that

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frighten us are the complex ones because
they overwhelm the natural mechanism of deliberation.

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You can' t just get rid
of guilt or depression. They are secondary

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formations that arise once you forget how
to free yourself from suffering. The more

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suffering you feel frankly more comfortable or
you will be in pain, because the

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ability to get rid of it will
grow. As this happens, you will

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feel more comfortable with your other emotions
for a blocked mind. Positive emotions,

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such as love and trust, often
present the same difficulty as negative ones,

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such as hatred and mistrust. The
old unsolved wounds allude to both of them.

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00:50:22.159 --> 00:50:25.639
If you' re comfortable with your
emotions, you won' t get

618
00:50:25.719 --> 00:50:29.559
so confused with other people. Instead
of blaming those who throw you, you

619
00:50:29.559 --> 00:50:37.000
can forgive them. The lessons of
this exercise are very profound. We all

620
00:50:37.079 --> 00:50:40.599
act from our own plane of consciousness. That is all we can demand from

621
00:50:40.679 --> 00:50:46.360
ourselves and others. As much as
anyone knows is doing the best you can

622
00:50:46.719 --> 00:50:52.400
given the limits of your consciousness.
Forgiveness to others only comes when you can

623
00:50:52.480 --> 00:50:57.639
free yourself from your own suffering.
The more complete your release, the more

624
00:50:57.679 --> 00:51:02.039
sincere forgiveness will be. No one
can really hurt you unless you give him

625
00:51:02.159 --> 00:51:06.920
the power to do it. This
power lies in your own unresolved pain.

626
00:51:07.360 --> 00:51:12.119
You can take control of the old
pain and claim power over your emotions.

627
00:51:13.199 --> 00:51:16.599
As long as you don' t, your feelings will continue to move according

628
00:51:16.599 --> 00:51:22.000
to the whim of others. External
events do not have the power to make

629
00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:28.079
you suffer. Suffering occurs when your
mind makes its interpretation. You can live

630
00:51:28.119 --> 00:51:31.679
beyond interpretation in a witness state the
pure and untouchable consciousness that is the true

631
00:51:31.800 --> 00:51:37.119
you. Again, the reason this
exercise defeats aging is because it brings you

632
00:51:37.199 --> 00:51:43.159
back to the present and the consciousness
of the present moment never ages is the

633
00:51:44.159 --> 00:51:49.239
same at five or eighty- five
years old. The discovery of freedom in

634
00:51:49.280 --> 00:51:52.119
the present opens the door for the
permanent experience of temporality in which past,

635
00:51:52.239 --> 00:51:58.000
present and future are revealed as illusions
compared to the true reality that is always

636
00:51:58.320 --> 00:52:07.280
here and now fourth, the science
of longevity. I don' t know

637
00:52:07.119 --> 00:52:09.719
beautiful uden, but I' m
looking at her picture in the morning paper.

638
00:52:10.719 --> 00:52:15.880
She' s a tiny, smiling
old woman waving a handkerchief with lace

639
00:52:15.880 --> 00:52:19.920
fliers. Bel is in the diary
because he has reached the remarkable age of

640
00:52:20.039 --> 00:52:22.519
one hundred and nine years. Despite
being older than several Member States of the

641
00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:27.480
Union, their eyes are clear and
alert. The article says that his mind

642
00:52:27.559 --> 00:52:30.599
is more awake than many of the
younger residents of the nursing home in which

643
00:52:30.679 --> 00:52:37.480
he lives. I imagine the ruckus
that everyone built around bel preparing her for

644
00:52:37.599 --> 00:52:40.880
her moment of celebrity. She is
seen sitting in a cheerful granny dress,

645
00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:45.039
with pink flower print and wide lace
collar, certainly purchased for the occasion.

646
00:52:47.239 --> 00:52:53.239
The article displays some statistics on those
that reach centennials. Eighty percent of all

647
00:52:53.360 --> 00:52:59.280
centennials are women, seventy- five
percent have been widowed, fifty percent are

648
00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:07.559
in geriatric residences, sixteen percent are
black. The general population comprises only 12

649
00:53:07.639 --> 00:53:13.880
per cent of Blacks. This last
figure comes to mind because he is a

650
00:53:13.960 --> 00:53:19.559
black woman. Born and raised in
the gruesome agricultural territory of Texas. Until

651
00:53:19.639 --> 00:53:22.559
he met it, a hundred lived
alone in a cabin without running water.

652
00:53:22.920 --> 00:53:27.599
She' s now the starhouse of
a Houston nursing home. No mention is

653
00:53:27.760 --> 00:53:30.480
made of his state of health,
but he is likely to be fragile.

654
00:53:30.840 --> 00:53:36.000
When you reach the limits of human
longevity. Life flashes like a candle without

655
00:53:36.079 --> 00:53:40.239
despairing. At his hundred and nine
years of age, he sails far beyond

656
00:53:40.320 --> 00:53:47.280
biological probability into mysterious and uncertain survival. Longevity holds a riddle, for science

657
00:53:47.320 --> 00:53:52.280
cannot yet foresee who will come to
an extreme old age. Genetics doesn'

658
00:53:52.400 --> 00:53:57.519
t have the full answer. There
is no news of a centennial whose parent

659
00:53:57.559 --> 00:54:01.760
has reached the age of one hundred. The lifestyle is also problematic. A

660
00:54:01.880 --> 00:54:07.719
person like Viji, raised on a
marginal diet and subjected to strenuous physical labor,

661
00:54:07.119 --> 00:54:12.119
has had a hideous way of life
for modern customs. However, it

662
00:54:12.440 --> 00:54:15.079
has survived ninety- nine thousand nine
hundred ninety- nine percent of its generation,

663
00:54:15.320 --> 00:54:22.280
including those who lived under much better
circumstances. Officially, the oldest survivor

664
00:54:22.360 --> 00:54:27.559
in American history was Olina Fewkens,
a peasant in Erquimer County, New York,

665
00:54:28.079 --> 00:54:30.960
who died in nine hundred and twenty- eight at the age of thirteen.

666
00:54:32.440 --> 00:54:38.639
People who have reached much higher ages
are often officially mentioned and it is

667
00:54:38.679 --> 00:54:45.239
quite possible that an anonymous individual has
survived one hundred and fifteen years or more.

668
00:54:46.559 --> 00:54:50.800
Vela is not close to the record
yet, but the mere fact of

669
00:54:50.840 --> 00:54:54.679
competing puts her on the longevity elite. She feels lonely, asks a journalist.

670
00:54:57.800 --> 00:55:02.280
Yes, sometimes yes bel answers the
very elderly are inevitably alone, for

671
00:55:02.559 --> 00:55:07.000
they have left far behind the family
and friends with whom they began the journey

672
00:55:07.079 --> 00:55:12.320
of life. In this respect,
Bel' s case is typical. He

673
00:55:12.440 --> 00:55:16.880
has buried three husbands and seven brothers, one male and six women, differing

674
00:55:16.920 --> 00:55:22.760
from most of the women of his
generation. Bel had no children even her

675
00:55:22.800 --> 00:55:27.760
nieces are already too old to take
care of her. It is said that,

676
00:55:28.079 --> 00:55:30.840
in a typical climbing season of MountÉbrez, an average of sixty-

677
00:55:31.000 --> 00:55:36.719
four climbers arrive at the base camp
of this number, which is a tiny

678
00:55:36.800 --> 00:55:39.719
fraction of the trained mountaineers of the
world. A third tries the final assault

679
00:55:39.800 --> 00:55:45.639
on the summit. Two climbers will
perish in the attempt and only four will

680
00:55:45.639 --> 00:55:49.800
reach it. Beloudem is like one
of those four climbers standing ten meters from

681
00:55:49.840 --> 00:55:53.000
the peak of human longevity, exhausted
barely able to take a step further,

682
00:55:53.159 --> 00:55:59.679
but there present. In the coming
decades, the mountain summit will be much

683
00:55:59.800 --> 00:56:04.119
more crowded, except for a premature
heart attack, a fatal illness or an

684
00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:08.480
accident. You and I are likely
to get to base camp, at least

685
00:56:09.519 --> 00:56:13.960
in the future. Getting to be
eighty- five and ninety will be as

686
00:56:14.079 --> 00:56:17.760
common as it was. In the
past. The newspapers will talk about people

687
00:56:17.880 --> 00:56:23.360
who turn 100 as often as they
now announce the birth of twins. It

688
00:56:23.440 --> 00:56:30.320
will only be considered news that someone
reaches the age of one hundred and ten

689
00:56:30.360 --> 00:56:32.079
you imagine what you will be the
day you turn one hundred. It'

690
00:56:32.119 --> 00:56:36.719
s a big conceptual leap, comparable
to asking a two- year- old

691
00:56:36.840 --> 00:56:39.920
to imagine himself in his middle age, but imagine yourself at fifty. Maybe

692
00:56:40.000 --> 00:56:44.199
you' re already there and then
try to learn this amazing fact. The

693
00:56:44.280 --> 00:56:47.920
day you turn fifty will be the
day of your second birth. In all

694
00:56:49.039 --> 00:56:52.679
probability a complete life will extend before
you that will last at least thirty years

695
00:56:52.960 --> 00:57:00.360
or more probably forty- fifty and
up to sixty years for all previous generations.

696
00:57:00.719 --> 00:57:05.760
The fiftieth birthday marked the time to
slow down. The children were already

697
00:57:05.840 --> 00:57:09.559
raised and in college, when not
married and with their own children. The

698
00:57:09.639 --> 00:57:14.519
race was a matter, resolved and
one knew quite well whether it was a

699
00:57:14.639 --> 00:57:20.199
success or a failure. The idealism
of youth had long vanished. The crisis

700
00:57:20.280 --> 00:57:25.320
of the middle years was already overcome
as a violent storm. Oh with luck,

701
00:57:25.760 --> 00:57:30.920
like gloomy downpours threatening the horizon,
but to be born at fifty years

702
00:57:31.039 --> 00:57:37.400
of age little in life has prepared
us for this. However, according to

703
00:57:37.440 --> 00:57:42.000
studies by a California health department,
if medical science could eliminate the only major

704
00:57:42.079 --> 00:57:45.599
risk of arteriosclerosis, average life expectancy
for California women would rise to one hundred

705
00:57:45.639 --> 00:57:53.440
years and we talked about the average
compared to your first birth. The one

706
00:57:53.519 --> 00:57:58.039
you will experience at the age of
fifty has its advantages and its disadvantages.

707
00:57:58.119 --> 00:58:02.199
In both cases there is a completely
new and unknown existence. But the big

708
00:58:02.280 --> 00:58:07.960
advantage of the second birth is that
you can plan ahead. The first was

709
00:58:07.039 --> 00:58:13.000
thrown at you without warning, including
two perfect strangers who turned out to be

710
00:58:13.000 --> 00:58:16.000
your parents, a report body that
needed to be trained to accomplish the simplest

711
00:58:16.119 --> 00:58:21.719
tasks and a disconcerting world of chaotic
images and sounds with which your brain must

712
00:58:21.800 --> 00:58:24.880
have modeled something that made sense by
the age of fifty. All that work

713
00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:30.920
is done now that the fearsome images
of old age quickly dissipate. The obvious

714
00:58:30.000 --> 00:58:35.119
disadvantage of the second birth, which
is not having a new body, will

715
00:58:35.239 --> 00:58:39.320
not be so incapacitating. Sickness and
disability will have been postponed if not completely

716
00:58:39.480 --> 00:58:47.039
eliminated. Enthusiasted by the possibilities of
planning a whole new life, I decided

717
00:58:47.119 --> 00:58:52.079
to take the opportunity seriously, I
set aside all stereotypes of old age that

718
00:58:52.119 --> 00:58:58.079
choke the mind and cherished second birth, which is only four years away,

719
00:58:58.280 --> 00:59:02.320
with a list of desire. What
I would ask if I could live until

720
00:59:04.360 --> 00:59:07.800
I was one hundred years old immediately
came to mind the following desires. I

721
00:59:07.840 --> 00:59:15.360
want to survive even longer, if
possible I want to stay healthy, I

722
00:59:15.480 --> 00:59:20.800
want a clear mind and alert.
I want to be active, I want

723
00:59:20.920 --> 00:59:24.800
to have reached wisdom. While writing
down these wishes, something surprising happened.

724
00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:30.199
Everyone seemed to be within my reach. That prevented me from living as long

725
00:59:31.159 --> 00:59:35.360
as possible while life was aggratulating.
It is natural to wish to remain in

726
00:59:35.360 --> 00:59:39.119
it. That prevented me from enjoying
good health. I know what I have

727
00:59:39.159 --> 00:59:43.480
to do to stay healthy now and
I can live tomorrow the same way.

728
00:59:44.480 --> 00:59:47.239
My mind is now clear and alert. There is no reason for it to

729
00:59:47.360 --> 00:59:50.880
be hindered over time, as long
as I do not stop using it.

730
00:59:51.880 --> 00:59:55.360
If I' ve always been active, why fear that one day I'

731
00:59:55.440 --> 01:00:00.719
ll fall into an armchair so I
won' t get up again and if

732
01:00:00.840 --> 01:00:02.239
I haven' t yet achieved better
wisdom. Thus, it is a gift

733
01:00:02.360 --> 01:00:07.039
that comes in due time. My
other wishes wouldn' t make sense if

734
01:00:07.119 --> 01:00:09.840
I didn' t expect that last
golden fruit to be granted to me.

735
01:00:09.960 --> 01:00:15.280
When I was ready with this simple
list, I had made survival stop being

736
01:00:15.320 --> 01:00:20.280
a threat to becoming a desirable goal, because on my list there were things

737
01:00:20.320 --> 01:00:23.920
I wanted very much. According to
public opinion polls, 80 percent of Americans

738
01:00:24.079 --> 01:00:30.239
say yes, when asked, they
are satisfied with their current lives. However,

739
01:00:30.559 --> 01:00:34.800
a majority answer that they do not
want to live until they are 100

740
01:00:34.800 --> 01:00:37.000
years old. They must therefore share
the assumption that the road between the present

741
01:00:37.039 --> 01:00:44.039
and the hundred years leads to losses. This self- fulfilling prophecy can only

742
01:00:44.079 --> 01:00:46.719
be changed if we decide to improve
over the years. Old age is a

743
01:00:46.840 --> 01:00:52.320
grace if one comes to it with
joy, creativity and curiosity. These qualities

744
01:00:52.400 --> 01:00:57.119
require a full living of the present
moment, for today is the youth of

745
01:00:57.199 --> 01:01:01.960
your longevity. The supposed question of
the old paradigm was that, as the

746
01:01:02.039 --> 01:01:07.519
body wears out over time, life
becomes less and less satisfying. The provision

747
01:01:07.559 --> 01:01:13.800
of possibilities was exhausted after a certain
age arbitrarily defined by each society and individual.

748
01:01:15.280 --> 01:01:17.000
The new paradigm tells us that life
is not a process of decline,

749
01:01:17.599 --> 01:01:22.840
but of constant transformation and, therefore, full of potential for unlimited growth to

750
01:01:22.880 --> 01:01:29.280
continue to deploy new possibilities decade after
decade, it is necessary to know what

751
01:01:29.320 --> 01:01:35.280
these possibilities are, what we should
expect physically, mentally and emotionally in the

752
01:01:35.360 --> 01:01:39.039
second fifty years of life. A
new science of longevity has emerged to answer

753
01:01:39.119 --> 01:01:45.360
these questions. Even the loyal advocates
of the old paradigm now agree that automatic

754
01:01:45.440 --> 01:01:52.199
decline is not programmed in our body. Longevity is presented to those who have

755
01:01:53.159 --> 01:01:58.679
discovered this on their own. Science
only validates the numerous improvements in bodily functions

756
01:01:58.760 --> 01:02:07.280
that older people already experience In this
section. I want to examine these new

757
01:02:07.360 --> 01:02:10.320
findings in the hope of discovering the
most essential keys to longevity, which are

758
01:02:10.400 --> 01:02:15.400
valid for the majority, but for
all. Human life is incredibly adaptable.

759
01:02:16.880 --> 01:02:23.320
It would seem unlikely that a person
like Bellowden could survive so much against her

760
01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:28.480
many disadvantages accumulated. Being poor,
being black, being deprived of proper medical

761
01:02:29.960 --> 01:02:34.360
care, spending most of your life
on a diet that is probably rich in

762
01:02:34.400 --> 01:02:38.400
fat and poor in essential vitamins.
The science of longevity must explain these anomalies.

763
01:02:39.360 --> 01:02:43.559
I think the only way to do
that is to probe certain points of

764
01:02:43.639 --> 01:02:47.519
mind and heart that transcend physical factors, you see much more than your lifestyle.

765
01:02:49.039 --> 01:02:52.559
And the same can be said of
all of us. Biologists and gerontologists

766
01:02:52.599 --> 01:02:58.440
have accumulated fascinating information on how to
survive to a very advanced age, but

767
01:02:58.599 --> 01:03:04.239
new data are not enough. We
need practical examples of sacred life. As

768
01:03:04.320 --> 01:03:08.719
an inspiring experiment in this direction that
Luis and his colleagues from Berkeley, California

769
01:03:08.760 --> 01:03:14.719
carried out the Sage Senior Current Station
project at Welth Explorations Old Age Update and

770
01:03:14.760 --> 01:03:21.440
Development Explorations. Saje founded in a
thousand nine hundred and seventy- four tried

771
01:03:21.440 --> 01:03:24.079
with amazing success, revitalizing people between
sixty- five and eighty- five years

772
01:03:24.079 --> 01:03:32.000
old. Many transformed his life.
A woman who clearly claimed that her life

773
01:03:32.159 --> 01:03:37.119
was over at seventy- four years
old, wrote a book at ninety-

774
01:03:37.480 --> 01:03:42.199
one, and began to travel as
a speaker in a campaign for a decent

775
01:03:42.320 --> 01:03:45.960
means for the dying. Others found
that working with breathing and attention could eliminate

776
01:03:46.000 --> 01:03:53.840
old symptoms, migraines, headaches,
and arthritis discomfort. A retired woman who

777
01:03:53.960 --> 01:04:00.000
was thought to be practically color-
blind, discovered through an art process that

778
01:04:00.079 --> 01:04:03.400
could be dedicated to interior decoration and
remodeled her home. There is in all

779
01:04:03.519 --> 01:04:06.960
life a secret nucleus of meaning that
is expected to be discovered. Those who

780
01:04:06.960 --> 01:04:12.719
have found it are the teachers I
observe for my own future survival. They

781
01:04:12.800 --> 01:04:16.800
have lived the years following the second
birth. They are the true scientists of

782
01:04:16.880 --> 01:04:24.039
longevity and, therefore, their true
geniuses a hundred years of youth, which

783
01:04:25.400 --> 01:04:30.199
the elderly can teach us. Very
few know anyone who is a hundred years

784
01:04:31.280 --> 01:04:35.679
old historically reaching 100 was such a
rare feat that it was almost a phenomenon.

785
01:04:38.119 --> 01:04:42.400
A research carried out in the Victorian
era in the lineage of British aristocrats,

786
01:04:43.559 --> 01:04:46.559
presumably the best- fed and cared
for members of their society, failed

787
01:04:46.639 --> 01:04:50.440
to dig up a single pair of
the Kingdom in the preceding ten centuries that

788
01:04:50.440 --> 01:04:54.920
would have reached centennials. The first
was Lord Penrin, who died in nineteen

789
01:04:55.000 --> 01:04:58.719
hundred and sixty- seven at one
hundred and one years of age. Today,

790
01:04:58.840 --> 01:05:01.639
in almost all industrialized countries, out
of every ten zero people there is

791
01:05:01.719 --> 01:05:05.639
one that crosses the mark of the
century and that proportion is rising faster than

792
01:05:05.679 --> 01:05:14.599
any other population growth statistics. The
older people of today tend not to be

793
01:05:14.639 --> 01:05:17.800
mere survivors of chance, but rather
individuals who embody enviable attitudes and values.

794
01:05:19.440 --> 01:05:24.280
Sociologists who study the centennials continue to
be amazed by their strong attachment to freedom

795
01:05:24.360 --> 01:05:32.159
and independence throughout their lives. Centennials
tend to avoid restrictions. Traditionally, most

796
01:05:32.280 --> 01:05:38.800
work on their own, very few
of the boundaries of modern companies. They

797
01:05:38.920 --> 01:05:44.079
put a very high price on autonomy. As I said earlier, the word

798
01:05:44.159 --> 01:05:48.960
that researchers most often apply to centennials
is adaptable at a certain height of life.

799
01:05:49.719 --> 01:05:55.559
They have all suffered losses and setbacks, but after mourning the most serious

800
01:05:55.719 --> 01:05:59.519
loss like that of the spouse,
after fifty or sixty years of marriage or

801
01:05:59.599 --> 01:06:03.719
ns. These individuals continued to be
studied in a group. Centenarians have other

802
01:06:03.800 --> 01:06:11.280
significant similarities in their interesting book on
longevity Pound Javert and cheu ouper wrols Enfaud

803
01:06:11.360 --> 01:06:16.760
makes a report on interviews conducted with
a twelve- zero people dependent on social

804
01:06:16.880 --> 01:06:21.119
benefit who said they were a hundred
years old or older. It was evident

805
01:06:21.119 --> 01:06:26.960
that, although these individuals worked hard
and enjoyed the work, there was a

806
01:06:27.039 --> 01:06:30.559
notable lack of great ambitions among them. The tendency had been to lead a

807
01:06:30.679 --> 01:06:35.400
relatively quiet and independent life. In
general, they were happy with work,

808
01:06:35.760 --> 01:06:42.679
family and religion and had little to
regret. Almost all expressed a strong desire

809
01:06:42.760 --> 01:06:45.320
to live and a great appreciation for
the simple experiences and pleasures of life.

810
01:06:48.639 --> 01:06:54.960
If aging was simply a matter of
wear and tear, it would be expected

811
01:06:55.079 --> 01:06:58.800
that all the centennials would be in
poor health, trapped in bodies with many

812
01:06:58.800 --> 01:07:02.159
damaged parts. Indeed, among our
centennials there are good levels of health.

813
01:07:02.440 --> 01:07:06.800
Less than one in five report being
incapacitated or so sick that they require help

814
01:07:06.920 --> 01:07:13.000
to eat, walk, bathe,
etc. Most still move unaided, almost

815
01:07:13.039 --> 01:07:16.039
always without crutches or sticks, and
many continue to work, at least in

816
01:07:16.400 --> 01:07:25.000
household chores and personal care. Trying
to articulate a specific long- lived personality

817
01:07:25.119 --> 01:07:29.159
is too constrictive for the centennials.
The benign, quiet and wise grandfather is

818
01:07:29.239 --> 01:07:33.480
only one type among many. They
also reach the hundred selfish, sarcastic and

819
01:07:33.519 --> 01:07:39.679
antisocial people. The common thread is
a sense of self- sufficiency much deeper

820
01:07:39.760 --> 01:07:44.800
than personality. In support of this
point, a study conducted in one thousand

821
01:07:44.840 --> 01:07:47.360
nine hundred and seventy- three in
New York City between seventy- nine healthy

822
01:07:47.440 --> 01:07:51.199
people older than eighty- seven found
that they hardly ever went to a doctor.

823
01:07:51.559 --> 01:07:56.519
They were not found in homes for
the sick and rarely in geriatric institutions.

824
01:07:56.639 --> 01:08:00.199
Dr Steven Page wet p psychias s
NS, led the New York study,

825
01:08:00.519 --> 01:08:03.920
made it clear that his subjects were
not mere survivors by chance or fortunate

826
01:08:03.920 --> 01:08:11.559
receptors of good genes. Undoubtedly,
the seventy- nine people studied had escaped

827
01:08:11.639 --> 01:08:16.359
catastrophic diseases, such as heart attack
and cancer. In the middle critical period

828
01:08:16.399 --> 01:08:20.000
between forty- five and sixty-
five years. That' s when they

829
01:08:20.079 --> 01:08:25.319
tend to get the most tithe,
bad genes, high blood pressure, high

830
01:08:25.319 --> 01:08:30.920
cholesterol, smoking, alcoholism, and
other negative factors. But Jehuet' s

831
01:08:30.000 --> 01:08:34.079
subjects were made up to stay healthy
already advanced the eighth and ninth decade of

832
01:08:34.159 --> 01:08:40.880
life. That indicated that some powerful
positive factors were in their favour. Jehuet

833
01:08:40.960 --> 01:08:45.720
' s study considered longevity in broad
terms. Most of the factors he found

834
01:08:45.760 --> 01:08:51.039
were subjective in nature related to what
these people thought of themselves. By comparison,

835
01:08:51.399 --> 01:08:56.359
the purely objective factors linked to long
life were few and very general,

836
01:08:56.880 --> 01:09:04.560
physical characteristics, no excessive obesity or
thinness, little weight fluctuation throughout life,

837
01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:11.279
good general muscle tone, strength in
the hands young- looking skin, still

838
01:09:12.359 --> 01:09:19.199
driving cars and practicing physical activities,
psychological characteristics, including lifestyle and behavior.

839
01:09:24.239 --> 01:09:28.880
Superior natural intelligence, marked interest in
current events, good memory, free of

840
01:09:29.880 --> 01:09:35.439
anxieties, few diseases, are not
prone to worry independence. In choosing vocation,

841
01:09:35.960 --> 01:09:43.000
they tended to work autonomously. They
worked in agriculture and plant husbandry and

842
01:09:43.039 --> 01:09:46.960
in the professions of law, medicine
and architecture. Others had small businesses of

843
01:09:46.960 --> 01:09:51.880
their own, in a few cases
large companies. Most of them took time

844
01:09:51.960 --> 01:09:58.159
to retire. Almost all had been
severely affected by the depression that occurred when

845
01:09:58.239 --> 01:10:01.960
they were quincuagenaires or their exagenaries,
but they recovered and built a new future.

846
01:10:03.359 --> 01:10:09.399
They enjoyed life. They all showed
a degree of optimism and a marked

847
01:10:09.520 --> 01:10:14.840
sense of humor. They responded to
simple pleasures. Life seems to have been

848
01:10:14.960 --> 01:10:18.720
a great adventure for them. They
were able to see beauty, where others

849
01:10:18.800 --> 01:10:26.479
only saw ugliness great adaptability. Although
many treasured the memories of childhood, everyone

850
01:10:26.920 --> 01:10:32.319
preferred to live in it present.
With his many changes. They didn'

851
01:10:32.439 --> 01:10:36.279
t care about death. They continued
to live with satisfaction day by day.

852
01:10:38.239 --> 01:10:42.399
All could be described as religious in
a broad sense, but none of them

853
01:10:42.399 --> 01:10:48.920
exhibited extreme orthodoxy were moderate in eating
but were willing to experiment. They did

854
01:10:49.039 --> 01:10:54.760
not follow special diets. His diet
included a wide variety of high- protein

855
01:10:54.840 --> 01:11:00.760
and low- fat foods. Everybody
got up early. The average rest was

856
01:11:00.880 --> 01:11:04.039
between six and seven hours, but
they spent eight hours in bed. Abbreviated

857
01:11:04.119 --> 01:11:10.520
or interrupted sleep is typical of old
age. There was no uniformity in drinking.

858
01:11:11.960 --> 01:11:15.520
Some drank moderately, others gave in
sometimes, and others were non-

859
01:11:16.880 --> 01:11:21.479
smoking. Some were abstaining, some
had smoked very moderately, but they had

860
01:11:21.560 --> 01:11:27.600
not been smoking for a long time, and others were old- fashioned drug

861
01:11:27.600 --> 01:11:30.960
smokers. They had used fewer medicines
in their entire lives than many elderly people

862
01:11:31.119 --> 01:11:39.600
in a single week most drank coffee. I have previously analysed some of these

863
01:11:39.600 --> 01:11:44.520
factors. I' d like to
play some others first. The physical characteristics

864
01:11:44.560 --> 01:11:50.720
of the list, although few are
very revealing, longevity and weight. Maintaining

865
01:11:50.760 --> 01:11:55.119
a fairly stable weight throughout life seems
to be more important than being above or

866
01:11:55.199 --> 01:11:59.439
below normal weight, as is the
case with so many findings on longevity.

867
01:12:00.199 --> 01:12:05.520
This one seems insignificant, but it
could have profound implications. In a study

868
01:12:05.600 --> 01:12:11.319
of eleven point seven, zero zero
larver graduates from the classes of one thousand

869
01:12:11.399 --> 01:12:15.039
nine hundred and sixteen to one thousand
and nine hundred and fifty, special attention

870
01:12:15.039 --> 01:12:20.479
was paid to what was happening from
the mature age onwards, the data collected

871
01:12:20.479 --> 01:12:25.359
between one thousand nine hundred and sixty- two and one thousand nine hundred and

872
01:12:25.439 --> 01:12:29.840
eighty- eight revealed that a still
moderate weight gain or loss in a long

873
01:12:29.840 --> 01:12:33.199
period increased the risks of death.
Compared to those who had maintained a constant

874
01:12:33.199 --> 01:12:36.760
weight. Those who dropped five or
more kilos over a period of ten years

875
01:12:36.880 --> 01:12:41.560
had a mortality rate of fifty-
seven percent higher, including a seventy-

876
01:12:42.000 --> 01:12:46.359
five percent higher risk of dying from
heart attack. Those who increased five kilos

877
01:12:46.439 --> 01:12:50.399
or more over a period of ten
years were only a little better with a

878
01:12:50.520 --> 01:12:55.039
higher mortality of thirty- six percent
than those who maintained a stable weight.

879
01:12:55.319 --> 01:13:00.800
The risk of dying from a heart
attack jumped dramatically to 200 percent. This

880
01:13:00.800 --> 01:13:03.520
finding made by ground the common error
that obesity is the main risk linked to

881
01:13:03.640 --> 01:13:09.560
weight. In fact, as long
as it is not a clinical obesity defined

882
01:13:09.720 --> 01:13:13.199
as an excess of fifteen percent or
more over the normal body weight, a

883
01:13:13.199 --> 01:13:17.199
few extra kilos are not related to
shortening of life. It happens on the

884
01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:23.760
contrary. The current extensive studies carried
out by Dr Rubén Andrés have shown that

885
01:13:23.840 --> 01:13:27.720
the lowest mortality occurs among those who
are 10% overweight, the highest among

886
01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:33.920
those who have chronic weight insufficiency.
Andrés' s work, based on studies

887
01:13:33.960 --> 01:13:39.039
by millions of people of different incomes
and social classes, creates chaos in social

888
01:13:39.079 --> 01:13:44.520
values that equate thinness with everything good
and healthy. As a result, many

889
01:13:44.560 --> 01:13:48.479
doctors have preferred to ignore facts that
do not coincide with prevailing beliefs. Hurver

890
01:13:48.560 --> 01:13:53.760
' s study further undermined the stereotype
by stressing the need to maintain a stable

891
01:13:53.840 --> 01:13:59.000
weight. It also supports the old
idea that fast diets are unhealthy. But

892
01:13:59.079 --> 01:14:01.560
it seems to me that it is
a mistake to take this as a purely

893
01:14:01.560 --> 01:14:05.960
physical finding. The weight is inevitably
related to the image that each has of

894
01:14:06.039 --> 01:14:13.439
himself. In the youth. Both
men and women learn to use diets as

895
01:14:13.520 --> 01:14:19.239
a quick solution to improve their own
image. The thinner they are, the

896
01:14:19.359 --> 01:14:24.039
better they consider themselves and the more
likely they are to believe that they have

897
01:14:24.039 --> 01:14:28.319
cured all their problems. However,
the improvements to that of the gazar two

898
01:14:28.439 --> 01:14:32.279
three or five kilos are superficial,
since the deepest emotional problems remain intact.

899
01:14:34.159 --> 01:14:39.800
It is typical that chronic diet addicts
fall into yoyo syndrome. It thins to

900
01:14:39.880 --> 01:14:44.600
a few kilos when its self-
esteem is relatively high, only to recover

901
01:14:44.640 --> 01:14:46.479
them very soon and with some aggregates. When self- esteem decays again.

902
01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:50.319
The fact that both raising and losing
weight to cutting my life leads me to

903
01:14:50.359 --> 01:14:55.920
think that the real culprit is the
lack of self- esteem. Subjects who

904
01:14:55.960 --> 01:14:59.720
have maintained a stable weight are usually
stable in the psychological plane as well.

905
01:15:00.159 --> 01:15:03.720
That is his saving virtue, not
the weight itself. Clinical obesity remains a

906
01:15:03.760 --> 01:15:09.199
proven risk of heart disorders and type
two diabetes, but physical activity can compensate

907
01:15:09.239 --> 01:15:13.319
for overweight because carrying those extra kilos
provides the heart with considerable aerobic exercise.

908
01:15:17.600 --> 01:15:24.159
Longevity and exercise firm hand and good
muscle tone found in Jehuette subjects indicate they

909
01:15:24.199 --> 01:15:30.600
were active people. However, the
lack of organized physical exercises is notable,

910
01:15:30.239 --> 01:15:35.920
although it is known that exercise delays
aging. To understand this apparent anomaly,

911
01:15:36.159 --> 01:15:42.960
we must study more deeply how much
activity is really needed to make a significant

912
01:15:43.000 --> 01:15:48.119
contribution to longevity. Dr Steven Duaire
and his colleagues from the Institute for Aerobic

913
01:15:48.159 --> 01:15:53.600
Exercises Research conducted wheel tests on more
than ten zero men and three zero women.

914
01:15:55.079 --> 01:15:58.640
Then they followed the group for ten
years to determine to what extent good

915
01:15:58.720 --> 01:16:02.560
physical condition was a defense ons.
Another way of expressing the same is that

916
01:16:02.680 --> 01:16:09.600
developing any physical activity is very preferable
to remaining inactive. According to the Bler

917
01:16:09.720 --> 01:16:13.319
study, the mortality rate of sedentary
men and women was twice that of people

918
01:16:13.399 --> 01:16:19.399
walking every day. Walking burns between
two hundred and ninety- four hundred and

919
01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:23.880
thirty calories per hour. Depending on
the speed at which you walk, this

920
01:16:23.920 --> 01:16:27.600
is equivalent to an average of 180
calories. In the thirty minutes necessary to

921
01:16:27.680 --> 01:16:33.920
stay healthy. You can burn about
the same amount of calories as thirty minutes

922
01:16:34.000 --> 01:16:40.600
of dance, twenty minutes of tennis, seventeen minutes of hiking uphill fifteen minutes

923
01:16:40.720 --> 01:16:46.439
of swimming. If you want to
spend these calories on household chores, the

924
01:16:46.520 --> 01:16:53.680
times turn out to be forty minutes
of house cleaning, thirty minutes of deserving

925
01:16:53.760 --> 01:16:57.239
the garden, twenty- five minutes
of mowing the lawn twelve five minutes of

926
01:16:57.239 --> 01:17:00.439
snow removal. I' m not
suggesting you count calories when you exercise.

927
01:17:00.880 --> 01:17:05.159
I offer these daughters to point out
how easy you can keep your health without

928
01:17:05.279 --> 01:17:11.319
feeling guilty for not jogging seven kilometers
every morning or swimming in the gym every

929
01:17:11.399 --> 01:17:14.600
time you climb the stairs. Instead
of taking the elevator, your body uses

930
01:17:14.720 --> 01:17:19.439
only four five calories per stretch,
but this low figure is misleading. Climbing

931
01:17:19.520 --> 01:17:25.039
the stairs is an excellent aerobic exercise
that accelerates the heart rate in ten beats

932
01:17:25.159 --> 01:17:30.159
for each elevated stretch. A study
in Finland showed that those who climbed at

933
01:17:30.239 --> 01:17:34.600
least twenty- five stairways per day
achieved a remarkable physical state. Going up

934
01:17:34.760 --> 01:17:40.039
all that once too much the heart
would suffer a dangerous overload, but whoever

935
01:17:40.159 --> 01:17:44.239
lives in a two- storey house
can easily climb the stairs twelve times a

936
01:17:44.239 --> 01:17:46.960
day. Let' s add the
opportunity to climb the stairs at work or

937
01:17:47.000 --> 01:17:50.159
when doing the shopping. Every time
you see a escalator or lift, the

938
01:17:50.159 --> 01:17:55.399
stairs are nearby and the total of
twenty- five stages per day is achieved

939
01:17:55.479 --> 01:17:59.960
with amazing ease. It' s
just a matter of being alert to the

940
01:17:59.960 --> 01:18:04.119
opportunities. Exercise a little every day
is much better than waiting for the weekend.

941
01:18:05.560 --> 01:18:10.359
The activity that starts and stops produces
tension to the body that prefers short

942
01:18:10.439 --> 01:18:15.359
daily sessions. It will be you
who decide to call or not exercise your

943
01:18:15.359 --> 01:18:18.199
activity. Some people don' t
care about sports or gymnastics, but you

944
01:18:18.279 --> 01:18:23.800
can stay active making the bed,
climbing stairs, walking instead of taking a

945
01:18:23.880 --> 01:18:29.000
taxi, coming home on foot with
a bag of supplies, etcetera. A

946
01:18:29.079 --> 01:18:34.560
longer and more sustained exercise is required
to develop general good condition, build muscle

947
01:18:34.680 --> 01:18:43.560
and increase endurance. The above activities
basically serve to tone the cardiovascular system by

948
01:18:43.640 --> 01:18:46.239
pumping the blood a little faster and
giving a little effort to the lungs.

949
01:18:47.800 --> 01:18:53.520
Regular aerobic exercises will make you healthier, but they will not necessarily give rich

950
01:18:53.600 --> 01:18:58.239
dividends as to adding years of life. In fact, some detailed studies that

951
01:18:58.319 --> 01:19:01.079
followed some Huver graduates over three decades
showed that intensive exercise, which consumes 2,

952
01:19:01.640 --> 01:19:05.119
000 calories a week, or the
equivalent of running thirty kilometers lengthened life

953
01:19:05.199 --> 01:19:13.399
between one and two years. Cardiologist
Dinon has been estimated to be required in

954
01:19:13.399 --> 01:19:16.039
thirty minutes of career six days a
week to burn 2, 000 calories.

955
01:19:17.079 --> 01:19:20.800
At this time you should add half
an hour to change and go to the

956
01:19:20.920 --> 01:19:25.920
track and another half an hour to
go home, shower and change your clothes

957
01:19:25.920 --> 01:19:29.560
again. If someone starts running at
the age of thirty, at seventy-

958
01:19:29.960 --> 01:19:32.600
five, the hours spent on the
exercise will amount to between one or two

959
01:19:32.600 --> 01:19:38.199
years. As this equals the additional
life that can be obtained. The net

960
01:19:38.359 --> 01:19:45.039
dividend is zero. Intense exercise offers
only the illusion of prolonging life. This

961
01:19:45.159 --> 01:19:48.680
does not mean that you should not
exercise thoroughly, but if you do,

962
01:19:49.399 --> 01:19:55.319
you should know what you will not
get more time, but a better quality

963
01:19:55.319 --> 01:20:01.520
of life, which is certainly a
very great advantage longevi In Jehuet' s

964
01:20:01.600 --> 01:20:05.439
study shines, because of its absence, the role of diet is not made

965
01:20:05.560 --> 01:20:11.680
any mention of rigorous attempts to control
cholesterol. There is no insistence on the

966
01:20:11.760 --> 01:20:15.520
use of vitamins and minerals. Healthy
diets, fiber supplements, and vegetarianism are

967
01:20:15.840 --> 01:20:20.960
not recommended. Centenarians eat a wide
variety of foods, as all studies have

968
01:20:21.000 --> 01:20:25.960
confirmed, but the fact that they
maintain a constant weight suggests that they tend

969
01:20:26.079 --> 01:20:30.319
to eat in moderation. Beyond that, it seems that many of our current

970
01:20:30.399 --> 01:20:38.680
food beliefs should be less rigid.
This point has been strongly pointed out by

971
01:20:38.760 --> 01:20:42.760
a recent revealing study. In Finland, which traditionally has the highest rate of

972
01:20:42.800 --> 01:20:46.760
heart attacks in the world, some
cardiac disorders researchers chose one, two,

973
01:20:47.000 --> 01:20:50.319
zero zero executives from companies considered to
be at high risk of an attack,

974
01:20:50.680 --> 01:20:57.439
as they presented one or more of
the classic risk factors obesity, high blood

975
01:20:57.479 --> 01:21:04.760
pressure, high cholesterol and high tobacco
addiction. Each one smoked more than ten

976
01:21:04.840 --> 01:21:09.840
cigarettes a day. Half of these
men were given an intensive five- year

977
01:21:09.960 --> 01:21:15.359
programme, with a controlled diet,
regular examinations and detailed information on their potential

978
01:21:15.479 --> 01:21:19.600
risks. The other group was allowed
to live as they wished, but with

979
01:21:19.680 --> 01:21:25.960
regular exams. At the end of
the five years, researchers took a big

980
01:21:26.039 --> 01:21:29.520
surprise to discover that mortality was much
higher in the group that had been advised

981
01:21:29.600 --> 01:21:32.800
to avoid cholesterol, calories, sugar
and alcohol, including twice as many deaths

982
01:21:32.800 --> 01:21:40.880
from heart attacks. This despite the
fact that the group closely monitored. He

983
01:21:40.960 --> 01:21:45.079
had been advised to consume more unsaturated
fats, mainly margarine, replace red meat

984
01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:51.199
with fish, chicken and vegetables,
stop smoking and reduce alcohol consumption. After

985
01:21:51.239 --> 01:21:57.880
fifteen years, statistics continued to be
asymmetrical. The closely monitored group had suffered

986
01:21:58.000 --> 01:22:04.520
34 deaths from heart problems. The
control group only fourteen. According to all

987
01:22:04.640 --> 01:22:09.680
estimates, the group that was allowed
to continue smoking, drinking, and overeating

988
01:22:09.720 --> 01:22:15.840
should have been in much greater danger
than had happened. The perverse results may

989
01:22:17.399 --> 01:22:23.199
or may not imply that controlling ingested
cholesterol is important for health, but they

990
01:22:23.319 --> 01:22:30.000
are certainly a condemnation of the stressful
current prevention techniques. One of Britain'

991
01:22:30.079 --> 01:22:34.640
s leading cardiologists expresses this strongly.
These results do not mean that one can

992
01:22:34.760 --> 01:22:39.720
foolishly get fed up with impunity.
But my opinion is that if a patient

993
01:22:39.760 --> 01:22:43.680
exhausted by effort and stress sees his
existence invaded by doctors and other benefactors eager

994
01:22:43.760 --> 01:22:47.119
to constrain his or her way of
eating and other behaviors, the factor of

995
01:22:47.159 --> 01:22:53.319
harassment and loss of autonomy can be
the gout that overflows the glass. Here

996
01:22:53.359 --> 01:22:58.800
the significant phrase is loss of autonomy. As we have seen, a strong

997
01:22:58.920 --> 01:23:02.520
sense of individual freedom, combined with
personal happiness, is a critical factor in

998
01:23:02.600 --> 01:23:08.479
surviving to advanced age with good health. Fear is not a good motivator because

999
01:23:08.560 --> 01:23:14.119
it causes its own tensions. However, millions of people have been indoctrinated on

1000
01:23:14.199 --> 01:23:17.359
cholesterol in the assumption that the price
of fear is small compared to the price

1001
01:23:17.439 --> 01:23:23.760
of a high cholesterol index. This
is a very short- sighted strategy.

1002
01:23:24.680 --> 01:23:28.159
For forty years, cholesterol has been
promoted as an enemy of the body,

1003
01:23:28.560 --> 01:23:32.319
even though all cells need it to
survive. Cholesterol is a fundamental part of

1004
01:23:32.439 --> 01:23:36.760
cell membranes, among other functions.
And even though two thirds of our body

1005
01:23:36.800 --> 01:23:41.199
' s cholesterol is not absorbed by
food, but is manufactured by the liver,

1006
01:23:41.399 --> 01:23:45.760
the very premise that a low rate
of beneficial cholesterol has fallen under increasing

1007
01:23:45.840 --> 01:23:51.520
suspicion In an intense review of 18
studies carried out around the world that covered

1008
01:23:51.560 --> 01:23:57.159
six hundred and fifty people from the
United States, Japan, Europe and Israel,

1009
01:23:57.960 --> 01:24:00.319
the benefits of having under ns the
level of zero cholesterol were refuted.

1010
01:24:01.239 --> 01:24:05.600
The one hundred and twenty- five
zero point, zero zero women studied had

1011
01:24:05.720 --> 01:24:10.640
the same life expectancy with high,
low or medium cholesterol rates. Moreover,

1012
01:24:11.199 --> 01:24:15.199
there were no specific causes of death, such as cancer or heart attack that

1013
01:24:15.560 --> 01:24:19.840
related to cholesterol levels were high or
low. These findings are of dual importance,

1014
01:24:20.560 --> 01:24:25.439
since almost all the classical studies that
prevented against cholesterol were based on male

1015
01:24:25.520 --> 01:24:33.720
people. Among the five hundred twenty
zero point, zero zero men studied,

1016
01:24:34.279 --> 01:24:40.159
the findings were somewhat more complex.
Men whose cholesterol rates ranged from the acceptable

1017
01:24:40.239 --> 01:24:44.520
maximum of 200 to 200, had
the same survival cups as those with low

1018
01:24:44.560 --> 01:24:48.720
rates of one hundred and sixty to
two hundred. The worst were those with

1019
01:24:48.760 --> 01:24:55.039
very high or very low rates.
Men who had a cholesterol level below one

1020
01:24:55.119 --> 01:24:59.279
hundred and sixty had a seventeen percent
greater chance of dying for all causes,

1021
01:24:59.520 --> 01:25:05.520
as well as those with very high
rates above two hundred and forty. This

1022
01:25:05.600 --> 01:25:11.439
research, published in September of one
thousand nine hundred and ninety- two by

1023
01:25:11.520 --> 01:25:16.760
the prestigious publication being that ASSIN loosely
represents the largest number of data ever collected,

1024
01:25:17.199 --> 01:25:20.560
deeply attacks our conventional idea that fat
and cholesterol are bad, but the

1025
01:25:20.600 --> 01:25:26.159
result is not yet clear. Tests
against fat- rich diets remain strong,

1026
01:25:26.800 --> 01:25:31.800
especially considering the additional risks presented by
common state obesity. In rich diet countries,

1027
01:25:32.279 --> 01:25:36.359
keeping fat at 30 percent of total
calories remains the most prudent attitude.

1028
01:25:40.920 --> 01:25:45.279
What this all means is that a
healthy diet must have two components. One

1029
01:25:45.359 --> 01:25:49.279
must be psychologically satisfactory, two must
provide a balanced amount of nutrients several times

1030
01:25:49.359 --> 01:25:57.520
a day. These are very basic
requirements, but in a society obsessed with

1031
01:25:57.640 --> 01:26:00.119
good and bad foods, which eats
half of its meals in fast food stalls

1032
01:26:00.199 --> 01:26:04.840
and presents record cups of obesity,
alcoholism, eating disorders and instant diets.

1033
01:26:08.439 --> 01:26:13.960
It' s hard to meet them. Due to its evolution, Our body

1034
01:26:14.079 --> 01:26:17.279
has been designed to ingest a wide
variety of foods, but we have endangered

1035
01:26:17.439 --> 01:26:24.840
that great adaptability with a nutritional overload
in the paleolithic recipe. This boeril and

1036
01:26:24.880 --> 01:26:29.399
its co- authors point out that
supposedly primitive diets were much more concentrated on

1037
01:26:29.520 --> 01:26:32.840
all vitamins and minerals than modern diets, paying much less attention to fats,

1038
01:26:33.239 --> 01:26:39.159
proteins, salts, sugar and calories. Stone- age man, like most

1039
01:26:39.159 --> 01:26:43.279
tribal communities today, ingested a low- fat diet consisting mostly of plant-

1040
01:26:43.479 --> 01:26:50.520
derived foods, with some occasional bite
of meat or fish. Since all foods

1041
01:26:50.600 --> 01:26:56.399
were fresh and low in fat,
our ancestors avoided one of the main dangers

1042
01:26:56.439 --> 01:27:02.399
of modern diets, the high concentrations
of useless calories. The human body was

1043
01:27:02.479 --> 01:27:08.079
designed to eat all kinds of food, but nature provides few with concentrated calories.

1044
01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:14.800
Walnuts, seeds and meat are the
most concentrated foods found in wildlife and

1045
01:27:14.880 --> 01:27:18.159
constitute a relatively small part of the
usual diet of almost all tribal societies.

1046
01:27:21.960 --> 01:27:27.680
For the most part, indigenous peoples
must consume large amounts of fruits, grains

1047
01:27:27.720 --> 01:27:30.760
and vegetables up to three kilos a
day in order to obtain the same calories

1048
01:27:30.880 --> 01:27:35.319
as we get with one third of
that consumption. This also explains the faster

1049
01:27:35.399 --> 01:27:40.560
digestion of indigenous diets and the higher
volume of elimination up to two kilos of

1050
01:27:40.680 --> 01:27:46.279
feces per day. Fruits vegetables and
cereals contain large amounts of water and non

1051
01:27:46.560 --> 01:27:49.920
- digestible fibers. Therefore, you
need to eat a lot of them to

1052
01:27:49.960 --> 01:27:56.119
extract calories that serve as fuel to
the body. Indigenous diets, in addition

1053
01:27:56.159 --> 01:28:00.439
to providing enough fiber to the intestines, have the benefit of entering the vitamins.

1054
01:28:00.399 --> 01:28:04.600
A handful of wild vegetables can contain
all the vitamins needed for a day

1055
01:28:04.640 --> 01:28:10.119
of fifty to sixty mg with less
than ten calories. Instead, a toast,

1056
01:28:10.600 --> 01:28:14.159
a doughnut, a plate of cereals, coffee, and a glass of

1057
01:28:14.239 --> 01:28:17.039
milk satisfy only four percent of the
vitamin required for the day with five hundred

1058
01:28:17.159 --> 01:28:23.560
calories as a source of vitamin C. Wild vegetables are one point two,

1059
01:28:23.760 --> 01:28:28.560
five, zero times more effective by
calorie. By contrast, almost all processed

1060
01:28:28.680 --> 01:28:32.439
foods contain large doses of salt and
sugar, along with extremely high fat proportions.

1061
01:28:35.279 --> 01:28:40.640
Although diet was not a distinguished feature
of centennials, inadequate nutrition is clearly

1062
01:28:40.720 --> 01:28:46.720
linked to disease and premature aging.
The most recent statistics indicate that the typical

1063
01:28:46.760 --> 01:28:50.960
American diet contains forty percent fat,
sixty- five kilos of white sugar per

1064
01:28:51.000 --> 01:28:55.000
year and three to five times as
much as the one needed by the body

1065
01:28:55.079 --> 01:28:59.520
can' t be a coincidence that
eighty- six percent of the States meeting

1066
01:28:59.560 --> 01:29:02.279
over sixty- five years of age
suffer from one or more generative disorders,

1067
01:29:02.880 --> 01:29:11.079
such as heart disease, cancer,
arthritis, diabetes, and osteoporosis. Although

1068
01:29:11.119 --> 01:29:15.159
these diseases have long been considered to
be diseases of old age, we see

1069
01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:19.119
them more appropriately as diseases of a
lifestyle. There are alarming signs that these

1070
01:29:19.159 --> 01:29:24.600
same disorders occur in people under 50
years of age and even in young children.

1071
01:29:26.439 --> 01:29:30.119
If members of primitive and tribal societies
survive childhood diseases and escape accidents,

1072
01:29:30.319 --> 01:29:33.439
the two main causes of premature death
in wildlife enjoy strong and healthy constitutions throughout

1073
01:29:33.479 --> 01:29:43.159
life. By contrast, our Moidern
lifestyle creates the foundation for cancer and heart

1074
01:29:43.239 --> 01:29:49.199
disorders in all age groups. A
hundred years ago, when Americans ingested much

1075
01:29:49.279 --> 01:29:55.640
less fat and processed foods, much
more fiber, and only a fraction of

1076
01:29:55.680 --> 01:29:59.640
our consumption of white sugar, the
incidence of chronic diseases serra n n n

1077
01:29:59.720 --> 01:30:03.880
p NS. It is therefore worth
returning to a more natural diet. Given

1078
01:30:04.079 --> 01:30:10.279
all the evidence associated with diet,
there is the issue of alcohol, which

1079
01:30:10.399 --> 01:30:15.479
has its own ambiguities for several decades. Population studies in Europe have indicated that

1080
01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:19.479
those who drink a moderate amount of
wine only one or two glasses a day

1081
01:30:19.560 --> 01:30:27.199
have lower heart attack cups than large
drinkers and abstemies. The exact mechanism is

1082
01:30:27.279 --> 01:30:30.479
the subject of debate, but it
is known that alcohol raises HDL rates,

1083
01:30:30.119 --> 01:30:34.680
high- density hypoproteins, good cholesterol
and dilates blood vessels, thereby reducing blood

1084
01:30:34.680 --> 01:30:44.000
pressure. It also overrides emotional inhibitions, perhaps counteracting the tendency to accumulate emotional

1085
01:30:44.079 --> 01:30:49.560
tensions. Against this, however,
we must weigh some very negative effects.

1086
01:30:50.640 --> 01:30:56.680
Alcoholism is a serious social problem and
alcohol as a chemical element is toxic to

1087
01:30:56.760 --> 01:31:00.079
brain cells, it dehydrates the intestines, without being able to reverse the assimilation

1088
01:31:00.159 --> 01:31:06.000
of vital nutrients, especially in the
elderly. There are various types of cancer

1089
01:31:06.039 --> 01:31:10.760
and birth defects that have been associated
with the habit of drinking, albeit moderately,

1090
01:31:11.880 --> 01:31:16.239
not to mention the wide variety of
disorders affecting alcoholics. If we consult

1091
01:31:16.319 --> 01:31:20.439
Jehuet' s study of octogenarians,
but enagenaires who aged well, the fact

1092
01:31:20.479 --> 01:31:25.840
that subjects presented wide variations in their
drinking habits suggests that alcohol itself is not

1093
01:31:26.079 --> 01:31:31.279
a definitive factor. The only clear
implication is that the centennial alcoholics are very

1094
01:31:31.359 --> 01:31:36.199
few, if any, died at
a much earlier age. Despite the lower

1095
01:31:36.239 --> 01:31:43.199
incidence of heart disease, which is
the largest contribution of alcohol to health,

1096
01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:53.680
there is no evidence that drinking significantly
increases longevity as a goal. By summarizing

1097
01:31:53.760 --> 01:31:58.600
the physical findings of Jehuet' s
study, we discovered that his subjects maintained

1098
01:31:58.600 --> 01:32:01.119
a stable weight, ate moderately to
s, and remained active throughout their lives.

1099
01:32:02.119 --> 01:32:08.239
Obviously, these factors are not enough
to explain longevity. Millions of people

1100
01:32:08.359 --> 01:32:12.399
have those same habits and do not
reach such an advanced age. It is

1101
01:32:12.479 --> 01:32:17.279
the psychological factors in Jehuet' s
profile that differentiate these subjects more clearly from

1102
01:32:17.359 --> 01:32:23.800
their optimism, lack of worries,
emotional adaptability, the ability to enjoy and

1103
01:32:23.800 --> 01:32:28.000
the love of autonomy. All this
indicates a high degree of psychological health.

1104
01:32:29.000 --> 01:32:31.840
The fact that they had a higher
intelligence than the average also correlates well with

1105
01:32:31.920 --> 01:32:38.000
similar studies. Higher intelligence makes it
easier to maintain good health, earn a

1106
01:32:38.079 --> 01:32:44.239
stable income, and solve personal problems
at the other end. People of low

1107
01:32:44.279 --> 01:32:47.479
intelligence are often unable to take advantage
of the advice of books and articles on

1108
01:32:47.560 --> 01:32:51.640
health and nutrition. They fall more
easily into low- income groups that cannot

1109
01:32:51.720 --> 01:32:58.600
afford good quality housing, food and
health care. In addition, poor and

1110
01:32:58.640 --> 01:33:01.840
uneducated people have the highest consumption of
cigarettes, which are powerful in terms of

1111
01:33:01.880 --> 01:33:08.319
cutting off their lives. One wonders
whether longevity belongs only to those who are

1112
01:33:08.399 --> 01:33:13.680
lucky enough to be born with certain
advantages. Psychologically healthy people tend to come

1113
01:33:13.760 --> 01:33:18.199
from psychologically healthy families. Parents with
higher education and good incomes tend to provide

1114
01:33:18.319 --> 01:33:21.479
better education for their children, who
in turn go on to earn better wages.

1115
01:33:24.880 --> 01:33:29.159
There is no doubt that these advantages
are very useful. In a brief

1116
01:33:29.239 --> 01:33:33.640
but very suggestive study conducted in one
thousand nine hundred and seventy, the psychiatrist

1117
01:33:33.680 --> 01:33:39.840
Erec Fifhred took thirty- four advanced
sexagenic men and women qualified as the best

1118
01:33:39.880 --> 01:33:43.760
aging group by the University of Duke' s longevity study, one of the

1119
01:33:43.840 --> 01:33:47.760
main projects of his species. When
comparing these successful elders with 34 men and

1120
01:33:47.800 --> 01:33:56.439
women with the worst aging, Feiffer
discovered a significant difference in longevity. Men

1121
01:33:56.560 --> 01:34:02.720
of better aging survived on average,
fourteen comas eight years longer than those of

1122
01:34:02.840 --> 01:34:10.600
worse aging. The women were separated
by a slightly smaller difference, thirteen comma

1123
01:34:10.760 --> 01:34:15.520
eight years. This difference was not
due to a single factor, but rather

1124
01:34:15.600 --> 01:34:19.880
to a constellation of biological, psychological
and social factors resulting in what could be

1125
01:34:19.960 --> 01:34:27.479
qualified as elite status. According to
Feifer, the characteristics of this elite status

1126
01:34:27.520 --> 01:34:34.319
were the following men one financial state. Seventy percent of the long- lived

1127
01:34:34.399 --> 01:34:40.319
men described their state as unbridled.
Eighty percent of those short- lived said

1128
01:34:40.479 --> 01:34:45.399
they were poor, two self-
perceptions of health as they grew old.

1129
01:34:45.720 --> 01:34:47.920
Seventy- five percent of the long- lived said that their health was equal

1130
01:34:48.000 --> 01:34:51.520
to or better than at the age
of fifty- five. Eighty percent of

1131
01:34:51.680 --> 01:34:58.560
the short- lived said their health
had worsened three self- evaluated physical functionings

1132
01:34:58.600 --> 01:35:01.840
in the sixties. Three percent of
the long- liveds said they had no

1133
01:35:01.960 --> 01:35:06.960
disorders or at most mild disabilities.
Sixty percent of short- lived people fell

1134
01:35:08.079 --> 01:35:15.479
into a 20 percent disability category to
total disability. Four improvement in the financial

1135
01:35:15.600 --> 01:35:18.600
statement. Seventy percent of long-
lived men said their income was equal to

1136
01:35:18.680 --> 01:35:24.039
or better than at the age of
fifty- five. Sixty percent of short

1137
01:35:24.239 --> 01:35:29.600
- lived people said they were worse. Five marital status. Ninety- five

1138
01:35:29.680 --> 01:35:32.880
percent of long- lived men were
married to seventy- five percent of short

1139
01:35:33.319 --> 01:35:42.479
- lived women one intellectual ratio.
Long- lived women had a score fifty

1140
01:35:42.520 --> 01:35:45.399
percent higher than those of short-
lived, two self- perceptions of health

1141
01:35:47.319 --> 01:35:53.119
as they grew older. Forty-
seven percent of the long- lived women

1142
01:35:53.199 --> 01:35:56.520
evaluated their health as better than at
the age of fifty- five, while

1143
01:35:56.600 --> 01:36:00.199
fifty- three percent of the short- lived women considered that their salutation had

1144
01:36:00.279 --> 01:36:05.760
worsened three civil states. Seventy-
one per cent of long- term women

1145
01:36:05.880 --> 01:36:10.640
were married, seventy- one per
cent of short- lived women not four

1146
01:36:12.159 --> 01:36:17.000
physical performance evaluations. Were many more
long- lived women considered to be healthy

1147
01:36:17.119 --> 01:36:21.760
or barely disabled? There were many
more short- lived women who were considered

1148
01:36:21.880 --> 01:36:28.560
to be partially or totally incapacitated.
Five changes in the financial statement. Among

1149
01:36:28.600 --> 01:36:31.920
the long- lived, many more
were financially better than at the age of

1150
01:36:31.920 --> 01:36:35.960
fifty- five, among the short- lived, many more had impoverished.

1151
01:36:38.399 --> 01:36:42.199
The conception of an elite of aging
supports the idea that biology can suffer the

1152
01:36:42.319 --> 01:36:47.680
influence of external factors. Coming from
a disadvantaged environment does not automatically disqualify a

1153
01:36:47.840 --> 01:36:53.079
person to improve their situation. As
long as a person achieves a stable income,

1154
01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:58.800
good health and a satisfactory marriage,
he or she will be increasing his

1155
01:36:58.800 --> 01:37:02.039
or her chances of living longer.
But longevity itself can be proposed as a

1156
01:37:02.159 --> 01:37:08.319
conscious goal. Although almost all of
us try to achieve the best possible life,

1157
01:37:08.720 --> 01:37:11.960
we do not always equate that goal
with a long life. Throughout history,

1158
01:37:12.319 --> 01:37:15.039
longevity has been a prime goal,
conscious only for a small number of

1159
01:37:15.119 --> 01:37:21.199
people. However, it is important
to bear in mind the wisdom of those

1160
01:37:21.199 --> 01:37:27.239
few. In the 19th century,
when only one in ten people reached the

1161
01:37:27.279 --> 01:37:30.880
age of sixty- five, whoever
survived until the age of ninety or a

1162
01:37:30.000 --> 01:37:35.479
hundred could be considered a source of
wisdom on longevity At the end of the

1163
01:37:35.520 --> 01:37:39.880
century an Englishman called g. M. Hombray, a doctor and professor of

1164
01:37:39.960 --> 01:37:44.359
surgery at Cambridge, examined nine hundred
patients over the age of ninety, selected

1165
01:37:44.359 --> 01:37:48.199
fifty- two who were believed to
be centennials and made a list of their

1166
01:37:48.359 --> 01:37:55.880
habits. He discovered that most of
them were moderate or frugal in eating They

1167
01:37:55.960 --> 01:37:59.760
swallowed little meat and some alcohol,
got up early and liked to work outdoors.

1168
01:38:00.479 --> 01:38:05.199
A vast majority more than eighty percent
declared that they slept wonderfully. Almost

1169
01:38:05.319 --> 01:38:10.399
all declared as an average of more
than eight hours per night for most of

1170
01:38:10.439 --> 01:38:15.319
their lives. As usual, centennial
women vastly outnumbered men, ranging from thirty

1171
01:38:15.479 --> 01:38:20.720
- six to sixteen. Most of
them had been married. Most of them

1172
01:38:21.119 --> 01:38:28.199
had large families. These characteristics respond
to the same patterns as seen in modern

1173
01:38:28.279 --> 01:38:32.439
studies. They also originated what we
might call the movement for longevity, according

1174
01:38:32.479 --> 01:38:38.039
to which the conscious attempt to reach
a long life became more feasible. At

1175
01:38:38.119 --> 01:38:43.640
the end of the Victorian era,
life expectancy was constantly increasing. The work

1176
01:38:43.680 --> 01:38:48.239
of paster and car had aroused enormous
optimism about eliminating epidemic diseases. With social

1177
01:38:48.279 --> 01:38:55.560
reforms, housing, sanitary facilities and
working conditions were improved. Instead of assuming

1178
01:38:55.640 --> 01:38:59.239
that long life was a gift of
providence, people began to accept the resity

1179
01:38:59.239 --> 01:39:02.159
of their existence and to believe that
things could be changed through self- effort.

1180
01:39:04.680 --> 01:39:08.880
Thus the first seeds of the prolongation
were sown. Conscious of life.

1181
01:39:10.920 --> 01:39:16.439
Several nonagenary doctors of the Victorian era
wrote books on longevity. Everyone was eagerly

1182
01:39:16.560 --> 01:39:23.479
advocating a simple diet and abundant exercise. Alexandre Geneoth, a Parisian doctor who

1183
01:39:23.560 --> 01:39:27.000
reached the age of one hundred and
three, revealed that when he was ninety

1184
01:39:27.199 --> 01:39:30.479
- nine, when he got up
every morning to work on his book,

1185
01:39:30.000 --> 01:39:33.359
he came to his studio by climbing
three sections of stairs. His English colleague,

1186
01:39:33.680 --> 01:39:36.760
Sir Herman Webber, a doctor who
lived until the age of ninety-

1187
01:39:38.079 --> 01:39:42.479
five, was inflexible as to the
importance of constant plain exercise. In Genario

1188
01:39:42.840 --> 01:39:46.079
he recommended between one and three hours
of daily walking and taking vacations that included

1189
01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:51.640
climbing mountains and long walks in the
countryside. Other long- standing authorities of

1190
01:39:51.760 --> 01:39:56.399
the time believed in the virtues of
rural life, to remain active in old

1191
01:39:56.439 --> 01:40:00.039
age and to maintain close social ties
with the family and community. It is

1192
01:40:00.119 --> 01:40:08.680
also interesting that many of these elderly
doctors advised vegetarian diets with small amounts of

1193
01:40:08.760 --> 01:40:14.680
farm produce. Most of them argued
that he had to be low about two

1194
01:40:15.119 --> 01:40:17.039
point, five, zero zero per
day, which is a frugal amount for

1195
01:40:17.159 --> 01:40:24.960
an adult who exercises several hours daily. Certain fortuitous tips appear that do not

1196
01:40:25.000 --> 01:40:29.279
have scientific proof, but still seem
valid. Bever and Geniot had in high

1197
01:40:29.359 --> 01:40:34.439
esteem massages and deep breathing exercises.
Today we would call them aerobics to stimulate

1198
01:40:34.560 --> 01:40:41.159
vital organs. None of these counsels
has ever been denied. On the contrary,

1199
01:40:41.520 --> 01:40:45.359
many are supported by modern prevention techniques. In the 1930s, the writer

1200
01:40:45.359 --> 01:40:49.359
Mobison examined in his book of Lonrolife
the longest life the biographies of centennials belonging

1201
01:40:49.439 --> 01:40:57.880
to many European cultures, going back
to ancient times. Ernest came to the

1202
01:40:57.920 --> 01:41:01.199
conclusion that knowledge of some physical processes
would prolong life to the age of one

1203
01:41:01.279 --> 01:41:04.520
hundred or one hundred or one hundred
and twenty years and give the following indications.

1204
01:41:05.960 --> 01:41:15.800
Eat with frugality, exercise and take
plenty of fresh air, choose an

1205
01:41:15.920 --> 01:41:24.760
occupation according to character, develop a
placid or carefree personality, maintain a high

1206
01:41:24.840 --> 01:41:30.800
degree of personal hygiene, drink healthy
fluids, refrain from stimulants and sedatives,

1207
01:41:31.319 --> 01:41:40.840
rest enough, move the intestines once
a day live in a typhusua. These

1208
01:41:40.920 --> 01:41:45.039
pefrimalcas tried to reach a long life. For centuries, the literature of longevity

1209
01:41:45.039 --> 01:41:49.239
has been full of testimonies about the
virtues of strict abstinence in the diet.

1210
01:41:50.760 --> 01:41:56.159
A 15th- century Venetian nobleman named
Luigi Cornaro is famous in gerontology because,

1211
01:41:56.399 --> 01:42:00.399
after a blatantly dissolute youth, he
resolved to lead a healthy life and try

1212
01:42:00.479 --> 01:42:03.760
to survive until he was one hundred
years old. At least, his success

1213
01:42:03.920 --> 01:42:10.760
was spectacular. At a time when
the average person could be considered lucky if

1214
01:42:10.880 --> 01:42:14.520
he was thirty- five years old, Cornaro lived to the age of one

1215
01:42:14.600 --> 01:42:17.000
hundred and three and remained active and
lucid to the end. His method to

1216
01:42:17.079 --> 01:42:20.960
accomplish this feat was to abstain from
drinking and eat very little in essence,

1217
01:42:21.359 --> 01:42:26.039
fasting from thirty- seven years on, Following the idea that the ancient Greeks

1218
01:42:26.119 --> 01:42:30.720
and Romans had of the frugal diet
as a secret of longevity, Cornaro'

1219
01:42:30.800 --> 01:42:38.399
s indications achieved scientific credits centuries later, at least in animal experiments. In

1220
01:42:38.439 --> 01:42:43.800
the 1930s, Dr. Padmekey from
Cornell University took freshly weaned rats and fed

1221
01:42:43.840 --> 01:42:46.640
them with only sixty percent of the
calories a rat eats if he has food

1222
01:42:46.720 --> 01:42:56.279
constantly. The restricted diet was complemented
by the right vitamins and minerals. Restricted

1223
01:42:56.359 --> 01:43:00.600
diet rats grew very slowly compared to
normal, but seemed extremely healthy throughout their

1224
01:43:00.640 --> 01:43:06.920
lives. They could be kept in
a retarded growth cycle for a thousand days,

1225
01:43:08.199 --> 01:43:11.720
when by then all rats maintained on
the diet had died without restrictions.

1226
01:43:13.399 --> 01:43:16.600
When rats on restricted diets were allowed
to eat a complete diet, they began

1227
01:43:16.600 --> 01:43:23.000
to grow normally and showed interest in
sexual activity. Until then, the method

1228
01:43:25.239 --> 01:43:30.119
of undernourishment of em is absent to
this day. Providing whole foods on a

1229
01:43:30.239 --> 01:43:33.319
very low calorie diet is the only
proven way to lengthen the maximum life of

1230
01:43:33.399 --> 01:43:39.680
animals. The follow- up investigation
indicated that the maximum life of fully fed

1231
01:43:39.760 --> 01:43:43.960
rats, approximately on average at 1, 000 days, could be extended to

1232
01:43:44.079 --> 01:43:46.640
one point, six, zero zero
days in undernourished rats, representing an increase

1233
01:43:46.720 --> 01:43:55.600
of sixty percent. This technique would
work in humans perhaps, but the test

1234
01:43:55.680 --> 01:43:59.760
cannot be applied in newly weaned babies, considering the risk of stunting their development

1235
01:43:59.800 --> 01:44:05.119
and taking into account obvious ethical objections. A human diet restricted to sixty percent

1236
01:44:05.279 --> 01:44:10.479
of normal calories approximately one point,
five, zero zero daily for the average

1237
01:44:10.560 --> 01:44:15.960
adult bound with fasting. It would
be intolerable to impose that on children and,

1238
01:44:16.159 --> 01:44:21.680
like adults, young people themselves do
not detect any signs of aging,

1239
01:44:23.039 --> 01:44:27.159
they do not have too many incentives
to avoid it. Cornaro began his fast

1240
01:44:27.199 --> 01:44:32.680
in the middle age, which may
be enough. Dr. Bow Wafer,

1241
01:44:33.000 --> 01:44:38.439
a notable gerontologist at the University of
California and declared an advocate of undernutrition.

1242
01:44:38.760 --> 01:44:43.359
He is one of the few scientists
to practice the method personally. Balford.

1243
01:44:43.439 --> 01:44:46.479
He believes that reducing calories is a
safe and effective procedure. Long after childhood.

1244
01:44:48.000 --> 01:44:51.800
To support his point of view,
he applied a diet restricted to mice

1245
01:44:51.920 --> 01:44:56.640
who were about thirty or thirty-
three years old. On the human scale,

1246
01:44:57.000 --> 01:45:00.399
he discovered that they lived 20 percent
more. Unlike animals following a restricted

1247
01:45:00.439 --> 01:45:08.159
diet from birth. These did not
exceed the age above the mice. On

1248
01:45:08.279 --> 01:45:11.960
the other hand, twenty percent more
life represents about fifteen years in humans.

1249
01:45:14.079 --> 01:45:17.479
The animals had excellent health throughout their
lives and were aged with a fraction of

1250
01:45:17.520 --> 01:45:25.720
the tumors and heart diseases that had
fully fed mice. Balford did not subject

1251
01:45:25.800 --> 01:45:30.840
animals to total fasting every day.
Previous research had shown that following a restricted

1252
01:45:30.920 --> 01:45:38.159
diet only on a daily basis was
highly effective in increasing the duration of life.

1253
01:45:39.119 --> 01:45:42.600
In addition, they were gradually introduced
into the new diet, allowing their

1254
01:45:42.760 --> 01:45:45.680
bodies to change the metabolic adjustment point
to give rise to food restrictions without abrupt

1255
01:45:45.760 --> 01:45:54.279
changes. The metabolic adjustment point is
a brain mechanism that regulates the speed with

1256
01:45:54.399 --> 01:45:59.079
which the body burns fuel. It
also indicates when to be hungry and when

1257
01:45:59.159 --> 01:46:02.239
to be satisfied. If you try
to impose a diet that disagrees with your

1258
01:46:02.359 --> 01:46:06.119
metabolic adjustment point, the brain will
create cravings for food until more food is

1259
01:46:06.199 --> 01:46:13.359
supplied. By gradually changing the metabolic
adjustment point, Valford induced them to get

1260
01:46:13.439 --> 01:46:18.479
in line with the low calories required
by undernourishment. It advises the same gradual

1261
01:46:18.520 --> 01:46:23.840
process for those who adopt its method
to take several months or whole years to

1262
01:46:23.960 --> 01:46:29.840
adjust to a forty percent reduction in
calorie consumption. This gradual plan forms the

1263
01:46:29.920 --> 01:46:32.720
basis of Balford' s diet.
He believes that this will allow anyone to

1264
01:46:32.720 --> 01:46:35.399
overtake the horn and live up to
one hundred and twenty years of age or

1265
01:46:35.399 --> 01:46:40.840
older. The idea is to lose
weight gradually in the next four, five

1266
01:46:40.880 --> 01:46:43.600
or six years. It says until
it' s ten percent to twenty-

1267
01:46:44.239 --> 01:46:47.560
five percent below the adjustment point.
That' s the weight you' ll

1268
01:46:47.680 --> 01:46:51.920
get if you don' t eat
too much or too little. It is

1269
01:46:53.000 --> 01:46:56.800
usually what was weighed between the ages
of twenty- five and thirty. Gradual

1270
01:46:56.880 --> 01:47:00.600
calorie restriction should include a careful selection
of foods that includes all vitamins and minerals.

1271
01:47:02.279 --> 01:47:06.079
It' s not the same undernourishment
as undernourishment. From a medical point

1272
01:47:06.159 --> 01:47:11.159
of view, Balford' s diet
could induce almost safe improvements in health,

1273
01:47:11.520 --> 01:47:16.520
especially in cancer and cardiovascular diseases,
instead of eating the thirty- seven percent

1274
01:47:16.560 --> 01:47:20.760
fat consumed daily by the average American
not even thirty percent advised by prevention experts.

1275
01:47:25.880 --> 01:47:29.319
The Balford regimen reduces fat to a
marginal eleven percent, approximately the one

1276
01:47:29.680 --> 01:47:33.279
containing a tablespoon of vegetable oil plus
a picca of cereal vegetables and fruits.

1277
01:47:35.560 --> 01:47:41.039
Although this consumption is so minimal that
only the most intensely motivated person could realistically

1278
01:47:41.119 --> 01:47:45.560
expect to survive with it does not
normally offer any danger in the short term.

1279
01:47:45.520 --> 01:47:50.520
The published program to reverse heart disease
devised by moneg' s cardiologist contains

1280
01:47:50.920 --> 01:47:55.439
only that amount of fat, as
does the Pritiqui Plan and the previous jub

1281
01:47:55.520 --> 01:48:02.560
University rice diet. Another advantage of
dietary restriction is the elimination of useless calories

1282
01:48:02.640 --> 01:48:10.600
and processed foods in a one-
zero- zero- calorie- daily regimen.

1283
01:48:10.720 --> 01:48:15.560
There' s no place for cakes, cookies, ice cream, hamburgers

1284
01:48:15.560 --> 01:48:18.439
and chips. Sugar and fat should
be strained to make room for an abundance

1285
01:48:18.560 --> 01:48:25.279
of whole foods. This is a
desirable goal. Although the Balford Plan does

1286
01:48:25.359 --> 01:48:30.680
not lead to longevity, some gerontologists
point out that really interesting animals are not

1287
01:48:30.760 --> 01:48:33.560
those on a restricted diet, but
those who were allowed to eat as much

1288
01:48:33.640 --> 01:48:40.159
as they wanted. Dr. Lannar
Heffleck, one of the country' s

1289
01:48:40.239 --> 01:48:44.800
leading research gerontologists, says the argument
should be reversed to restricted mice. They

1290
01:48:44.880 --> 01:48:48.279
are only allowed to reach the maximum
limit of their life to the control group

1291
01:48:48.319 --> 01:48:55.079
or kills excessive feeding. This argument
makes a lot of sense when applied to

1292
01:48:55.199 --> 01:48:59.600
humans. The excessive generative diseases afflicting
our society in old age indicate that we

1293
01:48:59.640 --> 01:49:02.760
are being prevented from reaching it.
The long and healthy life that a few

1294
01:49:02.880 --> 01:49:08.000
achieve about fifteen percent of those over
sixty- five years of age has no

1295
01:49:08.119 --> 01:49:12.640
generative disorder such as cancer, heart
disease, diabetes, arthritis, or osteoporosis.

1296
01:49:16.199 --> 01:49:19.760
No one has yet discovered why the
calorie restriction prolongs the life of animals.

1297
01:49:21.560 --> 01:49:26.880
Balford' s guessing he' s
postponing immune system failures. Today,

1298
01:49:27.000 --> 01:49:30.920
a huge government facility in Backens has
been dedicated to sub- feed 30,

1299
01:49:31.319 --> 01:49:35.960
000 rats. Similar tests are being
carried out on monkeys. Undoubtedly, the

1300
01:49:36.359 --> 01:49:42.399
results that have so far been favourable
will be widely disseminated in the near future.

1301
01:49:43.920 --> 01:49:47.439
It seems unlikely that many people will
submit to a severe caloric restriction as

1302
01:49:47.520 --> 01:49:53.000
a program of longevity given the rigors, but my cultural formation predisposes me in

1303
01:49:53.079 --> 01:49:57.359
favor of occasional fasting. In India
there is a centuries- old tradition according

1304
01:49:57.439 --> 01:50:00.920
to which longevity can be achieved by
taking little or no food a day a

1305
01:50:00.000 --> 01:50:03.600
week in the form of fruit juice, hot water with honey or skim milk.

1306
01:50:05.560 --> 01:50:10.600
The principle is simple. This allows
the digestive system to take a break,

1307
01:50:11.319 --> 01:50:15.439
regain balance and free itself from accumulated
impurities. Modern physiology has not accepted

1308
01:50:15.560 --> 01:50:20.720
these principles, but all spiritual traditions
exhibit long- standing ones that respected them.

1309
01:50:21.720 --> 01:50:25.600
As I believe, the success of
frugality in eating is that it must

1310
01:50:25.680 --> 01:50:28.720
be combined with a lifestyle in which
fasting is not a punishment or a disciplinary

1311
01:50:28.800 --> 01:50:36.439
measure, but a respite from daily
activity. The usual time spent eating should

1312
01:50:36.520 --> 01:50:42.880
be spent alone and in serenity.
In this way, fasting would allow the

1313
01:50:42.920 --> 01:50:49.000
body to participate in a feeling of
mild inactivity. It seems to me that

1314
01:50:49.119 --> 01:50:53.600
centennials tend to take a lot of
advantage of gerontologists in terms of what they

1315
01:50:53.640 --> 01:50:58.000
know about life. There is a
pathetic lack in any piecemeal approach to life

1316
01:50:58.239 --> 01:51:02.720
by intriguing that results in any separate
failure. Food restrictions do not touch the

1317
01:51:02.840 --> 01:51:06.760
rich psychology of human beings and what
we know so far about longevity indicates that

1318
01:51:06.880 --> 01:51:13.239
this factor is of paramount importance.
I recently read an interview with an inspiring

1319
01:51:13.319 --> 01:51:16.239
hundred- year- old call to
Edna Ossen. She' s very devoted.

1320
01:51:16.600 --> 01:51:20.720
He has spent his life singing,
praying and writing poems to express his

1321
01:51:20.800 --> 01:51:26.520
faith. When asked about his life, he said when he was only two

1322
01:51:26.600 --> 01:51:30.000
years old, God spoke to me. He told me that he was God

1323
01:51:30.119 --> 01:51:34.840
and that he wanted me to believe
in him and he told me I would

1324
01:51:34.960 --> 01:51:38.960
take care of you and he did
so. He said don' t tell

1325
01:51:39.079 --> 01:51:43.479
your mother yet. She' ll
say you' re a silly girl and

1326
01:51:43.600 --> 01:51:45.279
you don' t know what you' re saying. I will send you

1327
01:51:46.279 --> 01:51:50.600
dreams and God sent me dreams in
the morning before waking up and they were

1328
01:51:50.680 --> 01:51:56.840
always true dreams. They told me
what to do. So I have lived

1329
01:51:56.920 --> 01:52:01.920
my whole life a woman fed by
a thousand or thirty zero rats kept with

1330
01:52:01.920 --> 01:52:05.760
scarce rations. I know that the
right position seems strange, but I cannot

1331
01:52:05.800 --> 01:52:11.319
conceive of survival without vision, even
if it does not wake up with dreams

1332
01:52:11.319 --> 01:52:15.359
sent by God. Every new day
must mean something to me and when so,

1333
01:52:15.640 --> 01:52:19.399
I am convinced that the battle is
won. However, this emphasis on

1334
01:52:19.479 --> 01:52:24.359
the personal qualities of the heart and
mind is at odds with current gerontology.

1335
01:52:25.680 --> 01:52:30.359
The greatest strength of the field is
in biotechnology. The most exciting discoveries that

1336
01:52:30.439 --> 01:52:35.199
the media announce with extravagant enthusiasm are
related to hormones of youth and genetic engineering.

1337
01:52:38.600 --> 01:52:43.159
That' s the real hope.
There is an attractive simplicity in the

1338
01:52:43.199 --> 01:52:46.520
idea that youth is only a matter
of injecting the right chemical elements or manipulating

1339
01:52:46.560 --> 01:52:55.560
a whimsical gene into the minds of
many people, including numerous gerontologists. The

1340
01:52:55.680 --> 01:53:00.479
science of longevity is ultimately reduced to
finding a magic bullet, a substance that

1341
01:53:00.560 --> 01:53:06.039
chemically alters the propensity of our cells
to aging. Therefore, we must evaluate

1342
01:53:06.119 --> 01:53:11.079
this perspective and ask why the type
of longevity that seems feasible in test tubes

1343
01:53:11.159 --> 01:53:14.439
is so far from that achieved by
centennials in real life, longevity without limits.

1344
01:53:17.920 --> 01:53:24.359
The future of an unlikely survivor.
It seems logical that the strongest creatures

1345
01:53:24.399 --> 01:53:28.399
are those who live the most,
but in that case the naked monkey would

1346
01:53:28.479 --> 01:53:31.680
be a bad candidate for longevity.
When we come out of the womb in

1347
01:53:31.800 --> 01:53:36.399
a state of total defenselessness unlike the
Arctic Caribu, for example, whose calf

1348
01:53:36.520 --> 01:53:41.000
falls to the direct tumbdra in mind
from the belly, immediately collects its swinging

1349
01:53:41.119 --> 01:53:45.680
bearing and a few hours later walks
satisfied. Along with the flock. As

1350
01:53:45.800 --> 01:53:53.399
we know, human newborns cannot even
sit or change positions. The things we

1351
01:53:53.479 --> 01:53:57.800
can do just out of the belly. Sucking, swallowing, salivating, emitting

1352
01:53:57.880 --> 01:54:02.600
hiccups blinking, yawning, coughing,
sneezing, stretching, crying and falling asleep

1353
01:54:02.720 --> 01:54:08.439
are very useful for survival, except
for the first two, sucking and swallowing,

1354
01:54:08.880 --> 01:54:13.479
which allow us to feed. The
baby also has certain reflexes that must

1355
01:54:13.520 --> 01:54:18.439
have made survival easier for our remote
ancestors. A human newborn is able to

1356
01:54:18.479 --> 01:54:21.800
close his hand so tightly that he
can hold his own weight. If he

1357
01:54:21.880 --> 01:54:26.319
gets it up, likely echo of
the baby monkey holding on to his mother

1358
01:54:26.439 --> 01:54:29.960
' s fur. But this specter
of genetic past disappears after two months.

1359
01:54:31.479 --> 01:54:35.520
Almost all the beasts have evolved in
some way to protect their DNA from the

1360
01:54:35.640 --> 01:54:41.960
elements, either with shells, feathers, coats or scales, but the human

1361
01:54:42.000 --> 01:54:45.479
skin is naked and so thin that
it is easy to pass through. Our

1362
01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:50.760
adn is vulnerable to wind, rain, cold and heat. Until we stay

1363
01:54:50.840 --> 01:54:55.199
a few hours in the sun,
it makes us susceptible to cancer. After

1364
01:54:55.279 --> 01:54:59.319
years of maturation, many more than
any other mammal requires. Humans still cannot

1365
01:54:59.359 --> 01:55:03.359
run fast enough to escape lions and
tigers if we decide to stop and present

1366
01:55:03.399 --> 01:55:11.680
combat. Our teeth, nails and
fists represent a pathetically inadequate defense. Therefore,

1367
01:55:11.920 --> 01:55:15.079
it makes little sense for man to
live more than any other hot-

1368
01:55:15.640 --> 01:55:19.680
blooded creature. Up to one hundred
and fifteen and one hundred and twenty years,

1369
01:55:19.800 --> 01:55:24.920
at least one man of today,
a Japanese islander named if Chillo Izumi

1370
01:55:25.000 --> 01:55:30.920
reached that limit and Sumi born two
months after the murder of Dwenken in one

1371
01:55:30.960 --> 01:55:33.840
thousand eight hundred and sixty- five, died one hundred and twenty years and

1372
01:55:34.199 --> 01:55:40.000
two hundred and thirty- seven days
later, in one thousand nine hundred and

1373
01:55:40.079 --> 01:55:42.359
eighty- six, his doctor said
that Isumisan remained healthy and lucid until a

1374
01:55:42.359 --> 01:55:45.239
few months before his death. In
his eleventh decade he still walked daily and

1375
01:55:45.319 --> 01:55:53.279
drank the rice beer of the area. In the Guines Book of World Records

1376
01:55:53.359 --> 01:55:57.720
there is a lovely photo of him
showing him as a good oriental with his

1377
01:55:57.800 --> 01:56:00.640
long beard, nive surrounded by two
or children born in his village since his

1378
01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:06.840
one hundred and ten birthday. Other
people without faith- deserving birth certificates may

1379
01:56:08.239 --> 01:56:13.159
have lived as much or more than
izumi. American Artherby is believed to be

1380
01:56:13.279 --> 01:56:16.039
one hundred and twenty- four years
old when he died in a thousand nine

1381
01:56:16.039 --> 01:56:18.399
hundred and eighty- four. That
means he was born in the year LINKLN

1382
01:56:18.479 --> 01:56:24.079
was elected for the first time.
Today, the oldest person appears to be

1383
01:56:24.159 --> 01:56:29.479
the French Jim Lewis Hawment, one
hundred and seventeen years old. As governments

1384
01:56:29.560 --> 01:56:32.039
and health agencies are not very reliable
when it comes to following the long-

1385
01:56:32.439 --> 01:56:38.000
lived trail. The most notable are
those mentioned in the book Guiness generally for

1386
01:56:38.079 --> 01:56:42.920
its advertising value. She recently mentioned
three women, a Welsh woman of one

1387
01:56:43.119 --> 01:56:46.119
hundred and twelve years and two Americans
of one hundred and fifteen as the oldest

1388
01:56:46.119 --> 01:56:50.000
in the world. The fact that
all these possible records are women agrees with

1389
01:56:50.039 --> 01:56:58.000
the advantage that women have over men
throughout their lives. Among the centennials,

1390
01:56:58.399 --> 01:57:03.479
women outnumber the sonsore by two to
one. Almost all longevity studies first mention

1391
01:57:03.560 --> 01:57:08.560
the giant tortoise which is cold-
blooded with a lifetime of 150 years,

1392
01:57:08.840 --> 01:57:13.159
at least one specimen of that age
was registered living in an old fort on

1393
01:57:13.239 --> 01:57:19.399
Mauritius Island, in the Indian Ocean. This turtle, in particular, was

1394
01:57:19.479 --> 01:57:24.640
captured as an adult and not died
of old age but by accident, falling

1395
01:57:24.720 --> 01:57:30.800
from a canyon site that had been
technically rotten speaking. A coral colony can

1396
01:57:30.920 --> 01:57:35.159
be considered as a single organism of
extremely long life. Although individual polyps do

1397
01:57:35.319 --> 01:57:42.680
not survive long, the entire colony
lasts thousands and thousands of years among mammals.

1398
01:57:43.680 --> 01:57:46.960
Our closest competitors in terms of longevity
are the great whales that can reach

1399
01:57:47.000 --> 01:57:51.199
a hundred years and more a certain
blue whale returned every season to its feeding

1400
01:57:51.239 --> 01:57:57.039
territory off the coast of Australia for
almost a whole century in the best conditions.

1401
01:57:59.039 --> 01:58:03.039
The elephants can survive until the age
of seventy, but among small mammals

1402
01:58:03.119 --> 01:58:09.239
the life time is drastically reduced.
Rats, shrimps, and rats only live

1403
01:58:09.399 --> 01:58:14.199
one to three years in optimal conditions. Dogs and domestic cats can reach twenty

1404
01:58:14.279 --> 01:58:20.920
and thirty years, respectively. Biologists
use two measurements for the possible lifetime of

1405
01:58:21.000 --> 01:58:27.319
any animal. There is a maximum
life time the outer limit of longevity in

1406
01:58:27.399 --> 01:58:30.840
a given species and a half-
life expectancy the time that members of a

1407
01:58:30.920 --> 01:58:35.800
species normally live in a wild environment. There is often a huge divergence between

1408
01:58:35.880 --> 01:58:42.319
these two figures. Nature is extravagant
with births and equally extravagant with death,

1409
01:58:42.560 --> 01:58:45.279
for it allows many more beasts to
be born than they will survive until the

1410
01:58:45.359 --> 01:58:50.039
age of procreation. Every year at
least half of the small animals and birds

1411
01:58:50.119 --> 01:58:56.720
die, whatever their species. Beings
as diverse as the praying amantis and the

1412
01:58:56.800 --> 01:59:00.680
shiny tropical fish of the great reef
barrier will breed neers of thousands of young

1413
01:59:00.760 --> 01:59:06.079
for each surviving one. The jib
whale theoretically has a maximum life span exceeding

1414
01:59:06.159 --> 01:59:12.880
seventy years, but in today'
s polluted seas, newborns seem to have

1415
01:59:12.880 --> 01:59:20.760
a life expectancy that barely reaches two
or three years. This dreadful shortening of

1416
01:59:20.800 --> 01:59:25.520
life is tragic, because if there
are not enough whales to reach the age

1417
01:59:25.560 --> 01:59:30.960
of procreation, the species will decline
to extinction even without man' s destructive

1418
01:59:30.039 --> 01:59:33.319
intervention. Getting to old age is
one of nature' s great improbability.

1419
01:59:34.960 --> 01:59:39.359
The only feasible way to measure the
maximum life time of an animal and the

1420
01:59:39.439 --> 01:59:44.000
data will only be approximate is to
observe it in a zoo that serves as

1421
01:59:44.039 --> 01:59:46.800
a kind of museum of longevity.
Zoo animals are kept well, fed and

1422
01:59:46.880 --> 01:59:54.520
protected from predators until they die of
old age. Thus we have discovered how

1423
01:59:54.600 --> 01:59:59.560
peculiar longevity can be in general.
The smaller an animal is, the shorter

1424
01:59:59.600 --> 02:00:02.319
its life. That' s why
elephants live 35 times more than shrimp.

1425
02:00:03.920 --> 02:00:11.560
Having established this fact we immediately became
entangled in complications. Some small animals,

1426
02:00:12.000 --> 02:00:15.199
especially if cold- blooded, survive
a long time. Fresh water mussels and

1427
02:00:15.319 --> 02:00:20.960
sea anemones can live a century.
Despite their high heart rate and rapid metabolism,

1428
02:00:21.159 --> 02:00:27.840
birds do not wear out quickly.
Eagles, condors, you and parrots

1429
02:00:27.880 --> 02:00:31.640
can live between fifty and seventy years. Something in flying life gives them durability,

1430
02:00:32.279 --> 02:00:35.600
as even bats live three to four
times more than a mouse of the

1431
02:00:35.680 --> 02:00:41.520
same size. The man, for
his part, is much smaller than an

1432
02:00:41.720 --> 02:00:46.159
elephant, but lives longer. All
these anomalies indicate that nature has few fixed

1433
02:00:46.239 --> 02:00:51.960
rules for determining the duration of life. Human beings have the ability to think

1434
02:00:53.039 --> 02:00:56.720
about immortality, but the greatest approximation
of DNA has been in primitive organisms,

1435
02:00:57.359 --> 02:01:02.239
planton amoebas algae and micros, to
name just a few whose existence is too

1436
02:01:02.399 --> 02:01:09.359
simple to allow aging. Any meba
that floats today in a ditch on the

1437
02:01:09.439 --> 02:01:12.720
side of the road sprang from the
first amoeba that appeared in the world.

1438
02:01:13.119 --> 02:01:16.439
Instead of aging and dying, that
ancestral meba indefinitely prolonged its existence, dividing

1439
02:01:16.560 --> 02:01:21.880
itself into decaled copies of itself over
and over again. Immortality was the first

1440
02:01:21.960 --> 02:01:27.640
survival strategy to learn DNA hundreds of
millions of years before complex plants and animals

1441
02:01:27.680 --> 02:01:35.079
appeared, bringing with it the complicated
aging syndromes. A coral reef never gets

1442
02:01:35.159 --> 02:01:42.119
cancer. Streptococcus are immune to Alzheimer' s disease. Fifty years ago,

1443
02:01:42.159 --> 02:01:46.960
it still seemed possible that human cells
were potentially immortal that could be divided indefinitely

1444
02:01:47.039 --> 02:01:53.600
if given a chance. The most
convincing support came from a famous experiment initiated

1445
02:01:53.760 --> 02:01:59.199
in nineteen hundred and twelve by the
Rockefeller Institute. Dr. Lecs cral eminent

1446
02:01:59.319 --> 02:02:03.359
surgeon Francis laureated with the Nobel Prize, took a sample of fibrobla cells found

1447
02:02:03.439 --> 02:02:08.159
in connective tissues, such as the
cartilage of the heart of chicken embryos,

1448
02:02:08.199 --> 02:02:13.159
and began to cultivate them in a
nutritious solution. The cells thrived, divided,

1449
02:02:13.760 --> 02:02:17.800
and split again. Blas favors were
divided with so much enthusiasm that they

1450
02:02:17.840 --> 02:02:23.880
overflowed the flasks. Then Carrel withdrew
the excess and completed the nutritious solution with

1451
02:02:24.000 --> 02:02:29.239
fresh broth. Under this regime,
cells multiplied unbridledly for thirty- four years

1452
02:02:29.279 --> 02:02:32.880
to stop only when the project was
abandoned two years after Carrell' s death.

1453
02:02:36.560 --> 02:02:41.960
The experimenter had a tendency to theatricality. As the fame of these chicken

1454
02:02:43.640 --> 02:02:47.760
cells spread, he conferred on them
supernatural qualities. Attending the cells looked a

1455
02:02:47.840 --> 02:02:53.960
lot like a religious rite. Remember
Uberwelsen Faud. Actually, everything that went

1456
02:02:54.000 --> 02:02:57.960
into Carrell' s lab took on
a ceremonial air as it grew. His

1457
02:02:58.079 --> 02:03:01.560
celebrity became his technicians performing their solemn
functions wearing broad black robes with hoods.

1458
02:03:05.560 --> 02:03:10.880
Carrel died convinced of having solved a
crucial part of the riddle of aging.

1459
02:03:11.239 --> 02:03:15.720
Cells could live forever as long as
they were provided with the right environment.

1460
02:03:15.640 --> 02:03:20.840
Unfortunately, it was discovered that he
had made a serious technical error by adding

1461
02:03:20.960 --> 02:03:27.600
new amounts of nutritional means that were
also derived from chickens. I was accidentally

1462
02:03:27.760 --> 02:03:31.840
introducing new embryo cells. It was
those cells that continued to divide once dead

1463
02:03:31.880 --> 02:03:36.880
to the previous generation of fibro blast. The last hope that human cells were

1464
02:03:36.960 --> 02:03:43.960
immortal and shattered by chance in the
late 1950s. When Heafleck, a young

1465
02:03:44.039 --> 02:03:47.960
researcher from Philadelphia, was launched,
he could not get a number of human

1466
02:03:48.000 --> 02:03:53.439
embryonic cells to multiply beyond a certain
limit. As carefully as I put it

1467
02:03:53.520 --> 02:03:58.520
in the culture, the cells died
after about fifty divisions. However, the

1468
02:03:58.520 --> 02:04:01.279
false experiment is that of Iflix,
it became a discovery when he realized that

1469
02:04:01.319 --> 02:04:06.520
he had found the limit of cellular
longevity was born what would be known as

1470
02:04:06.640 --> 02:04:12.600
the Iphlik limit. In addition to
ruining the results of Carrell, Ithlick also

1471
02:04:12.680 --> 02:04:16.239
observed that, as it approached its
fiftieth division, the cells split more slowly

1472
02:04:16.319 --> 02:04:25.520
and began to appear older, accumulating
yellowish debris. Other experiments revealed that the

1473
02:04:25.560 --> 02:04:30.359
aiflikera limit appears to be part of
the programmed memory of DNA, since non

1474
02:04:30.800 --> 02:04:33.800
- vitro cultured cells, i e
in test tubes under laboratory conditions, seemed

1475
02:04:33.920 --> 02:04:40.359
to recall the proximity of the limit. If a cell culture freezes, after

1476
02:04:40.359 --> 02:04:45.000
twenty divisions, for example, after
thawing, it will reproduce thirty times more

1477
02:04:45.119 --> 02:04:51.640
to then die. This implies that
a fixed plan is followed. The IPFLICK

1478
02:04:51.800 --> 02:04:55.920
limit, therefore, is a strong
endorsement of the idea that aging is controlled

1479
02:04:56.039 --> 02:05:00.239
by a biological clock i FLICK,
which is now an old spokesman for the

1480
02:05:00.279 --> 02:05:04.560
theories of the clock of aging,
believes that humans have a maximum lifetime fixed,

1481
02:05:04.840 --> 02:05:10.000
using the simple logic that if our
cells have a fixed life limit.

1482
02:05:12.680 --> 02:05:16.560
Ours can' t give them up. In support of this theory. When

1483
02:05:16.600 --> 02:05:21.199
cells extracted from older people are grown
in the laboratory, they die many times

1484
02:05:21.279 --> 02:05:26.840
less than younger cells, revealing that
they were already close to the IFLIC limit.

1485
02:05:28.279 --> 02:05:32.319
If you are provided with a new
environment with perfectly controlled nutrients, your

1486
02:05:32.479 --> 02:05:38.439
life does not prolong. Similarly,
the skin of old mice grafted into younger

1487
02:05:38.520 --> 02:05:43.000
specimens, continues to age and die
according to the donor' s life cycle.

1488
02:05:44.920 --> 02:05:47.520
However, the limit of ipflick does
not appear to be the same for

1489
02:05:47.600 --> 02:05:54.880
all cells. Roy Balford of the
University of California conducted further experiments to show

1490
02:05:54.920 --> 02:05:58.399
that white blood cells can reach only
a limit of fifteen to twenty divisions.

1491
02:06:00.359 --> 02:06:03.279
Lower limits have been seen in short- lived animal cells, such as rats

1492
02:06:03.399 --> 02:06:09.279
and mice. In order to exceed
the iflic limit, researchers have had to

1493
02:06:09.319 --> 02:06:15.600
resort to artificial conditions unknown in nature. The bone marrow can be removed from

1494
02:06:15.720 --> 02:06:18.199
an old mouse and implanted into a
young mouse. When it gets older,

1495
02:06:19.520 --> 02:06:25.960
c ex brings the marrow and retransplants
it. Thus, marrow cells have survived

1496
02:06:26.000 --> 02:06:32.000
four or five generations of mice implanted
far beyond the limit of ifric. It

1497
02:06:32.079 --> 02:06:36.760
has been pointed out as a challenge
that growing cells under glass is an art

1498
02:06:36.840 --> 02:06:42.880
that has not yet been perfected.
It is assumed that, when better conditions

1499
02:06:42.960 --> 02:06:48.199
are developed for tissue culture, the
cells could be divided more than fifty times

1500
02:06:49.760 --> 02:06:56.279
the guide and the destination. How
the limit affects our chances of living beyond

1501
02:06:56.359 --> 02:07:01.680
a certain age. Although this limit
is often considered the most significant experimental finding

1502
02:07:01.800 --> 02:07:08.079
on aging, its importance for real
life is unknown. In the lab.

1503
02:07:08.479 --> 02:07:12.439
Each generation of cells is the offspring
of a limited number of stem cells.

1504
02:07:13.479 --> 02:07:16.479
On the other hand, babies are
not born with a complete complement of cells

1505
02:07:16.560 --> 02:07:21.680
throughout life, new ones are being
produced. The bone marrow, for example,

1506
02:07:23.079 --> 02:07:28.800
generates immature blood cells that grow to
maturity at various stages of first development

1507
02:07:29.039 --> 02:07:33.640
and sometimes throughout life. Each organ
contains a mixture of primitive, partially mature

1508
02:07:33.760 --> 02:07:39.800
and mature cells. Mature ones are
the ones that have been differentiated by choosing

1509
02:07:39.880 --> 02:07:43.760
to become heart cells and not stomach
cells, brain cells, if not kidney

1510
02:07:43.920 --> 02:07:48.359
cells. Within all cells there is
the same adén, but by differentiation,

1511
02:07:48.560 --> 02:07:56.319
it expresses certain characteristics and represses others. Some theorists would exceed the limit of

1512
02:07:56.319 --> 02:07:59.840
Ifrica, claiming that a cell does
not start its career from fifty divisions,

1513
02:08:00.359 --> 02:08:05.000
but after having differentiated at various stages
of our life, some primitive cells are

1514
02:08:05.039 --> 02:08:11.600
divided and matured, while others remain
primitive. Thus, the body is equipped

1515
02:08:11.720 --> 02:08:16.840
with reserve resources. Even if each
cell must respect the iflic limit it is

1516
02:08:16.960 --> 02:08:20.960
not necessary to obey it all together. If this escape clause is to be

1517
02:08:22.079 --> 02:08:28.800
accepted, it depends on understanding how
cells decide to differentiate themselves in the first

1518
02:08:28.800 --> 02:08:33.039
place, and geneticists are still far
from knowing. A whole class of cells

1519
02:08:33.399 --> 02:08:39.479
the cancerous ones are devoid of growth
limits. Released from genetic restriction, cancer

1520
02:08:39.680 --> 02:08:46.199
cells are wildly divided until the body
that hosts them dies. If they are

1521
02:08:46.279 --> 02:08:50.399
grown in vitro, they are lost
to that limit. Almost all malignant cells

1522
02:08:50.479 --> 02:08:54.119
grown in laboratories around the world are
descendants of tissues taken from a few individuals

1523
02:08:54.199 --> 02:09:01.199
long ago. One of the undisputed
victories of Aifliques, which led aging to

1524
02:09:01.239 --> 02:09:07.239
the cellular plane. His method of
aging under glass, as he once called

1525
02:09:07.359 --> 02:09:13.000
it, is accepted as a norm
by biologists. I Flick stated that the

1526
02:09:13.079 --> 02:09:16.560
primary cause of changes caused by aging
can no longer be considered as the result

1527
02:09:16.680 --> 02:09:22.680
of events occurring in the supercellular plane, i e in cell hierarchies corresponding to

1528
02:09:22.760 --> 02:09:26.279
the plane of tissues or higher.
It is in the cell where the gerontological

1529
02:09:26.319 --> 02:09:31.680
action is found. According to this
logic, it matters much less to study

1530
02:09:31.800 --> 02:09:37.079
how organisms live than to observe how
their cells live. This logic dominates the

1531
02:09:37.119 --> 02:09:43.359
current biology of aging, but it
seems to me pure reductionism. The logic

1532
02:09:43.479 --> 02:09:46.239
I have followed throughout this book is
that the whole is much more important than

1533
02:09:46.319 --> 02:09:50.880
the parts. A person' s
life determines the activity of his cells,

1534
02:09:50.279 --> 02:09:54.880
not the other way around. However, these approaches are not irreconcilable, as

1535
02:09:56.319 --> 02:10:00.560
no one can live longer than their
cells. At least that' s safe.

1536
02:10:01.520 --> 02:10:05.479
Biologists, such as AIPFLIC, tend
to regard DNA as almighty and far

1537
02:10:05.600 --> 02:10:09.039
removed from everyday life, as a
kind of biochemical jeovah whose dictates cannot be

1538
02:10:09.119 --> 02:10:15.600
dismissed. It' s like the
DNA wasn' t used to keep working,

1539
02:10:16.000 --> 02:10:18.760
it was complaining to uber Wrossenthaud.
However, this is just a point

1540
02:10:18.840 --> 02:10:22.760
of view. If you look at
life with the eyes of a geneticist.

1541
02:10:24.039 --> 02:10:26.960
Nothing means that a very old person
has a strong will to live or to

1542
02:10:28.079 --> 02:10:33.600
enjoy the simple pleasures of life.
And indeed, that may be insignificant for

1543
02:10:33.720 --> 02:10:39.840
the original DNA programming, but as
a result of a well- used life,

1544
02:10:41.239 --> 02:10:46.600
it is of enormous importance. It' s actually the most important thing

1545
02:10:46.680 --> 02:10:50.319
outside of the test tubes and the
flasks of biologists. DNA is influenced by

1546
02:10:50.359 --> 02:10:56.680
all your thoughts, feelings, and
actions. Stress hormones that play such a

1547
02:10:56.760 --> 02:11:01.000
critical role in aging. NS are
regulated by the RNA, which is a

1548
02:11:01.119 --> 02:11:05.439
copy of the DNA. Although DNA
may remain quiet in your vault, your

1549
02:11:05.560 --> 02:11:13.000
active twin is constantly changing your instructions. When you change your lifestyle to reduce

1550
02:11:13.119 --> 02:11:18.880
stress, the arn of your cells
responds by producing fewer stress hormones. The

1551
02:11:18.960 --> 02:11:24.680
limit of ihli takes away meaning from
the whole aging process becomes a mechanism that

1552
02:11:24.760 --> 02:11:28.199
can be manipulated, in a laboratory
devoid of breath, movement, heat,

1553
02:11:28.640 --> 02:11:35.399
experience, memory, love, hope, courage, sacrifice, will, curiosity

1554
02:11:35.399 --> 02:11:41.920
and everything that makes life worthy of
being lived. Unfortunately, manipulating cells is

1555
02:11:41.000 --> 02:11:46.359
still the dominant activity of gerontology and
it is the one that causes the greatest

1556
02:11:46.359 --> 02:11:50.760
enthusiasm. In nineteen hundred and ninety, the media announced that researchers at the

1557
02:11:50.800 --> 02:11:56.520
University of Wescomsen had injected synthetic human
growth hormones into a small group of men

1558
02:11:56.600 --> 02:12:01.760
whose ages ranged from sixty- one
to eighty- one. The result was

1559
02:12:01.840 --> 02:12:07.439
a sudden rejuvenation that reversed biological aging
in up to twenty years. In the

1560
02:12:07.520 --> 02:12:11.079
course of six months of testing,
they recovered muscle mass and strength. Coupledly,

1561
02:12:11.520 --> 02:12:20.479
fat disappeared without diets, improved memory
and other brain functions. Renewed vigor

1562
02:12:20.600 --> 02:12:26.760
and resistance. This artificially recovered youth
was welcomed by the public with tremendous enthusiasm.

1563
02:12:28.720 --> 02:12:33.279
Popular stories compared this to the fanciful
rejuvenation of the film Cocon. The

1564
02:12:33.359 --> 02:12:39.119
subjects, for their part, were
deeply affected. I began to feel the

1565
02:12:39.119 --> 02:12:45.079
changes. After three months, I
felt much stronger. I mean, I

1566
02:12:45.119 --> 02:12:48.279
never felt so strong in my life. He reminded a retired man that he

1567
02:12:48.399 --> 02:12:52.800
had been a worker in a Baukegan
factory. The experiment only included men whose

1568
02:12:52.840 --> 02:12:58.079
natural growth hormone levels were extremely depleted. For the most part, the elderly

1569
02:12:58.159 --> 02:13:01.199
have them at the level of adequate, but reduced, soundness. Those who

1570
02:13:01.239 --> 02:13:07.840
do not have enough growth hormones age
faster and more severely than normal. When

1571
02:13:07.920 --> 02:13:13.439
these subjects started the experiment, they
had excessive biological aging. Therefore, restoring

1572
02:13:13.439 --> 02:13:20.600
your hormone levels created a dramatic difference. For the first time in years,

1573
02:13:20.279 --> 02:13:26.479
many of them could travel, take
long walks or work in the garden,

1574
02:13:26.960 --> 02:13:33.840
but the improvement was not permanent.
When those extremely expensive treatments were interrupted about

1575
02:13:33.199 --> 02:13:37.720
$ 14, 000 a year,
the ravages of age gradually returned, the

1576
02:13:37.800 --> 02:13:43.479
muscles reappeared, the fat reappeared,
the strength diminished, and the men were

1577
02:13:43.560 --> 02:13:46.800
left with no more lasting benefit than
some sign of improvement in memory. While

1578
02:13:46.880 --> 02:13:52.399
it lasted, it was great.
Maybe someday I can try again. One

1579
02:13:52.640 --> 02:13:58.239
melancholy said when he was told that
the next experiment would include women, he

1580
02:13:58.319 --> 02:14:01.520
said with approval. I think they
should be given the opportunity to feel what

1581
02:14:01.560 --> 02:14:07.239
we feel. I am concerned about
those words taken from a praiseworthy journalistic report.

1582
02:14:09.199 --> 02:14:13.359
It is not possible to assume that
injecting growth hormones does not have long

1583
02:14:13.720 --> 02:14:16.239
- term side effects. This may
not happen among the elderly, whose natural

1584
02:14:16.319 --> 02:14:22.520
hormone levels are abnormally low, but
in normal people it is useless to add

1585
02:14:22.600 --> 02:14:28.960
growth hormones to rejuvenate. To intervene
rudely in the functioning of the body does

1586
02:14:28.039 --> 02:14:33.560
not actually alter the source of the
problem. Supplying a drug even the one

1587
02:14:33.640 --> 02:14:39.159
produced by the same body can effectively
push physiology to one side or the other.

1588
02:14:39.600 --> 02:14:41.479
But the body remembers what it wants
to do. As long as that

1589
02:14:41.600 --> 02:14:46.399
memory is not changed, there will
always be imbalance. Who should fight with

1590
02:14:46.439 --> 02:14:50.239
the diabete knows how many metabolic imbalances
insulin dependent patients suffer and the careful juggling,

1591
02:14:50.880 --> 02:14:56.920
which must be done with doses to
avoid insulin shock and coma. The

1592
02:14:56.000 --> 02:15:01.399
replacement hormone is the life molecule,
but it lacks the slow innate intelligence needed

1593
02:15:01.479 --> 02:15:05.800
to use that molecule. Diabetes,
hypothyroidism, and aging itself are not due

1594
02:15:05.840 --> 02:15:13.520
to the exhaustion of molecules, but
rather to the loss of intelligence. Inevitably,

1595
02:15:13.840 --> 02:15:18.960
every miracle of rejuvenation achieved with chemical
elements will mess up the intelligence of

1596
02:15:18.960 --> 02:15:22.920
the body. When growth hormones were
provided to children with developmental retardation, the

1597
02:15:22.000 --> 02:15:30.119
experimenters encountered severe side effects and several
lows. The argument that aging is due

1598
02:15:30.199 --> 02:15:33.000
to an abnormal production of hormones is
convincing to me, but the function of

1599
02:15:33.079 --> 02:15:37.000
hormones is to carry messages, and
those messages, ultimately, are controlled by

1600
02:15:37.319 --> 02:15:43.920
consciousness. By increasing inner intelligence,
encouraging your happiness and satisfaction, you can

1601
02:15:45.159 --> 02:15:50.119
defeat aging in a lasting and meaningful
way. No chemical elements of possible side

1602
02:15:50.239 --> 02:15:58.079
effects. The responsibility to change that
consciousness lies with each individual. The aging

1603
02:15:58.159 --> 02:16:03.880
gene. In addition to hormonal treatments, genetic engineering concentrates much of the hopes

1604
02:16:03.920 --> 02:16:11.159
of defeating aging. Forty years ago, after Watsen and Crick decoded the chemical

1605
02:16:11.239 --> 02:16:18.000
structure of DNA, the aging gene
hunt became inevitable. By discovering s gene

1606
02:16:18.159 --> 02:16:22.800
Scientists could possess the key to command
to have immortal cells. Even if nature

1607
02:16:22.920 --> 02:16:28.760
had failed in the task. At
several American universities, researchers have been announcing

1608
02:16:28.800 --> 02:16:33.920
great advances in the location of genes
that regulate aging, in yeast, fruit

1609
02:16:33.000 --> 02:16:41.399
flies and, finally, in humans. Michael West, a molecular biologist at

1610
02:16:41.479 --> 02:16:46.799
the University of Texas, working with
human cells grown in tissues, isolated two

1611
02:16:46.840 --> 02:16:50.360
mortality genes, the effect of which
is to accelerate the aging process. In

1612
02:16:50.479 --> 02:16:56.479
these cells. These two protulated genes
M one and M two can be activated

1613
02:16:56.600 --> 02:17:03.120
or deactivated chemically, driving the aging
process forwards or backwards will. In abnormal

1614
02:17:03.159 --> 02:17:09.239
aging, both MG one and M
two appear to be activated. By deactivating

1615
02:17:09.280 --> 02:17:13.399
the genem one west can return youth
to a cell and double its total life

1616
02:17:13.440 --> 02:17:18.879
time calculated according to the number of
divisions it performs. Apparently, or it

1617
02:17:18.920 --> 02:17:24.360
' s discovered how to exceed the
limit of efflica will. The results are

1618
02:17:24.360 --> 02:17:28.200
even more dramatic. When m two, the second gene of mortality, is

1619
02:17:28.280 --> 02:17:35.879
deactivated, cells continue to divide indefinitely
and remain forever young. West found that

1620
02:17:35.200 --> 02:17:41.079
if he reactivated the ml the cells
resumed normal aging. This may be the

1621
02:17:41.200 --> 02:17:48.360
only gene of aging, although other
researchers offer contenders. According to the general

1622
02:17:48.360 --> 02:17:52.200
opinion, aging appears to be polygenetic, involving the collaboration of several genes at

1623
02:17:52.280 --> 02:17:58.639
the same time, perhaps many.
Moreover, the discovery of these switches does

1624
02:17:58.760 --> 02:18:01.879
not mean that there is, as
it makes them work. It may be

1625
02:18:01.959 --> 02:18:07.840
unknown brain mechanisms that control genetic switches, and it is almost certain that these

1626
02:18:07.879 --> 02:18:13.360
mechanisms vary according to the life and
experience of each individual. It is not

1627
02:18:13.440 --> 02:18:16.920
disputed that the body can record the
passage of time. Those who propose the

1628
02:18:18.040 --> 02:18:22.120
existence of a biological clock have traced
the origins of the internal biorhythms of the

1629
02:18:22.239 --> 02:18:26.239
body to a small group of neurons
located in the hypothalamus, known as the

1630
02:18:26.280 --> 02:18:31.040
suprachiasmatic nucleus. This mass of tissue
no larger than the end of a pencil

1631
02:18:31.120 --> 02:18:35.920
regulates the body' s sense of
time, but finding the body' s

1632
02:18:35.000 --> 02:18:39.280
biological clock does not solve the mystery
of aging, because the hypothalamus is connected

1633
02:18:39.399 --> 02:18:45.200
to the rest of the brain.
The endocrine system and the immune system give

1634
02:18:45.280 --> 02:18:50.440
two and any of them could be
involved, because they possess formidable intelligence of

1635
02:18:50.440 --> 02:18:56.479
their own. Our body is intelligent
everywhere Brain chemical elements are not only secreted

1636
02:18:56.600 --> 02:19:00.680
in the head. They are also
produced by the skin, stomach, intestines,

1637
02:19:00.879 --> 02:19:07.559
and heart. The white blood cells
that float through the immune system are

1638
02:19:07.600 --> 02:19:13.360
equipped with identical receptors for the neucrotransmitters. They form a sort of floating brain.

1639
02:19:15.399 --> 02:19:18.879
The skin is added more endocrine hormones
than the endocrine system itself m one

1640
02:19:20.120 --> 02:19:24.399
and m two. They are fascinating
fragments of this vast intelligence network Macoba has

1641
02:19:24.440 --> 02:19:28.879
formed a company to see if you
can find a drug that manipulates these genes.

1642
02:19:30.319 --> 02:19:33.680
But just as it was discovered that
the use of interferon to fight cancer

1643
02:19:33.719 --> 02:19:39.239
caused horrendous side effects, high costs
and few results, wuz efforts have a

1644
02:19:39.280 --> 02:19:45.559
long way to go before achieving any
benefit for cells outside glass tubes. Genetic

1645
02:19:45.680 --> 02:19:52.959
engineering to this day includes highly hazardous
procedures, such as marrow transplantation. I

1646
02:19:52.239 --> 02:19:56.399
mean, it' s a drastic
operation. Until now. Among the organisms

1647
02:19:56.479 --> 02:20:00.879
that have been prolonged their lives by
the manipulation of ethical geneara, the most

1648
02:20:00.959 --> 02:20:05.719
advanced are fruit flies, yeasts and
nematodes. I believe that the application of

1649
02:20:05.840 --> 02:20:13.079
this technology to humans is unlikely.
However, this branch of gerontology is imbued

1650
02:20:13.159 --> 02:20:18.719
with optimism that drips into popular journalism. If we developed ways to repair the

1651
02:20:18.799 --> 02:20:24.040
aging tissues with embryo cells in the
next decade, we could add 30 healthy

1652
02:20:24.079 --> 02:20:28.879
years to human life. Said a
virgin medicine professor echoed by a colleague from

1653
02:20:28.959 --> 02:20:33.239
Texas. Possibly, in thirty years
we will have dominated the main genes that

1654
02:20:33.360 --> 02:20:39.319
determine longevity and we will be able
to double, triple and even quadruple our

1655
02:20:39.440 --> 02:20:43.639
maximum lifetime. Some of the people
currently in existence may still be alive within

1656
02:20:43.719 --> 02:20:52.959
400 years. A more moderate Louisiana
researcher said, we can discover that it

1657
02:20:52.079 --> 02:20:56.239
is possible to prolong life considerably more, perhaps up to one hundred percent,

1658
02:20:56.600 --> 02:20:58.920
which would give us a hundred or
one hundred and twenty years a day.

1659
02:21:01.440 --> 02:21:05.719
Other gerontologists do not dare to give
specific figures, but they lack nothing in

1660
02:21:05.760 --> 02:21:09.479
terms of enthusiasm. I think it
is very possible that we prolong human life

1661
02:21:09.520 --> 02:21:13.520
far beyond what has ever been dreamed
of. A red- colored researcher said

1662
02:21:13.600 --> 02:21:16.879
he had succeeded with a nematode,
a clear worm the size of a coma.

1663
02:21:18.360 --> 02:21:22.879
Under the surface of these fantastic predictions
of geneticists regarding aging, something disturbing

1664
02:21:22.879 --> 02:21:30.319
is hidden. Americans like to imagine
that technical ingenuity solves any problems, such

1665
02:21:30.399 --> 02:21:37.079
as IBM engineers who modify computers to
make them faster and more efficient. Gerontologists

1666
02:21:37.200 --> 02:21:41.799
try to improve the human machine.
The theory is that with a few small

1667
02:21:41.879 --> 02:21:46.280
biochemical retouchings it is possible to give
the body more efficiency, less propensity to

1668
02:21:46.360 --> 02:21:50.360
breakdowns and longer duration against wear.
If there is a field dedicated to seeing

1669
02:21:50.399 --> 02:21:56.879
the body as something foolish and intrinsically
defective, that field is genetics. Like

1670
02:21:58.040 --> 02:22:01.959
other reductionist models, the genetic life
of aging pays no attention to life as

1671
02:22:03.079 --> 02:22:07.879
a whole. Unlike the salmon of
the Pacific, humans are not puppets of

1672
02:22:07.959 --> 02:22:13.200
biological destiny. Right now, there
are populations that have largely exceeded high blood

1673
02:22:13.479 --> 02:22:20.000
pressure, arterial diseases and childhood infections, which have a low proportion of major

1674
02:22:20.000 --> 02:22:24.440
cancers, etc. The problem is
that no single culture combines all these favorable

1675
02:22:24.600 --> 02:22:31.079
characteristics. When we try to achieve
longevity that fully meets a person' s

1676
02:22:31.159 --> 02:22:35.760
wishes, we will discover that DNA
can change to fit our highest expectations.

1677
02:22:37.159 --> 02:22:43.959
The intelligence of the body consists precisely
in adapting to new conditions. If you

1678
02:22:45.040 --> 02:22:48.959
were a research biologist and you were
in the stone age with a perfect map

1679
02:22:48.079 --> 02:22:52.360
of human DNA, you could use
it to predict the emergence of civilization.

1680
02:22:54.360 --> 02:22:58.799
You would pre- announce Mozart Einstein
the Parthenon, the New Testament. You

1681
02:22:58.799 --> 02:23:03.280
could see that by the year two
thousand, the best living conditions would add

1682
02:23:03.360 --> 02:23:07.760
six decades to the life expectancy of
primitive man. The wonder of DNA is

1683
02:23:09.000 --> 02:23:13.319
not that it governs my life,
but that it can unfold previously unknown possibilities,

1684
02:23:13.040 --> 02:23:16.879
as they arise in my heart and
mind. In other words, the

1685
02:23:16.959 --> 02:23:22.239
AVEN serves my purposes, rather than
the reverse. There are societies that place

1686
02:23:22.319 --> 02:23:24.959
a lot of value on longevity.
It is there, in the real-

1687
02:23:26.120 --> 02:23:30.879
life environment, that we have found
our best laboratory. Instead of relying on

1688
02:23:30.920 --> 02:23:35.959
isolated individuals who reach extreme longevity,
we can study an entire population to which

1689
02:23:35.040 --> 02:23:41.559
this ambition was inculcated since childhood.
The results have been remarkable, despite the

1690
02:23:41.600 --> 02:23:48.120
lack of scientific participation, secrets from
long- lived ones. Remote Abkhazia,

1691
02:23:48.200 --> 02:23:52.319
a mountainous region of southern Russia is
a land of almost mythical old age.

1692
02:23:54.280 --> 02:23:58.959
I don' t know any other
place where there' s a certain word

1693
02:23:58.000 --> 02:24:00.399
to designate the father of the great- grandfather applicable only to the living.

1694
02:24:01.440 --> 02:24:03.959
The region’ s legendary longevity caught
the world’ s attention in the late

1695
02:24:05.040 --> 02:24:09.559
1960s, when Western visitors were invited
to meet Russia’ s super centennials.

1696
02:24:11.000 --> 02:24:16.079
They were villagers, rural, almost
all illiterate farmers, reputed to have reached

1697
02:24:16.200 --> 02:24:22.280
incredible ages one hundred and twenty,
one thousand and one hundred and thirty and

1698
02:24:22.319 --> 02:24:26.239
over one hundred and seventy years outside
the Soviet Union. Those claims had little

1699
02:24:26.360 --> 02:24:31.879
credibility. Gerontologists widely recognized that the
upper limit of human life was between one

1700
02:24:31.920 --> 02:24:35.479
hundred and fifteen and one hundred and
twenty years. Even that was a theoretical

1701
02:24:35.559 --> 02:24:39.719
limit, for until then no one
who had a birth certificate worthy of faith

1702
02:24:39.799 --> 02:24:43.959
had passed the one hundred and thirteen
years. But in Russia, the oldest

1703
02:24:45.000 --> 02:24:48.159
of the super centennials, a man
named Sidalli my Limov, was known to

1704
02:24:48.239 --> 02:24:52.360
have been born in one thousand eight
hundred and five, seven years before Napoleon

1705
02:24:52.440 --> 02:24:58.399
marched over Moscow, Mislimo lived in
a remote village in the state of Azerbaijan,

1706
02:24:58.920 --> 02:25:01.840
west of the Caspian Sea, where
he died in one thousand nine hundred

1707
02:25:01.879 --> 02:25:05.239
and seventy- three at the incredible
age of one hundred and sixty- eight.

1708
02:25:05.319 --> 02:25:09.520
Thus, the end had isolated him
from the visitors because of his poor

1709
02:25:09.639 --> 02:25:13.399
health. But if Westerners could not
visit the oldest man of all who lived,

1710
02:25:13.799 --> 02:25:20.000
it was possible to interview the oldest
of all time. He was faf

1711
02:25:20.000 --> 02:25:26.239
Lazuria, a native of Abkhazia and
claimed to be approximately one hundred and forty

1712
02:25:26.239 --> 02:25:31.079
years old. With a mixture of
fascination and skepticism. Foreign visitors, including

1713
02:25:31.559 --> 02:25:37.479
doctors and journalists, began to arrive. From the very beginning, Abkhazia turned

1714
02:25:37.520 --> 02:25:43.000
out to be a charming place for
those who came from the crowded cities of

1715
02:25:43.079 --> 02:25:48.600
Europe and the United States. The
countryside was green and idyllic. The Abkhaz

1716
02:25:48.600 --> 02:25:52.959
people, for the most part,
lived at altitudes of between two hundred and

1717
02:25:52.079 --> 02:25:56.840
three hundred meters above sea level,
in neat two- storey houses, often

1718
02:25:56.959 --> 02:26:01.680
built of walnut, with large galleries
and antique rooms. The climate of the

1719
02:26:01.760 --> 02:26:07.280
hills near the Black Sea was mild
throughout the year, although somewhat cold,

1720
02:26:07.600 --> 02:26:13.159
with an average temperature of ten to
thirteen degrees. But the Abkhaz tanned enjoyed

1721
02:26:13.239 --> 02:26:18.440
that somewhat icy air, assuring that
it contributed throughout their lives except for the

1722
02:26:18.520 --> 02:26:24.360
kitchen. The houses in general were
not heated, although the region had suffered

1723
02:26:24.399 --> 02:26:28.559
epidemics of malaria and typhouses until in
the 1930s Soviet engineers dried up the marshes

1724
02:26:28.600 --> 02:26:35.680
of the lowlands. Abkhazia boasted of
having five times more centenarians than any other

1725
02:26:35.719 --> 02:26:39.040
area of the world, and eighty
percent of the long- lived never had

1726
02:26:39.120 --> 02:26:43.520
the old word applied to them.
They were active and vigorous, both for

1727
02:26:43.600 --> 02:26:46.520
men and women. The usual thing
was to work on the te plantations for

1728
02:26:46.600 --> 02:26:52.559
several decades after the official age of
60 for the Soviet retreat. The collection

1729
02:26:52.639 --> 02:26:58.440
champions were given certificates when they were
100 years old. When a group of

1730
02:26:58.479 --> 02:27:03.520
curious American journalists appeared at the door
of Banacha Temur, one hundred and ten

1731
02:27:03.920 --> 02:27:07.719
years old, he came out of
his garden alive to greet them. Banacha

1732
02:27:07.799 --> 02:27:11.239
was always called by his name Pila. He saw a baby among the visitors

1733
02:27:11.719 --> 02:27:16.680
smiling with pleasure. He insisted that
a cow be milked to provide him with

1734
02:27:16.680 --> 02:27:20.520
a snack. He offered the adult
apple baskets from his best trees and distributed

1735
02:27:20.600 --> 02:27:26.840
large glasses of the regional apple spirit. Before consenting to speak of himself,

1736
02:27:26.079 --> 02:27:31.079
he expressed himself with simple conviction about
the need for world pass and harmony between

1737
02:27:31.079 --> 02:27:35.360
the United States and the former Soviet
Union. Needless to say, your visitors

1738
02:27:35.440 --> 02:27:43.879
were completely delighted. Strange thing among
long- lived Abkhazs. Banacha had a

1739
02:27:43.959 --> 02:27:48.440
baptism certificate. A rarity in a
region where records are kept to a minimum.

1740
02:27:50.120 --> 02:27:52.879
At best, according to the date
of his document, Banacha was one

1741
02:27:54.920 --> 02:27:58.360
hundred and six years old, but
he explained that his parents had waited four

1742
02:27:58.399 --> 02:28:03.799
years to baptize him because they were
too poor to pay the priest. The

1743
02:28:03.879 --> 02:28:07.239
vigor of Banacha still at the age
of one hundred and six was incredible.

1744
02:28:07.360 --> 02:28:11.879
He wrote one of the visitors was
a man of five feet of sparkling stature,

1745
02:28:11.719 --> 02:28:16.600
blue eyes and elegant white mustache.
The personification of the kind and playful

1746
02:28:16.600 --> 02:28:20.360
grandfather. He attributed the slender and
fibrous body to light food, horseback riding,

1747
02:28:20.879 --> 02:28:28.760
agricultural work and walks through the Anhanacha
mountains. Himer was considered one of

1748
02:28:28.799 --> 02:28:33.920
the healthiest among the long- lived. An American doctor took his blood pressure

1749
02:28:33.040 --> 02:28:37.920
that had a youthful rate of 120
diagonal eighty- four. It was not

1750
02:28:39.040 --> 02:28:43.000
an atypical case. In a detailed
study of all Abkhaz over the age of

1751
02:28:43.120 --> 02:28:46.799
ninety, it was found that eighty- five percent enjoyed good mental health and

1752
02:28:46.879 --> 02:28:52.760
lively character. Only ten percent were
hard- eared and four percent had bad

1753
02:28:52.879 --> 02:28:58.440
eyesight. Both men and women in
that culture shared a passion for race horses.

1754
02:28:58.760 --> 02:29:03.719
It was a matter of self-
respect that the centennials took part in

1755
02:29:03.760 --> 02:29:09.479
the village parades. In the United
States, the concept of maintaining an extreme

1756
02:29:09.559 --> 02:29:13.159
activity already advanced to old age was
only beginning to receive credit among doctors,

1757
02:29:13.719 --> 02:29:16.719
but in Abkhazia sedentary retirement was not
known, except in cases of disability.

1758
02:29:18.760 --> 02:29:22.280
Typically, older workers abbreviated their hours
in the fields as they approached the 1980s

1759
02:29:22.319 --> 02:29:28.719
and 1990s. Instead of working between
ten and fifteen hours, they left after

1760
02:29:28.719 --> 02:29:33.000
three, four or five hours.
However, that effort was not imposed on

1761
02:29:33.120 --> 02:29:37.479
them. Among the Abkhaz. The
love of hard work was deeply rooted.

1762
02:29:37.799 --> 02:29:41.920
Records showed that one summer a hundred
and nine- year- old woman was

1763
02:29:41.959 --> 02:29:46.079
paid for forty- nine full-
days in the tea options plant The entire

1764
02:29:46.159 --> 02:29:52.440
Caucasus mountain range has been famous for
centuries as a longevity belt in the area

1765
02:29:52.520 --> 02:29:54.879
bordering the Black Sea by the west
and the Caspian by the east. Three

1766
02:29:54.959 --> 02:30:00.319
different Russian States proclaimed to have super
centennial g Georgia, which s s stino

1767
02:30:00.399 --> 02:30:05.200
the State of Abkhazia, Azerbaijan and
Armenia. A mixture of breeds inhabits the

1768
02:30:05.280 --> 02:30:09.920
barely industrialized area. The region moves
from the Muslim religion to Christianity according to

1769
02:30:09.959 --> 02:30:13.760
where it goes, and the climate
varies widely. From the high mountain.

1770
02:30:15.280 --> 02:30:18.840
The Caucasus is the highest mountain range
in Europe, with a maximum of five

1771
02:30:18.239 --> 02:30:24.280
four zero zero meters to the subtropical
These details were important for gerontologists, because

1772
02:30:24.559 --> 02:30:28.680
with such diversity of cultures, races
and climates, there was no isolated genetic

1773
02:30:28.760 --> 02:30:35.239
heritage that justified the longevity of that
region. Nor was there a favored geographical

1774
02:30:35.239 --> 02:30:39.079
place, a kind of blood and
Russian. In the late 1960s and early

1775
02:30:39.120 --> 02:30:43.840
1970s, the epidemic of heart attacks
that followed World War II reached its peak.

1776
02:30:45.879 --> 02:30:50.680
Cancer rates did not show significant changes
since the 1930s. The same can

1777
02:30:50.760 --> 02:30:56.479
be said today, after three more
decades of research with generous funding. The

1778
02:30:56.600 --> 02:31:00.879
long- lived had avoided both pests
to a remarkable degree. In addition to

1779
02:31:00.959 --> 02:31:07.000
the frequent exercise much of the merit
corresponded to the diet the favored population with

1780
02:31:07.120 --> 02:31:09.680
a rich soil and a climate suitable
for corn, tomatoes and all kinds of

1781
02:31:09.760 --> 02:31:13.600
vegetables. It fed on vegetables from
its own orchards and smaller farm produce,

1782
02:31:15.319 --> 02:31:20.639
quantities of nuts, cereals and meat
to round the menu. Yogurt, a

1783
02:31:20.959 --> 02:31:24.200
basic element of your diet, has
long been known to prolong your life to

1784
02:31:24.520 --> 02:31:31.239
capitalize on that. An American yogurt
factory published a series of delicious advertisements in

1785
02:31:31.319 --> 02:31:35.920
which a eighty- nine- year- old Abkhaz was seen testing the product

1786
02:31:35.159 --> 02:31:41.239
while there was a mother of one
hundred and seventeen. He was pinching his

1787
02:31:41.239 --> 02:31:46.399
cheek. Although almost all long-
lived people consumed cheese, milk, and

1788
02:31:46.399 --> 02:31:50.520
yogurt. Every day. Total consumption
of fats and calories was strikingly low for

1789
02:31:50.600 --> 02:31:56.920
Western customs, between one, five, zero, and two calories a day.

1790
02:31:56.959 --> 02:31:58.799
In order to eat so rough or, n o n o n ns

1791
02:31:58.920 --> 02:32:03.520
Americans would have to take between five
hundred and two thousand calories away from their

1792
02:32:03.520 --> 02:32:09.360
diets. Among the Abkhaz, daily
fat consumption was 60 grams, exactly half

1793
02:32:09.360 --> 02:32:15.959
of the US average. Although they
liked to drink the local spirit, only

1794
02:32:16.040 --> 02:32:20.399
a few supercentenaries smoked. Among them
were rare women, who traditionally regarded this

1795
02:32:20.479 --> 02:32:26.079
practice as the prerogative of male life. Most of them were married since they

1796
02:32:26.239 --> 02:32:31.440
were 20 years old. As the
region has few paved routes, they had

1797
02:32:31.559 --> 02:32:35.440
the habit of walking up to thirty
kilometers a day. One of the first

1798
02:32:35.520 --> 02:32:41.760
Americans to enter this amazing health culture
was Dr Alexandre Leaf, an enlightened professor

1799
02:32:41.920 --> 02:32:45.559
of medicine at Harvard, who was
one of the first advocates of prevention.

1800
02:32:46.079 --> 02:32:50.840
To support his belief that exercise and
diet were the basal stones of good health

1801
02:32:50.920 --> 02:32:54.479
throughout his life, he made a
pilgrimage to all places in the world where

1802
02:32:54.559 --> 02:33:01.399
longevity was legendary. Abkhazia awoke him
with great enthusiasm. Agilief saw with his

1803
02:33:01.479 --> 02:33:07.760
own eyes people who survived with good
greetings of unprecedented ages. On his visit

1804
02:33:07.879 --> 02:33:11.680
of nineteen hundred and seventy- two
to Abkhazia, Liff endeavored to keep up

1805
02:33:11.719 --> 02:33:15.479
with Gaville Chapnian, a short,
fibrous old man who at the age of

1806
02:33:15.559 --> 02:33:20.079
one hundred and seventeen easily climbed a
steep hill to reach his hundred and four

1807
02:33:20.399 --> 02:33:24.120
- year- old Marthy Tar Hill
orchard. He would still rise at dawn

1808
02:33:24.159 --> 02:33:30.000
and dive into an icy stream to
bathe. Matinal Liff wrote marty attributes his

1809
02:33:30.079 --> 02:33:33.319
long life to God, the mountains
and a good diet, and recommends not

1810
02:33:33.440 --> 02:33:37.319
to eat without pepper. His best
age was at eighteen. But he agrees

1811
02:33:37.360 --> 02:33:43.399
with Manacha that he considered himself young
until he was sixty. I still feel

1812
02:33:43.520 --> 02:33:46.200
young. I feel good on horseback, like I swim well every day,

1813
02:33:46.440 --> 02:33:50.000
so I still feel young, though
not as strong as I used to be

1814
02:33:50.120 --> 02:33:56.559
in the West. When we get
older, the body loses muscle mass and

1815
02:33:56.680 --> 02:33:58.680
replaces it with fat at sixty-
five years of age. It is n

1816
02:33:58.760 --> 02:34:03.120
n NS, almost half the weight
of men and women corresponds to fat twice

1817
02:34:03.239 --> 02:34:07.159
as much as at the age of
20. By comparison, almost all long

1818
02:34:07.840 --> 02:34:13.360
- lived Abkhaz were upright- backed
and firm muscles. Long after retirement,

1819
02:34:13.520 --> 02:34:16.840
the older ones flourished outdoors in the
summer, marching to the high pastures and

1820
02:34:16.920 --> 02:34:22.079
digging potatoes into their orchards, even
in those cases where coronary arteries were blocked

1821
02:34:22.159 --> 02:34:28.639
or some other damage to the heart
muscle. The walks and the climbing of

1822
02:34:28.719 --> 02:34:35.360
those who all participated seemed to nullify
the physical limitations. Quando Leaf brought photographs

1823
02:34:35.440 --> 02:34:39.600
of the long- lived for the
Nahonal Jaker piache Key in nineteen hundred and

1824
02:34:39.000 --> 02:34:43.520
seventy- two million readers saw a
face of old age that in his country

1825
02:34:43.559 --> 02:34:46.959
had never been seen and rarely imagined. Twenty years later, we are faced

1826
02:34:48.120 --> 02:34:50.280
with a huge increase in all age
groups over sixty- five and long-

1827
02:34:50.719 --> 02:34:58.799
lived Abkhaz people are increasingly fascinated by
their culture. The new old age has

1828
02:35:00.040 --> 02:35:03.760
existed for many generations. By tradition
they lead a life in which all the

1829
02:35:03.879 --> 02:35:09.079
ingredients necessary for a conscious and consenting
longevity are gathered, not only the longevity

1830
02:35:09.159 --> 02:35:13.159
of the survivor, but that of
the youth in old age, title chosen

1831
02:35:13.319 --> 02:35:18.200
by LEAFH for his book. The
Abkhaz succeeded in redefining youth in such a

1832
02:35:18.280 --> 02:35:24.399
way that it was not the opposite
of long survival. Some could be chronologically

1833
02:35:24.559 --> 02:35:28.479
old, but young according to their
measurement patterns. Writing down his impressions of

1834
02:35:28.600 --> 02:35:33.000
a ninety- eight- year-
old man named Thit ganba Lif wrote tiget.

1835
02:35:33.079 --> 02:35:39.159
He had a blood pressure of 104
diagonal seventy- two and a regular

1836
02:35:39.239 --> 02:35:43.440
pulse of eighty- four beats per
minute. He looked like a very placid

1837
02:35:43.559 --> 02:35:48.920
individual with a lot of reserve mileage
in the presence of two centennials. They

1838
02:35:48.000 --> 02:35:54.639
still had him for a young man, the supercentenary scam. Why, given

1839
02:35:56.040 --> 02:36:01.040
this idyllic situation, we have not
all heard of Abkhazia. One pound.

1840
02:36:01.159 --> 02:36:05.600
The reason is that the first reports
brought by Westerners soon became tarnished with confusion

1841
02:36:05.680 --> 02:36:09.479
and mistrust. What made Abkhazia so
interesting In the mid- 1970s it was

1842
02:36:09.520 --> 02:36:16.680
not her lifestyle, but the phenomenon
of the super centennials. The Soviet government

1843
02:36:16.760 --> 02:36:20.600
then wanted to reap good propaganda,
ensuring that its elders survived above all that

1844
02:36:20.680 --> 02:36:26.680
was known in the non- communist
world. Tremendous attention was focused on individuals

1845
02:36:26.719 --> 02:36:31.520
such as Jafflazuria, the most celebrated
of the long- lived. It was

1846
02:36:31.639 --> 02:36:35.280
reported that Faff Lazuria was the oldest
woman of all who had ever lived.

1847
02:36:37.319 --> 02:36:41.840
He died in a thousand nine hundred
and seventy- five, claiming to be

1848
02:36:41.879 --> 02:36:46.200
one hundred and forty years old,
which meant that he had been born in

1849
02:36:46.319 --> 02:36:50.399
one thousand eight hundred and thirty-
five, during the reign of Sar Nicholas,

1850
02:36:50.799 --> 02:36:50.959
at the time when Andrew Jackson was
President of the United States. In

1851
02:36:52.040 --> 02:36:58.200
life, Faflazuria was a tiny woman
of five feet tall. Though fragile,

1852
02:36:58.520 --> 02:37:01.879
she moved with agility n s la
ons I was always eager to receive visitors.

1853
02:37:01.280 --> 02:37:07.200
He could thread a needle without glasses
and narrate with vivacity. She liked

1854
02:37:07.239 --> 02:37:11.719
to smoke a rare thing among the
women of Abkhazia and claimed to have acquired

1855
02:37:11.799 --> 02:37:16.399
the habit at the age of 100, as she was too old to be

1856
02:37:16.399 --> 02:37:18.399
considered a woman. I used to
joke the same thing, I used to

1857
02:37:18.520 --> 02:37:24.239
act like men. Among his picturesque
tales face included his first memories of the

1858
02:37:24.319 --> 02:37:28.159
Great Northern War, which Lieff took
as the Crimea War of the period one

1859
02:37:28.319 --> 02:37:31.440
thousand eight hundred and fifty- three
to one thousand eight hundred and fifty-

1860
02:37:31.440 --> 02:37:35.360
six. At that time she was
kidnapped by the Turks and did not return

1861
02:37:35.360 --> 02:37:37.760
home, but ten years later,
about for the days that Menken was murdered.

1862
02:37:39.239 --> 02:37:43.399
Even more remarkable that the super longevity
of Faff La Azuria was perhaps the

1863
02:37:43.440 --> 02:37:48.920
fact that his immediate family could exhibit
grandparents, parents, brothers and cousins who

1864
02:37:48.959 --> 02:37:54.680
had come to fulfill it. One
hundred that made them loosely into the century

1865
02:37:54.959 --> 02:38:00.479
- old family of all time.
Enchanted Lif fully accepted these accounts. That

1866
02:38:00.559 --> 02:38:07.440
is why he suffered a severe blow
when great contradictions began to emerge. As

1867
02:38:07.479 --> 02:38:11.479
seen, Faff Lazuria had told each
visitor a somewhat different story about herself,

1868
02:38:13.520 --> 02:38:16.399
freely changing her age, the number
of husbands she had had and the age

1869
02:38:16.520 --> 02:38:22.840
of her parents. Indeed, few
details remained unchanged, and lith can be

1870
02:38:22.959 --> 02:38:26.639
forgiven for ignoring what fortuitous visitors cannot
know, that one of Abkhazia' s

1871
02:38:28.040 --> 02:38:33.760
favorite customs is to lie to outsiders. Western visitors who stayed there long enough

1872
02:38:33.799 --> 02:38:39.559
to familiarize themselves with the area discovered
that the Abkhaz people had a legendary love

1873
02:38:39.639 --> 02:38:43.079
for exaggerations, especially if it was
a matter of weaving fables for foreigners.

1874
02:38:46.200 --> 02:38:48.959
When the region’ s gerontologists sent
by the Soviet government back then were consulted

1875
02:38:50.079 --> 02:38:54.040
about the age they might actually be, the long- lived estimated that some

1876
02:38:54.120 --> 02:38:56.959
of them were very old, by
the way, and that they had exceeded

1877
02:38:58.079 --> 02:39:01.760
one hundred and fifteen years old,
but among those who claimed to be one

1878
02:39:01.840 --> 02:39:07.000
hundred and twenty years old, much
less one hundred and forty or one hundred

1879
02:39:07.000 --> 02:39:09.000
and sixty- eight, none could
produce reliable documents. In fact, about

1880
02:39:09.079 --> 02:39:11.920
ninety percent of the local churches had
been destroyed by the Soviets during Stalin'

1881
02:39:13.000 --> 02:39:18.319
s government. The old birth,
communion or marriage records virtually did not exist

1882
02:39:18.399 --> 02:39:24.760
in Abkhazia. The final blow came
in the early 1970s, when sors med

1883
02:39:24.840 --> 02:39:28.200
Bedeb, one of the most respected
Soviet geneticists, defected to the West.

1884
02:39:30.799 --> 02:39:33.879
Med Bedeb had traveled all over the
Caucasus and knew intimately the methods of gerontologists

1885
02:39:35.000 --> 02:39:39.639
working there. In London he revealed
weaknesses in all the alleged cases of his

1886
02:39:39.719 --> 02:39:43.440
perlongevity. Up to ninety- eight
per cent of the elders of Abkhazia were

1887
02:39:43.520 --> 02:39:48.159
illiterate and many did not even know
their date of birth. It was difficult

1888
02:39:48.239 --> 02:39:52.920
for them to keep track of time, especially since Christian and Muslim calendars overlapped

1889
02:39:52.000 --> 02:39:58.159
in the region. The Muslim calendar
is based on a ten- month year.

1890
02:39:58.239 --> 02:40:03.479
There were no Soviet records prior to
one thousand nine hundred and thirty and

1891
02:40:03.559 --> 02:40:07.440
there was suspicion of deliberate fraud when
med Bedetk pointed out that Stalin was born

1892
02:40:07.440 --> 02:40:11.559
in Georgia. Jealous attempts to convince
him that they would live a long time,

1893
02:40:11.799 --> 02:40:16.680
something the most absolute despots are extremely
eager to believe. They had added

1894
02:40:16.799 --> 02:40:22.719
political fuel to the traditional pride of
the Abkhaz people in achieving extreme old age.

1895
02:40:24.079 --> 02:40:28.719
The bubble burst very soon in the
cold daylight. There was indeed no

1896
02:40:30.040 --> 02:40:35.239
convincing evidence that certain families in the
Caucasus had produced several generations of centennials.

1897
02:40:35.280 --> 02:40:41.159
When the American factory in Yogurt conceived
that advertising campaign of the mother who pinched

1898
02:40:41.239 --> 02:40:43.559
her son' s cheek, they
wanted to find a mother with a centennial

1899
02:40:43.559 --> 02:40:48.520
son. This seemed possible in a
society where women were married around the age

1900
02:40:48.559 --> 02:40:52.280
of twenty, but this proved impossible. No one could find a family in

1901
02:40:52.360 --> 02:40:58.799
which fathers and offspring were centennials.
Almost all researchers came to the conclusion that

1902
02:40:58.840 --> 02:41:01.680
super- centennials or Organians were products
of a traditional culture in which being as

1903
02:41:01.760 --> 02:41:07.000
old as you could had always been
a cause of great social respect. Why

1904
02:41:07.079 --> 02:41:13.879
we need Abkhazia, despite the contradictions
of its findings. Dr. Liff did

1905
02:41:13.959 --> 02:41:18.319
not fail to defend the principles of
prevention of ageing that he saw applied in

1906
02:41:18.319 --> 02:41:22.559
the Caucasus. His work was very
important in guiding Americans towards a better diet

1907
02:41:22.680 --> 02:41:26.239
and more exercise, especially to prevent
heart attacks, but growing skepticism forced him

1908
02:41:26.280 --> 02:41:33.399
to withdraw his support for super longevity. However, Abkhazia should not be ruled

1909
02:41:33.479 --> 02:41:37.840
out in a world where the vast
majority of societies condition their people to expect

1910
02:41:37.920 --> 02:41:43.120
a short life and condemn the elders
to a marginal existence. This unique society

1911
02:41:43.200 --> 02:41:46.239
fostered an ideal conscious of old age
as the most profitable phase of life and

1912
02:41:46.520 --> 02:41:52.959
profit was open to all who wished
to attain it. In my view,

1913
02:41:52.159 --> 02:41:58.280
Abkhazia is the place where the traditional
concept of old never took root. The

1914
02:41:58.360 --> 02:42:01.319
word was deleted and r in place. The long- lived ones wore an

1915
02:42:01.399 --> 02:42:05.200
ageless lifestyle, galloped on horseback,
worked in the sun and sang in choirs

1916
02:42:05.280 --> 02:42:09.879
in which the youngest member was seventy
years old and the oldest one hundred and

1917
02:42:09.959 --> 02:42:11.559
ten years old. Although Soviet propaganda
boasted that the minimum age was ninety,

1918
02:42:11.799 --> 02:42:20.319
Abkhazia showed that old age can be
an era of improvement. The Abkhazs offered

1919
02:42:20.399 --> 02:42:24.799
with these words that lived as much
as Moses and venerated the long- lived

1920
02:42:24.879 --> 02:42:28.799
for being people who were reaching an
ideal. The greatest advantage enjoyed by the

1921
02:42:28.920 --> 02:42:33.920
long- lived ones was to rely
loosely on their way of life. Western

1922
02:42:33.040 --> 02:42:37.440
visitors noticed in the Abkhaz people a
remarkable harmony with the rhythms of life.

1923
02:42:39.680 --> 02:42:43.440
Exactly what we' ve lost in
America. It is worth quoting in detail.

1924
02:42:43.959 --> 02:42:48.000
Adnd Yo Gakis, an American writer, who traveled to Abkhazia when the

1925
02:42:48.120 --> 02:42:52.959
bubble had already burst, but who
still found many things worthy of admiration.

1926
02:42:54.920 --> 02:42:58.319
In his book Domethus le Facters,
georg Jackis wrote to the Abkhaz people that

1927
02:42:58.360 --> 02:43:03.120
they are in such a hurry.
They hate the deadline and never work until

1928
02:43:03.159 --> 02:43:07.120
they run out in the same way. They consider it very rude to eat

1929
02:43:07.200 --> 02:43:11.000
quickly or in excess. Its routine
has a longer connection with biological rhythms than

1930
02:43:11.079 --> 02:43:18.799
with the run- down patterns prevailing
in almost all developed countries. One receives

1931
02:43:18.840 --> 02:43:22.719
the image of a people, who
have achieved a natural balance. Instead of

1932
02:43:22.760 --> 02:43:26.040
struggling to get rid of unhealthy habits, their culture has woven good health into

1933
02:43:26.159 --> 02:43:31.040
a total view of life. Seventy
percent of its food was based on vegetables

1934
02:43:31.079 --> 02:43:37.280
and farm produce. Another prominent aspect
of the traditional diet was its insistence on

1935
02:43:37.319 --> 02:43:43.639
freshness. Vegetables were harvested just before
cooking or serving. If the meat was

1936
02:43:43.760 --> 02:43:46.680
part of the menu, the animal
was shown to the guests before sacrificing it,

1937
02:43:48.000 --> 02:43:52.879
whatever the food was served. All
works were discarded, as they were

1938
02:43:52.920 --> 02:43:58.280
considered harmful to health. This interest
in curing fres ensured that there was a

1939
02:43:58.399 --> 02:44:03.959
minimal loss of nutrients between the orchard
and the table. Almost all foods were

1940
02:44:03.040 --> 02:44:09.600
consumed raw or boiled never fried.
Light food and intense exercise allowed the Abkhaz

1941
02:44:09.639 --> 02:44:13.079
people to retain the thin silhouette,
which their culture, like ours, considered

1942
02:44:13.159 --> 02:44:18.879
more pleasant. But in this there
was a deeper meaning than he of vanity.

1943
02:44:20.239 --> 02:44:22.959
The Abkhaz people are among the few
people in the world so aware of

1944
02:44:24.000 --> 02:44:28.000
the bad effects of fat that even
children and babies remain thin. Traditional love

1945
02:44:28.079 --> 02:44:33.159
for horses added another rhythm to that
integrated lifestyle that already included work and diet.

1946
02:44:35.559 --> 02:44:37.719
As early as possible, at the
age of two or three, children

1947
02:44:39.120 --> 02:44:43.799
were taught to ride. The horses
provided the main sport and the ability to

1948
02:44:43.879 --> 02:44:48.719
do equestrian testing. It was a
sign of individual value that horses were never

1949
02:44:48.799 --> 02:44:56.040
used as work animals, only for
recreation and sport. In all societies the

1950
02:44:56.479 --> 02:44:58.879
expectation prevails over the result in the
one the cul ra, where the highest

1951
02:44:58.879 --> 02:45:03.959
goal is wealth. The whole of
society concentrates on making fortune, prestige consecrates

1952
02:45:05.000 --> 02:45:09.280
those who earn the most and the
poor are regarded as failures. Longevity was

1953
02:45:09.360 --> 02:45:13.280
given great value in Abkhazia. Therefore, the whole of society felt motivated to

1954
02:45:13.399 --> 02:45:18.799
achieve that ideal. The opposite is
true of the United States. Old age

1955
02:45:18.920 --> 02:45:24.440
is not appreciated, much less exalted. This helps to explain the glaring way

1956
02:45:24.520 --> 02:45:30.319
in which our society wastes the last
years of life. Its borderline this aspect

1957
02:45:30.440 --> 02:45:33.920
is a very pessimistic study done by
an official body, the Center for Disease

1958
02:45:33.959 --> 02:45:39.360
Control to investigate people' s health
at the end of life. The researchers

1959
02:45:39.399 --> 02:45:43.399
evaluated seven points, five, zero, zero individuals who died in one thousand

1960
02:45:43.479 --> 02:45:46.920
nine hundred and eighty- six.
Families were asked. Yes, in his

1961
02:45:48.040 --> 02:45:52.680
last year of life, the deceased
could still perform five minimum daily activities.

1962
02:45:52.159 --> 02:45:58.959
Dress, walk, eat go to
the bathroom and bathe on average. Only

1963
02:45:58.040 --> 02:46:01.079
12 percent of those who died after
sixty- five years could be considered fully

1964
02:46:01.200 --> 02:46:09.840
functional according to these minimum standards.
At the opposite end, during the last

1965
02:46:09.959 --> 02:46:13.760
six months of life, ten percent
of the subjects needed help to perform three

1966
02:46:13.840 --> 02:46:20.040
or more of these daily activities These
people were classified as severely limited. Most

1967
02:46:20.120 --> 02:46:26.239
American elders fall between these two extremes
in a diffuse area between self- sufficiency

1968
02:46:26.280 --> 02:46:31.799
and dependence. It is rather distressing
to see that only one in seven people

1969
02:46:31.879 --> 02:46:35.440
can meet the simplest needs of life, but the numbers get worse the more

1970
02:46:35.479 --> 02:46:41.680
they are carefully examined. In the
category of minor. Between sixty- five

1971
02:46:41.719 --> 02:46:45.399
and seventy- four years old,
only one fifth of people could be classified

1972
02:46:45.479 --> 02:46:52.079
as fully functional. About fifteen percent. He showed confusion when asked where 13

1973
02:46:52.120 --> 02:46:56.719
percent was. I had difficulty remembering
the current year. Ten percent did not

1974
02:46:56.799 --> 02:47:01.879
fully recognize family and friends among those
who died of heart attacks. The percentage

1975
02:47:01.959 --> 02:47:07.079
of fully functional people was higher than
those who died of cancer. Only forty

1976
02:47:07.399 --> 02:47:11.879
- nine percent of heart attack victims
were able to perform all five activities during

1977
02:47:11.959 --> 02:47:18.760
the year before death against only four
percent cancerous. Women, in addition to

1978
02:47:18.799 --> 02:47:24.280
suffering more years of disability, were
the most affected. For the last year

1979
02:47:24.360 --> 02:47:26.959
of life. The inability to take
care of oneself was 40 per cent higher

1980
02:47:28.000 --> 02:47:31.840
than among men and they were seventy
per cent more likely to fall into the

1981
02:47:33.479 --> 02:47:39.920
category of severely limited. Another factor
that increased the chances of disability was that

1982
02:47:41.399 --> 02:47:46.600
he was not married. The researchers
considered the study to be very important,

1983
02:47:46.719 --> 02:47:50.879
because few had so closely observed the
health status of the elderly in the critical

1984
02:47:50.959 --> 02:47:56.479
period of the last year of life. We must be careful not to take

1985
02:47:56.559 --> 02:48:01.239
the findings too far, since the
elderly' s shantry and mourning are not

1986
02:48:01.319 --> 02:48:05.600
in their final year. They are
far less likely to be severely limited.

1987
02:48:05.639 --> 02:48:09.840
But the daughters of the CS call
us to reflect on how much the new

1988
02:48:09.920 --> 02:48:18.280
old age between North American and Abkhaz
cultures still has to advance. It would

1989
02:48:18.319 --> 02:48:22.120
be necessary to go back to a
thousand nine hundred and twenty to find a

1990
02:48:22.239 --> 02:48:28.639
time when most Americans lived in rural
areas, eat little, and develop considerable

1991
02:48:28.760 --> 02:48:31.959
physical activity throughout their lives. These
are things that we must consciously learn again,

1992
02:48:31.440 --> 02:48:35.280
but looking at those ingredients would lead
us to ignore the spirit of Abkhazia,

1993
02:48:35.600 --> 02:48:39.719
which, in my view, represents
a much more inspiring motivation to survive

1994
02:48:39.840 --> 02:48:45.959
until the age of 100. I
recently received a letter from a concerned woman

1995
02:48:46.079 --> 02:48:50.120
named Mary en sou inviting me to
a conference on aging. Conscious. It

1996
02:48:50.239 --> 02:48:56.959
ended with this eloquent statement. If
we insist on succumbing to the stereotyped vision

1997
02:48:56.040 --> 02:49:00.879
that modern America has of aging,
in fearing changes in the body, in

1998
02:49:00.879 --> 02:49:05.319
resisting the natural transitions of life and
avoiding the unknown territory of death, we

1999
02:49:05.399 --> 02:49:07.959
will deprive and deprive the whole civilization
of the gifts of old age, a

2000
02:49:09.040 --> 02:49:16.520
loving perspective, a settled creativity and
spiritual vision. Every day, when I

2001
02:49:16.600 --> 02:49:20.719
talk to older patients, I find
out the truth about this. One of

2002
02:49:20.840 --> 02:49:26.319
them, retired manager, once commented
melancholy. I always wanted to live a

2003
02:49:26.680 --> 02:49:30.000
long time, but I never wanted
to grow old. He said it ironically.

2004
02:49:30.399 --> 02:49:33.440
There was no need to add that
I couldn' t have one thing

2005
02:49:33.479 --> 02:49:37.600
without the other, but why not. He was quite healthy and active,

2006
02:49:37.159 --> 02:49:43.040
but unfortunately he considered himself old.
That in the United States means entering no

2007
02:49:43.159 --> 02:49:48.239
one' s land, lost dignity
and uncertain personal value. In nineteen hundred

2008
02:49:48.280 --> 02:49:50.799
and seventy- two, alex Hndre
Lief returned from visiting the Longevs with the

2009
02:49:50.879 --> 02:49:54.479
feeling that living until the age of
one hundred was very natural. And simple.

2010
02:49:56.479 --> 02:49:58.799
It took a brief period again in
Bustin to make that sensation his only

2011
02:50:00.040 --> 02:50:05.799
other exotic memory. This country has
recently experienced a rise of centennials that have

2012
02:50:05.920 --> 02:50:11.280
no parallels. Currently it is estimated
that there are thirty- five points,

2013
02:50:11.360 --> 02:50:15.520
eight zero zero Americans who have turned
100 or older. They are twice as

2014
02:50:15.600 --> 02:50:18.879
many as ten years ago and the
figure is expected to double again in the

2015
02:50:18.879 --> 02:50:22.920
near future. This figure comes from
the census office, which accepts the age

2016
02:50:22.000 --> 02:50:28.120
declared by people without verification. In
a detailed investigation of those people subsidized by

2017
02:50:28.239 --> 02:50:33.639
the State who reported to be centenarians, it was discovered that he, ninety

2018
02:50:33.920 --> 02:50:37.239
- five percent, exaggerated. This
is easy to understand, since being ninety

2019
02:50:37.440 --> 02:50:43.600
- seven or ninety- eight years
old is much less mystical than being a

2020
02:50:43.600 --> 02:50:46.920
hundred still, assuming a certain number
of interviewees have exaggerated their age to cross

2021
02:50:48.040 --> 02:50:50.719
the magical limit of the century.
Statisticians agree that at least one in ten

2022
02:50:50.799 --> 02:50:56.319
thousand Americans is a hundred years old
or older. It is a historical number,

2023
02:50:56.799 --> 02:51:01.440
but it is only an average.
Some regions of the country already exhibit

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02:51:01.479 --> 02:51:07.079
incredibly high rates of longevity in water, where life expectancy is the highest in

2025
02:51:07.159 --> 02:51:09.639
the nation. One person in three, nine, six, one is over

2026
02:51:09.680 --> 02:51:13.040
a hundred years old. It follows
him from the south with one in four,

2027
02:51:13.719 --> 02:51:18.319
one, six, eight. By
contrast, some areas are well below

2028
02:51:18.399 --> 02:51:22.479
the national average. As for centenarians, the last two states on the list

2029
02:51:22.600 --> 02:51:28.120
of the office descent are me,
as it only presents one centenarian every nineteen,

2030
02:51:28.760 --> 02:51:31.399
three, five eight people and Alaska
with one every thirty- six,

2031
02:51:31.680 --> 02:51:37.040
six, seven zero. However,
even these low figures are staggering compared to

2032
02:51:37.120 --> 02:51:43.200
historical averages. What they imply is
that we have won the fight for longevity.

2033
02:51:43.479 --> 02:51:46.479
Now we face the challenge of becoming
a country where the long- lived

2034
02:51:46.600 --> 02:51:54.719
remain young, senility, the darkest
fear of almost all. It would be

2035
02:51:54.760 --> 02:51:56.920
easier for us to endure physical disorders
of old age than mental ones. In

2036
02:51:56.959 --> 02:52:00.959
the s s s s s ss. I did where I grew up,

2037
02:52:01.559 --> 02:52:05.280
it still equates old age with wisdom. Rural villages are governed by the Panchayat

2038
02:52:05.319 --> 02:52:09.319
Council of five elders who have earned
respect and authority because of their venerable age

2039
02:52:09.440 --> 02:52:16.760
in the West. The longer a
person lives the more suspicions of mental incompetence

2040
02:52:16.760 --> 02:52:20.479
awakens, the more likely it is
that Alheimer’ s disease has surpassed cancer.

2041
02:52:20.520 --> 02:52:22.840
In the dubious honor of being the
most feared disease in the United States,

2042
02:52:24.079 --> 02:52:28.719
they are dexagenarians who obsessively read any
article about that evil and feel terror

2043
02:52:28.719 --> 02:52:33.120
every time they forget a friend'
s phone number. They are so convinced

2044
02:52:33.159 --> 02:52:37.079
that contracting it is only a matter
of time. Said in the crudest terms,

2045
02:52:37.399 --> 02:52:41.200
he wrote antenis meth en do var
and the body. The advances of

2046
02:52:41.239 --> 02:52:45.799
medicine allow us to become more and
more the ones that reach senility. It

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02:52:45.920 --> 02:52:48.680
' s too gloomy a point of
view. Only ten percent of those over

2048
02:52:48.760 --> 02:52:52.280
the age of sixty- five have
any symptoms of Alzheimer’ s disease,

2049
02:52:52.760 --> 02:52:56.159
but there is no doubt that this
number increases with age. After seventy-

2050
02:52:56.319 --> 02:53:03.120
five to fifty percent of the elderly
can show evidence of the disease. A

2051
02:53:03.200 --> 02:53:05.799
gloomy legacy of old age is the
belief that senility is a normal and inevitable

2052
02:53:05.879 --> 02:53:13.200
aspect of old age. Paradoxically,
the most important factor to launch for war.

2053
02:53:13.639 --> 02:53:18.120
This myth was that same ailment.
The disease was discovered already in nineteen

2054
02:53:18.200 --> 02:53:22.200
hundred and six by Alois Alzeimer,
an eminent researcher and doctor in Munich,

2055
02:53:22.680 --> 02:53:26.840
when performing the autopsy on a fifty- five- year- old woman who

2056
02:53:28.040 --> 02:53:33.600
had deteriorated mentally in the three years
prior to her death, found visible damage

2057
02:53:33.719 --> 02:53:39.920
to her brain that could not be
explained by abnormal aging, twisted and entangled

2058
02:53:41.000 --> 02:53:46.319
nerves and hardened deposits of chemical plates. Until then no one had linked senility

2059
02:53:46.440 --> 02:53:50.000
to a specific disease. Discovering the
one that received his name, Dr Alcheimer

2060
02:53:50.040 --> 02:53:54.760
gave a decisive blow to the theory
of normal senility. However, social attitudes

2061
02:53:54.840 --> 02:54:00.719
tend to last much longer than they
should. It was seventy years before the

2062
02:54:00.760 --> 02:54:05.040
importance of Alcheimer' s discovery was
fully grasped. In recent decades, the

2063
02:54:05.079 --> 02:54:11.840
identification of this disease has dramatically increased, realizing that it affects more than one

2064
02:54:11.879 --> 02:54:18.760
million Americans between fifty and sixty percent
of those suffering from dementia. Senil dementia

2065
02:54:18.920 --> 02:54:24.360
is the medical term that designates a
series of symptoms linked to the term senility,

2066
02:54:24.639 --> 02:54:30.319
bad memory, confusion, disorientation,
irritability, short- sightedness and reduced

2067
02:54:30.360 --> 02:54:37.159
intelligence. Luis Thomas nicknamed Alcheimer'
s evil the disease of the century by

2068
02:54:37.239 --> 02:54:41.799
eloquently calling it the worst of all
diseases, not only for what it does

2069
02:54:41.799 --> 02:54:46.879
to the victim, but for its
devastating effects on family and friends. It

2070
02:54:46.000 --> 02:54:50.479
begins with the loss of learned skills. Arithmetic and typing, for example,

2071
02:54:50.840 --> 02:54:56.959
progresses inexorably to the total annulment of
the mind. In his mercies. It

2072
02:54:58.079 --> 02:55:03.079
is not lethal for patients to continue
to live essentially brainless, but otherwise healthy

2073
02:55:03.159 --> 02:55:07.040
until they reach an advanced age,
unless they are lucky enough to be rescued

2074
02:55:07.120 --> 02:55:13.959
by pneumonia. Alzheimer' s patients
have periods of lucidity in the early stages

2075
02:55:15.040 --> 02:55:18.799
of that hard test in their methr
Zenewd book and the myth of senility.

2076
02:55:18.760 --> 02:55:22.559
Dr. Sgfriek Cras de jale cites
the case of a colleague' s wife.

2077
02:55:22.959 --> 02:55:26.959
After having made a happy career as
a doctor and story writer for children

2078
02:55:28.399 --> 02:55:31.520
around the age of fifty- five, she had to retire affected by Alzheimer

2079
02:55:31.559 --> 02:55:37.239
' s disease. At first he
still had periods of lucidity, especially between

2080
02:55:37.280 --> 02:55:41.639
three and five in the morning.
It was then that he expressed the dark

2081
02:55:41.719 --> 02:55:46.280
transformation that was taking place within it. I could only utter phrases that were

2082
02:55:46.360 --> 02:55:50.719
so much more pathetic in terms of
how much I had loved words and how

2083
02:55:50.799 --> 02:55:54.920
well I used them. I have
a neurological problem. Who needs it.

2084
02:55:56.600 --> 02:56:03.120
Nobody liked it, nobody, I
don' t even like myself. I

2085
02:56:03.239 --> 02:56:09.559
was a doctor, driving cars.
What do I want. I don'

2086
02:56:09.600 --> 02:56:13.559
t want to be here. I' m afraid of everything. I'

2087
02:56:13.680 --> 02:56:18.920
m nothing but garbage. It should
be in the trash can. You need

2088
02:56:18.040 --> 02:56:22.239
another wife. This one' s
no good to you anymore. Nobody knows

2089
02:56:22.360 --> 02:56:28.200
my name anymore, because I'
m nothing. I' ve lost all

2090
02:56:28.280 --> 02:56:33.639
the health service, typing and writing. I don' t have any skills

2091
02:56:33.639 --> 02:56:37.760
anymore. I do nothing but eat. I have to go. I can

2092
02:56:37.879 --> 02:56:43.319
' t read what I write myself. I have lost a kingdom I no

2093
02:56:43.319 --> 02:56:50.559
longer sing. I' ll probably
never sing again about the origin of this

2094
02:56:50.639 --> 02:56:56.200
terrible disease. Many assumptions have been
made about a rare slow virus that takes

2095
02:56:56.280 --> 02:57:00.559
decades to mature, a defect of
the immune system, by which the victim

2096
02:57:00.600 --> 02:57:03.840
' s own antibodies attack the brain
a growing accumulation of aluminum in neurons.

2097
02:57:05.920 --> 02:57:09.479
None of these causes have been proven, although high rates of aluminium have been

2098
02:57:09.559 --> 02:57:13.959
found in the brains of those attacked
by Alcheimer' s disease, there are

2099
02:57:13.040 --> 02:57:18.639
no high rates of metal in the
blood. Some popular books have sounded the

2100
02:57:18.680 --> 02:57:22.639
alarm against aluminum from silver paper,
pans and deodorants based on aluminum salts,

2101
02:57:24.159 --> 02:57:30.319
but millions of people use these products
without contracting evil. There is more likely

2102
02:57:30.399 --> 02:57:35.399
to be some physiological abnormality. Perhaps
the blood barrier that normally prevents aluminum from

2103
02:57:35.479 --> 02:57:43.159
entering the brain fails, allowing metal
deposits to accumulate. Another reason to suspect

2104
02:57:43.200 --> 02:57:46.040
that the failure is in the brain
itself is that Alzheimer' s patients have

2105
02:57:46.079 --> 02:57:50.360
a critical neurotransmitter deficiency, at least
acetylcholine, which makes it difficult for brain

2106
02:57:50.440 --> 02:57:56.319
cells to communicate with each other.
Today, Alcheimer' s evil is incurable.

2107
02:57:58.879 --> 02:58:03.120
There is no viable prevention, although
researchers believe they have found genetic markers

2108
02:58:03.239 --> 02:58:07.440
that predispose to the disease in some
families. Once the disease is declared,

2109
02:58:07.639 --> 02:58:13.680
medical care is limited to providing tranquilizers
or sedatives This does not affect the outcome,

2110
02:58:13.879 --> 02:58:16.479
but helps reduce the psychological stress that
affects both patients and family members.

2111
02:58:18.719 --> 02:58:22.280
There are high hopes in cases of
dementia that are not the result of Alzheimer

2112
02:58:22.319 --> 02:58:26.440
' s disease, as once the
myth of normal senility was overcome, it

2113
02:58:26.520 --> 02:58:31.200
became evident that there were more than
a hundred treatable disorders, all of which

2114
02:58:31.280 --> 02:58:37.440
could mimic symptoms of senile dementia including
hypothyroidism, brain thrombosis and syphilis as the

2115
02:58:37.520 --> 02:58:46.959
brain resists aging. Aging the brain
is not enough to cause Alzheimer' s

2116
02:58:46.000 --> 02:58:52.120
disease or any of these disorders.
It is known that over time, the

2117
02:58:52.159 --> 02:58:56.239
structure of the brain undergoes some changes, becomes lighter, for example, and

2118
02:58:56.600 --> 02:59:01.479
decreases slightly in size. One of
the clichés of neurology is that the human

2119
02:59:01.559 --> 02:59:07.319
brain loses as it ages about a
million neurons a year. This provides a

2120
02:59:07.440 --> 02:59:13.280
convenient justification for considering that the appearance
of senility is the result of brain decay.

2121
02:59:15.719 --> 02:59:18.520
However, the error of this explanation
is that many people do not finish

2122
02:59:18.600 --> 02:59:22.959
zeniles, although presumably they have lost
the same amount of neurons. This remains

2123
02:59:24.079 --> 02:59:28.040
open to conjecture, as reliable neuron
counts cannot be made in living people.

2124
02:59:30.040 --> 02:59:33.040
At present it is not known why
an old brain remains alert and creative.

2125
02:59:33.719 --> 02:59:37.280
Just think of Michelangelo, who designed
the chapel of Saint Peter when he was

2126
02:59:37.360 --> 02:59:39.840
close to ninety years old, or
Picasso, who painted at the same age

2127
02:59:39.920 --> 02:59:43.639
and Arther Rubinstein, who played the
piano in hornegiy Holm, while another begins

2128
02:59:43.760 --> 02:59:50.959
to deteriorate. One theory based on
animal research is that our brain develops new

2129
02:59:50.040 --> 02:59:56.559
connections as we age. In some
individuals. These connections can compensate for the

2130
02:59:56.680 --> 03:00:01.879
loss of a greater number of dead
neurons. There aren' t two brain

2131
03:00:03.000 --> 03:00:07.120
cells that ever touch each other.
Physically, they extend one to another through

2132
03:00:07.239 --> 03:00:11.600
a vacuum called synapses, using hundreds
or thousands of hair- like filaments we

2133
03:00:11.639 --> 03:00:16.639
call dendrites. The effect is like
that of two trees, whose twigs will

2134
03:00:16.719 --> 03:00:20.280
almost interweave into the wind. The
word endrite is derived from the Greek word,

2135
03:00:20.360 --> 03:00:24.879
meaning tree. At the point where
two filaments almost touch between one neuron

2136
03:00:26.200 --> 03:00:31.239
and another, a chemical signal can
pass. The basic chemical elements involved are

2137
03:00:31.319 --> 03:00:37.399
well known. One of them is
sethylcholine, which Alzheimer' s patients don

2138
03:00:37.440 --> 03:00:41.040
' t have enough. Another is
dopamine, whose deficiency leads to Parkinson'

2139
03:00:41.120 --> 03:00:46.959
s disease. No one knows exactly
why some neurons develop fifty dendrites to send

2140
03:00:48.040 --> 03:00:52.680
messages, while others present ten zero. However, an encouraging finding indicates that

2141
03:00:52.799 --> 03:01:03.639
by maintaining mental activity, older people
can develop new dendrites constantly. This reported

2142
03:01:03.719 --> 03:01:07.920
novelty was discovered by sea and Enhamen
in his research at Berkeley. She showed

2143
03:01:07.959 --> 03:01:11.639
that the brains of rats grew or
were reduced according to the type of experiences

2144
03:01:11.719 --> 03:01:16.319
to which they were exposed. Rats
confined to small and private cages of social

2145
03:01:16.399 --> 03:01:20.479
interaction with other animals of their species
and began to present a reduction in the

2146
03:01:20.520 --> 03:01:26.200
bark and number of dendrites. On
the contrary, if an old rat was

2147
03:01:26.319 --> 03:01:30.280
put in partnership with others and given
many stimuli, his brain expanded and developed

2148
03:01:30.360 --> 03:01:37.079
new dendrites. This helped provide a
physiological explanation for something we have all observed.

2149
03:01:37.879 --> 03:01:41.280
Lonely and isolated elders are far more
likely to be confused, disoriented,

2150
03:01:43.280 --> 03:01:46.840
apathetic and empty than those who have
an active relationship with family and friends.

2151
03:01:48.639 --> 03:01:54.040
Because of our materialistic prejudice. The
fact that new dendrites develop sounds very scientific

2152
03:01:54.120 --> 03:01:58.239
and comforting. In reality, the
situation turns out to be more complex.

2153
03:02:00.200 --> 03:02:03.520
Having more than a drita isn'
t the same as having a more developed

2154
03:02:03.520 --> 03:02:07.479
brain. Babies are born with many
more dendrites than adults have. The maturation

2155
03:02:07.520 --> 03:02:13.440
process consists of pruning the excess by
reducing the bark to its most useful connections.

2156
03:02:13.520 --> 03:02:18.159
Still, it is encouraging to know
that old brains are able to replace

2157
03:02:18.239 --> 03:02:22.840
lost dendrites as they become necessary.
For a long time it was thought that

2158
03:02:22.959 --> 03:02:28.959
we were born with a fixed number
of brain cells that never split to form

2159
03:02:28.280 --> 03:02:33.799
new ones but recently it has been
discovered that the DNA of neurons is active

2160
03:02:33.920 --> 03:02:37.159
and this could lead to new conclusions. Some neurologists doubt themselves that the brain

2161
03:02:37.239 --> 03:02:43.799
actually loses a million neurons a year. Robert Tery, a neuroscientist at the

2162
03:02:43.840 --> 03:02:48.920
University of California in San Diego,
determined that there is no significant decrease in

2163
03:02:48.959 --> 03:02:54.079
neural density in three major areas of
the brain. The number of large neurons

2164
03:02:54.120 --> 03:02:58.399
decreases, but is compensated by an
increase in minor neurons. In addition,

2165
03:02:58.600 --> 03:03:03.399
the large neurons do not seem to
die, but to shrink in size.

2166
03:03:05.200 --> 03:03:09.959
Two other scientific neuros, Semio Wise
and Bran Brunolts of the University of Calgar

2167
03:03:09.959 --> 03:03:13.360
And in Alberta, discovered that they
could stimulate brain cells in latent state,

2168
03:03:13.639 --> 03:03:18.280
putting them into active life. They
cultivated in the mouse neurons lab and gave

2169
03:03:18.360 --> 03:03:24.440
them a chemical element called epidermal growth
factor, causing some immature and inactive cells

2170
03:03:24.479 --> 03:03:30.239
to divide to form mature cells.
It is almost certain that the human brain

2171
03:03:30.360 --> 03:03:35.079
accumulates those sleeping cells perhaps as reserve. It is also encouraging to know that

2172
03:03:35.159 --> 03:03:39.559
the brain has its own natural mechanisms
to activate. In old age after eighty

2173
03:03:39.680 --> 03:03:46.479
years of age, new dendrites lengthen
and develop new branches. The neurons,

2174
03:03:46.799 --> 03:03:52.040
when shrinking, create new synapses that
in turn stimulate more electrochemical activity. In

2175
03:03:52.120 --> 03:03:56.280
the brain there are natural substances that
stimulate growth and repair, especially the nerve

2176
03:03:56.360 --> 03:04:01.559
growth factor fc EN protect that belongs
to the type that we call trophic factors.

2177
03:04:03.159 --> 03:04:09.399
The FCN appears to perform important functions
at the Johan Hopkins Center. The

2178
03:04:09.559 --> 03:04:13.319
FCN prevented the degeneration of old neurons
in rats and monkeys injected into the brain

2179
03:04:13.399 --> 03:04:20.840
of old rats significantly improved spatial memory. It is hoped that Alzheimer' s

2180
03:04:20.879 --> 03:04:26.000
patients will be able to recover functionality
using chemical elements that induce neuronal activity.

2181
03:04:26.079 --> 03:04:33.000
Nervous growth factors have already been tested
with some success in Sweden. All this

2182
03:04:33.079 --> 03:04:39.559
good news about brain aging raises our
expectation that it will be completely normal to

2183
03:04:39.680 --> 03:04:43.600
keep the faculties intact. Older people
may not be as quick on timed tests.

2184
03:04:45.719 --> 03:04:50.440
The neuroscientist Barberthry commented, but they
do not lose their judgment, orientation,

2185
03:04:50.680 --> 03:04:56.200
and vocabulary. People such as Picasso, El Violonchelista, Pablo Casais,

2186
03:04:56.280 --> 03:05:01.680
somarthe Gream could in no way have
been able to continue to have so much

2187
03:05:03.159 --> 03:05:09.639
success with half- brained the preservation
of intelligence in old age to document whether

2188
03:05:09.719 --> 03:05:13.559
the deterioration of intelligence was a natural
part of aging. The Doral de Sillave

2189
03:05:13.639 --> 03:05:18.959
research of Colombia carried out certain studies
on twins starting at one thousand nine hundred

2190
03:05:18.040 --> 03:05:24.040
and forty- seven. The subjects
had no significant decreases in the intellectual ratio

2191
03:05:24.120 --> 03:05:28.639
between sixty- five and seventy-
five years. Often there is a marked

2192
03:05:28.760 --> 03:05:31.479
decrease in intelligence in the year preceding
death, but there are many variations between

2193
03:05:31.520 --> 03:05:37.799
one individual and another and also between
different tests. It is not possible simply

2194
03:05:37.879 --> 03:05:41.680
to group all the elderly. The
difference is in individuals, not in old

2195
03:05:41.760 --> 03:05:48.319
age itself. As corroborating evidence,
we can resort to a long- term

2196
03:05:48.360 --> 03:05:52.440
study conducted at Duke University, which
did not find a general deterioration of intelligence

2197
03:05:52.559 --> 03:05:56.920
in subjects aged between sixty- five
and seventy- five years, unless they

2198
03:05:56.959 --> 03:06:01.239
suffered from high blood pressure. It
is well known that mild thrombosis, often

2199
03:06:01.280 --> 03:06:07.319
scarcely detectable, is linked to hypertension
and this could be treated in these cases.

2200
03:06:09.040 --> 03:06:11.760
Whatever it is, the specific cause
is disease and not aging. In

2201
03:06:11.840 --> 03:06:16.879
itself what seems to cause the decline
in mental functioning. Therefore, time associated

2202
03:06:16.920 --> 03:06:22.559
with senectud. Although the neurological picture
is not yet clear, it is very

2203
03:06:22.639 --> 03:06:28.280
realistic to expect us to survive with
intact memory and intelligence. The theme of

2204
03:06:28.360 --> 03:06:33.440
aging and the intellectual quotient provides a
perfect example of the erroneous interpretation that linear

2205
03:06:33.559 --> 03:06:37.959
thinking makes of the complex changes brought
by time. It is not enough to

2206
03:06:39.040 --> 03:06:41.200
say that aging is better or worse
than being young. The human mind develops

2207
03:06:41.280 --> 03:06:48.120
with experience along various lines. Brain
studies help to point out that organic changes

2208
03:06:48.239 --> 03:06:50.680
remain at the same level as the
mind in its expansion journey, but it

2209
03:06:50.680 --> 03:06:56.079
is also important to rely on the
process itself to understand that the mind wishes

2210
03:06:56.120 --> 03:07:01.639
to expand. Psychologists begin to verify
whether human development is already prolonged into old

2211
03:07:01.680 --> 03:07:07.639
age through higher states of consciousness,
such as wisdom. Paul Baltés, an

2212
03:07:07.719 --> 03:07:13.000
eminent German researcher, supports the idea
that any decline in the physical structure of

2213
03:07:13.120 --> 03:07:18.959
the brain related to age is compensated
by new mental achievements as the individual ages.

2214
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Certain types of memory task require more
time. For example, when Baltés

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03:07:24.600 --> 03:07:28.040
asked his subjects to attach words and
places, e g car and Eiffel Tower

2216
03:07:28.479 --> 03:07:33.360
Table and Wall of Berlin, Keys
and Golden Gate, he discovered that older

2217
03:07:33.399 --> 03:07:39.040
people did not achieve the speed of
memory displayed by the younger ones. However,

2218
03:07:39.399 --> 03:07:43.239
the situation changes completely when we look
at the type of knowledge that is

2219
03:07:43.360 --> 03:07:48.959
transmitted from generation to generation through the
culture wrote baltés in a test presented to

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03:07:48.040 --> 03:07:52.639
its subjects a hypothetical situation, such
as the following. What would you do

2221
03:07:52.760 --> 03:07:58.120
if a friend called to announce that
he was going to commit suicide, or

2222
03:07:58.239 --> 03:08:03.760
if a 15- year- old
girl told him that she was going to

2223
03:08:03.760 --> 03:08:05.079
marry immediately said valtés. The answers
given to these and other dilemmas vary widely.

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03:08:07.239 --> 03:08:11.559
Over the years, we have developed
a scale of wisdom to classify the

2225
03:08:11.680 --> 03:08:18.799
answers. Let' s take the
quinceañera problem. A participant can respond.

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03:08:20.159 --> 03:08:24.600
A 15- year- old girl
wants to get married, not at all

2227
03:08:24.680 --> 03:08:28.799
getting married at that age would be
a real mistake. Even after more information

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03:08:28.879 --> 03:08:33.760
on possible mitigating circumstances, this person
continues to insist that the problem is simple

2229
03:08:33.799 --> 03:08:37.920
and has only one answer. She
can' t possibly get married. Another

2230
03:08:39.000 --> 03:08:43.159
response could reflect a deeper knowledge of
the human condition. Well, Superficially,

2231
03:08:43.399 --> 03:08:48.479
this seems like a simple problem.
In general, it' s not good

2232
03:08:48.559 --> 03:08:50.959
for a girl to get married when
she' s 15. On the other

2233
03:08:50.959 --> 03:08:54.600
hand, thinking about getting married is
not the same as doing it. I

2234
03:08:54.639 --> 03:08:58.120
think a lot of girls think that
they don' t end up getting married.

2235
03:08:58.120 --> 03:09:01.479
In addition, there are situations in
which it generally has no application.

2236
03:09:03.440 --> 03:09:07.440
Perhaps in this case the child has
a deadly illness or is completely alone in

2237
03:09:07.559 --> 03:09:11.879
the world. Thinking for the best, this girl may not be from this

2238
03:09:11.000 --> 03:09:15.520
country. She may live in another
culture or in a historical period when girls

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03:09:15.600 --> 03:09:20.120
marry at an early age. On
the wisdom scale, Valtés discovered that older

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03:09:20.200 --> 03:09:26.200
people performed well over half the answers. Wiser came from subjects over 60 years

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03:09:26.319 --> 03:09:31.840
of age. Not all elders are
wise, but in general they perform better

2242
03:09:31.879 --> 03:09:39.159
than younger ones, reversing the results
obtained in memory tests. Baltés considers wisdom

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03:09:39.239 --> 03:09:45.559
to be an achievement of software that
culture uses to circumvent biological boundaries. The

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03:09:45.559 --> 03:09:50.280
great pianist Arter Rubenssan continued to give
concerts. When asked how he could maintain

2245
03:09:50.360 --> 03:09:56.319
such a demanding activity, he cited
three wise strategies to play fewer pieces,

2246
03:09:56.360 --> 03:10:01.840
practice each piece more often to compensate
for per loss of speed and manual dexterity,

2247
03:10:01.079 --> 03:10:05.559
slow down the tempo a few seconds
before the music entered an especially fast

2248
03:10:05.639 --> 03:10:11.719
passage. That way, execution seems
faster than it really is. These discoveries

2249
03:10:11.760 --> 03:10:16.440
of Baltéz point to mysteries that cannot
be tested, for wisdom is more than

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03:10:16.559 --> 03:10:22.079
simple experience. Socrates maintained that wisdom
cannot be taught, but know directly.

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03:10:24.239 --> 03:10:28.079
Although it is perceived in the atmosphere
surrounding a person. Sagacity cannot be weighed,

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03:10:28.440 --> 03:10:33.040
measured or defined easily. I the
salk said of wisdom is something that

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03:10:33.159 --> 03:10:39.040
you recognize when you see it you
can recognize it you can experience. I

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03:10:39.079 --> 03:10:43.159
have defined wisdom as the ability to
pronounce faults that, seen over time,

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03:10:43.479 --> 03:10:50.799
seem prudent. But what does wisdom
confer, since it is impossible to teach.

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03:10:52.280 --> 03:10:56.200
It' s only acquired by education. An ancient Indian saying holds this

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03:10:56.559 --> 03:10:58.479
is not the kind of knowledge that
is acquired, but the one that needs

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03:10:58.600 --> 03:11:03.959
to come. Having spent hours with
Marissi, whom I consider deeply wise,

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03:11:05.360 --> 03:11:09.520
I do not think I have absorbed
his wisdom, but I know that this

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03:11:09.600 --> 03:11:13.239
virtue, to be authentic, must
be as intimate to a person as breathing.

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03:11:13.200 --> 03:11:16.760
Wisdom is not in what you do, but in what you are.

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03:11:18.840 --> 03:11:22.959
As the new old age erases prejudice
against the elderly, I think we will

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03:11:22.000 --> 03:11:26.200
witness a flourishing of the visionary qualities
that years can bring to its best expression.

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03:11:28.040 --> 03:11:33.159
Vision is the hidden bond that unites
youth and old age in middle age.

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03:11:33.920 --> 03:11:37.200
We compromise with our ideals to achieve
success and security. Wisdom is not

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03:11:37.319 --> 03:11:43.600
something we have a lot of time
for. Young people are still impetuously idealistic,

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03:11:43.639 --> 03:11:48.959
but elders can balance and accomplish that
by wisdom. Perhaps the greatest gift

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03:11:48.000 --> 03:11:54.360
offered by the cycle of human life
in its mature years. The limits of

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03:11:54.399 --> 03:11:58.879
medicine, medical discoveries about the aging
of the brain allow us to be the

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03:11:58.959 --> 03:12:03.440
gap between the low expectations we have
of old age and the rich possibilities that

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03:12:03.559 --> 03:12:09.799
actually exist. However, they also
lead to confusion. Almost all assume that

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03:12:09.920 --> 03:12:15.399
medicine has been primarily responsible for improving
the health of the elderly and prolonging the

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03:12:15.440 --> 03:12:18.360
life span. Therefore, they expect
doctors to cover cancer, heart disorders,

2274
03:12:18.719 --> 03:12:26.399
Alzheimer' s disease, and other
generative diseases common to older ones. This

2275
03:12:26.479 --> 03:12:31.159
is ignoring that aging with happiness is
much more than avoiding disease. Even if

2276
03:12:31.239 --> 03:12:35.760
this is important, it requires a
lifelong commitment to oneself every day. The

2277
03:12:35.799 --> 03:12:39.680
doctor can help you make this commitment, but the medicine doesn' t replace

2278
03:12:39.680 --> 03:12:45.200
it. The role of modern medicine
in prolonging life is weakened with every decade.

2279
03:12:46.639 --> 03:12:50.280
In the great age of microbial hunters, which began at about 1,

2280
03:12:50.879 --> 03:12:54.479
800 and lasted almost a century,
medicine made undeniable progress by eliminating infectious diseases

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03:12:54.879 --> 03:13:01.360
of all kinds. This success happens
sado. It is one of the reasons

2282
03:13:01.479 --> 03:13:05.520
why the United States is willing to
bear the overwhelming cost of caring for the

2283
03:13:05.600 --> 03:13:09.360
health of this country, which has
already passed seven hundred billion dollars and is

2284
03:13:09.440 --> 03:13:13.799
on its way to a billion in
the coming decade. We take as an

2285
03:13:13.840 --> 03:13:16.559
article of faith that this enormous sum
will serve to buy more life, just

2286
03:13:16.600 --> 03:13:22.680
as the investment in penicillin and salt
vaccine research served But the general contribution of

2287
03:13:22.799 --> 03:13:30.520
past, present and future medicine may
be greatly exaggerated. Since 1900, the

2288
03:13:30.639 --> 03:13:33.719
average American’ s life has increased
by fifty percent, but much of that

2289
03:13:33.840 --> 03:13:39.920
increase does not affect those who have
already survived, childhood and childhood. If

2290
03:13:39.000 --> 03:13:43.319
you look at the chart on page
one hundred and thirty- eight, you

2291
03:13:43.399 --> 03:13:48.479
will see the few additional years that
recent generations have won in adulthood. Two

2292
03:13:48.559 --> 03:13:54.159
graphs have overlapped here. The lower
one indicates the life expectancy calculated from birth.

2293
03:13:54.040 --> 03:13:58.559
This is the case when we speak
of the tremendous increase of twenty-

2294
03:13:58.639 --> 03:14:05.360
six years in life expectancy producing between
one thousand nine hundred and nine hundred and

2295
03:14:05.479 --> 03:14:09.840
ninety But the top chart indicates the
life expectancy calculated since the fifty years of

2296
03:14:09.920 --> 03:14:11.639
age, although it also grows in
a stable way. The increase of between

2297
03:14:11.719 --> 03:14:16.040
nine hundred and nine hundred and ninety
is modest. Today, a fifty-

2298
03:14:16.399 --> 03:14:20.920
year- old man has the potential
to live only eight years longer than his

2299
03:14:22.079 --> 03:14:26.479
equivalent of nine hundred. The fact
is that medicine in this century has taken

2300
03:14:26.600 --> 03:14:31.239
remarkable steps in eliminating infant mortality,
mainly by reducing deaths at birth and from

2301
03:14:31.319 --> 03:14:35.319
communicable diseases, such as polio,
smallpox, measles, pneumonia and influenza.

2302
03:14:39.799 --> 03:14:45.799
By contrast, the impact on adult
mortality has been much less dramatic. There

2303
03:14:45.879 --> 03:14:50.079
is convincing evidence to show that medical
research still does not deliver the expected benefits

2304
03:14:50.159 --> 03:14:56.399
to society. Cancer death rates by
age have not changed in 50 years.

2305
03:15:00.079 --> 03:15:03.760
Early detection gives us the illusion that
cancer patients live longer than in the past,

2306
03:15:03.040 --> 03:15:09.159
but modern treatments do not seem to
prolong life in general. Otherwise,

2307
03:15:09.360 --> 03:15:13.520
cancer deaths would be occurring at more
advanced ages than in the past, but

2308
03:15:13.600 --> 03:15:18.319
they are not. They occur more
or less at the same age as in

2309
03:15:18.360 --> 03:15:22.440
the times of our grandparents, and
the mortality rate. Twenty percent of deaths

2310
03:15:22.520 --> 03:15:28.600
are due to cancer has remained constant
since the late 1940s. Indeed, the

2311
03:15:28.920 --> 03:15:33.760
increasing frequency of lung cancer among blacks
and women, which is linked to the

2312
03:15:33.840 --> 03:15:37.520
increased consumption of cigarettes in these groups, has slightly increased the number of deaths

2313
03:15:37.600 --> 03:15:46.360
from cancer from heart disease. I' ve already analyzed the ambiguous state of

2314
03:15:46.440 --> 03:15:50.639
things about heart attacks. Mortality rates
are falling at a slow rate of one

2315
03:15:50.799 --> 03:15:56.120
percent or two percent per year,
but the underlying cause, coronary artery disease,

2316
03:15:56.680 --> 03:16:03.200
is far from eradication. Despite major
prevention campaigns. Damaged arteries are appearing

2317
03:16:03.280 --> 03:16:07.520
in up to ten- year-
olds and are common in half of the

2318
03:16:07.639 --> 03:16:11.159
20- year- old population.
The two main surgical operations performed on heart

2319
03:16:11.200 --> 03:16:15.920
patients, vaypaz grafting and balloon engeoplasty, often, are effective in relieving the

2320
03:16:15.920 --> 03:16:22.600
pain of angina pectoris. However,
repeated studies have failed to demonstrate that any

2321
03:16:22.680 --> 03:16:28.239
of these costly and traumatic operations actually
prolong the patient' s life expectancy for

2322
03:16:28.360 --> 03:16:37.239
generative disorders. We still lack effective
treatments for many chronic diseases, such as

2323
03:16:37.319 --> 03:16:43.520
arthritis, diabetes, multiple sclerosis,
and osteoporosis. Modern medicine can sometimes help

2324
03:16:43.600 --> 03:16:48.559
by using drugs, calming the pain, or delay the progress of these diseases,

2325
03:16:48.000 --> 03:16:54.319
but we cannot cure patients or even
explain why they became ill. To

2326
03:16:54.440 --> 03:17:03.040
begin with, drugs are mainly used
for omnifers and tranquilizers. It' s

2327
03:17:03.040 --> 03:17:05.639
still on the rise. It has
been estimated that the average American who is

2328
03:17:05.639 --> 03:17:09.520
more than seventy years old and in
good health. Take three five types of

2329
03:17:09.600 --> 03:17:13.719
drugs, both over- the-
counter and under- prescription. If you

2330
03:17:13.760 --> 03:17:18.799
are ill, you can take 10
drugs or more. A study conducted in

2331
03:17:18.840 --> 03:17:22.680
California in nineteen hundred and eighty-
eight concluded that overmedications are the main risk

2332
03:17:22.799 --> 03:17:28.879
of disease for the elderly. Some
of these drugs exist only to alleviate the

2333
03:17:28.920 --> 03:17:35.159
side effects of previous drugs. There
is also a huge problem with its application,

2334
03:17:35.600 --> 03:17:41.200
as many patients do not take life
medication or misuse it. At least

2335
03:17:41.319 --> 03:17:45.719
one in two elderly patients does not
comply with instructions for glaucoma medication, the

2336
03:17:45.719 --> 03:17:50.920
leading cause of blindness in the United
States. Other millions do not know how

2337
03:17:50.040 --> 03:17:56.399
to use antihypertensive drugs correctly. They
mix them with tranquilizers, alcohol, cigarettes,

2338
03:17:56.600 --> 03:18:01.399
and sleeping pills. The results are
inconstant, cases of diseases and unnecessary

2339
03:18:01.520 --> 03:18:07.680
deaths addictions. After focusing public attention
on addictions over twenty years in the United

2340
03:18:07.760 --> 03:18:15.360
States, addicts increase year by year. Instead of decreasing. No effective treatments

2341
03:18:15.399 --> 03:18:20.079
for alcoholism have been found. Cash
means they can cure at least fifty percent

2342
03:18:20.159 --> 03:18:26.079
of patients. Drug use has reached
primary school. Smoking is on the rise

2343
03:18:26.120 --> 03:18:33.159
among workers, young women and racial
minorities. Twenty- five years after the

2344
03:18:33.239 --> 03:18:35.920
general surgeon reported on the dangers of
smoking a. One. Fifty- eight

2345
03:18:37.000 --> 03:18:41.639
million adults smoke almost a third of
the population. Seventy- five percent of

2346
03:18:41.760 --> 03:18:46.680
them say they' re trying to
quit, but they can' t afford

2347
03:18:46.680 --> 03:18:52.159
medical expenses. The cost of health
care continues to reach levels never seen before,

2348
03:18:52.559 --> 03:18:56.680
resulting in prolonged hospitalization in the hospital
being catastrophically costly. For most of

2349
03:18:56.680 --> 03:19:03.040
them. A hospital bed costs between$ 500 and$ 2 per day or

2350
03:19:03.040 --> 03:19:07.399
more, depending on whether intensive care
is needed or not. Invoices that yield

2351
03:19:07.879 --> 03:19:13.559
$ 100 for the treatment of a
single disease at risk of death are common.

2352
03:19:15.000 --> 03:19:18.319
One quarter of all these costs are
incurred in the last year of life

2353
03:19:18.440 --> 03:19:24.799
when costly efforts to avoid dangerous diseases
are common. Inevitably, the last one

2354
03:19:24.879 --> 03:19:28.639
the doctor can' t cure is
the most expensive, unless there is an

2355
03:19:28.760 --> 03:19:33.600
unexpected twist. The spiral rise of
health insurance could eliminate the profits of many

2356
03:19:33.680 --> 03:19:41.959
frontline companies. Before the year two
thousand social consciousness, medical research has been

2357
03:19:41.000 --> 03:19:46.639
well advanced to the understanding of the
common person. Most Americans do not know

2358
03:19:46.760 --> 03:19:50.399
how to properly describe the role of
cholesterol in the body, the function of

2359
03:19:50.479 --> 03:19:56.559
genes, or that is the immune
system. Very few can list the main

2360
03:19:56.639 --> 03:20:00.920
carcinogens in order of danger. Many
think that any n NS element can cause

2361
03:20:01.000 --> 03:20:07.000
cancer. Given these horrible trends,
it is highly unlikely that we are entering

2362
03:20:07.120 --> 03:20:11.920
a golden age of longevity spurred by
medicine. It has been estimated that the

2363
03:20:11.000 --> 03:20:15.879
cure of heart ailments and cancer would
increase life expectancy in less than ten years.

2364
03:20:16.559 --> 03:20:20.680
The logic is that, as you
love in diseases, they attack mainly

2365
03:20:20.760 --> 03:20:22.760
after the age of sixty- five. Those who die of heart attacks or

2366
03:20:22.840 --> 03:20:26.280
cancer are already approaching the end of
their life expectancy and are deprived of them

2367
03:20:26.319 --> 03:20:31.319
for a few years. However,
the current medical crisis has a positive side.

2368
03:20:33.479 --> 03:20:37.440
It highlights the need for personal initiative. Longevity remains an individual achievement.

2369
03:20:39.600 --> 03:20:43.520
They get it above all those with
high expectations enough to look for it.

2370
03:20:45.479 --> 03:20:50.079
The United States could become a country
where no one would weaken until disability as

2371
03:20:50.159 --> 03:20:52.520
they age. But for plaster to
happen, we must see the entire cycle

2372
03:20:52.559 --> 03:20:56.879
of human life as an ascending curve. Fortunately, today there are few normal

2373
03:20:56.959 --> 03:21:03.639
signs of aging that have not been
challenged. Important studies show that we expect

2374
03:21:03.799 --> 03:21:07.719
too little of the elderly body,
which contains a great potential for improvement at

2375
03:21:07.799 --> 03:21:13.319
very advanced ages, older, not
better. In nineteen hundred and fifty-

2376
03:21:13.680 --> 03:21:18.520
eight a single project was initiated in
Bauthm in which eight hundred men and women

2377
03:21:18.600 --> 03:21:22.200
aged between twenty and one hundred and
three volunteered to be examined. As you

2378
03:21:22.200 --> 03:21:26.879
grow old. They all returned every
twelve or twenty- four months to undergo

2379
03:21:28.000 --> 03:21:33.040
an extensive series of tests. The
longitudinal study of aging Bauthmore, as is

2380
03:21:33.120 --> 03:21:37.920
officially known, became the most famous
of its specialty. Its basic purpose was

2381
03:21:37.959 --> 03:21:43.639
to determine how the different organs of
the body change over time. Hundreds of

2382
03:21:43.840 --> 03:21:48.200
individual discoveries have emerged. In general, they fully support the optimism of the

2383
03:21:48.280 --> 03:21:54.920
new age. Here are some of
the main discoveries. When people get older,

2384
03:21:56.399 --> 03:22:01.520
their physical condition varies widely among different
individuals. By the age of eighty

2385
03:22:01.600 --> 03:22:09.079
or ninety, the differences have become
tremendous. While physical performance always deteriorates with

2386
03:22:09.159 --> 03:22:11.840
the time measured in a group,
that does not always apply to each of

2387
03:22:11.920 --> 03:22:18.399
the people who make it up.
Some manage to retain lung capacity when all

2388
03:22:18.479 --> 03:22:22.520
the others are losing it. There
are those who improve kidney function or the

2389
03:22:22.559 --> 03:22:26.280
amount of blood the heart pumps with
each beat. In almost all of these

2390
03:22:26.280 --> 03:22:31.159
cases, the person has maintained the
use of the organ in question. The

2391
03:22:31.239 --> 03:22:35.159
key is what is not used is
the loss of mental function. It is

2392
03:22:35.239 --> 03:22:39.879
also maintained with use. For example, those who make a living by solving

2393
03:22:39.959 --> 03:22:43.280
problems tend to retain that ability as
they age. Although coan function in the

2394
03:22:43.360 --> 03:22:48.079
group, in general, the most
complex organs, such as muscles, are

2395
03:22:48.079 --> 03:22:54.479
the first to deteriorate. Loss of
muscle tissue is the main reason why many

2396
03:22:54.559 --> 03:23:00.000
cannot do the same work. As
you grow old. It seems that moderate

2397
03:23:00.120 --> 03:23:03.920
overweight in mature age does not shorten
life expectations. However, this depends on

2398
03:23:05.000 --> 03:23:07.959
avoiding the harmful side effects of overweight, such as diabetes, hypertension, and

2399
03:23:09.040 --> 03:23:16.879
congestive cardiac arrest. Sexual activity maintained
in the years of youth and maturity provides

2400
03:23:16.959 --> 03:23:22.479
the best opportunity to remain sexually active
in old age again between one person and

2401
03:23:22.559 --> 03:23:28.399
another There are tremendous variations. There
are married men between the ages of sixty

2402
03:23:28.479 --> 03:23:33.159
and eighty who can perform the sexual
act just three times a year or at

2403
03:23:33.239 --> 03:23:37.399
least once a week. For the
most part, subjects believed that regular sexual

2404
03:23:37.479 --> 03:23:43.600
activity was good for health when they
were asked to perform lymphian or moderate exercises.

2405
03:23:43.600 --> 03:23:48.079
Exagenary men were as efficient as those
of twenty to thirty, but those

2406
03:23:48.120 --> 03:23:52.639
were to use a greater proportion of
their total physical capacity. TAFFS researchers found

2407
03:23:52.719 --> 03:23:56.879
that the elderly body benefits as much
as the young one with exercise. The

2408
03:23:58.239 --> 03:24:01.840
increase in muscle mass in two weeks
of lifting weights was the same among exagenaries

2409
03:24:01.879 --> 03:24:07.600
as in much younger subjects. The
elderly metabolize alcohol as well as when they

2410
03:24:07.639 --> 03:24:13.079
were young, but with more potent
effects. After drinking a drink, the

2411
03:24:13.360 --> 03:24:16.360
older person will have a slower reaction
time, less memory, and less decision

2412
03:24:16.959 --> 03:24:22.600
- making ability than a younger person. High cholesterol levels do not continue to

2413
03:24:22.639 --> 03:24:26.440
rise over the years, but reach
a peak of about fifty- five years,

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somewhat earlier in men and later in
women. Although sugar tolerance declines with

2415
03:24:33.000 --> 03:24:37.719
age, only in some people does
this lead to type two diabetes others do

2416
03:24:37.799 --> 03:24:41.040
not contract the disease, despite the
change in body ability to use blood glucose.

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03:24:45.440 --> 03:24:48.959
This represents only a fraction of what
Bauthmore researchers discovered. But enough to

2418
03:24:50.040 --> 03:24:52.879
confirm one of the main points I
started with over the years. We are

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03:24:52.959 --> 03:24:58.639
different from everyone else, and that
difference includes the possibility of improvement in any

2420
03:24:58.680 --> 03:25:03.639
aspect. Out of six hundred and
fifty men, only twelve managed to improve

2421
03:25:05.040 --> 03:25:09.840
their renal functions, while the vast
majority suffered a deterioration in their functioning or

2422
03:25:09.840 --> 03:25:13.680
remained the same. But that little
handful is enough to give us a glimpse

2423
03:25:13.879 --> 03:25:20.760
of untapped possibilities. The new paradigm
tells us that we are constantly making and

2424
03:25:20.799 --> 03:25:24.520
undoing the body on the quantum plane. That means that we unceasingly deploy a

2425
03:25:24.559 --> 03:25:30.879
hidden potential. Part of this potential
is negative, part positive. The field

2426
03:25:30.920 --> 03:25:35.840
assumes a neutral attitude, what each
one wants and expects. Give yourself governs

2427
03:25:35.959 --> 03:25:41.159
the answer you get If we look
for a way to improve physical and mental

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03:25:41.239 --> 03:25:43.600
functioning. Every day for the rest
of life, three values emerge that must

2429
03:25:43.680 --> 03:25:48.680
be part of everyone' s intention. One, longevity itself, for life

2430
03:25:50.000 --> 03:25:56.239
is a primary good. Two the
creative experience that makes life interesting and leads

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03:25:56.360 --> 03:26:01.200
us to desire more of it three
wisdom, which is the collective reward of

2432
03:26:01.280 --> 03:26:07.520
a long life. It is impossible
to set limits to be reached in each

2433
03:26:07.520 --> 03:26:11.520
aspect. Creativity and wisdom inspired Picasso
Show, Michelangelo Tolstoy and other long-

2434
03:26:13.879 --> 03:26:18.959
lived geniuses. Until the day they
died. Verdi wrote one of his best

2435
03:26:18.120 --> 03:26:24.680
Falstaff operas at the age of 80. The German naturalist Alexander bon Humboldt completed

2436
03:26:24.719 --> 03:26:28.840
at eighty- nine the largest of
his cosmos works. In these autumnal achievements

2437
03:26:28.920 --> 03:26:33.799
there is immense beauty and dignity.
The dome of San Pedro seems even more

2438
03:26:33.840 --> 03:26:39.319
magisterial by the fact that Michelangelo designed
it in his ninth decade. Psychologists studying

2439
03:26:39.399 --> 03:26:43.719
creativity say that artists and writers often
produce more new ideas at the age of

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03:26:43.760 --> 03:26:48.319
sixty or seventy than at the age
of twenty. An interesting variable is that

2441
03:26:48.719 --> 03:26:52.639
the later a creative activity starts,
the more likely it is to continue to

2442
03:26:52.760 --> 03:26:56.920
be practiced until an advanced age.
Eliot Potter, one of the leading landscape

2443
03:26:58.000 --> 03:27:01.920
photographers in North America, did not
publish his first photograph until the late fifties.

2444
03:27:03.040 --> 03:27:07.319
Julia Chao came on TV when she
was already a mature woman. In

2445
03:27:07.399 --> 03:27:13.920
both cases, success increased steadily over
the next three decades. Creative experience can

2446
03:27:15.040 --> 03:27:20.280
improve the structure of the brain itself. Chinese studies of the elderly in Shanghai

2447
03:27:20.319 --> 03:27:22.920
indicate that dementia and Alzheimer’ s
disease are more common among the less educated.

2448
03:27:24.760 --> 03:27:28.920
This suggests that educated people, having
learned to use the mind, stimulate

2449
03:27:28.920 --> 03:27:33.559
healthy brain activity, show an increase
in blood flow to the brain during creative

2450
03:27:33.680 --> 03:27:41.920
periods of thought. There is a
distinctive electroencephalogram of consistent rhythms in all bands

2451
03:27:41.959 --> 03:27:46.200
of brain activity that is associated with
the experience of gaja or eureka, which

2452
03:27:46.200 --> 03:27:52.920
characterizes art and creativity in general.
In addition, it is a myth to

2453
03:27:54.000 --> 03:27:58.559
think that too much mental work damages
the brain as long as concentrated mental activity

2454
03:27:58.879 --> 03:28:03.120
is joyful to give rise to patterns
of saphatypic waves of rest on alert.

2455
03:28:03.520 --> 03:28:09.399
It is a state of relaxation,
but conscious that certain desirable neurotransmitters, such

2456
03:28:09.479 --> 03:28:16.280
as serotonin, are also found in
meditation, also increase during pleasurable creative activities.

2457
03:28:16.399 --> 03:28:18.719
Again, the same change is associated
with the rest on the alert of

2458
03:28:18.840 --> 03:28:24.639
meditation. The neurological picture is still
the subject of debate, but the results

2459
03:28:24.680 --> 03:28:30.079
in real life, more years of
satisfactory existence are not. Therefore, it

2460
03:28:30.479 --> 03:28:35.200
seems that wanting as much life,
creativity and wisdom as possible is a very

2461
03:28:35.280 --> 03:28:39.120
convenient thing. If you have few
expectations in these areas, it is unlikely

2462
03:28:39.239 --> 03:28:46.440
that eedas, on the other hand, setting very high goals makes every decade

2463
03:28:46.559 --> 03:28:50.079
worth being desired. I have a
predilection for a few words from Lord Barren

2464
03:28:50.200 --> 03:28:54.760
who instilled me in India as a
child. Man' s aspirations should exceed

2465
03:28:54.840 --> 03:28:58.120
his reach otherwise, so that there
will be a heaven. The feeling of

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03:28:58.200 --> 03:29:01.799
active dominance is the state of the
self that is most obviously linked to longevity.

2467
03:29:03.760 --> 03:29:07.280
David Capmen, a researcher at the
University of Mechigen, wrote. This

2468
03:29:07.360 --> 03:29:11.719
conclusion came after studying long- liveds
of many diverse cultures and historical periods.

2469
03:29:13.319 --> 03:29:18.200
Active domain means having autonomy in one' s life and circumstances, not power

2470
03:29:18.280 --> 03:29:22.559
over others. Beyond all the evidence
about aging and how to avoid it,

2471
03:29:24.079 --> 03:29:28.680
the most important factor in itself is
to make existence something creative. The renowned

2472
03:29:28.799 --> 03:29:35.719
religious writer Housgns Meth once declared in
order to live, man must believe in

2473
03:29:35.760 --> 03:29:39.879
that for which he lives. When
the core of what people thought disappeared,

2474
03:29:39.639 --> 03:29:46.479
people languished and died. The most
important thing for what we can live for

2475
03:29:46.559 --> 03:29:50.159
is to reach our full potential.
At any given age, the body and

2476
03:29:50.200 --> 03:29:54.239
mind you experience are only a tiny
fraction of the possibilities that open up to

2477
03:29:54.280 --> 03:30:01.639
you There are always infinite abilities,
new discoveries and deep lives to reach later.

2478
03:30:03.159 --> 03:30:07.680
These latent potentials are closed for the
vast majority of people who barely have

2479
03:30:07.760 --> 03:30:11.520
the skills to fill sixty- five
years of existence. Therefore, it is

2480
03:30:11.959 --> 03:30:16.479
of the utmost importance to begin to
develop your skills conscientiously, freeing you from

2481
03:30:16.559 --> 03:30:22.520
social expectations and proposing you as a
goal to become a teacher. The underlying

2482
03:30:22.600 --> 03:30:26.639
reason why elders feel marginal in our
society, apart from the mainstream of social

2483
03:30:26.719 --> 03:30:30.680
activity and values, is that they
themselves do not have a positive ideal of

2484
03:30:30.760 --> 03:30:35.760
the stage of life in which they
find themselves. To help you carve your

2485
03:30:35.840 --> 03:30:39.719
own ideal life, I have made
a list of ten keys to achieve an

2486
03:30:39.760 --> 03:30:43.959
active domain. Summary, much of
what we have discovered so far about aging

2487
03:30:43.200 --> 03:30:48.840
and consciousness are also meant to serve
as practical ideals to which you can aspire

2488
03:30:48.920 --> 03:30:56.760
in everyday action. In the next
section of hela practice we will detail that

2489
03:30:56.799 --> 03:31:03.079
type of action. Ten keys to
an active domain. One hears the wisdom

2490
03:31:03.159 --> 03:31:07.760
of your body, which is expressed
by signs of comfort and discomfort. When

2491
03:31:07.799 --> 03:31:11.879
choosing certain behavior ask your body that
feels about it, if your body sends

2492
03:31:11.920 --> 03:31:16.920
a sign of physical or emotional restlessness, be careful, if your body sends

2493
03:31:18.000 --> 03:31:22.760
a sign of comfort and longing proceed
two live in the present, which is

2494
03:31:22.879 --> 03:31:28.280
the only moment you have. Keep
your attention on what exists here and now

2495
03:31:28.319 --> 03:31:33.040
seek fulfillment at all times, accept
what comes to you completely and completely so

2496
03:31:33.079 --> 03:31:37.239
that you can appreciate it and learn
from it. Then let it go.

2497
03:31:37.239 --> 03:31:41.840
The present is as it should be, it reflects infinite laws of nature that

2498
03:31:41.840 --> 03:31:48.319
have brought you to this exact thought. This precise physical reaction to this moment

2499
03:31:48.399 --> 03:31:50.680
is as it is, because the
universe is as it is. Don'

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03:31:50.719 --> 03:31:54.360
t fight the infinite scheme of things. On the contrary, join him three.

2501
03:31:56.520 --> 03:32:01.879
Give time to silence to meditate to
silence the inner dialogue in moments of

2502
03:32:01.959 --> 03:32:07.280
silence, become aware that you are
retacting with your source of pure consciousness.

2503
03:32:07.200 --> 03:32:11.479
Pay attention to your inner life so
that you can be guided by intuition,

2504
03:32:11.000 --> 03:32:15.959
rather than by interpretations imposed from outside
on what suits you or does not suit

2505
03:32:15.959 --> 03:32:20.559
you. Four, give up your
need for external approval. Only you are

2506
03:32:20.639 --> 03:32:24.760
the judge of your worth. Your
goal is to discover the infinite value of

2507
03:32:24.879 --> 03:32:28.799
yourself without giving importance to what others
think. By understanding this, great freedom

2508
03:32:30.000 --> 03:32:35.040
is achieved. Five, when you
discover yourself reacting with anger or opposition to

2509
03:32:35.120 --> 03:32:41.760
any person or circumstance, remember that
you are only fighting yourself. Presenting resistance

2510
03:32:41.920 --> 03:32:46.079
is the reaction of defenses created by
old sufferings. When I saw that anger,

2511
03:32:46.399 --> 03:32:50.520
you' ll heal and cooperate with
the flow of the universe. Six,

2512
03:32:50.680 --> 03:32:54.920
remember that the world out there reflects
your reality. From here inside the

2513
03:32:56.000 --> 03:32:58.440
people before whom your reaction is stronger, whether of love or hatred, are

2514
03:32:58.440 --> 03:33:03.319
projections of your inner world. What
you hate the most is what you deny

2515
03:33:03.399 --> 03:33:07.040
the most in yourself, what you
love the most is what you want the

2516
03:33:07.120 --> 03:33:11.680
most within you. I am the
mirror of relationships to guide your evolution.

2517
03:33:13.120 --> 03:33:16.920
The goal is a total knowledge of
oneself. When you get it, what

2518
03:33:18.040 --> 03:33:22.719
I want the most will automatically be
there what most upset you will disappear seven.

2519
03:33:22.959 --> 03:33:28.520
Free yourself from the burden of judgment, you will feel much lighter in

2520
03:33:28.600 --> 03:33:33.639
judging impose good and bad situations that
are simply everything you can understand and forgive,

2521
03:33:33.760 --> 03:33:35.920
but when you judge that, you
move away from understanding and nullify the

2522
03:33:35.959 --> 03:33:41.360
process of learning to love by judging
others you reflect, your lack of self

2523
03:33:41.879 --> 03:33:46.399
- acceptance remember that every person you
forgive increases your love You yourself eight do

2524
03:33:46.799 --> 03:33:50.639
not contaminate your body with toxins,
either by food, drink or by toxic

2525
03:33:50.719 --> 03:33:56.280
emotions. Your body is not just
a life- sustaining system, it is

2526
03:33:58.280 --> 03:34:01.920
the vehicle that will take you on
the day journey of your evolution. The

2527
03:34:01.000 --> 03:34:05.440
health of each cell contributes directly to
your welfare state, because each cell is

2528
03:34:05.559 --> 03:34:11.440
a point of consciousness within the field
of consciousness that is you nine replaces the

2529
03:34:11.639 --> 03:34:16.879
behavior that motivates fear by the behavior
that motivates love. Fear is a product

2530
03:34:16.959 --> 03:34:20.479
of memory that dwells in the past. Remembering what made us suffer before,

2531
03:34:20.920 --> 03:34:26.280
we devote our energies to making sure
that the old suffering is not repeated.

2532
03:34:26.639 --> 03:34:31.799
But trying to impose the past on
the present will never end the threat of

2533
03:34:31.799 --> 03:34:35.319
suffering. That only happens when you
find the security in your own being that

2534
03:34:35.399 --> 03:34:41.000
is love motivated by the inner truth, you can face any threat because your

2535
03:34:41.079 --> 03:34:46.159
inner strength is invulnerable to fear.
Ten understands that the physical world is only

2536
03:34:46.239 --> 03:34:52.719
the mirror of a deeper intelligence.
Intelligence is the invisible organizer of all matter

2537
03:34:52.799 --> 03:34:56.920
and all energy. As part of
this intelligence resides in you, you participate

2538
03:34:58.000 --> 03:35:01.840
in the organizing power of the cosmos. As you are inseparably linked to the

2539
03:35:01.840 --> 03:35:07.159
whole, you cannot afford to pollute
the air and water of the planet,

2540
03:35:07.639 --> 03:35:11.719
but on a deeper plane, you
cannot afford to live with a toxic mind,

2541
03:35:11.120 --> 03:35:16.479
because every thought creates an impression in
the total field of intelligence. Living

2542
03:35:16.520 --> 03:35:20.479
in balance and purity is the highest
good for you and the earth. Life

2543
03:35:20.559 --> 03:35:26.000
is a creative enterprise. There are
many planes of creation and, therefore,

2544
03:35:26.360 --> 03:35:31.319
many planes of dominion. It is
possible to love completely, not to judge

2545
03:35:31.360 --> 03:35:35.479
and accept oneself, an exalted goal, but the important thing is to operate

2546
03:35:35.559 --> 03:35:37.799
from a concept of totality. As
our society does not see the end of

2547
03:35:37.920 --> 03:35:43.920
the route, the eminent psychiatrist Eer
Kersen laments. Our civilization does not really

2548
03:35:43.959 --> 03:35:48.200
harbor a concept of the whole of
life. The new paradigm provides us with

2549
03:35:48.280 --> 03:35:54.600
that concept by weaving body mind and
spirit into one unity. Advanced years should

2550
03:35:54.680 --> 03:35:58.840
be the time when life is integrated, the circle is closed and the purpose

2551
03:35:58.920 --> 03:36:05.079
of existence is fulfilled. In that
regard, active dominance is not only a

2552
03:36:05.159 --> 03:36:09.520
means of surviving to a very advanced
age. It is the path to freedom

2553
03:36:11.840 --> 03:36:18.799
in practice breath of life. In
its most complete sense, the active domain

2554
03:36:18.920 --> 03:36:22.719
is to handle the whole of life. It is a process of integration,

2555
03:36:22.280 --> 03:36:26.319
since usually many aspects of the mind
are well separated from the body and out

2556
03:36:26.360 --> 03:36:31.319
of harmony with it. Both in
turn are separated from the spirit. If

2557
03:36:31.440 --> 03:36:35.479
you sit quietly and become aware of
yourself, you will notice that your perception

2558
03:36:35.559 --> 03:36:41.840
is occupied by mental noise, fortuitous
thoughts, emotions memories and occasional physical sensations

2559
03:36:41.879 --> 03:36:46.520
that may or may not relate to
what happens in your mind. Usually,

2560
03:36:46.719 --> 03:36:50.680
the perception of the spirit is completely
lost or ignored. Even in moments of

2561
03:36:50.719 --> 03:36:56.440
silent observation. These welcome pauses in
which one departs from the common whirlwind of

2562
03:36:56.479 --> 03:37:01.239
mental events. Most people do not
recognize that they are opposed to their essential

2563
03:37:01.239 --> 03:37:05.399
being. Returning unity to all these
ingredients is not possible on the mental or

2564
03:37:05.479 --> 03:37:11.600
physical plane, on its own.
By paying attention to one we automatically tend

2565
03:37:11.639 --> 03:37:16.840
to exclude the other. Unity can
be achieved in very deep planes of consciousness

2566
03:37:16.920 --> 03:37:22.959
through meditation when the duality of mind
and body is transcended. But meditation is

2567
03:37:22.040 --> 03:37:28.600
restricted to the times we devote especially
to integrating the remaining hours of our daily

2568
03:37:28.680 --> 03:37:35.079
active life. Thousands of years ago, ancient Indian sages gave an answer in

2569
03:37:35.200 --> 03:37:39.879
the form of prana, the most
useful form of biological energy. Prana is

2570
03:37:39.959 --> 03:37:46.159
present in all mental and physical events. It flows directly from the pure spirit

2571
03:37:46.479 --> 03:37:50.000
or consciousness to bring intelligence and consciousness
to all aspects of life. Prana is

2572
03:37:50.079 --> 03:37:54.159
sometimes defined as life force or energy
of life. But more important than the

2573
03:37:54.239 --> 03:38:00.719
definition is to know it through experience. If you can experience prano, you

2574
03:38:00.760 --> 03:38:05.319
can start nourishing it and keeping it. Many cultural traditions have recognized the critical

2575
03:38:05.360 --> 03:38:09.760
importance of vital energy. The Chinese
call it chi and control its flow through

2576
03:38:09.840 --> 03:38:16.639
acupuncture, meditation and special exercises,
such as tai chi. The breath of

2577
03:38:16.680 --> 03:38:20.600
life appears with other names in Sufism, mystic Christianity and the teachings of ancient

2578
03:38:20.680 --> 03:38:28.159
Egypt. What is universally agreed is
that the more prana you have, the

2579
03:38:28.200 --> 03:38:35.920
more vital the mental and bodily processes
will be. The balanced prana gives origin

2580
03:38:35.000 --> 03:38:43.959
to the following qualities results of balanced
prana, correct mental vivacity, tissue formation,

2581
03:38:43.479 --> 03:38:52.520
sensitive nervous system, good motor coordination, balanced body rhythms, hunger thirst

2582
03:38:52.879 --> 03:39:00.719
sleep, digestion, elimination, etcetera. Deep dream was immunity from disease,

2583
03:39:00.920 --> 03:39:11.000
enthusiasm, physical vitality, spiritual satisfaction, sense of exaltation. These are natural

2584
03:39:11.079 --> 03:39:15.559
qualities of human life. When it' s balanced and whole. Prana exhaustion

2585
03:39:15.639 --> 03:39:20.280
is directly linked to aging and death. In the absence of prana, nothing

2586
03:39:20.360 --> 03:39:26.079
can remain alive, because prana is
intelligence and consciousness, the two vital ingredients

2587
03:39:26.159 --> 03:39:31.719
that animate physical matter. Prana can
be experienced in many ways. When you

2588
03:39:31.799 --> 03:39:35.559
feel invaded by a sudden energy,
when you experience a torrent of sudden vivacity

2589
03:39:35.639 --> 03:39:41.719
and clarity, you simply perceive that
you are inspired your attention has been focused

2590
03:39:41.799 --> 03:39:46.840
on prana. Some people experience it
as a buzzing or torrential energy in the

2591
03:39:46.879 --> 03:39:50.399
body. We tend to attribute these
feelings to something else. Ear ringing tingling

2592
03:39:50.799 --> 03:39:56.239
nerves greater blood circulation, but that' s just a reflection of how we

2593
03:39:56.360 --> 03:40:01.239
' ve been taught to perceive the
body. In India the body is perceived

2594
03:40:01.280 --> 03:40:07.840
primarily as a product of consciousness and
only secondaryly as a material object. The

2595
03:40:07.959 --> 03:40:11.520
preservation of prana is considered of the
utmost importance. The old teachings provide the

2596
03:40:11.559 --> 03:40:16.520
following basic rules to ensure a balanced
and vital pran in the body. At

2597
03:40:16.639 --> 03:40:22.879
all ages. Diet eats fresh produce, preferably grown in a domestic garden.

2598
03:40:24.879 --> 03:40:26.719
The highest prana is the one in
the foods that are eaten freshly collected.

2599
03:40:28.719 --> 03:40:33.079
Stale food quickly loses its prana.
In reality, everything rancid and molded indicates

2600
03:40:33.120 --> 03:40:39.840
the absence of vital energy and must
also be avoided in processed foods. The

2601
03:40:39.920 --> 03:40:43.239
prana is very scarce. The water
to drink must be pure. The best

2602
03:40:43.319 --> 03:40:48.079
is the natural fountain or mountain water
that comes from the skies. Contaminated water

2603
03:40:48.159 --> 03:40:56.719
is deficient in prana exercise. Physical
activity increases prana by providing energy to the

2604
03:40:56.799 --> 03:41:01.680
body unless it runs until exhaustion.
Exhaustion and fatigue are critical signs that prana

2605
03:41:01.760 --> 03:41:07.719
has been exhausted in Western medicine.
We also recognize this change when you take

2606
03:41:07.760 --> 03:41:13.879
exercise beyond the body' s oxygen
reserves. It must obtain energies by metabolizing

2607
03:41:13.959 --> 03:41:18.399
its own tissues. See the analysis
of catabolic and anabolic metabolism on pages eighty

2608
03:41:18.840 --> 03:41:24.680
- seven and eighty- eight breaths. The main source of prana of the

2609
03:41:24.760 --> 03:41:28.959
body is the breathing that, in
a crude plane provides oxygen I saw in

2610
03:41:30.040 --> 03:41:33.200
a subtle plane, provides vital energy. Therefore, prana has been literally identified

2611
03:41:33.360 --> 03:41:39.239
with the breath of life. The
ancient sages considered that a person’ s

2612
03:41:39.360 --> 03:41:43.760
quality of life was reflected in the
quality of his breath. When breathing is

2613
03:41:43.840 --> 03:41:48.959
refined, slow and regular, prana
circulation is reaching all planes of body and

2614
03:41:48.000 --> 03:41:56.840
mind, facilitating a state of complete
balance conduct. Actions can damage or nourish

2615
03:41:56.920 --> 03:42:01.600
the prana of the body. A
tense and conflictive behavior, what we call

2616
03:42:01.680 --> 03:42:07.120
stress behavior today, disturbs the flow
of prana. The refined behavior that comes

2617
03:42:07.200 --> 03:42:11.520
from a feeling of tranquility and self- acceptance facilitates balanced prana. At the

2618
03:42:11.600 --> 03:42:15.799
root of all life- friendly behavior, one finds the attitude of the boyfriend

2619
03:42:15.920 --> 03:42:22.239
plencia imsa emotions. There are four
negative emotions that leave the prana unbalanced and

2620
03:42:22.319 --> 03:42:28.479
must be avoided. Fear, anger, greed and envy. Positive emotions,

2621
03:42:28.079 --> 03:42:35.200
especially love, increase prana. Love
is considered the most basic emotion that human

2622
03:42:35.280 --> 03:42:39.639
consciousness can feel. Therefore, it
is the closest to the source of life.

2623
03:42:41.159 --> 03:42:45.559
That burst of well- being we
feel when we fall in love is

2624
03:42:45.920 --> 03:42:48.319
because we unconsciously open the channels of
consciousness that allow for a greater flow of

2625
03:42:48.319 --> 03:42:52.760
prana. Emotions that are repressed by
shame and guilt cause these channels to be

2626
03:42:52.840 --> 03:42:58.440
reduced when prevented, so prana fluya
accumulate pockets of inertia and stagnation, facilitating

2627
03:42:58.520 --> 03:43:05.440
the appearance of diseases over time.
Depression is a state of near- complete

2628
03:43:05.520 --> 03:43:09.239
lack of flow and is linked to
chronic diseases, premature aging, and early

2629
03:43:09.360 --> 03:43:16.559
death. Therefore, a healthy life
evaluated by prana conservation requires the following:

2630
03:43:16.239 --> 03:43:24.079
fresh food, clean water and air, sunlight, moderate exercise, balanced and

2631
03:43:26.440 --> 03:43:33.879
refined breathing, non- violent behavior
and reverence for life, positive and loving

2632
03:43:33.000 --> 03:43:41.600
emotions. Free expression of emotions think
about how different are a fresh salad made

2633
03:43:41.680 --> 03:43:46.959
with freshly picked vegetables from your orchard
and another made with the same vegetables bought

2634
03:43:46.040 --> 03:43:52.000
on the market. Compare an outdoor
snack in the mountains, with a lunch

2635
03:43:52.120 --> 03:43:54.840
consumed standing next to a burger stand
or the taste of fresh well water with

2636
03:43:54.879 --> 03:44:01.239
the liquid coming out of the taps. In the big cities. The freshness

2637
03:44:01.360 --> 03:44:05.360
points to the presence of prana,
the rancid points to its absence. The

2638
03:44:05.399 --> 03:44:09.520
least understood factor in our culture is
balanced breathing, which in India is considered

2639
03:44:09.600 --> 03:44:16.399
the most important. The word breathing
means more than the physical act of putting

2640
03:44:16.440 --> 03:44:20.000
air into the lungs and exhaling it
again. Breathing is the point where you

2641
03:44:20.079 --> 03:44:26.120
find mind body and spirit. Any
change of mental state is reflected in breathing

2642
03:44:26.200 --> 03:44:31.479
and then in the body. Certain
home signs, such as clear body posture

2643
03:44:31.520 --> 03:44:37.399
and sensations, are directly related to
our breathing mode. Changes in feeling are

2644
03:44:37.520 --> 03:44:45.639
immediately recorded in the respiratory rhythm.
Anger produces superficial aspirations and strong gasping exhalations.

2645
03:44:46.559 --> 03:44:52.680
Fear creates rapid, superficial, and
difficult breathing. The weigh a spasmodic

2646
03:44:52.799 --> 03:44:58.600
breath cut, like the one that
arises when I am masters. On the

2647
03:44:58.680 --> 03:45:01.559
contrary, positive emotions, such as
joy, induce a more regular breathing,

2648
03:45:01.920 --> 03:45:07.840
as the chest cavity relaxes. At
times when the mind stops dazzled by beauty

2649
03:45:07.159 --> 03:45:13.520
or revelation, breathing also stops.
That is what we mean by saying that

2650
03:45:16.079 --> 03:45:20.760
a spectacle left us breathless on a
more useful plane, entering into the yes

2651
03:45:20.760 --> 03:45:24.879
silence of deep meditation retards the breath
that spiritual masters call God' s envelopment.

2652
03:45:26.799 --> 03:45:30.959
The direct contemplation of the spirit is
reflected in little or no breath.

2653
03:45:31.920 --> 03:45:35.760
This phenomenon also works the other way
around. Altering respiratory patterns also alters emotions.

2654
03:45:37.600 --> 03:45:41.719
In my time as a young intern, when I was on duty in

2655
03:45:41.799 --> 03:45:45.680
the emergency room, I was taught
to calm the agitated patients by just sitting

2656
03:45:45.760 --> 03:45:52.319
next to them and asking them to
breathe deeply and regularly with me. When

2657
03:45:52.399 --> 03:45:56.959
we recorded a relaxed breathing rhythm,
the body also relaxed spontaneously and the agitated

2658
03:45:56.040 --> 03:46:01.159
emotions calmed down. The grain of
page one hundred and forty- six contains

2659
03:46:01.239 --> 03:46:05.200
some examples of the common experience of
how the link between breathing, body,

2660
03:46:05.879 --> 03:46:11.879
and emotions operates. As you can
see when joy, love, and compassion

2661
03:46:11.959 --> 03:46:16.360
operate, breathing is more spontaneous and
relaxed than ever before. The various Indian

2662
03:46:16.399 --> 03:46:22.639
yoga systems teach many types of highly
controlled breathing exercises, known as prana flames

2663
03:46:22.719 --> 03:46:26.120
that serve to balance breathing, but
their real goal is not to cause controlled

2664
03:46:26.200 --> 03:46:33.680
or disciplined breathing in ordinary circumstances.
Rather, paying attention to breath is a

2665
03:46:33.799 --> 03:46:39.920
vehicle to release stress and allow the
body to find its own balance. Once

2666
03:46:39.000 --> 03:46:43.200
balanced, the yovic breath is spontaneous
and refined, so that the refined emotions

2667
03:46:43.239 --> 03:46:46.879
of love and devotion can be carried
to the whole body on all planes.

2668
03:46:48.920 --> 03:46:54.280
When your cells experience the fullness of
prana, they are receiving the physical equivalent

2669
03:46:54.319 --> 03:47:00.840
of these emotions. The next two
exercises are to balance your breathing. They

2670
03:47:00.920 --> 03:47:05.600
are not true pranallamas, for they
must be performed together with meditation and yoga

2671
03:47:05.680 --> 03:47:09.040
postures, but they are done properly. They will provide the prana experience as

2672
03:47:09.159 --> 03:47:15.040
a luminous and sparkling sensation that runs
through the body. Usually, muscles become

2673
03:47:15.079 --> 03:47:20.799
remarkably warm and relaxed. Mentally.
Balanced breathing is reflected in a feeling of

2674
03:47:20.879 --> 03:47:26.200
calmness, lack of tension and stillness. According to the static of unceasing thought,

2675
03:47:26.600 --> 03:47:33.079
it gives way to exercise silence.
One breath from the body. Sit

2676
03:47:33.200 --> 03:47:37.040
quietly in a chair listening to music, soft or outdoors, listening to the

2677
03:47:37.120 --> 03:47:41.920
wind among the trees. As you
listen, gently let your attention burst through

2678
03:47:43.000 --> 03:47:46.840
your ears. As long as you
exhale effortlessly. Repeat for a minute then

2679
03:47:46.879 --> 03:47:50.399
do the same with your eyes,
letting your attention come out with your breath

2680
03:47:50.440 --> 03:47:56.319
slowly and gently repeat this through the
nostrils and through your mouth. Then remain

2681
03:47:56.440 --> 03:48:01.879
silent, simply listening to the music
with your whole body. Now let your

2682
03:48:01.959 --> 03:48:05.600
attention sink into your chest, feel
where the center of the heart is,

2683
03:48:07.040 --> 03:48:09.120
where the ribs and sternum are joined, and exhale through it, letting your

2684
03:48:09.200 --> 03:48:18.319
attention go with your breath. Continue
gently one more minute then remain silent conscious

2685
03:48:18.440 --> 03:48:22.840
of your body. This exercise takes
about two minutes, but can be prolonged

2686
03:48:22.920 --> 03:48:28.120
by repeating the cycle once or twice. This exercise links the breathing with the

2687
03:48:28.200 --> 03:48:33.680
nervous system to consciousness, helping to
favor a smooth integration. It is delicious

2688
03:48:33.760 --> 03:48:37.120
to do it outdoors sitting next to
a stream of water or under a tree,

2689
03:48:37.680 --> 03:48:41.520
when the wind sways the leaves.
By feeling your consciousness, when it

2690
03:48:41.559 --> 03:48:46.799
flows with the breath, you will
experience a powerful feeling of being in harmony

2691
03:48:46.799 --> 03:48:52.879
with nature. Prana llama is an
important part of the traditional Ayurbedic procedures that

2692
03:48:52.959 --> 03:48:58.000
I use in the practice of medicine. The interested reader can consult my previous

2693
03:48:58.040 --> 03:49:01.840
book, La Perfecta Salud Buenos Aires, Javier Vergara, Editor, one thousand

2694
03:49:01.920 --> 03:49:05.959
nine hundred ninety- one that details
the complete program of the Marisi yurbeda,

2695
03:49:07.479 --> 03:49:11.799
a renewal of the most powerful knowledge
contained in the ancient science of life of

2696
03:49:11.879 --> 03:49:16.799
India. Emotion, feeling, body
breathing, posture, pain, grief loss,

2697
03:49:18.840 --> 03:49:22.879
fear and anxiety, hollow and empty
sensation, especially in the stomach mouth.

2698
03:49:24.559 --> 03:49:30.600
The body feels heavy, restless and
weak. Tight muscles, heart,

2699
03:49:30.680 --> 03:49:37.319
accelerated, dry mouth, increased sweat, palpitations in the head, spasmodic breathing,

2700
03:49:37.959 --> 03:49:43.840
sighing and superficial, as in sobs, fast, hollow, disordered and

2701
03:49:43.000 --> 03:49:52.879
irregular. The posture conveys the impression
of tightness, contracted, bent, neck

2702
03:49:52.959 --> 03:49:58.239
and back, rigid, angry body
tense, feeling of pressure, especially in

2703
03:49:58.360 --> 03:50:01.680
the chest area, sometimes tight fists, widening of the nostrils, guilt,

2704
03:50:03.120 --> 03:50:07.639
feeling of carrying a great weight,
being pushed down, shallow aspiration, strong

2705
03:50:07.719 --> 03:50:15.600
and gasping exhalation, limited breathing,
feeling of drowning, inability to fully breathe

2706
03:50:15.680 --> 03:50:24.639
the breath of life. Joy,
love, compassion, frank posture, relaxed

2707
03:50:24.719 --> 03:50:31.239
muscles, feeling of warmth, especially
in the heart, open palms, feeling

2708
03:50:31.639 --> 03:50:37.840
of energy in the body deep,
regular, spontaneous, soft and easy.

2709
03:50:39.799 --> 03:50:45.479
The posture conveys an impression of open, relaxed serenity. Extended shoulders, back,

2710
03:50:45.559 --> 03:50:50.639
upright and comfortable. The neck easily
floats on the spine exercise two the

2711
03:50:50.719 --> 03:50:56.520
expanding light of foot, wearing stockings
with closed eyes and arms fallen to the

2712
03:50:56.600 --> 03:51:03.520
sides vividly revives the sensation of your
last exhilarating experience. Recapture the feeling of

2713
03:51:03.600 --> 03:51:09.120
being happy, vibrant and carefree.
You can use a visual image, a

2714
03:51:09.159 --> 03:51:13.959
loving memory, a moment of triumph
lived in the past. Anything that gives

2715
03:51:13.079 --> 03:51:18.520
you back the feeling of rejoicing,
don' t worry if it' s

2716
03:51:18.600 --> 03:51:22.120
just mild enough the intention to be
with it. As you do, breathe

2717
03:51:22.239 --> 03:51:28.600
slowly through your nose and begin to
stretch your arms out without haste. As

2718
03:51:28.680 --> 03:51:31.319
you vacuum, imagine that your breath
expands from the center of your chest.

2719
03:51:33.280 --> 03:51:35.879
It' s an expanding light that
lifts your arms up as if they float

2720
03:51:37.200 --> 03:51:41.600
effortlessly opening up As the light expands, your happy and joyful feeling expands.

2721
03:51:41.719 --> 03:51:48.000
You can also visualize it if you
want it as a glowing ball of bluish

2722
03:51:48.079 --> 03:51:50.079
white light or just as a sensation. Let the light grow as slowly or

2723
03:51:50.159 --> 03:51:54.760
as quickly as she wants to expand
from the center of your heart to reach

2724
03:51:54.840 --> 03:52:00.840
the tip of your fingers, hands, feet, to your head. You

2725
03:52:00.920 --> 03:52:05.000
' ll be smiling. Let that
also grow at the point of maximum extension.

2726
03:52:05.879 --> 03:52:09.000
Start slowly exhaling through your nose and
lower your arms to your sides.

2727
03:52:11.600 --> 03:52:16.399
Do it slowly, taking more time
to exhale than to vacuum. Bring the

2728
03:52:16.440 --> 03:52:20.440
expansive diagonal beam light back to the
inside of the chest, until it is

2729
03:52:20.559 --> 03:52:24.200
small and again located in your heart, when your arms reach the sides of

2730
03:52:24.319 --> 03:52:31.479
the body, let your head fall
forward. Now repeat the exercise with the

2731
03:52:31.520 --> 03:52:35.840
next breath, expanding the sensation again. Pay no attention to your physical movements,

2732
03:52:37.239 --> 03:52:41.520
but to the sensation. It must
be opened and closed like a flower

2733
03:52:41.639 --> 03:52:46.680
with every breath. When you continue, you can start to open up even

2734
03:52:46.760 --> 03:52:50.120
more by pulling your head back,
with your chest expanded and tiptoeing in the

2735
03:52:50.200 --> 03:52:56.000
movement outwards. When exhaling in corbate
like a rag doll, bending the knees

2736
03:52:56.120 --> 03:53:01.959
and waist, do not accelerate the
movements. You must proceed slowly and rhythmically.

2737
03:53:03.000 --> 03:53:05.719
You will notice that this is a
very pleasant exercise, because when you

2738
03:53:05.719 --> 03:53:09.200
open up, the body is filled
with breath, consciousness and joy all.

2739
03:53:09.319 --> 03:53:15.280
At the same time, the sensation
is light, hot, tingling. When

2740
03:53:15.360 --> 03:53:18.799
you close, the body relaxes and
bends under its own weight, becoming more

2741
03:53:18.200 --> 03:53:24.520
grounded and still. You are exploring
a variety of sensations that allows subtle breathing

2742
03:53:24.600 --> 03:53:33.399
to penetrate into all channels. The
connection coats as we age the natural tendency

2743
03:53:33.559 --> 03:53:39.159
is for prana to decrease. This
must be countered in order to preserve youth.

2744
03:53:39.120 --> 03:53:45.639
In India longevity was traditionally assigned to
a branch of it learning called ayurbeda,

2745
03:53:46.000 --> 03:53:50.360
which is derived from two anascribed roots
aylos life and closed science or knowledge.

2746
03:53:52.200 --> 03:53:56.319
This ancient science of life is generally
considered the traditional medicine of India,

2747
03:53:56.520 --> 03:54:01.639
but the yurbeda has a deeper neo- spiritual basis. The most famous verse

2748
03:54:01.719 --> 03:54:07.959
of the ancient Ayorbedic texts says ayorbeda
agritana. Mayurbeda is for immortality. The

2749
03:54:09.040 --> 03:54:13.120
meaning is twofold. Ayorbeda is to
foster unlimited longevity, and it does so

2750
03:54:13.239 --> 03:54:18.079
from the belief that life is essentially
immortal. According to layorbeda, life energy

2751
03:54:18.200 --> 03:54:22.719
or prana is channeled through the body
by a wind called a robe. The

2752
03:54:22.799 --> 03:54:26.399
robe is one of three metabolic principles, doses that shape everything living, be

2753
03:54:26.479 --> 03:54:31.440
it mosquito, elephant, human being, planet, star or cosmos is found

2754
03:54:31.559 --> 03:54:37.159
out. The robe is responsible for
the movement of any kind. In the

2755
03:54:37.239 --> 03:54:43.079
human body. It is divided into
five parts. Grana, coat regulates the

2756
03:54:43.159 --> 03:54:50.520
nervous system udanda. Bata regulates cognitive
skills speech and memory. Samana. Bata

2757
03:54:50.600 --> 03:54:56.360
regulates the digestion of the road.
Bata regulates apane circulation. Bata regulates excretion.

2758
03:54:56.799 --> 03:55:01.280
The five aspects of the robe are
under the center of the first and

2759
03:55:01.280 --> 03:55:03.840
most important, the pranabata, since
this dosa, as its name indicates,

2760
03:55:05.559 --> 03:55:09.479
contributes the prana the vital force that
is then distributed by the rest of the

2761
03:55:09.479 --> 03:55:13.840
body. When the prana bata becomes
unbalanced, there is a general disturbance throughout

2762
03:55:13.920 --> 03:55:18.040
the body. Crying maintains that old
age is a time especially sensitive to these

2763
03:55:18.159 --> 03:55:24.319
imbalances. The robe is higher in
old age by nature, and if the

2764
03:55:24.399 --> 03:55:28.479
individual has not taken care to keep
the prana robe in balance, the following

2765
03:55:28.559 --> 03:55:35.520
symptoms will result. Symptoms of imbalance
of the gown, Physical symptoms mental or

2766
03:55:35.559 --> 03:55:39.760
behavioral symptoms, dry or rough skin, wrinkles, insomnia, chronically low weight,

2767
03:55:41.159 --> 03:55:45.079
loss of muscle mass, weak kidneys, lack of bladder control, concern,

2768
03:55:45.200 --> 03:55:48.840
anxiety of constipation, heart rhythm,
weak or irregular, constipated depression,

2769
03:55:48.360 --> 03:55:52.440
fatigue, common arthritis, confusion,
thoughts, restless, non- specific pains,

2770
03:55:54.120 --> 03:55:58.000
without stress tolerance, weakened immunity,
susceptibility to colds, pneumonia and other

2771
03:55:58.360 --> 03:56:07.159
infections, cold intolerance. You will
immediately notice the resemblance between these disorders of

2772
03:56:07.280 --> 03:56:11.920
the unbalanced robe and aging as the
wind of the body. The robe is

2773
03:56:11.000 --> 03:56:16.319
cold, dry and penetrating. When
the robe gets worse, it' s

2774
03:56:16.440 --> 03:56:22.040
as if a scorching wind starts shaking
inside. Generally, the aggravated robe begins

2775
03:56:22.159 --> 03:56:26.760
by traveling to the joints, initiating
a variety of joint problems that begin with

2776
03:56:26.879 --> 03:56:30.479
deaf and mild pains. This causes
problems, especially during the winter, the

2777
03:56:30.760 --> 03:56:35.920
worst season for robe disturbances and ends
in a generative arthritis. If the aggravation

2778
03:56:35.959 --> 03:56:41.440
persists. As all cells contain the
two coats, the effects of their aggravation

2779
03:56:41.479 --> 03:56:46.159
are not limited to the joints.
The whole body begins to shrink and dry.

2780
03:56:46.520 --> 03:56:52.879
The intestines become dry, tense and
constipated. The individual languishes beset by

2781
03:56:52.000 --> 03:56:58.479
insomnia and worries in the grip of
growing pains. Disconcerted doctors prescribe millions of

2782
03:56:58.479 --> 03:57:03.719
tranquilizers and sleeping pills without being able
to explain why older patients begin to have

2783
03:57:03.719 --> 03:57:11.520
these symptoms, since there is usually
no organic anomaly. According to organuco medical

2784
03:57:11.600 --> 03:57:16.280
terminology it means that a physical organ
has signs of disease or dysfunction. Doctors

2785
03:57:16.399 --> 03:57:24.680
tend to discard symptoms lacking organic cause
by unexplained psychosomatics or idiopathics. Elders rarely

2786
03:57:24.799 --> 03:57:28.760
suffer from a single symptom of unbalance
in the robe. Many suffer on a

2787
03:57:28.840 --> 03:57:35.920
large scale. If multiple drugs are
prescribed for each symptom, the new imbalances

2788
03:57:35.959 --> 03:57:41.399
accumulate, because the body can only
react with imbalances to the painkillers, diuretics,

2789
03:57:41.959 --> 03:57:46.319
tranquilizers, sleeping pills, vetablo that
before and all the medications usually prescribed

2790
03:57:46.399 --> 03:57:52.239
to the elderly like a symptom or
not. It' s something the body

2791
03:57:52.239 --> 03:57:56.799
wants to express. It' s
a message and drugs suppress that expression.

2792
03:57:58.200 --> 03:58:01.639
The speed with which you age is
linked to the speed and intensity of the

2793
03:58:01.719 --> 03:58:07.399
aggravation of the robe. Some people
are very prone to the imbalance of the

2794
03:58:07.760 --> 03:58:11.360
robe, others are not. Some
may have an aggravated robe on their fingers,

2795
03:58:11.520 --> 03:58:16.559
leading to arthritis. Others have it
in their intestines, causing chronic constipation.

2796
03:58:18.840 --> 03:58:24.399
What can lead to the imbalance of
the Ayurbeda robe follows the principles of

2797
03:58:24.399 --> 03:58:28.280
complementarity. The similar speaks to the
similar. This means that any quality possessed

2798
03:58:28.399 --> 03:58:33.559
by the two abatas will be stimulated
by the same quality existing outside your body.

2799
03:58:33.520 --> 03:58:41.520
These qualities are the following qualities of
the Dasha of dry, cold,

2800
03:58:43.000 --> 03:58:50.600
changing, rough moving, light,
subtle, fast, guide the other doses.

2801
03:58:52.479 --> 03:58:56.399
Everything in your environment that contains the
listed features. It will increase the

2802
03:58:56.399 --> 03:59:03.680
robe, for example, the weather
will be echo foods, biscuits, cereals,

2803
03:59:03.079 --> 03:59:07.760
chips, etcetera. The cold climate, the cold drinks and the cold

2804
03:59:07.760 --> 03:59:13.959
foods, the changing, the sudden, life changes, a death in the

2805
03:59:13.000 --> 03:59:18.159
family, the loss of work,
mood changes, seasonal changes, sudden,

2806
03:59:18.639 --> 03:59:22.879
etcetera. Rough tissues in contact with
the skin, harsh words or behaviors,

2807
03:59:24.520 --> 03:59:30.920
moving, traveling, falling, exercise
or physical work, exposure to air currents

2808
03:59:30.920 --> 03:59:35.040
or wind, light meals that have
a high air content, especially raw fruits

2809
03:59:35.159 --> 03:59:39.079
and vegetables, subtle mood changes,
subtle breezes as quickly as any physical or

2810
03:59:41.520 --> 03:59:54.319
mental activity that requires rapidity is forced
to hurry. Let me explain how to

2811
03:59:54.399 --> 04:00:00.440
interact with these Sanskrit qualities called gunas. If my kidneys detect a shortage of

2812
04:00:00.520 --> 04:00:03.680
fluids in my bloodstream, a specific
chemical messenger is added, the angiotensin two

2813
04:00:03.760 --> 04:00:09.120
is taken to the hypothalamus in the
brain and turned into a mental fact.

2814
04:00:09.200 --> 04:00:13.799
I' m thirsty this feeling then
urges me to act by drinking a glass

2815
04:00:13.799 --> 04:00:18.399
of water. In Ayorbedic terms,
what has happened is an even flow of

2816
04:00:18.520 --> 04:00:22.879
a bata intelligence impulse, which simultaneously
records the need for fifty billion cells.

2817
04:00:26.000 --> 04:00:30.440
The robe has the quality of being
dry and increases under any dryness. Dry

2818
04:00:30.559 --> 04:00:33.879
biscuits, desert heat, dry air
conditioning and even dry responses serve to increase

2819
04:00:33.959 --> 04:00:41.559
the robe. Dryness makes us thirsty
because the body detects this increase in the

2820
04:00:41.680 --> 04:00:45.559
robe and the signal will persist until
something moist like a sip of water,

2821
04:00:45.920 --> 04:00:50.760
puts in play the opposite quality and
the robe recovers the line. The robe

2822
04:00:50.879 --> 04:00:54.440
is the dosa that most easily loses
balance, but also the one that recovers

2823
04:00:54.559 --> 04:00:58.639
it more easily, like the prana
abata. The most important aspect of this

2824
04:00:58.719 --> 04:01:05.600
two regulate the nervous system. It
varies with the least thought or feeling by

2825
04:01:05.680 --> 04:01:09.079
doing the things necessary to keep the
pranavata balanced. We have a complete system

2826
04:01:09.159 --> 04:01:15.360
to preserve prana and defeat the aging
process in a highly subtle plane. This

2827
04:01:15.440 --> 04:01:18.239
means that every day we should pay
a little attention to the robe, which

2828
04:01:18.280 --> 04:01:24.200
is actually an easy and natural thing
to do. The robe can be pacified,

2829
04:01:24.319 --> 04:01:31.360
i e kept in balance by various
lifestyle measures. To pacify the robe,

2830
04:01:31.760 --> 04:01:35.479
to keep the two coats in balance, you need to consider the following

2831
04:01:35.559 --> 04:01:46.239
qualities. Regular, regular eating habits
and bedtime work planning. Hot, hot

2832
04:01:46.680 --> 04:01:52.879
and well- cooked meals, sun
avoid cold foods and drinks. The nutritious

2833
04:01:54.200 --> 04:01:58.559
foods rich, nutritious and even heavy, when the climate is cold, feed

2834
04:01:58.639 --> 04:02:03.879
the emotions the relaxing, take time
for the proper rest, avoid situations that

2835
04:02:03.920 --> 04:02:11.680
produce tension, excitement and excessive efforts. Stable, stable relationships and work,

2836
04:02:11.200 --> 04:02:16.799
home life, stable, tranquilizing,
a quiet and orderly work environment, gentle

2837
04:02:16.879 --> 04:02:22.719
massage, especially with hot sesame oil, uninterrupted, not to stop providing food

2838
04:02:22.719 --> 04:02:26.760
and water to the body, not
skipping meals or leaving the stomach empty.

2839
04:02:30.600 --> 04:02:35.319
A dosa is pacified by the qualities
it lacks. As the robe tends to

2840
04:02:35.399 --> 04:02:41.159
give people erratic, irregular and contradictory
behavior. It is useful to counter it

2841
04:02:41.440 --> 04:02:46.920
with the opposite firmness and regularity details
as small as not skipping meals and lying

2842
04:02:46.000 --> 04:02:50.479
down at a certain hour pay large
dividends when it comes to appeasing the robe.

2843
04:02:50.520 --> 04:02:54.719
Prolonged exposure to stress causes severe imbalances
in the robe, so special efforts

2844
04:02:54.799 --> 04:03:01.920
must be made to create a calm
and deep working environment. A cheerful environment

2845
04:03:01.959 --> 04:03:07.719
alleviates the gown' s tendency to
uncertainty and insecurity. When you are under

2846
04:03:07.760 --> 04:03:11.200
the influence of the robe, you
seek warmth by instinct, stay warm in

2847
04:03:11.280 --> 04:03:15.079
winter and take sunbathing in the other
seasons of the year. Calm down to

2848
04:03:15.200 --> 04:03:20.879
this dosa, your diet should be
based on nutritious and well- cooked foods

2849
04:03:20.959 --> 04:03:24.319
in layorbeda, you might think that
even heavy and oily foods are good for

2850
04:03:24.319 --> 04:03:26.719
the robe. Therefore, in winter
we are so attracted to soups and long

2851
04:03:26.840 --> 04:03:31.000
cooking stews. It is also advisable
to avoid in cold seasons, salads,

2852
04:03:31.479 --> 04:03:35.920
frozen drinks, alcohol and dry or
raw foods, thus correcting the tendency of

2853
04:03:35.000 --> 04:03:41.520
the body to aggravate the robe.
On such occasions, stimulants of any kind,

2854
04:03:41.840 --> 04:03:45.440
including coffee, tobacco and alcohol,
cause an imbalance in the robe.

2855
04:03:48.280 --> 04:03:52.200
When it is unbalanced, the robe
leads to a light and interrupted sleep.

2856
04:03:52.600 --> 04:03:56.280
This is countered by lying down early
and avoiding reading or watching television until late

2857
04:03:56.360 --> 04:04:01.200
at night. The body also wants
some periods of calm, relaxation and peace

2858
04:04:01.319 --> 04:04:07.399
every day. Transcendental meditation is ideal, as exposure of the nervous system to

2859
04:04:07.479 --> 04:04:11.440
deep silence allows it to harmonize all
synchronized bodily rhythms. That the robe regulates

2860
04:04:13.399 --> 04:04:16.319
a family life, peaceful and loving. It is an ideal that many consider

2861
04:04:16.399 --> 04:04:20.719
lost in recent decades, but it
is vital from the point of view of

2862
04:04:20.799 --> 04:04:24.959
the two abata. The robe has
a special affinity with hot oils. The

2863
04:04:26.040 --> 04:04:30.639
daily massage with hot sesame oil in
the hands and lower abdomen is one of

2864
04:04:30.719 --> 04:04:35.399
the best measures to relieve the deep
tensions of the nervous system. The oil

2865
04:04:35.479 --> 04:04:39.559
should be applied slowly and gently before
the morning bath and again before bedtime.

2866
04:04:41.079 --> 04:04:46.040
Special attention should be paid to the
balance of the robe when recovering from illness

2867
04:04:46.120 --> 04:04:48.879
or in situations of emotional stress,
when the effects of an airplane trip are

2868
04:04:48.959 --> 04:04:54.040
experienced through the hourly uses, when
you feel depressed fatigue, chronic fatigue and

2869
04:04:54.040 --> 04:04:58.159
exhaustion, or if you have received
a physical wound. All these conditions cause

2870
04:04:58.239 --> 04:05:05.360
a serious disturbance of the robe If
you detect chronic symptoms of imbalance of the

2871
04:05:05.440 --> 04:05:11.040
robe, they will be useful.
The following specific measures include flavors, sweets,

2872
04:05:11.479 --> 04:05:16.319
sour and salty in your meals are
to balance the robe. This Idasha

2873
04:05:16.360 --> 04:05:22.000
requires more food, sour and salty
than any other. Avoid bitter, astringent

2874
04:05:22.000 --> 04:05:28.239
and spicy flavors In the ayorbeda the
astringent is counted as flavor. You will

2875
04:05:28.280 --> 04:05:31.600
find dry- flavored foods that frustrate
your mouth, beans, lentils, pomegranates,

2876
04:05:33.040 --> 04:05:37.959
tea if you. It is uncomfortable
to live in a dry cold and

2877
04:05:37.399 --> 04:05:41.319
windy climate, studying the possibility of
moving to a warm place, which is

2878
04:05:41.399 --> 04:05:45.399
more suitable for the balance of the
robe. Anyone living in a cold climate

2879
04:05:45.479 --> 04:05:48.200
would do well, according to the
ayorbeda, to make sure that their home

2880
04:05:48.239 --> 04:05:54.120
and workplace have warm and humidified air. In the winter it edits the air

2881
04:05:54.239 --> 04:06:00.479
currents and prolonged outdoor exercises eating hot
foods and their stantios at regular intervals.

2882
04:06:01.639 --> 04:06:05.079
It is a good measure against the
robe in cold climates. As far as

2883
04:06:05.159 --> 04:06:09.600
possible, he always eats sitting and
in a peaceful, quiet and cordial atmosphere.

2884
04:06:11.520 --> 04:06:16.360
The snacks eaten to the race disturb
the robe avoid all kinds of diet

2885
04:06:16.440 --> 04:06:20.399
or fasting and spend a lot of
time on an empty stomach. If bumpy

2886
04:06:20.479 --> 04:06:24.399
is irregular. Common disorder when the
gown is unbalanced, try to make several

2887
04:06:24.479 --> 04:06:28.200
light meals during the day. The
last one should be when you put yourself

2888
04:06:28.319 --> 04:06:33.120
on alone at least a couple of
hours before you go to bed. Avoid

2889
04:06:33.239 --> 04:06:37.760
long journeys without rest between one flight
and another or driving for many hours.

2890
04:06:39.040 --> 04:06:41.559
When you are affected by a flight
through hourly uses, take the right time

2891
04:06:41.639 --> 04:06:45.840
to rest and diagonal bar or sleep
as soon as you arrive at destination.

2892
04:06:46.760 --> 04:06:50.159
Drink plenty of fluids during the trip. An infusion of herbs and even some

2893
04:06:50.239 --> 04:06:54.559
hot water are useful on the plane. Liquor and cold drinks tend to aggravate

2894
04:06:54.559 --> 04:07:00.280
the derangement effect on the two gowns. The aroma therapy or hot baths with

2895
04:07:00.360 --> 04:07:05.520
a few drops of perfumed oil help
to calm down, the robe chooses warm

2896
04:07:05.639 --> 04:07:11.840
earthly and soothing essences, such as
gauster oil, sandalwood, camphor, cinnamon,

2897
04:07:11.159 --> 04:07:16.360
basil, rose geranium and clove.
When you cook. Herbs and spices

2898
04:07:16.440 --> 04:07:20.600
should be of sweet quality and bar, diagonal or spicy, ginger, black

2899
04:07:20.600 --> 04:07:26.959
pepper, turmeric, cinnamon, mustard, mint, callana, radish, spicy,

2900
04:07:26.040 --> 04:07:31.680
cumin, nutmeg, cardamom, green
coriander, fennel, basil, oregano,

2901
04:07:31.559 --> 04:07:39.680
rosemary, sage and thyme. Fifth
part, break the spell of mortality

2902
04:07:39.799 --> 04:07:48.079
by your art spirit defeats the overwhelming
death r I g Veda. The ultimate

2903
04:07:48.239 --> 04:07:52.440
limit of human life is death.
We' ve been trying to travel beyond

2904
04:07:52.479 --> 04:07:56.920
that border for thousands of years.
Despite the obvious mortality of our body.

2905
04:07:56.600 --> 04:08:01.680
Moments arise in which a clear perception
of immortality shines forth. The poet Tennison

2906
04:08:01.719 --> 04:08:07.280
described experiences lived in his youth in
which his individual being seemed to dissolve and

2907
04:08:07.399 --> 04:08:13.440
merge into an unlimited being. This
radical departure from the vulgar experience was not

2908
04:08:13.520 --> 04:08:16.920
a confused state, he recalled,
but the clearest of the clear, the

2909
04:08:18.280 --> 04:08:22.000
surest, the surest totally beyond words, when death was an almost irreducible impossibility.

2910
04:08:26.040 --> 04:08:30.559
Since these immortal feelings are completely subjective, they have no place in the

2911
04:08:30.600 --> 04:08:33.280
vision that science has of the world
and, therefore, we tend to label

2912
04:08:33.360 --> 04:08:37.920
them as religious. But thousands of
people have had the privilege of taking a

2913
04:08:39.000 --> 04:08:41.680
look at the reality that spans space
and time. Cou like a vast multidimensional

2914
04:08:41.760 --> 04:08:48.520
bubble. Some people seem to have
made contact with this timeless realm through experiences

2915
04:08:48.559 --> 04:08:52.120
of quack and death. But it
is also accessible in everyday life. As

2916
04:08:52.200 --> 04:08:56.680
we cast a friendship under the mask
of matter, we have a certain feeling,

2917
04:08:56.879 --> 04:09:01.040
a certain nostalgia that we did not
express in words. It is a

2918
04:09:01.040 --> 04:09:05.639
longing, a desire for something greater
or higher within ourselves. With these words,

2919
04:09:07.120 --> 04:09:09.920
the philosopher jeckeb Nidomen pointed out what
he called our second world, to

2920
04:09:11.040 --> 04:09:18.280
which we can all arrive under special
conditions our first world, as Edleman wrote,

2921
04:09:18.520 --> 04:09:22.399
is the world in which we live
every day, this world of action,

2922
04:09:22.559 --> 04:09:26.799
activity and doing governed by everyday thoughts
and emotions. But there are moments,

2923
04:09:28.440 --> 04:09:31.799
like flashes of a spiritual lightning in
which the second world makes itself known

2924
04:09:31.879 --> 04:09:37.559
full of peace and joy with a
clear and unforgettable sense of who we are

2925
04:09:37.639 --> 04:09:41.159
really divided moments of being present in
oneself, as Needleman called them. If

2926
04:09:41.280 --> 04:09:45.520
the second world is within us,
so is the first, for ultimately,

2927
04:09:45.959 --> 04:09:50.479
there is nothing verifiable out there that
can be seen, felt and touched.

2928
04:09:50.479 --> 04:09:54.719
In the flood it is only cognible
as shooting neural signals into the brain.

2929
04:09:56.639 --> 04:10:00.799
It' s all happening there.
Whoever you are depends on the world you

2930
04:10:00.879 --> 04:10:05.719
see yourself living in. The first
to be ruled by change, contains disease,

2931
04:10:05.360 --> 04:10:09.639
aging and death as an inevitable part
of the landscape. In the second,

2932
04:10:11.040 --> 04:10:13.879
where there is only being pure.
That' s all missing. Therefore,

2933
04:10:15.120 --> 04:10:18.239
finding that world within yourself and experiencing
it even for a moment could have

2934
04:10:18.319 --> 04:10:24.200
a profound effect on the process of
disease and aging, but on death itself.

2935
04:10:26.600 --> 04:10:31.079
In the East, this possibility has
always been accepted, as in India

2936
04:10:31.200 --> 04:10:35.239
and China. It is believed that
some spiritual teachers have lived hundreds of years

2937
04:10:35.319 --> 04:10:39.959
for having attained a state of temporal
consciousness. This is considered to be one

2938
04:10:39.040 --> 04:10:43.280
of the options open to the spirit
that has achieved liberation moxa, although there

2939
04:10:43.360 --> 04:10:48.920
are not many teachers who choose to
extend their time of life in the West.

2940
04:10:48.360 --> 04:10:54.319
These powers arouse extreme skepticism, but
the new paradigm assures us that there

2941
04:10:54.360 --> 04:10:58.399
is a plane of nature where time
dissolves or to express it in the reverse

2942
04:10:58.440 --> 04:11:03.879
way, where time is created.
This plane is extremely enigmatic, even in

2943
04:11:05.000 --> 04:11:09.879
quantum terms, because it existed before
the creation of space and time. The

2944
04:11:09.920 --> 04:11:13.120
rational mind cannot conceive such a state, for to say that something existed before

2945
04:11:13.159 --> 04:11:18.879
time began is a contradiction of logic. However, the ancient sages believed that

2946
04:11:18.959 --> 04:11:24.159
direct knowledge of reality is possible on
a temporary basis. All generations have affirmed

2947
04:11:24.159 --> 04:11:31.200
this assertion. Einstein himself experienced episodes
of complete liberation from the limits of space

2948
04:11:31.319 --> 04:11:35.559
and time. At such moments,
one imagines standing somewhere on a small planet,

2949
04:11:35.799 --> 04:11:39.719
beholding with amazement the cold, but
deeply moving beauty of the eternal and

2950
04:11:41.120 --> 04:11:45.920
the unfathomable. Life and death merge
into one thing and there is no evolution

2951
04:11:46.040 --> 04:11:50.879
or eternity, only being It has
taken three generations for the new paradigm to

2952
04:11:52.000 --> 04:11:54.440
show us that being is a very
real state, that exists beyond change and

2953
04:11:54.520 --> 04:11:58.840
death, a place where the laws
of nature that govern change fall to the

2954
04:11:58.959 --> 04:12:05.479
ground. Ultimately, death is just
another transforms anointing from one to another configuration

2955
04:12:05.559 --> 04:12:11.760
of matter and energy. But unless
you can get out of the sand of

2956
04:12:11.879 --> 04:12:16.120
change, death represents an end point, an extinction. To escape death means,

2957
04:12:16.719 --> 04:12:20.719
in short, to escape from the
vision of the world that gives death

2958
04:12:20.799 --> 04:12:26.440
its terrible sense of closure and definitive
end. I' m so afraid of

2959
04:12:26.440 --> 04:12:28.719
death. A certain Indian disciple answered
his guru. It afflicts me since I

2960
04:12:28.840 --> 04:12:35.959
was a child, why I was
born. What will happen to me when

2961
04:12:35.040 --> 04:12:41.040
the guru dies? He thoughtfully analyzed
the issue and said why you think you

2962
04:12:41.040 --> 04:12:46.360
were born. I don' t
understand your question. I tartamude the disciple

2963
04:12:46.440 --> 04:12:48.879
why you think you' re born. He repeated the guru. It'

2964
04:12:50.319 --> 04:12:52.920
s not just something your parents have
told you and you' ve taken it

2965
04:12:52.920 --> 04:12:56.680
for granted. You have truly had
the experience of being born, of coming

2966
04:12:56.719 --> 04:13:01.280
into existence from a state of non- existence. Or did it happen that

2967
04:13:01.360 --> 04:13:05.959
one day in childhood you asked where
you came from. If your parents told

2968
04:13:05.000 --> 04:13:09.479
you you were born, how did
you accept that answer? The idea of

2969
04:13:09.520 --> 04:13:16.719
death scares you, but rest easy. There is no birth without death are

2970
04:13:16.840 --> 04:13:20.920
two poles of the same concept.
Perhaps you have always been alive and always

2971
04:13:20.040 --> 04:13:24.559
will be, but by accepting your
parents' belief system, you entered into

2972
04:13:24.719 --> 04:13:30.399
an agreement that fears death, as
you consider it an end. Maybe there

2973
04:13:30.440 --> 04:13:33.600
' s no end to it.
That is the most worthy possibility to be

2974
04:13:33.680 --> 04:13:39.319
explored. Naturally, the disciple was
impressed, for, like all of us,

2975
04:13:39.840 --> 04:13:43.639
he did not see death as a
belief that he would have accepted.

2976
04:13:43.600 --> 04:13:46.760
What the gurus pointed out was that
birth and death are made of time space,

2977
04:13:48.319 --> 04:13:52.440
but existence is not. If we
look within ourselves, we will find

2978
04:13:52.559 --> 04:13:58.719
a vague memory, but surely we
have always been around to express it differently.

2979
04:13:58.360 --> 04:14:03.600
No one remembers the fact that these
metaphysical issues have emerged as a demonstration

2980
04:14:03.760 --> 04:14:09.120
of the unique character of human beings. For us, death is not only

2981
04:14:09.200 --> 04:14:13.200
a brutal fact, but a mystery, and it must be unraveled so that

2982
04:14:13.280 --> 04:14:16.959
it can be solved. The mystery
of aging is the process that leads to

2983
04:14:16.040 --> 04:14:20.799
death. The deeper questions about who
we are and what life means are involved

2984
04:14:20.879 --> 04:14:26.559
in the nature of existence. When
the spell of mortality is broken, it

2985
04:14:26.959 --> 04:14:31.760
is possible to free oneself from the
fear that gives power to death. The

2986
04:14:31.799 --> 04:14:35.079
fear of death goes into life much
more than our conscious mind. She'

2987
04:14:35.159 --> 04:14:39.559
s willing to recognize. As David
Wesker wrote, when you say you fear

2988
04:14:39.600 --> 04:14:43.360
death, you' re actually saying
you' re afraid you haven' t

2989
04:14:43.360 --> 04:14:48.399
lived your true life. This fear
covers the flood of silent suffering. However,

2990
04:14:48.760 --> 04:14:52.280
by not letting you be fooled by
fear, you can turn it into

2991
04:14:52.440 --> 04:14:56.159
a positive force. Let your fear
of death inspire you to examine your true

2992
04:14:56.200 --> 04:15:01.000
worth and conceive a dream for your
own life. I was encouraging Biscott.

2993
04:15:01.920 --> 04:15:03.760
Let me help you to appreciate the
moment, to act in it and to

2994
04:15:03.879 --> 04:15:09.319
live in it. I want to
go even further by suggesting that when you

2995
04:15:09.399 --> 04:15:13.959
see yourself in terms of being,
timeless and deathless, each cell awakens to

2996
04:15:13.079 --> 04:15:18.159
a new existence. True immortality can
be experienced here and now, in this

2997
04:15:18.280 --> 04:15:22.719
living body, comes when you impregnate
from being everything you think and what you

2998
04:15:22.760 --> 04:15:26.920
do. This is the experience of
timeless mind and ageless body that the new

2999
04:15:28.000 --> 04:15:35.680
paradigm has been preparing for us the
metabolism of time. One of Einstein'

3000
04:15:35.760 --> 04:15:39.680
s brilliant contributions to modern physics was
his intuition that linear time, along with

3001
04:15:39.680 --> 04:15:45.079
everything that happens in it, is
superficial. Time seems to run and move.

3002
04:15:45.440 --> 04:15:48.639
Clocks are ticking seconds, minutes and
hours, millennia of stories unfold and

3003
04:15:48.760 --> 04:15:54.639
disappear. But ultimately, as Einstein
maintained, this vast all relative activities,

3004
04:15:56.440 --> 04:16:03.399
which means it has no absolute value. John Willer, eminent physician, wrote

3005
04:16:03.719 --> 04:16:07.719
the very idea of time space is
false. By failing that idea, it

3006
04:16:07.799 --> 04:16:11.639
also fails before and after. This
can be said so simply, it is

3007
04:16:12.079 --> 04:16:18.120
a very difficult lesson to gain control
in the world. A proof that control

3008
04:16:18.159 --> 04:16:21.760
has not yet been achieved is that
people continue to age in a linear process

3009
04:16:21.840 --> 04:16:26.479
as faithfully as if it really existed. However, if Einstein was right,

3010
04:16:26.879 --> 04:16:33.760
aging is an illusion. It depends
on fronts and after, two concepts that

3011
04:16:33.799 --> 04:16:37.479
have been in crisis for almost a
century. The mystic Sufi poet Rum understood

3012
04:16:37.559 --> 04:16:42.120
this truth centuries ago when he wrote
Es. The unconditioned spirit, trapped in

3013
04:16:42.200 --> 04:16:48.159
conditions the sun in eclipse, time
and space are conditions when we are bound

3014
04:16:48.239 --> 04:16:52.159
by them, we have lost contact
with the reality of entering into a fiction.

3015
04:16:55.120 --> 04:16:57.840
Einstein replaced linear time with something much
more fluid, a time that can

3016
04:16:57.920 --> 04:17:03.200
contract or ex- expand to slow
or accelerate its passage. He often compared

3017
04:17:03.239 --> 04:17:07.040
it to subjective time, noting that
spending a minute sitting on a cooker seemed

3018
04:17:07.159 --> 04:17:11.680
like an hour, while spending an
hour with a beautiful girl seemed like a

3019
04:17:11.840 --> 04:17:15.760
minute. What I meant by this
is that time depends on the observer'

3020
04:17:15.840 --> 04:17:21.559
s situation. For physicists, the
notion of time expanding and contracting allowed better

3021
04:17:21.639 --> 04:17:26.079
calculations of various phenomena occurring near the
speed of light, which was Einstein'

3022
04:17:26.159 --> 04:17:29.520
s absolute, the universal rod,
which could not be changed or yielded.

3023
04:17:32.360 --> 04:17:36.600
Time had to contract and expand in
order to keep the speed of light constant.

3024
04:17:38.079 --> 04:17:41.719
We all have the feeling that time
expands and contracts seems to crawl at

3025
04:17:41.760 --> 04:17:47.040
times and fly at other times,
but what is our constant, our absolute.

3026
04:17:48.559 --> 04:17:52.559
I think it' s the self, our central sense of being to

3027
04:17:52.639 --> 04:17:56.200
use Einstein' s example. If
two men are sitting with the same beautiful

3028
04:17:56.239 --> 04:17:59.440
girl, time can pass to crawl
for one of them through her sister'

3029
04:17:59.479 --> 04:18:03.079
s arch, while flying for the
other if she is in love with her.

3030
04:18:04.200 --> 04:18:08.239
This means that each of us has
a personal mastery over his sense of

3031
04:18:08.360 --> 04:18:15.479
time. Let us analyze all the
subjective qualities we attribute to time. We

3032
04:18:15.600 --> 04:18:19.799
say things like I don' t
have time for that. It' s

3033
04:18:19.799 --> 04:18:26.920
time. You' re running out
of time, how time flies. Time

3034
04:18:26.000 --> 04:18:33.760
never passes. I love you so
much that time stops. These statements say

3035
04:18:33.879 --> 04:18:37.319
nothing about the time measured by the
clock. The clock does not lie about

3036
04:18:37.399 --> 04:18:41.959
the linear time that has passed out
there, but subjective time, which exists

3037
04:18:42.000 --> 04:18:48.840
only in here, is something else. All the quoted phrases reflect a state

3038
04:18:49.000 --> 04:18:53.319
of self. If you' re
bored, time never passes. If you

3039
04:18:53.360 --> 04:18:56.200
' re desperate, you' re
running out of time. If you'

3040
04:18:56.239 --> 04:19:00.440
re full of enthusiasm, time flies
When you fall in love, time stops.

3041
04:19:02.399 --> 04:19:04.920
In other words, every time you
take an attitude toward time, you

3042
04:19:04.920 --> 04:19:11.920
actually express something about yourself. Time
in a subjective sense is a mirror.

3043
04:19:14.040 --> 04:19:18.680
In medicine we know that those who
don' t have enough time will probably

3044
04:19:18.680 --> 04:19:22.920
end up with heart disorders. The
discovery of type A behavior, for example,

3045
04:19:22.360 --> 04:19:26.280
revealed that heart attacks were linked to
the feeling that there is never enough

3046
04:19:26.399 --> 04:19:30.920
time for a type A. The
next expiration date is always a threat.

3047
04:19:32.799 --> 04:19:37.840
Their struggle over time contributes to the
entrenchment of frustration and hostility. Hostility then

3048
04:19:37.920 --> 04:19:41.600
sends a message to the heart that
constricts the blood vessels, raises blood pressure

3049
04:19:41.639 --> 04:19:48.719
and cholesterol rates, and generates various
types of arrhythmias or irregular heartbeat. This

3050
04:19:48.799 --> 04:19:52.559
doesn' t just happen to type
A people. When it comes to the

3051
04:19:52.600 --> 04:19:56.559
due date for filing income tax returns, it has been observed that specialist accountants

3052
04:19:56.680 --> 04:20:02.719
suffer passing increases in cholesterol and blood
pressure, which disappear after the deadline.

3053
04:20:04.920 --> 04:20:11.040
Their subjective sense of time is sufficient
to endanger the body. This points to

3054
04:20:11.159 --> 04:20:15.920
a deeper lesson. Let' s
ask someone to pripe an omelet. An

3055
04:20:17.000 --> 04:20:22.000
experienced cook can do it in two
minutes. Now let' s slightly alter

3056
04:20:22.360 --> 04:20:26.760
the situation by saying prepare an tortilla, but you have only two minutes to

3057
04:20:26.760 --> 04:20:30.879
do it. Often, this makes
even the most expert cook feel tense and

3058
04:20:30.959 --> 04:20:36.520
harassed. Time pressure causes the body
to receive stretch hormones It in turn raises

3059
04:20:36.600 --> 04:20:41.639
the heart rate. If the individual
fights against this reaction, it only makes

3060
04:20:41.639 --> 04:20:47.159
the situation worse. Now the heart
must endure the pressure of time and frustration.

3061
04:20:48.799 --> 04:20:52.719
When heart patients must perform a difficult
task in a fixed term. A

3062
04:20:52.799 --> 04:20:56.959
significant proportion of them are shaken so
much that the heart muscle becomes ischemic or

3063
04:20:56.040 --> 04:21:02.319
silent. In this case silence,
that means that damage is occurring without any

3064
04:21:02.440 --> 04:21:07.520
feeling of pain. Time pressure also
alters physiological behaviors, attitudes and reactions.

3065
04:21:10.959 --> 04:21:15.200
Such a subjective time can be an
incredibly powerful force. It is not by

3066
04:21:15.280 --> 04:21:19.440
chance that the expression expiration date includes
the idea of overcoming. Expiration holds a

3067
04:21:19.639 --> 04:21:25.920
threat. If you don' t
meet the deadline you' re defeated,

3068
04:21:26.319 --> 04:21:29.040
this threat can be subtle or blatant, but it' s almost always there.

3069
04:21:30.000 --> 04:21:33.319
Otherwise, we wouldn' t get
nervous under the pressure of time.

3070
04:21:33.239 --> 04:21:37.799
Sometimes we express more clearly the threat
with phrases such as the time has come,

3071
04:21:38.040 --> 04:21:41.200
which may seem neutral, if we
forget that it also applies to those

3072
04:21:41.319 --> 04:21:47.000
who are going to die. Some
people are much more sensitive than others to

3073
04:21:47.000 --> 04:21:51.479
the pressure of time. A nervous
cook can get so upset at the two

3074
04:21:51.760 --> 04:21:53.920
- minute limit that he drops the
eggs, burns and cannot fulfill a task

3075
04:21:55.079 --> 04:21:56.840
in which he stands out. If
you should not think about the time,

3076
04:21:59.040 --> 04:22:03.159
another will act like never before the
challenge and finish the tortilla even before the

3077
04:22:03.159 --> 04:22:07.879
indicated. One feels the pressure of
time as a threat, the other as

3078
04:22:07.879 --> 04:22:11.559
a challenge. You feel out of
control. The other impelled approve his domain

3079
04:22:11.639 --> 04:22:17.879
and improve it. However, we
all feel the pressure of a serious and

3080
04:22:17.959 --> 04:22:22.520
threatening expiration date over which we have
no control. Death itself. If you

3081
04:22:22.559 --> 04:22:26.680
think your existence has been assigned a
fixed period, the deadline for death,

3082
04:22:26.159 --> 04:22:30.639
it will impose the same tension that
the nervous cook suffers by ruining the tortilla.

3083
04:22:32.639 --> 04:22:37.079
The better it is to feel no
pressure of time to fully develop even

3084
04:22:37.120 --> 04:22:40.920
though death exists. You can achieve
the attitude that life is not a career,

3085
04:22:41.200 --> 04:22:47.200
but a flowering, but you can' t achieve it if you think

3086
04:22:47.319 --> 04:22:51.559
you' re running out of time. Ultimately, sending that message to your

3087
04:22:51.600 --> 04:22:55.959
body' s cells amounts to programming
them to age and die. However,

3088
04:22:56.479 --> 04:23:00.600
the truth is that linear time advances
inexorably and to overcome it we must find

3089
04:23:00.639 --> 04:23:04.600
a place where we can experience and
internalize a different time or the absence of

3090
04:23:04.719 --> 04:23:12.799
time the quantum mechanical body for a
skeptic. This proposition will sound purely subjective,

3091
04:23:14.319 --> 04:23:18.120
but within our cell there are constantly
quantum events that defy linear time.

3092
04:23:19.440 --> 04:23:23.840
DNA intelligence operates simultaneously in the past, in the present and in the future.

3093
04:23:26.360 --> 04:23:29.840
Past, it takes the plane of
life, applying to the present only

3094
04:23:29.959 --> 04:23:33.920
the tiniest part of the information necessary
for cellular functioning, perhaps one billionth of

3095
04:23:33.000 --> 04:23:38.520
its total database and reserve for the
future. The information you will apply in

3096
04:23:38.600 --> 04:23:44.760
many years. Double propeller is the
quantum deposit of your future. There'

3097
04:23:44.840 --> 04:23:48.239
s the compressed time and locked up
until it takes. The moment you were

3098
04:23:48.319 --> 04:23:52.600
conceived, your genes gained control of
a lifetime of events that would unfold in

3099
04:23:52.639 --> 04:24:00.399
exact sequence. For example, your
hands emerged in the belly as amorphous lumps

3100
04:24:00.440 --> 04:24:07.040
of cells at the beginning, then
as knotty lumps that became fins similar to

3101
04:24:07.120 --> 04:24:12.760
those of the fish ten amphibians,
animal paws and finally in human hands.

3102
04:24:14.879 --> 04:24:18.479
Those brumos, lumps, fins,
feet and paws are still present as data

3103
04:24:18.520 --> 04:24:22.479
archived in your genes, as are
the hands of your childhood, childhood,

3104
04:24:22.079 --> 04:24:27.600
adulthood and old age in the quantum
plane you live all those ages. At

3105
04:24:27.719 --> 04:24:34.000
the same time, as humans we
are both physical and quantum. We live

3106
04:24:34.079 --> 04:24:38.600
multidimensional existences. Right now you'
re in two places at the same time.

3107
04:24:40.600 --> 04:24:45.399
One is the visible and sensory world, where your body is subject to

3108
04:24:45.479 --> 04:24:48.760
all the forces of nature. From
there outside the wind, you get irritated

3109
04:24:48.840 --> 04:24:52.040
by the skin, the sun,
the burning in winter. You' d

3110
04:24:52.120 --> 04:24:55.280
die frozen if you didn' t
have a roof. The attack of germs

3111
04:24:55.319 --> 04:25:00.360
and viruses makes your cells sick but
you also occupy the quantum world, where

3112
04:25:00.520 --> 04:25:03.959
all that changes. If you dip
in the tub, your conscience won'

3113
04:25:04.079 --> 04:25:08.520
t get wet. The limitations of
physical life have much less importance in the

3114
04:25:08.600 --> 04:25:15.399
quantum unclean. Often none. The
cold of winter doesn' t numb your

3115
04:25:15.399 --> 04:25:18.799
memories. The heat of a night' s walk doesn' t make you

3116
04:25:18.840 --> 04:25:25.920
sweat in your dreams. Gather all
the quantum events in your cells. The

3117
04:25:26.000 --> 04:25:30.680
total sum is your quantum mechanical body, which operates according to its own invisible

3118
04:25:30.680 --> 04:25:34.440
physiology. Your quantum mechanical body is
consciousness in motion and part of the eternal

3119
04:25:34.479 --> 04:25:38.680
field of consciousness that exists at the
source of creation. The intelligence within us

3120
04:25:38.760 --> 04:25:42.760
radiates as light across the border between
the quantum world and the physical world,

3121
04:25:44.000 --> 04:25:49.479
unifying both in a constant subatomic dialogue. Your physical body and your quantum mechanical

3122
04:25:49.520 --> 04:25:53.479
body deserve the name of home equally. They' re like parallel universes,

3123
04:25:53.639 --> 04:25:59.879
between which he travels without even thinking
about it. According to all appearances,

3124
04:26:00.520 --> 04:26:04.239
the physical body occupies a few cubic
decimeters of space. It serves as a

3125
04:26:04.319 --> 04:26:08.840
fragile life- sustaining system for seven
or eight decades, after which it must

3126
04:26:11.239 --> 04:26:15.319
be discarded. The quantum mechanical body, on the other hand, does not

3127
04:26:15.360 --> 04:26:21.719
occupy any well- defined space and
never wears out what size packaging you would

3128
04:26:21.760 --> 04:26:23.040
need for the dream you had last
night or for your desire to be loved.

3129
04:26:23.959 --> 04:26:29.040
Although all the genetic material of a
person who easily opened in a tea

3130
04:26:29.120 --> 04:26:33.879
spoon the most important of the genes, their intelligence does not occupy physical space.

3131
04:26:34.440 --> 04:26:38.040
On the quantum mechanical body plane,
every aspect of an experience is reduced

3132
04:26:38.120 --> 04:26:44.200
to a point beyond the three-
dimensional world. The photograph of a bride

3133
04:26:44.280 --> 04:26:48.200
gives us a literal record of her
appearance. A recorded tape can capture your

3134
04:26:48.319 --> 04:26:52.120
voice, but these are very rough
fragments of the experience. Unless the bride

3135
04:26:52.200 --> 04:26:56.000
retains some memories, the texture of
her costume and the flavor of the cake

3136
04:26:56.120 --> 04:27:00.559
seem lost forever, but in s
or quantum sopo everything is there. At

3137
04:27:00.639 --> 04:27:04.680
the same time, by the simple
act of remembering the newlywed, she can

3138
04:27:04.799 --> 04:27:10.559
recover a whole world by some miracle. Any other experience you' ve had

3139
04:27:10.680 --> 04:27:14.239
will be dyed with that new addition
to your memory. Being married becomes part

3140
04:27:14.319 --> 04:27:18.040
of your brain' s vision of
your whole life. From that moment on,

3141
04:27:18.479 --> 04:27:23.680
the images recorded in your quantum mechanical
body are as complex as you are.

3142
04:27:26.120 --> 04:27:30.280
In short, those images are you
leading to life, the images you

3143
04:27:30.399 --> 04:27:33.920
have accumulated by making your own version
of time and, in the process programs

3144
04:27:34.040 --> 04:27:38.959
the type of body required by your
version of time. Let me give a

3145
04:27:40.040 --> 04:27:45.120
concrete example of how this works.
In his fascinating book of psychiatric cases Labs

3146
04:27:45.159 --> 04:27:49.040
Executioner The executioner of love or see
and Adon tells the story of Betty,

3147
04:27:49.360 --> 04:27:55.120
a 27- year- old single
woman who turned to him for therapy.

3148
04:27:56.079 --> 04:28:00.920
Betty was from the beginning a very
difficult case of rough, haughty and whiny

3149
04:28:02.000 --> 04:28:06.879
manners. She recited a constant litany
of complaints, claiming that no one loved

3150
04:28:06.959 --> 04:28:11.719
her or accepted her. He worked
in public relations for a large shop and

3151
04:28:11.799 --> 04:28:15.360
included in his diatribe every disdain he
received from clients, bosses and coworkers.

3152
04:28:18.159 --> 04:28:21.760
When Ayalom heard her, she was
struck by a strange fact. In his

3153
04:28:21.840 --> 04:28:26.360
untiring description of distress, Betti never
mentioned anything as obvious as his weight.

3154
04:28:26.239 --> 04:28:30.520
Although only a half a meter fifty- five tall, Betty weighed 130 kilos.

3155
04:28:33.040 --> 04:28:36.559
He knew, like everyone else,
that his appearance was disturbing, but

3156
04:28:36.600 --> 04:28:40.799
he had turned his entire existence into
a complicated game to disguise that fact.

3157
04:28:41.799 --> 04:28:45.959
Not to mention it was a shield
of silence that covered the deepest pain he

3158
04:28:45.079 --> 04:28:52.159
could not face. Yalón understood that
it would be too difficult for Betty to

3159
04:28:52.239 --> 04:28:56.879
deal with her obesity without first settling
her psychological problem. She spent whole months

3160
04:28:56.959 --> 04:29:00.879
trying to get through her defenses and
with the neal of time, they began

3161
04:29:00.959 --> 04:29:07.360
to dissolve one day, Betty dramatically
announced that she was going to lose weight.

3162
04:29:07.280 --> 04:29:12.440
He followed a remarkably disciplined and well- organized attack plan with great seriousness,

3163
04:29:12.959 --> 04:29:17.000
threw himself on a diet, joined
a support group, and religiously avoided

3164
04:29:17.040 --> 04:29:22.760
any temptation to eat. He enrolled
in a weekly session of traditional dances and

3165
04:29:22.840 --> 04:29:27.520
installed a fixed bike in front of
his TV, as the kilos quickly disappeared

3166
04:29:27.559 --> 04:29:34.399
and Yalom made a remarkable observation.
As she lost weight, Betty began to

3167
04:29:34.479 --> 04:29:40.600
have lived dreams and sudden memories of
painful incidents of her past, The underlying

3168
04:29:40.600 --> 04:29:44.680
traumas that had already loma had barely
been able to banish in therapy were disappearing.

3169
04:29:44.760 --> 04:29:48.600
Along with fat, Betty began to
experience pronounced mood swings that at first

3170
04:29:48.639 --> 04:29:55.600
seemed fortuitous. Then Yalon realized that
they followed a coherent pattern. The woman

3171
04:29:56.040 --> 04:30:02.520
was reviving various traumas she had suffered
when she weighed the particular kilos. She

3172
04:30:02.559 --> 04:30:07.280
discovered that Betty had gained weight at
a steady and uninterrupted pace since she was

3173
04:30:07.280 --> 04:30:11.399
fifteen years old. For example,
when he weighed ninety- five kilos.

3174
04:30:11.719 --> 04:30:15.120
At twenty- one he decided to
move to New York. She had been

3175
04:30:15.239 --> 04:30:21.120
raised on a Texan farm, small
and poor only daughter tied to a depressive

3176
04:30:21.239 --> 04:30:23.319
widowed mother. The day the diet
took her back to 90 pounds, Betty

3177
04:30:23.440 --> 04:30:26.799
had a vivid memory of how much
it had cost her to leave home.

3178
04:30:30.559 --> 04:30:36.760
Literally time was locked in it,
melted into its cells. Thus, the

3179
04:30:36.760 --> 04:30:40.479
descent from her hundred and thirteen kilos
led her back in spiral time through the

3180
04:30:40.799 --> 04:30:44.600
emotionally charged events of her life,
the move from Texas to New York,

3181
04:30:45.079 --> 04:30:48.440
ninety- five kilos, her college
graduation eighty- six kilos, her decision

3182
04:30:48.520 --> 04:30:52.920
to drop out of the course of
medical admission and the dream of discovering the

3183
04:30:52.959 --> 04:30:56.079
cure for cancer that had killed her
father, eighty- one kilos, her

3184
04:30:56.360 --> 04:30:59.840
loneliness at high school graduation, her
envy at seeing others with her parents,

3185
04:31:00.280 --> 04:31:03.680
her inability to get a companion for
prom seventy- five kilos, the basic

3186
04:31:03.680 --> 04:31:07.840
cycle diploma, and how much she
had missed her father at that graduation seventy

3187
04:31:07.920 --> 04:31:18.639
kilos. Yaon was excited to see
him tangible and alive that he could make

3188
04:31:18.639 --> 04:31:22.360
a memory, what a wonderful proof
of the realm of the unconscious. Betty

3189
04:31:22.399 --> 04:31:27.040
' s body remembered what her mind
had long forgotten. I would go even

3190
04:31:27.159 --> 04:31:32.479
further by saying that his body was
itself a kind of mind, a reservoir

3191
04:31:32.559 --> 04:31:37.600
of memories that had taken physical form
in fat cells. Betty' s experience

3192
04:31:37.639 --> 04:31:41.239
had become Betty. Instead of metabolizing
only hamburgers, pizzas and milk shakes,

3193
04:31:41.399 --> 04:31:48.520
he had metabolized all sad emotions,
longings, frustrated hopes, bitter disappointments associated

3194
04:31:48.600 --> 04:31:53.920
with every bite of food. Losing
weight was his way of freeing himself from

3195
04:31:55.000 --> 04:31:57.680
the past. As the old body
disappeared, a new Betty quickly gained a

3196
04:31:57.760 --> 04:32:06.559
psychological knowledge of herself. He discovered
deep desires, buried and shed tears for

3197
04:32:06.680 --> 04:32:11.159
sufferings he had hidden from himself for
many years. The contours of his body

3198
04:32:11.239 --> 04:32:18.319
began to emerge, first a waist, then breasts a chin, cheekbones with

3199
04:32:18.399 --> 04:32:23.159
their new silhouette wore courage to venture
into social life. Her obesity had turned

3200
04:32:23.280 --> 04:32:26.840
her into a homeless woman since the
beginning of her adolescence. Finally, he

3201
04:32:26.959 --> 04:32:32.000
had his first date with a man. Her fellow offices were drawn to her,

3202
04:32:32.440 --> 04:32:37.440
who no longer drove them away.
With his defensive armor. In the

3203
04:32:37.440 --> 04:32:41.959
end, metamorphosis did not succeed at
all. The most traumatic event of his

3204
04:32:41.079 --> 04:32:45.200
life had occurred just before his adolescence, when the father suffered a long and

3205
04:32:45.280 --> 04:32:49.239
slow death from life to cancer.
At that time she weighed 68 kilos,

3206
04:32:49.600 --> 04:32:53.840
a weight she had never achieved again. When he arrived in the seventies,

3207
04:32:55.399 --> 04:32:59.319
his diet became a gloomy struggle.
His body refused to let go of a

3208
04:32:59.399 --> 04:33:03.120
single gram or more despite everything,
and his memories became more difficult to cope

3209
04:33:03.200 --> 04:33:07.400
with. Soon we found ourselves devoting
whole sessions to talking about his father.

3210
04:33:08.360 --> 04:33:12.360
The time had come to dig him
up. Everything. He plunged her into

3211
04:33:12.400 --> 04:33:18.119
reminiscences, encouraging her to express everything
she could remember about her illness. Death,

3212
04:33:18.439 --> 04:33:21.639
the way he looked at the hospital. The last time she saw him,

3213
04:33:21.840 --> 04:33:25.319
the details of the funeral, the
clothes she put on, the priest

3214
04:33:25.400 --> 04:33:30.759
' s speech those who attended,
she felt the loss more than ever for

3215
04:33:30.840 --> 04:33:36.000
a period of two weeks she wept
almost continuously. Those moments were very difficult,

3216
04:33:36.439 --> 04:33:41.639
both for the doctor and for his
patient. Beset by a nightmare about

3217
04:33:41.720 --> 04:33:44.919
her father' s death, Betty
said she died three times a night.

3218
04:33:45.200 --> 04:33:48.639
I still felt intense guilt for dragging
her. At a time when she had

3219
04:33:48.759 --> 04:33:53.040
not only lost her father, but
also her dream of happiness, Betty resisted

3220
04:33:53.119 --> 04:33:59.799
discovering any other hidden feelings. It
was clear that his mind could not cross

3221
04:34:00.159 --> 04:34:06.680
that last threshold too threatening. Nor
were her body too many sorrows and frustrated

3222
04:34:06.799 --> 04:34:11.599
hopes that had become Betty. At
that time he abandoned both diet and therapy.

3223
04:34:14.000 --> 04:34:18.000
The barrier of 70 kilos remained corporealizing
the loss of a father who would

3224
04:34:18.080 --> 04:34:22.599
never return to her. He still
regretted that his was only a partial cure,

3225
04:34:22.119 --> 04:34:26.000
but he also had to admit his
relief. The test had deeply moved

3226
04:34:26.159 --> 04:34:32.639
both of them. Like Betty,
we all become our past, but we

3227
04:34:32.639 --> 04:34:36.639
also have the power to reverse that
process, to free up petrified time and

3228
04:34:36.680 --> 04:34:41.159
let go of accumulated memories that are
no longer useful. If you keep us

3229
04:34:41.240 --> 04:34:45.759
from being happy, you constantly make
and destroy your body on the quantum plane.

3230
04:34:45.759 --> 04:34:49.439
It is necessary to talk about undoing, because not all life is creation,

3231
04:34:49.880 --> 04:34:53.680
it is necessary to review old and
repeated experiences as new ones arise.

3232
04:34:55.720 --> 04:34:59.240
Sometimes a person feels compelled to try
to destroy the whole body of experiences he

3233
04:34:59.279 --> 04:35:03.880
has created over the years. Often, those who suddenly change jobs or throw

3234
04:35:03.959 --> 04:35:08.319
themselves into divorce without provocations so motivated
by the inability to review their inner world,

3235
04:35:08.720 --> 04:35:15.200
may project blame outward, toward an
inadequate job or a wife they do

3236
04:35:15.279 --> 04:35:22.439
not love. What is truly intolerable, however, is internalized experience. Inside

3237
04:35:22.520 --> 04:35:26.959
that person. Toxic memories have accumulated
to such an extent that perfectly neutral situations,

3238
04:35:27.319 --> 04:35:30.439
such as meeting the boss next to
the ice water pump or seeing the

3239
04:35:30.520 --> 04:35:37.080
wife when she washes her teeth arouse
deeply settled negative emotions. Fleeing is an

3240
04:35:37.200 --> 04:35:41.159
attempt to relieve these emotions, but
tactics rarely work, because what we want

3241
04:35:41.360 --> 04:35:48.319
to flee from has become part of
ourselves. Conscience linked to time versus temporal

3242
04:35:48.400 --> 04:35:55.279
consciousness. Throughout this book I have
argued that your way of aging depends on

3243
04:35:55.360 --> 04:36:00.240
how your experience gets into válix and, in final analysis, your way of

3244
04:36:00.319 --> 04:36:03.240
metabolizing. Time is the most important
aspect of this process, because time is

3245
04:36:03.319 --> 04:36:08.959
the most fundamental experience. One of
the key lessons in the spiritual teachings of

3246
04:36:10.040 --> 04:36:15.240
j Chrisnamorti is this. Time is
man' s psychological enemy. This means

3247
04:36:15.279 --> 04:36:18.520
that we are psychologically undermined and deprived
of our true self by the feeling that

3248
04:36:18.599 --> 04:36:23.200
time is an absolute over which we
have no control whatsoever. Somehow we forget

3249
04:36:23.319 --> 04:36:30.880
that we can choose between steel not
time our enemy. It is possible to

3250
04:36:30.040 --> 04:36:34.560
really experience temporality. When that happens, there is a shift from consciousness linked

3251
04:36:34.680 --> 04:36:41.319
with time to temporal consciousness. The
consciousness linked to time is characterized by external

3252
04:36:42.919 --> 04:36:48.799
objectives, approval of the other material
possessions, salary climb the ladder of professional

3253
04:36:48.919 --> 04:36:55.639
success, peak dates and time pressures, image of oneself built with past experiences,

3254
04:36:56.360 --> 04:37:00.599
lessons learned from their past us and
failures, fear of change, fear

3255
04:37:02.639 --> 04:37:06.680
of death, distraction from the past
and the future, worries, regrets,

3256
04:37:06.880 --> 04:37:17.759
expectations, fantasies of security that are
never definitively satisfied. Selfishness, limited point

3257
04:37:17.840 --> 04:37:22.360
of view. Typical motivation. What
do I get from this? The temporal

3258
04:37:22.520 --> 04:37:27.560
consciousness is characterized by internal objectives,
happiness, self- acceptance, creativity,

3259
04:37:27.720 --> 04:37:33.639
conviction of having done the best possible
in each opportunity, freedom from the pressures

3260
04:37:33.639 --> 04:37:37.119
of time, feeling that time is
abundant and open, little, attention to

3261
04:37:37.159 --> 04:37:42.319
the image of oneself, activity centered
in the present moment, confidence in intuition

3262
04:37:42.400 --> 04:37:48.000
and leaps of imagination, objectivity in
terms of change and confusion, lack of

3263
04:37:48.000 --> 04:37:56.040
fear of death, positive experiences of
being generosity, altruism, sense of shared

3264
04:37:56.040 --> 04:38:03.520
humanity. Typical motivation, I can
help, sense of personal immortality, although

3265
04:38:03.560 --> 04:38:07.400
I have described them as opposites.
There is actually a whole range of experiences

3266
04:38:07.439 --> 04:38:12.919
ranging from one consciousness totally linked with
time to another completely timeless. The person

3267
04:38:14.000 --> 04:38:17.680
who is afraid of his or her
mortality is consumed by success and fixed deadlines

3268
04:38:17.720 --> 04:38:22.319
and depends only on external motivations.
It would be linked to time in an

3269
04:38:22.479 --> 04:38:26.919
almost pathological way. However, we
all find in ourselves some of these traits.

3270
04:38:29.400 --> 04:38:30.959
On the other hand, the Holy
One, who lives only for God

3271
04:38:32.080 --> 04:38:36.240
and who has of being a constant
and secure experience, represents the extreme freedom

3272
04:38:36.319 --> 04:38:41.319
of temporality. Most do not manifest
either extreme, but in many ways,

3273
04:38:41.799 --> 04:38:45.520
our deeper traits and attitudes are based
on our way of relating to time and

3274
04:38:45.599 --> 04:38:49.560
metabolizing it to find out where you
are within the scale of consciousness linked to

3275
04:38:49.639 --> 04:38:59.439
time versus temporal consciousness, answers the
following questionnaire. Questionnaire how you metabolize the

3276
04:39:00.959 --> 04:39:03.599
time of the following sentences and mark
the sentences applied. Your case. Quite

3277
04:39:03.720 --> 04:39:07.799
often or they agree with your opinion. Some of the claims of part one

3278
04:39:07.959 --> 04:39:11.799
seem to contradict others of part two, but that doesn' t matter.

3279
04:39:12.720 --> 04:39:18.759
Even if you have seemingly opposing traits
and opinions, respond to each assertion alone

3280
04:39:19.479 --> 04:39:25.560
part one. The day is barely
enough for everything I have to do.

3281
04:39:26.599 --> 04:39:30.319
Twice I lay down so exhausted I
can' t sleep three. I have

3282
04:39:30.400 --> 04:39:34.360
had to abandon several important goals I
had set myself when I was younger,

3283
04:39:34.720 --> 04:39:41.639
four I am less idealistic than I
used to five. It bothers me to

3284
04:39:41.759 --> 04:39:45.919
leave a bill without paying six.
Now I' m more cautious when it

3285
04:39:45.959 --> 04:39:51.080
comes to making new friends or establishing
serious relationships. Seven I' ve learned

3286
04:39:51.159 --> 04:39:53.560
a lot from the beatings I'
ve received. Eight I dedicate more time

3287
04:39:53.599 --> 04:39:59.119
and attention to my career than to
my friends and family. Nine I could

3288
04:39:59.200 --> 04:40:03.159
be much more prudent to spend my
money. Ten. Life is a balance

3289
04:40:03.200 --> 04:40:07.360
of profits and losses. I try
to make the profits more than the losses.

3290
04:40:08.000 --> 04:40:12.520
Eleven in a loving relationship, one
might expect the other person to meet

3291
04:40:12.599 --> 04:40:18.200
my needs. Twelve. Sometimes it
makes me suffer to remember the people I

3292
04:40:18.240 --> 04:40:22.599
' ve failed. Thirteen. Being
loved is one of the most important things

3293
04:40:22.680 --> 04:40:27.599
that I can think of fourteen.
I don' t like authority figures fifteen.

3294
04:40:27.799 --> 04:40:32.279
For me, one of the scariest
perspectives of old age is the loneliness

3295
04:40:32.400 --> 04:40:38.919
score of the part. One,
part two. One. I do what

3296
04:40:40.000 --> 04:40:42.799
I like and I like what I
do. Two. It is important to

3297
04:40:42.840 --> 04:40:48.439
have a higher purpose in life than
family and career. Three of me feel

3298
04:40:48.439 --> 04:40:53.680
unique. Four The experiences of quads
and deaths are very real. Five.

3299
04:40:53.880 --> 04:41:00.119
I often forget what day it is. Six would classify me as a deproscuris

3300
04:41:00.319 --> 04:41:04.360
person or seven. Sexual issues should
be brought to light, even if they

3301
04:41:06.279 --> 04:41:10.599
disturb eight jobs. For myself nine. It doesn' t bother me to

3302
04:41:10.639 --> 04:41:14.880
stop reading the diary or not seeing
the news. At nightfall ten I love

3303
04:41:15.840 --> 04:41:18.080
eleven. I have spent time on
therapy and diagonal bar or other self-

3304
04:41:18.680 --> 04:41:23.040
development practices. Twelve. I don' t believe everything about the new era,

3305
04:41:23.200 --> 04:41:26.439
but I' m intrigued by thirteen. I think it' s possible

3306
04:41:26.520 --> 04:41:33.080
to know God. Fourteen I take
things easier than most. Fifteen. I

3307
04:41:33.159 --> 04:41:36.520
consider myself a spiritual person and put
effort into that aspect of my life.

3308
04:41:37.479 --> 04:41:41.599
Score of the part. Two.
Evaluation of the score. Although we usually

3309
04:41:41.680 --> 04:41:47.319
all scored some answers from both sections, at least your score is likely to

3310
04:41:47.439 --> 04:41:52.799
be higher in one section than in
the other. If you get more points

3311
04:41:52.840 --> 04:41:56.119
in the part and tend to be
tied to time for you the time is

3312
04:41:56.240 --> 04:42:02.159
linear. You often find it scarce
and sooner or later it will end up

3313
04:42:02.240 --> 04:42:06.439
as you rely on external approval,
motivation and love. You haven' t

3314
04:42:06.560 --> 04:42:10.560
mastered your inner world as much as
the outside. You probably give more value

3315
04:42:10.639 --> 04:42:15.319
to enthusiasm and positive emotions than to
inner peace and detachment perhaps you long too

3316
04:42:15.360 --> 04:42:18.159
much will be loved by others and
thus you lose the opportunity to find self

3317
04:42:18.439 --> 04:42:22.799
- acceptance. If your score was
higher in the part, two tend to

3318
04:42:22.799 --> 04:42:26.720
be temporary in your consciousness, your
sense of love and being loved is based

3319
04:42:26.840 --> 04:42:33.080
on a certain relationship. With you
yourself you value detachment more than possession.

3320
04:42:33.360 --> 04:42:37.119
Your motivations tend to be internal rather
than external. At some point in your

3321
04:42:37.200 --> 04:42:41.880
life you' ve had the feeling
of being bigger than your limited physical person.

3322
04:42:41.159 --> 04:42:47.479
Your life may have been shaped by
decisive experiences of God or your higher

3323
04:42:47.599 --> 04:42:53.880
self. While others fear loneliness.
You thank her. Loneliness. He'

3324
04:42:55.000 --> 04:42:57.720
s developed your ability to know who
you are. For the most part,

3325
04:42:59.080 --> 04:43:02.720
people have very little idea of the
effort they spend badly on staying trapped in

3326
04:43:02.759 --> 04:43:07.159
the consciousness, linked with time,
in their natural state. Both body and

3327
04:43:07.279 --> 04:43:11.880
mind try to discharge negative energies as
they experience them. The baby cries when

3328
04:43:11.959 --> 04:43:15.639
he is hungry, pa talia,
when he is irritated and falls asleep when

3329
04:43:15.680 --> 04:43:19.599
he comes to exhaustion. However,
when we reach adulthood, the spontaneous expression

3330
04:43:19.880 --> 04:43:27.080
has been mostly suffocated in favor of
socially acceptable safe conduct, calculated to achieve

3331
04:43:27.159 --> 04:43:34.159
what is desired or simply habitual.
This loss of spontaneity is a result of

3332
04:43:34.240 --> 04:43:38.400
not living in the present, which
I have analyzed before. But there'

3333
04:43:38.479 --> 04:43:44.680
s another result I haven' t
analyzed. The loss of temporality. When

3334
04:43:44.720 --> 04:43:48.680
the human organism effectively discharges its negative
experiences, the mind remains empty of interest

3335
04:43:48.720 --> 04:43:53.880
for the past or the future.
There are no worries expectations or regrets.

3336
04:43:55.959 --> 04:44:00.479
This means that the mind is open
to being the simplest state of consciousness to

3337
04:44:00.400 --> 04:44:04.400
support the mind. In this open
condition, the body should be relaxed and

3338
04:44:04.439 --> 04:44:10.880
flexible. Without the accumulated tension,
the aging process does not find hold.

3339
04:44:11.840 --> 04:44:15.080
Therefore, the most natural and easy
experience you can have is that of the

3340
04:44:15.159 --> 04:44:19.319
timeless mind and the ageless body,
unfortunately, normal life. So far from

3341
04:44:19.479 --> 04:44:25.720
that state, we all find ourselves
bound up with time only on very rare

3342
04:44:26.080 --> 04:44:32.040
occasions, usually when we least expect
it we manage to break into a conscious

3343
04:44:33.040 --> 04:44:36.880
experience of our true nature and into
a world hungry for spiritual contact that is

3344
04:44:36.880 --> 04:44:41.040
so desperately lacking. One aftertaste from
mad to temporary is enough to cause an

3345
04:44:41.080 --> 04:44:45.880
earthquake in a person' s consciousness. I would like to offer an example

3346
04:44:45.959 --> 04:44:51.119
of someone whose life completely changed thanks
to one of those experiences. The spiritual

3347
04:44:51.240 --> 04:44:56.040
teacher and writer to Don Watts,
of Young Watts, wished to find the

3348
04:44:56.159 --> 04:45:00.360
right attitude towards meditation. He knew
that they were practiced in great spiritual traditions

3349
04:45:00.400 --> 04:45:04.159
so that the individual could escape the
limits of daily existence, but his meditations

3350
04:45:04.200 --> 04:45:11.360
were uncomfortable and boring. They were
of little use except to remind him of

3351
04:45:11.360 --> 04:45:15.599
his own limitations. Whats had noticed
that many Eastern methods are contradictory and mutually

3352
04:45:15.639 --> 04:45:22.720
exclusive. Some teachers say that the
mind must be watched, others that the

3353
04:45:22.840 --> 04:45:26.400
mind is absolutely forbidden to be watched. Some say that the mind should be

3354
04:45:26.479 --> 04:45:30.759
dominated as a wild elephant tied to
a stake, others that it should be

3355
04:45:30.840 --> 04:45:37.639
allowed to wander freely. Totally upset, Wats decided to reject everyone one day,

3356
04:45:37.680 --> 04:45:42.240
adopted no particular attitude, and found
that this renunciation of all expectation had

3357
04:45:42.279 --> 04:45:48.119
been enough to free him. In
the force provoked by discarding them, I

3358
04:45:48.200 --> 04:45:53.919
wrote Watts, seemed to have discarded
me myself, as suddenly the weight of

3359
04:45:55.040 --> 04:45:57.959
my own body disappeared. I felt
like I didn' t own anything,

3360
04:45:59.400 --> 04:46:02.360
not even me, and I didn' t own anything. The monmeter became

3361
04:46:02.439 --> 04:46:07.479
as transparent and unobstructed as my own. Mind. The problem of life simply

3362
04:46:07.599 --> 04:46:12.000
ceased to exist for eighteen hours.
Me and all that surrounded me were like

3363
04:46:12.080 --> 04:46:17.840
the wind dragging the leaves down a
meadow on an autumn day. Here is

3364
04:46:17.919 --> 04:46:21.880
a wonderfully evocative painting of what it
feels like to get beyond time and space.

3365
04:46:22.520 --> 04:46:27.799
The sense of freedom to detach from
the old baggage arises automatically when the

3366
04:46:27.880 --> 04:46:32.840
individual ceases to refer only to his
limited. I what is this thing you

3367
04:46:32.919 --> 04:46:37.599
call me. A reference point built
with memories, as well as the newlywed

3368
04:46:37.639 --> 04:46:41.680
has a specific reference point to which
she can turn to relive the day of

3369
04:46:41.759 --> 04:46:45.639
her wedding. The content of you. Mind consists of similar reference points,

3370
04:46:45.200 --> 04:46:51.720
holograph packages, old experiences that you
use to define who you are. I

3371
04:46:51.799 --> 04:46:53.080
am the one who was born in
one thousand nine hundred forty- six.

3372
04:46:53.479 --> 04:46:57.000
He studied at a Catholic school.
I was afraid to tell my mother that

3373
04:46:57.119 --> 04:47:00.959
I had wet the bed. At
the age of eight he received a cloth

3374
04:47:00.040 --> 04:47:07.479
elephant for Christmas, married too young, left college and so on without end,

3375
04:47:07.759 --> 04:47:14.119
the memory building accumulates until a rigid
structure has been kneaded. That'

3376
04:47:14.200 --> 04:47:18.479
s the image you have of yourself. In moments of deep consciousness, we

3377
04:47:18.560 --> 04:47:23.759
fully transcend that self- image.
Paradoxically, spiritual masters say that it is

3378
04:47:23.840 --> 04:47:27.080
then that the self is truly experienced, for the total absence of self-

3379
04:47:27.759 --> 04:47:33.479
image exposes you to pure selfhood compared
to the rigidity of our usual sense of

3380
04:47:33.560 --> 04:47:37.319
self. The self is a living
and fluid entity that never runs out.

3381
04:47:37.319 --> 04:47:41.000
It is a state beyond change,
whether you experience it as a baby child,

3382
04:47:41.639 --> 04:47:47.360
adult, young or old. Alan
Wats had an unrivalled experience of self

3383
04:47:47.680 --> 04:47:52.080
that is available to all. You
don' t have to do anything to

3384
04:47:52.080 --> 04:47:56.639
find the me. We need to
stop doing anything. You must stop identifying

3385
04:47:56.759 --> 04:48:00.919
with your self- image and its
context of memories and linear time. I

3386
04:48:00.040 --> 04:48:04.000
use memory. An Indian teacher once
commented. I don' t let memory

3387
04:48:04.159 --> 04:48:10.360
use me It' s a crucial
point. Memory is only petrified time to

3388
04:48:11.319 --> 04:48:14.599
the time- based mind. It
is impossible for him to see it temporally,

3389
04:48:14.759 --> 04:48:18.240
for what we call time is only
lumps quantified of immortality. Reality is

3390
04:48:18.360 --> 04:48:23.479
an ocean, but we take it
in teacups When Wats fell into reality the

3391
04:48:23.520 --> 04:48:30.080
ocean of timelessness, its perception changed
instead of feeling tied and suffocated, as

3392
04:48:30.159 --> 04:48:33.639
we all feel, even if we
do not know how to express it.

3393
04:48:33.040 --> 04:48:37.560
He had an oceanic sensation, a
phrase coined by Freud to indicate the feeling

3394
04:48:37.639 --> 04:48:41.240
of melting with him. All existence
based on time is not complete, nor

3395
04:48:41.360 --> 04:48:48.240
can it ever be, because by
definition it is made of fragments tearing down

3396
04:48:48.360 --> 04:48:52.639
linear time. Juan O Anzan burst
the bubble of the illusion of space.

3397
04:48:52.159 --> 04:48:56.759
Time didn' t just happen in
his mind something very real happened. One

3398
04:48:56.799 --> 04:49:03.000
of nature' s absolutes suddenly disappeared
when linear time was withdrawn. Einstein also

3399
04:49:03.080 --> 04:49:07.520
removed the three- dimensional space,
because our perception of space from the air,

3400
04:49:07.799 --> 04:49:11.240
where we see that the track lights
are separated by three meters, changes

3401
04:49:11.319 --> 04:49:17.599
completely. When the observer changes location
from a higher altitude, the track lights

3402
04:49:17.680 --> 04:49:21.959
are getting closer and closer to each
other. When we finally get to outer

3403
04:49:22.000 --> 04:49:26.840
space, the lights disappear. Ainstein
is won, at the core of the

3404
04:49:26.919 --> 04:49:32.279
reality of linear time, evaporates completely, overflowing like a stream that overcomes its

3405
04:49:32.360 --> 04:49:37.040
banks. In physics before Einstein it
was thought that if a particle passed by

3406
04:49:37.159 --> 04:49:41.040
the observer, it followed a straight
line path, like that of arrows and

3407
04:49:41.080 --> 04:49:49.080
bullets once fired. Ab Here are
two separate points in time. The arrow

3408
04:49:49.159 --> 04:49:53.599
represents the most basic event in the
universe the passage of time from point A

3409
04:49:53.720 --> 04:49:57.279
to point B. The reason you
can move through time is that particles and

3410
04:49:57.319 --> 04:50:03.560
energy do so, forming the basis
of past, present and future. Some

3411
04:50:03.639 --> 04:50:07.840
of your good particle now travels to
B and in due course will get there.

3412
04:50:08.799 --> 04:50:12.919
But Einstein, with great mathematical precision
and helped by a pioneering generation of

3413
04:50:14.040 --> 04:50:17.919
great physicists, showed that reality is
more like a pond of rings. In

3414
04:50:18.000 --> 04:50:22.840
expansion. See the following illustration.
Time becomes waves of probability and space is

3415
04:50:22.880 --> 04:50:26.639
filled with ambiguous and hazy regions,
where a fragment of matter may have ever

3416
04:50:26.720 --> 04:50:33.599
passed or might appear at some point. It is known that our two points

3417
04:50:33.680 --> 04:50:37.759
there b are somewhere within these expanding
rings, but there is no definite past

3418
04:50:37.840 --> 04:50:45.959
present or future, only position possibilities. A particle can be here or there

3419
04:50:45.840 --> 04:50:51.639
when the position is determined. With
this, the AIB time scale emerges.

3420
04:50:51.799 --> 04:50:56.520
They could be in the middle together
or further out. Linear time deceives us

3421
04:50:56.599 --> 04:51:00.840
into thinking that one minute follows the
other at equal distance, but we change

3422
04:51:00.919 --> 04:51:06.040
the reference to subjective time. Two
seconds sitting on a hot plate are much

3423
04:51:06.119 --> 04:51:11.080
more separated than two seconds with a
pretty girl. Einstein showed that the separation

3424
04:51:11.159 --> 04:51:15.680
between any two events is totally arbitrary. Actually, there' s only the

3425
04:51:15.799 --> 04:51:22.520
possibility of intervals tearing down linear time
didn' t make Einstein very happy.

3426
04:51:22.799 --> 04:51:26.159
I personally preferred to believe that three- dimensional things and facts were real.

3427
04:51:27.119 --> 04:51:33.360
For science, however, a supreme
act of liberation was achieved. The youngest

3428
04:51:33.479 --> 04:51:37.360
physicists were in glory. After Einstein' s wake, we now have superspace,

3429
04:51:37.759 --> 04:51:41.639
a realm that bursts out of new
dimensions, new geometries, and any

3430
04:51:41.720 --> 04:51:45.880
kind of time one can imagine.
In superspace, stars are no longer separated

3431
04:51:45.959 --> 04:51:52.319
by an empty black. Through that
void, an infinite energy is palpitated that

3432
04:51:52.400 --> 04:51:56.000
unfolds by invisible strands and curves.
Time can be absorbed by black holes and

3433
04:51:56.080 --> 04:52:02.799
spat by singularities. Compressed seeds of
space time that retract an infinite duration in

3434
04:52:02.880 --> 04:52:07.759
zero space in the superspace. Time
doesn' t have a fixed address.

3435
04:52:07.040 --> 04:52:11.680
It can go as easily as it
can go back. A particle that departs

3436
04:52:11.759 --> 04:52:17.319
from can appear in b before it
has departed, defying our linear expectations.

3437
04:52:18.439 --> 04:52:22.040
This may seem impossible to understand,
but let' s imagine a propulsion plane

3438
04:52:22.119 --> 04:52:26.040
that took off at night for the
passenger sitting inside the plane. The track

3439
04:52:26.080 --> 04:52:32.400
lights run fast in row, following
a sequence in time. However, once

3440
04:52:32.880 --> 04:52:36.000
in the air he looks down and
sees that the lights do not move at

3441
04:52:36.080 --> 04:52:41.080
all. They exist in a pattern
that we experience as time in motion.

3442
04:52:41.119 --> 04:52:45.040
Linear time always seems to be moving, but when you move away from the

3443
04:52:45.119 --> 04:52:49.279
three- dimensional point of view,
it is possible to look down, analyze

3444
04:52:49.360 --> 04:52:56.639
the larger picture, and understand that
time itself does not move the usual image

3445
04:52:56.639 --> 04:53:00.959
of nature, backed by most physicists. It has two layers that we can

3446
04:53:00.080 --> 04:53:06.240
grasp by the senses or by scientific
theory, physical creation. Quantum field.

3447
04:53:07.919 --> 04:53:11.439
The physical world arose from the quantum
field, which is the source of all

3448
04:53:11.520 --> 04:53:15.720
matter and all energy. But that
leads to the obvious question of where the

3449
04:53:15.799 --> 04:53:19.959
quantum field came from. Quantum reality
is already at the very limit of time

3450
04:53:21.080 --> 04:53:26.319
and space beyond where and when.
Therefore, the source of the quantum field

3451
04:53:26.360 --> 04:53:29.720
must be nowhere and everywhere and its
date of birth was no and no.

3452
04:53:32.520 --> 04:53:36.400
In other words, the question has
no answer that makes sense within our usual

3453
04:53:36.439 --> 04:53:42.080
time space framework. Again, it
was Einstein who offered the solution. Having

3454
04:53:42.119 --> 04:53:47.319
completed his work on the general theory
of relativity, which some physicists consider to

3455
04:53:47.400 --> 04:53:52.759
be the deepest act of thought attained
by any human being alone. Einstein went

3456
04:53:52.759 --> 04:53:56.000
on to postulate a unified field theory
that would unite all the laws of nature

3457
04:53:56.319 --> 04:54:00.360
by giving them a common foundation.
His beautiful fa theorem and equal to two

3458
04:54:00.439 --> 04:54:03.840
had shown that matter can be converted
into energy in the terminology of physics.

3459
04:54:06.439 --> 04:54:11.319
Einstein had unified at two. He
now intended to unify space and time as

3460
04:54:11.400 --> 04:54:15.040
well. In essence, it would
replace the two- layer model of the

3461
04:54:15.159 --> 04:54:19.880
cosmos with a three- layer model. Physical creation quantum field, unified field.

3462
04:54:22.880 --> 04:54:26.439
As I had already shown that time
space is an illusion. This new

3463
04:54:26.520 --> 04:54:30.840
layer of the unified field should be
the hidden reality behind illusion, the totality,

3464
04:54:30.000 --> 04:54:36.319
beyond all dimensions. Unfortunately, Einstein
died before he could find a mathematical

3465
04:54:36.319 --> 04:54:41.319
expression for his unified field theory.
Thirty years after his death, younger colleagues

3466
04:54:41.400 --> 04:54:47.200
such as John Willer and David Pome
took up the task. Despite the extreme

3467
04:54:47.279 --> 04:54:52.119
skepticism of almost all physicists, it
seemed impossible to offer a true unified field

3468
04:54:52.200 --> 04:54:56.439
theory, as it should be nothing
less than the theory of the whole.

3469
04:54:56.400 --> 04:55:03.279
Scepticism has now become a waiter.
There are notable thinkers like Stephen Hawking and

3470
04:55:03.439 --> 04:55:06.840
Vager Canmels, who consider the theory
of the whole as a viable objective.

3471
04:55:08.560 --> 04:55:11.959
However, it is not necessary to
wait until the theory of the whole is

3472
04:55:12.040 --> 04:55:17.040
demonstrated to understand that the unified field
is identical to the lello of Allan Watts

3473
04:55:17.119 --> 04:55:22.040
' temporal experience, the perfectly ordered
totality, which includes all the events of

3474
04:55:22.159 --> 04:55:26.759
time space in a seamless plot.
When spiritual masters declare I am that,

3475
04:55:27.040 --> 04:55:33.759
they are asserting the most complete sense
of correspondence, they understand that the unified

3476
04:55:33.840 --> 04:55:38.080
field exists in them, around and
through them. However, to share this

3477
04:55:38.159 --> 04:55:44.200
experience, we must overcome an imposing
obstacle, the fear of death for the

3478
04:55:44.279 --> 04:55:48.360
vast majority, death represents the point
of separation where life ends and the unknown

3479
04:55:48.479 --> 04:55:53.319
begins. But the universe after Einstein
has no beginning, no end, no

3480
04:55:53.400 --> 04:55:59.360
limits in time and space to incorporate
us into this greater reality. Each of

3481
04:55:59.400 --> 04:56:04.560
us must redefine where he begins and
where he ends his own life or whether

3482
04:56:04.560 --> 04:56:10.240
he has, after all, a
beginning and an end. The spell of

3483
04:56:10.279 --> 04:56:15.880
mortality to overcome the illusion of death, the unified field is within us,

3484
04:56:17.240 --> 04:56:21.599
walking to the temporal world with every
breath, every thought, every act.

3485
04:56:22.560 --> 04:56:26.720
Some people are much more aware of
this connection than others. For them,

3486
04:56:26.759 --> 04:56:32.479
death has become much less threatening in
their youth, at the peaks of poor

3487
04:56:32.520 --> 04:56:37.520
health and depression Einstein wrote to an
intimate friend. I feel to such an

3488
04:56:37.599 --> 04:56:40.919
extent part of my whole life that
I am not at all concerned about the

3489
04:56:40.959 --> 04:56:45.080
beginning or the end of the concrete
existence of any person, particularly within this

3490
04:56:45.080 --> 04:56:48.400
river. Without end, this feeling
of being one with things provides security and

3491
04:56:48.439 --> 04:56:53.000
absence of threat. If harboring a
threat within us is what gives rise to

3492
04:56:53.119 --> 04:57:00.439
aging, we cannot afford to live
with our current fear of death. In

3493
04:57:00.479 --> 04:57:06.520
reality, death is not the almighty
force that presents our fear. In nature,

3494
04:57:07.080 --> 04:57:11.360
death is part of a broader cycle
of birth and renewal. This year

3495
04:57:11.400 --> 04:57:15.599
' s seeds sprout, grow,
bloom, and give rise to next year

3496
04:57:15.680 --> 04:57:19.599
' s seeds. The cycles of
incessant renewal are not beyond death, incorporating

3497
04:57:19.680 --> 04:57:26.400
it into use for a higher purpose. The same thing happens inside our body.

3498
04:57:27.319 --> 04:57:32.159
Many cells cope with aging and death
by choice, not because the shadowy

3499
04:57:32.240 --> 04:57:37.080
scythe character has forced them to extinction
until it is assumed to exist. Death.

3500
04:57:37.599 --> 04:57:41.720
It is a half truth, for
in aunt there are many planes that

3501
04:57:41.880 --> 04:57:45.080
know nothing of extinction. Your atoms
are billions of years old and they have

3502
04:57:45.159 --> 04:57:51.400
so much left to live in the
remote future. When they decompose into smaller

3503
04:57:51.479 --> 04:57:55.560
particles, they will not die,
but will transform into another energy configuration.

3504
04:57:56.080 --> 04:58:00.400
The atoms are not to begin anything
other than in him transformed. However,

3505
04:58:00.759 --> 04:58:06.159
we do not say that the primordial
energy soup died by locking itself in orderly

3506
04:58:06.200 --> 04:58:11.119
models of hydrogen, helium and other
elements. Gravity and its allied ubatomic forces

3507
04:58:11.200 --> 04:58:15.759
that hold your body together will never
die, although in some unknowable future they

3508
04:58:15.799 --> 04:58:18.400
may return to the greater force fields
that gave rise to the great explosion.

3509
04:58:21.240 --> 04:58:25.479
Since we are composed of immortal ingredients, why not see ourselves under the same

3510
04:58:25.599 --> 04:58:30.919
light in the fist of illusion to
free you from the fist of death.

3511
04:58:32.279 --> 04:58:34.959
You must understand that it is based
on a very selective view of reality that

3512
04:58:36.000 --> 04:58:41.599
was instilled in you before you could
consciously choose. Go back mentally to that

3513
04:58:41.720 --> 04:58:45.159
moment of your first years when you
discovered that death existed. These first clashes

3514
04:58:45.159 --> 04:58:52.080
are generally very impressive. A four- year- old is shocked to wake

3515
04:58:52.200 --> 04:58:56.119
up one morning and find that the
canary, cat or dog have simply ceased

3516
04:58:56.479 --> 04:59:03.840
to be alive. What happened,
where my pet went. Rarely can parents

3517
04:59:03.959 --> 04:59:10.680
give a good answer to those questions. They say something like your pet has

3518
04:59:10.840 --> 04:59:15.080
gone to heaven to be with God. This doesn' t usually fix things.

3519
04:59:15.159 --> 04:59:18.840
To say that a dear little animal
went to heaven transmits what the parents

3520
04:59:18.880 --> 04:59:22.560
would want to be the truth.
But inside they fear death as much as

3521
04:59:22.639 --> 04:59:27.599
children and understand it equally little.
Young children have good antennas to perceive the

3522
04:59:27.639 --> 04:59:33.279
doubts and escapes of their parents.
Tears cease and pain calms, but in

3523
04:59:33.279 --> 04:59:37.200
a deeper plane a vague suspicion is
born. This might happen to me later.

3524
04:59:41.560 --> 04:59:45.880
When the child is between four and
six years old. Parents confirm that

3525
04:59:45.919 --> 04:59:51.279
fearsome insinuation is true. Grandma died
and went to heaven. Someday you'

3526
04:59:51.360 --> 04:59:56.119
ll die, too, and Mom
and Dad may not remember that moment.

3527
04:59:56.520 --> 05:00:00.599
Many children prefer to deny it and
swear to be like Peter Pian, young

3528
05:00:00.880 --> 05:00:03.439
forever, but it matters little whether
you remember it or not. Some psychologists

3529
05:00:03.520 --> 05:00:07.240
argue that the moment you faced death, you acquired an idea that holds mankind

3530
05:00:07.319 --> 05:00:12.919
captive. For centuries, your belief
in death as extinction, condemns your body

3531
05:00:14.040 --> 05:00:17.720
to decay, age and die,
just as so many others did before you.

3532
05:00:18.479 --> 05:00:22.680
In the same way, it is
not death that makes us suffer,

3533
05:00:22.119 --> 05:00:27.200
but the fear of its inevitability.
We all feel a deaf pain, a

3534
05:00:27.279 --> 05:00:30.880
hole in the open heart There when
the first loved one died in our lives.

3535
05:00:32.880 --> 05:00:36.119
There remained a void that filled the
fear, as nothing else has ever

3536
05:00:36.159 --> 05:00:41.560
since filled it. We haven'
t been able to face death yet.

3537
05:00:41.599 --> 05:00:45.319
Loss is the most powerful cause of
concern and also the most difficult to deal

3538
05:00:45.360 --> 05:00:52.599
with in adulthood. Aging makes us
think of loss. That' s why

3539
05:00:52.639 --> 05:00:56.639
it forces us to look into that
void that opened in childhood. Freeing from

3540
05:00:56.680 --> 05:01:00.439
death is the goal of all religions. O death, where is your sting,

3541
05:01:02.400 --> 05:01:06.840
O grave, where is your victory? Paul in his epistle asks a

3542
05:01:06.959 --> 05:01:12.520
small group of Christians in Corinth.
Then it provides the answer. The sting

3543
05:01:12.560 --> 05:01:18.119
of death is sin referring to error
and loss of grace. In other words,

3544
05:01:18.479 --> 05:01:22.520
death is the result of man'
s separation from the divine that lacks

3545
05:01:22.599 --> 05:01:30.520
death by implication. Immortality is our
true life. But what about the canary,

3546
05:01:30.959 --> 05:01:34.159
the cat or the dog that died
in our childhood. The animal perished

3547
05:01:34.240 --> 05:01:40.639
without having any of those theological beliefs. However, to say that an animal

3548
05:01:40.680 --> 05:01:45.279
has died is to put things in
human terms. Let' s look at

3549
05:01:45.319 --> 05:01:48.799
the tree in front of the window, it' s alive or dead,

3550
05:01:49.000 --> 05:01:52.400
both at once. Their old leaves
are dead. Just like the seed from

3551
05:01:52.479 --> 05:01:57.200
which it sprang. The wood inside
the trunk is dead, except for the

3552
05:01:57.319 --> 05:02:03.319
thin ring of change of just a
millimeter and a half that feeds the leaves,

3553
05:02:03.520 --> 05:02:07.319
in turn composed mostly of non-
living cellulose fibers. When they fall

3554
05:02:07.599 --> 05:02:11.599
apart in the fall, their dead
skeletons will fall to the ground, but

3555
05:02:11.680 --> 05:02:17.119
until then they are part of the
living tree. Even more so the food,

3556
05:02:17.639 --> 05:02:19.400
air and water that circulate through the
tree are no longer alive than when

3557
05:02:19.439 --> 05:02:25.400
they existed locked in rocks and raindrops. The soil that sustains the tree is

3558
05:02:25.479 --> 05:02:30.840
only ground stone and decomposed matter from
previous trees. What we call a living

3559
05:02:30.959 --> 05:02:33.319
tree is a compound of life and
death. Any division between one and the

3560
05:02:33.400 --> 05:02:38.560
other is mainly in our head.
Any plant, any animal is only a

3561
05:02:38.639 --> 05:02:45.400
stage in the constant cyclar and recycle
elements that develops eternally. All that cycle

3562
05:02:45.479 --> 05:02:48.840
is life and variation is the living. The fact that we try to freeze

3563
05:02:48.919 --> 05:02:53.560
the cycle in a snapshot saying now
this tree is alive, now this tree

3564
05:02:53.599 --> 05:02:59.360
is dead, represents the way our
Mind works as we are afraid of decay

3565
05:02:59.400 --> 05:03:03.919
and disintegration, we label it as
death, when in truth it is only

3566
05:03:03.040 --> 05:03:07.880
change. Like the tree, the
canary is only one stage of life.

3567
05:03:10.319 --> 05:03:12.880
At a previous time, the canary
was an egg, before, a fertilized

3568
05:03:12.959 --> 05:03:18.720
cell. Earlier still seeds of alpiste
meals by his mother, who turned the

3569
05:03:18.759 --> 05:03:22.479
food into the egg to put.
After the Canary dies, its elements will

3570
05:03:22.840 --> 05:03:26.680
decompose, nourish the plants and the
plants will give seeds to feed other birds.

3571
05:03:29.360 --> 05:03:33.080
What part of this incessant round is
death, if any, and how

3572
05:03:33.200 --> 05:03:36.880
much of it is only our vision
of things, including that of ourselves.

3573
05:03:37.319 --> 05:03:41.200
You may think that death is a
horrible fact that awaits you in the future,

3574
05:03:41.560 --> 05:03:44.159
when in truth there are parts of
your body that die every second,

3575
05:03:44.599 --> 05:03:48.439
the lining of your stomach dies partially
every time you digest a meal, just

3576
05:03:48.759 --> 05:03:53.560
to be replaced by another new tissue. The same can be said of skin,

3577
05:03:53.880 --> 05:04:00.200
hair, nails, blood cells,
and any other tissue. Maybe you

3578
05:04:00.240 --> 05:04:04.400
assume death is your enemy, but
all those cells die to keep you alive.

3579
05:04:06.360 --> 05:04:10.279
If your stomach lining didn' t
die to be replaced over and over

3580
05:04:10.400 --> 05:04:14.080
again the gastric games that would open
a hole in your stomach within a few

3581
05:04:14.560 --> 05:04:18.000
hours, then you' d all
die. The boundary between the living and

3582
05:04:18.119 --> 05:04:22.840
the dead becomes very diffuse. The
more you look, there are parts of

3583
05:04:22.919 --> 05:04:26.479
your body that are much more alive
than others. Muscles have a faster metabolism

3584
05:04:26.560 --> 05:04:30.880
than fat. The cells of the
brain, heart, and liver rarely double

3585
05:04:30.959 --> 05:04:34.119
after birth, if any, while
those of the stomach, skin, and

3586
05:04:34.119 --> 05:04:41.159
blood are replaced in a matter of
days, weeks, or months. A

3587
05:04:41.240 --> 05:04:45.680
strange fact of human anatomy is that, if we could somehow remove all the

3588
05:04:45.799 --> 05:04:49.560
cells from our body. The remaining
form would still look a lot like a

3589
05:04:49.560 --> 05:04:55.479
person. Our structural parts resemble a
coral reef standing alone, composed of mineral

3590
05:04:55.799 --> 05:05:00.599
bone and exado plus ligaments, tissue
tendons of conjunctive uers and water, with

3591
05:05:00.720 --> 05:05:03.560
all the cells tucked into it,
just as coral polyps are tucked into the

3592
05:05:03.599 --> 05:05:10.119
calcified reef that they have segregated,
just like the reef that carries the surrounding

3593
05:05:10.439 --> 05:05:17.040
ocean within. We are brine in
two thirds, but these dead parts of

3594
05:05:17.080 --> 05:05:22.040
us freely trade their atoms with the
medium. When they are injured, they

3595
05:05:22.119 --> 05:05:26.439
heal if pressure is applied to them, they slowly change shape to relieve tension

3596
05:05:26.439 --> 05:05:29.919
Being so, how much of my
body is alive and how much dead.

3597
05:05:30.680 --> 05:05:36.200
Until I say my body implies a
division that does not necessarily exist. The

3598
05:05:36.279 --> 05:05:40.439
air in my lungs is part of
my body. In that case, what

3599
05:05:40.479 --> 05:05:42.119
to say about the air I'
m going to vacuum or the air I

3600
05:05:42.119 --> 05:05:45.639
just exhale. The world out there
is composed of billions of atoms that were

3601
05:05:45.680 --> 05:05:49.240
in a time or will soon be. I myself and to stay alive I

3602
05:05:49.360 --> 05:05:55.439
need the whole package of matter and
energy we call Earth. I might as

3603
05:05:55.479 --> 05:05:59.119
well say that I' m just
a cell in this larger body, since

3604
05:05:59.159 --> 05:06:00.880
I need the whole planet to flaunt
me. Everything on Earth is part of

3605
05:06:02.040 --> 05:06:07.080
my body. If this is true, we cannot regard the rotting carrion as

3606
05:06:07.159 --> 05:06:10.880
dead at all, the worms and
the men who feed on it and even

3607
05:06:10.959 --> 05:06:14.840
the bones of my ancestors are trapped
in the same wave of life that carries

3608
05:06:14.919 --> 05:06:19.840
me on its crest. Some people
grieve at both talking about death, refusing

3609
05:06:19.840 --> 05:06:25.400
to have any interest in it.
They say that they do not fear death

3610
05:06:25.400 --> 05:06:27.959
or, in any case, that
they do not afflict them or have the

3611
05:06:29.040 --> 05:06:32.680
power that I have described over them. Why delaying on such a morbid subject

3612
05:06:32.799 --> 05:06:40.159
is not healthier simply to accept the
inevitable and live for today. The answer

3613
05:06:40.240 --> 05:06:45.639
to this objection is that unconscious forces
operate in us. Even if we all

3614
05:06:45.759 --> 05:06:48.240
recognize that we are going to die, except in those moments when we see

3615
05:06:48.400 --> 05:06:51.840
a dead or a dying man,
we keep the fear well wrapped up.

3616
05:06:52.799 --> 05:06:56.919
It' s almost a biological necessity. I can' t imagine how I

3617
05:06:56.040 --> 05:07:00.759
could go forward if the idea of
my own death emerged to the surface of

3618
05:07:00.959 --> 05:07:03.880
the brig more than once or twice
a year. Being a doctor, I

3619
05:07:03.959 --> 05:07:07.560
am forced to see death much more
often, but closing the eyes of a

3620
05:07:07.599 --> 05:07:12.880
cancer patient does not automatically bring my
own mentality to my head. I may

3621
05:07:12.959 --> 05:07:15.639
feel sad, but I don'
t see myself closing my own eyes.

3622
05:07:18.520 --> 05:07:22.319
The fact that we all protect ourselves
from fear does not mean that we have

3623
05:07:22.360 --> 05:07:26.680
him dominated from the bottom of his
dark well. Fear still exercises control over

3624
05:07:26.759 --> 05:07:32.080
us. To begin with, the
very fact that we can' t bear

3625
05:07:32.200 --> 05:07:34.959
to imagine our own death is instilled
in tremendous power, as if death was

3626
05:07:36.080 --> 05:07:38.880
surrounded by an electrified fence with about
ten million volts and a huge sign.

3627
05:07:40.200 --> 05:07:44.080
We don' t touch her We
don' t touch her. And since

3628
05:07:44.159 --> 05:07:47.639
death is surrounded within death, we
don' t know much about it.

3629
05:07:48.639 --> 05:07:53.400
Fear of death should change its name
and be called ignorance of death. I

3630
05:07:53.479 --> 05:07:59.240
am certain that nothing ages people as
much as fear. The grief follows him

3631
05:07:59.279 --> 05:08:04.360
closely. All doctors have witnessed the
horrific deterioration that can affect widowers. But

3632
05:08:04.680 --> 05:08:10.240
in this competition fear is the absolute
victor. A patient who is diagnosed with

3633
05:08:10.319 --> 05:08:15.599
terminal cancer may wither very quickly almost
before our eyes. Of course it doesn

3634
05:08:15.720 --> 05:08:19.479
' t always happen that way.
There are inner qualities that overcome fear,

3635
05:08:19.759 --> 05:08:23.479
such as courage and faith in God, and some people can bring them out

3636
05:08:23.520 --> 05:08:29.200
in times of horrible crisis, but
if fear succeeds in emerging, it will

3637
05:08:30.159 --> 05:08:34.400
surely do its work. I do
not mean that death is a fiction,

3638
05:08:34.680 --> 05:08:41.439
but that our belief in death creates
limitations where the usefulness of death must not

3639
05:08:41.560 --> 05:08:47.599
exist. Among other things, we
all tend to assume that death is somehow

3640
05:08:47.680 --> 05:08:55.119
unnatural, therefore bad. I disagree. Nature is very tolerant and flexible about

3641
05:08:55.240 --> 05:08:57.720
the use or non- use it
gives to death. In a broader picture

3642
05:08:57.759 --> 05:09:00.439
the questions of the NS either right
or wrong, tend to seem quite arbitrary.

3643
05:09:03.560 --> 05:09:07.639
If we analyze how life operates on
the genetic plane. DNA long ago

3644
05:09:07.680 --> 05:09:11.159
discovered the secret of creating ageless cells
in the form of amoebas, bacterial algae,

3645
05:09:11.200 --> 05:09:18.959
etc. Whose generations extend backward without
interruption. The appearance and disappearance of

3646
05:09:18.000 --> 05:09:22.319
any meva alone is of no importance, as life continues to produce amoebas of

3647
05:09:22.400 --> 05:09:27.360
the same genes. Nature also went
on to assemble more complex ageless creatures.

3648
05:09:30.000 --> 05:09:33.439
Hydra, for example, is a
primitive aquatic animal that can develop new cells

3649
05:09:33.520 --> 05:09:37.080
as quickly as it gets rid of
old ones, composed of one foot,

3650
05:09:37.360 --> 05:09:44.080
a fine stem, and a set
of tiny tentacles that look like a flower.

3651
05:09:44.400 --> 05:09:48.759
He spends time growing at one end
and dying at the other, thereby

3652
05:09:48.159 --> 05:09:53.799
renewing his entire body every two weeks. Their cells exist in perfect flow,

3653
05:09:55.040 --> 05:09:57.720
as the new ones constantly advance to
fill the site of the dying ones.

3654
05:09:57.720 --> 05:10:03.599
This is creation and destruction in perfect
balance, with no place for death.

3655
05:10:03.560 --> 05:10:07.560
Therefore, time cannot reach the one- way. He only dies by accident,

3656
05:10:08.319 --> 05:10:14.520
lack of food, drought or some
other external cause. The secret of

3657
05:10:14.560 --> 05:10:18.959
eternal youth is, therefore, a
balanced metabolism, a constant chemical flow that

3658
05:10:18.080 --> 05:10:22.119
processes food, air and water in
perfect balance without yielding a millimeter to entropy.

3659
05:10:26.040 --> 05:10:29.919
The Herian managed to dominate this balancing
act hundreds of millions of years ago.

3660
05:10:30.000 --> 05:10:33.200
In that sense, death is a
later development in the evolutionary chain,

3661
05:10:33.799 --> 05:10:41.799
but even among higher organisms, DNA
exerts considerable command over death. The common

3662
05:10:41.880 --> 05:10:45.959
bee, for example, can change
given its craving. Every hive needs young

3663
05:10:47.040 --> 05:10:51.439
workers, whose function is to stay
inside, caring for and feeding the new

3664
05:10:51.520 --> 05:10:55.959
larvae. After three weeks, these
workers grow and become mature explorers the bees

3665
05:10:55.959 --> 05:11:03.000
that come out of the hive to
collect pollen or flowers. However, at

3666
05:11:03.360 --> 05:11:08.040
any time, given that there may
be too many young workers or too many

3667
05:11:08.080 --> 05:11:12.479
old explorers in the spring, so
many new larvae may be brewing that the

3668
05:11:12.560 --> 05:11:17.799
hive lacks mature explorers and requires more
urgently. When that happens, some of

3669
05:11:17.840 --> 05:11:22.040
the young workers get older to become
explorers in a week instead of the usual

3670
05:11:22.080 --> 05:11:26.279
three, and go out for food. Similarly, if a swarm is divided

3671
05:11:26.360 --> 05:11:30.319
into a new hive, it is
likely to consist mainly of old explorers.

3672
05:11:33.639 --> 05:11:37.200
When they perceive the lack of young
workers, some of these explorers reverse their

3673
05:11:37.240 --> 05:11:41.240
age and rejuvenate, regenerate the hormones
of the young workers and even grow the

3674
05:11:41.319 --> 05:11:48.639
withered glands needed to produce food for
the larvae. Bee scholars were amazed to

3675
05:11:48.720 --> 05:11:53.400
discover this behavior. They then realized
that aging is not a one- way

3676
05:11:53.479 --> 05:12:00.400
process dictated by an unmovable plan for
the bee. Aging is plastic, capable

3677
05:12:00.400 --> 05:12:04.720
of moving forward and backwards, delaying
or accelerating. The true mystery lies in

3678
05:12:04.759 --> 05:12:10.400
why this does not occur in the
forms of higher lives. I would argue

3679
05:12:10.520 --> 05:12:14.439
that aging is always plastic, but
that we have invented it in its place

3680
05:12:14.560 --> 05:12:19.680
by our belief in death the inevitable
end point of the fixed aging plan.

3681
05:12:21.599 --> 05:12:25.959
Bee colonies are rhythmic entities that must
face constant changes in population and structure,

3682
05:12:26.159 --> 05:12:30.840
availability of food, predators and climate. He wrote to researcher Jim Ravensen.

3683
05:12:32.759 --> 05:12:36.759
With slight changes, one could adopt
this model for the human body. It

3684
05:12:36.880 --> 05:12:41.799
is a hive cycle of fifty billion
cells that age or stay young according to

3685
05:12:41.840 --> 05:12:47.159
what the entire colony needs at a
given moment in the internal harassment of each

3686
05:12:47.240 --> 05:12:52.599
cell floats a self- destructive mechanism
in the form of sealed packages of corrosive

3687
05:12:52.599 --> 05:12:56.799
enzymes. These enzymes may or may
not be responsible for normal aging, but

3688
05:12:57.000 --> 05:13:02.720
they undoubtedly perform special functions. When
a white cell, attacker or macrophage has

3689
05:13:02.799 --> 05:13:07.119
ingested a large number of bacteria or
viruses, for example, it eliminates it

3690
05:13:07.240 --> 05:13:10.799
by unleashing these digestive enzymes. In
the process, the macrophage also dies.

3691
05:13:11.759 --> 05:13:15.319
This is not an act of fortuitous
violence, but a very conscious decision.

3692
05:13:17.119 --> 05:13:22.319
For the general good of the body, the cell destroys itself. The same

3693
05:13:22.360 --> 05:13:26.319
deliberate self- sacrifice occurs millions of
times a day In our largest organ the

3694
05:13:26.400 --> 05:13:32.599
skin as a physical object. A
living cell of very fragile skins, too

3695
05:13:32.759 --> 05:13:37.040
tender to withstand the elements. That' s why our outer layer of skin.

3696
05:13:37.319 --> 05:13:41.159
The epidermis is made up of dead
cells hard enough to withstand the blows,

3697
05:13:41.599 --> 05:13:48.119
frictions and jolts that touch us.
These cells do not perish from exposure

3698
05:13:48.240 --> 05:13:52.639
to air. Rather, when a
young cell is produced in the dermis the

3699
05:13:52.720 --> 05:13:56.000
inner layer of the skin, it
is pushed to the surface by the pressure

3700
05:13:56.080 --> 05:14:00.319
of the new cells that grow from
below duns During this time, the cell

3701
05:14:00.319 --> 05:14:04.560
begins to accumulate within itself a protein
called kratin. That e- mail substance

3702
05:14:04.639 --> 05:14:08.520
that' s in the nails and
the hair. Keratin replaces the soft part

3703
05:14:08.639 --> 05:14:14.840
of the cell, making it harder
and harder. When it finally reaches the

3704
05:14:14.840 --> 05:14:18.759
air, each skin cell contains that
Latina enough to protect the body from wind,

3705
05:14:18.040 --> 05:14:23.159
sun and rain. Then the cell
dies to complete its mission without leaving

3706
05:14:23.279 --> 05:14:27.040
any trace behind it. When sacrificed
to make way for the next wave of

3707
05:14:27.119 --> 05:14:33.000
growing cells, such as the epithelial
cell, it knows when dying helps ensure

3708
05:14:33.000 --> 05:14:38.319
the survival of the entire body.
At the opposite end, a cancer cell

3709
05:14:38.360 --> 05:14:44.159
endangers the whole body because it does
not know how to die. Basically,

3710
05:14:44.599 --> 05:14:48.919
a cancer cell is an embroidered immortalist. He tries to survive according to his

3711
05:14:48.919 --> 05:14:53.959
own conditions, without paying attention to
the fate of the others for insanity that

3712
05:14:55.080 --> 05:14:57.279
his behavior may seem. Even so, it represents an interwoven choice in the

3713
05:14:57.319 --> 05:15:02.560
plan of nature the bird in that
of any cell is equipped with special genes

3714
05:15:02.959 --> 05:15:07.560
called are cogenes that seem to be
put into operation before the cancer is activated.

3715
05:15:07.479 --> 05:15:11.319
According to another recent hypothesis, there
are in the first chromosome of human

3716
05:15:11.479 --> 05:15:17.279
DNA genes that, if activated,
would allow each cell to divide indefinitely.

3717
05:15:18.279 --> 05:15:21.599
Scientists have not yet found the reason
for cells to seek their own immortality.

3718
05:15:22.560 --> 05:15:27.400
Perhaps this mechanism is a remnant of
our ancient evolutionary past or latent power that

3719
05:15:27.479 --> 05:15:33.759
we have not yet learned to take
advantage of. We exercise much more power

3720
05:15:33.840 --> 05:15:37.720
over aging and death than we are
willing to recognize, although we consider ourselves

3721
05:15:37.840 --> 05:15:41.639
victims of old age and death.
The stark truth is that for many of

3722
05:15:41.720 --> 05:15:48.599
us aging and dying are the only
escape from an unsatisfactory life. These escapists

3723
05:15:48.720 --> 05:15:52.040
play an important role, I believe, in the phenomenon of premature retirement death,

3724
05:15:52.279 --> 05:15:57.200
which we discussed in the first part. Another variant of this topic is

3725
05:15:57.279 --> 05:16:00.880
the death of an anniversary, for
which a person dies on the same date

3726
05:16:00.919 --> 05:16:06.439
that he widowed or lost a beloved
son. Studies of Chinese and Jewish communities

3727
05:16:06.479 --> 05:16:11.040
have revealed that the mortality rate drops
dramatically just before important religious dates, only

3728
05:16:11.119 --> 05:16:18.279
to rise immediately after people expect to
celebrate a new year plus another Easter before

3729
05:16:18.400 --> 05:16:25.319
letting themselves go. No study is
needed to indicate that people cling to life

3730
05:16:25.360 --> 05:16:30.680
when something dear is at stake.
The most recent example I have seen occurred

3731
05:16:30.720 --> 05:16:36.680
between an elderly victim of several severe
thrombosis and his grandson. The man,

3732
05:16:37.080 --> 05:16:41.400
finally disabled, was placed in a
hospital with little hope of returning home.

3733
05:16:41.840 --> 05:16:47.720
He remained in a weak state.
Semiconscient. When he regained some lucidity and

3734
05:16:47.799 --> 05:16:51.119
could speak, he pointed to his
grandson' s picture murmuring Where is he?

3735
05:16:52.159 --> 05:16:56.680
Where is he? The dying boy' s children called the grandson who

3736
05:16:56.759 --> 05:17:00.520
rushed to Boston. When he came
to the pine trees, such an elder

3737
05:17:00.599 --> 05:17:06.319
experienced a change he smiled caressing the
young man who meant so much to him.

3738
05:17:07.240 --> 05:17:11.119
Hand in hand, they spoke quietly
alone and together for most of the

3739
05:17:11.200 --> 05:17:15.040
day. When the grandson left with
the intention of returning in the morning.

3740
05:17:15.479 --> 05:17:21.080
Everyone told him that his grandfather seemed
to be much better. Two hours later,

3741
05:17:21.159 --> 05:17:25.119
the old man died in his sleep. When I think about this incident,

3742
05:17:25.520 --> 05:17:29.360
I wonder what the researchers hope to
quantify the forces that sustain life.

3743
05:17:29.680 --> 05:17:33.319
While there' s a hope or
a love to wait for from the outside.

3744
05:17:33.360 --> 05:17:37.799
We cannot know with certainty that a
person' s body responds. The

3745
05:17:37.880 --> 05:17:42.840
whole thing is too personal. Several
years ago, when Fano gave the last

3746
05:17:42.959 --> 05:17:48.040
manual exit on suicide, it became
a sales success. Its main audience consisted

3747
05:17:48.159 --> 05:17:55.599
of people affected by incurable disease or
chronic, physical or emotional pain. The

3748
05:17:55.639 --> 05:18:00.000
slow way nature offers to commit suicide
from aging did not seem to him fast

3749
05:18:00.080 --> 05:18:04.599
enough. As horrifying as this may
seem. A whole life of pain and

3750
05:18:04.680 --> 05:18:10.520
disease would be even more hideous without
any liberation if it were not for death,

3751
05:18:10.919 --> 05:18:15.319
said One guru to his disciples,
we would all condemn ourselves to eternal

3752
05:18:15.319 --> 05:18:22.400
senility. Even without senility, life
can end I simply look forward to death,

3753
05:18:22.799 --> 05:18:26.639
Berenhach said Retired from Porte Angeles,
Washington. For all the things I

3754
05:18:26.759 --> 05:18:30.880
' ve done and I can'
t do anymore. I' m not

3755
05:18:30.959 --> 05:18:34.279
afraid of death at all. If
I had to die right now, I

3756
05:18:34.400 --> 05:18:38.319
' d be fine with it any
minute now I' m willing. These

3757
05:18:38.400 --> 05:18:47.520
words express resignation, serenity, apathy, courage defeat. We can' t

3758
05:18:47.560 --> 05:18:52.040
really know. Wrenhach made this statement
upon his 100th birthday and was still alive

3759
05:18:52.119 --> 05:18:55.439
at the age of one hundred and
four. Despite his words, his deepest

3760
05:18:55.479 --> 05:19:00.159
self seemed to have more to live
for. All these examples show that life

3761
05:19:00.240 --> 05:19:06.040
does not have a single value,
whether positive or negative. Dying is a

3762
05:19:06.119 --> 05:19:10.159
form of change and as such must
be seen within the broader framework of non

3763
05:19:10.439 --> 05:19:15.599
- change. People have the wrong
idea of death. Marissi once told me

3764
05:19:15.680 --> 05:19:18.720
that she sees it as an end, but it' s actually a beginning.

3765
05:19:19.639 --> 05:19:22.720
You can take this as an article
of faith, but for me it

3766
05:19:22.759 --> 05:19:27.159
is the realistic expression of a fact
in the flow of life. Destruction never

3767
05:19:27.279 --> 05:19:33.599
gets the last word every time.
Creation takes a phoenix out of the ashes.

3768
05:19:33.639 --> 05:19:38.279
Every cell knows how to divide to
form two cells. Every shattered atom

3769
05:19:38.400 --> 05:19:42.959
can regroup into new atoms. Each
thought is inspired by a new inspiration.

3770
05:19:44.959 --> 05:19:48.000
How, then, can we learn
to live within this continuity that is the

3771
05:19:48.080 --> 05:19:52.040
whole of life. What about the
emotional devastation of a father, when he

3772
05:19:52.159 --> 05:19:57.880
loses a son, a wife,
when his husband dies. These feelings are

3773
05:19:57.919 --> 05:20:02.799
natural of your position. There is
pain in the loss of any loved one,

3774
05:20:03.919 --> 05:20:07.319
but pain does not have to be
deep and lasting if we have absorbed

3775
05:20:07.400 --> 05:20:10.959
the reality of life as an eternal
flow in which there are no losses or

3776
05:20:10.959 --> 05:20:15.159
gains, only transformation. Shakespeare wrote
in one of his sonnets. I'

3777
05:20:15.279 --> 05:20:18.400
m crying for what I' m
afraid of losing. Such is the inevitable

3778
05:20:18.520 --> 05:20:25.119
result of attachment to time- bound
consciousness. The new paradigm holds that consciousness

3779
05:20:25.240 --> 05:20:29.040
is the source of reality. Two
completely different types of reality arise from consciousness

3780
05:20:29.080 --> 05:20:37.799
linked to time and time. Results
of consciousness linked to time aging, entropy,

3781
05:20:37.840 --> 05:20:41.479
confusion, fatigue, repression, feeling
of being a victim, anxiety of

3782
05:20:41.560 --> 05:20:45.080
separation, conflict, sorrow, sadness, locking in self and body, fear,

3783
05:20:45.400 --> 05:20:52.439
death, results of temporal consciousness,
freedom, autonomy, youth, knowledge

3784
05:20:52.439 --> 05:20:56.479
of reality, unlimited energy, liberated
emotions, expansion beyond body and self,

3785
05:20:57.439 --> 05:21:04.400
pa, power, harmony, joy. We all experience aspects of both realities,

3786
05:21:04.799 --> 05:21:08.959
because our consciousness is fluid. It
can bring us devastating moments of sorrow

3787
05:21:10.080 --> 05:21:14.720
and fear and wonderful moments of peace
and power. You can choose between identifying

3788
05:21:14.799 --> 05:21:18.919
with the limitations of a physical body
and a selfish self or freeing yourself in

3789
05:21:18.040 --> 05:21:22.880
transcendence and expansion. This flexibility is
the true genius of human consciousness, for

3790
05:21:23.200 --> 05:21:30.279
it leaves all possibilities open. However, there are obviously great advantages in living

3791
05:21:30.400 --> 05:21:36.119
permanently in the temporal consciousness. The
spiritual masters of India believe that the human

3792
05:21:36.240 --> 05:21:40.959
spirit has a natural tendency to seek
limitless freedom and satisfaction, such as the

3793
05:21:40.959 --> 05:21:47.200
Gulf current that invisibly opens its way
across the Atlantic. The human mind contains

3794
05:21:47.279 --> 05:21:52.759
hidden currents that drive our thoughts and
emotions toward a higher reality. In India,

3795
05:21:52.080 --> 05:21:56.759
this is called Daharma, an ancient
Sanskrit word that can be translated in

3796
05:21:56.919 --> 05:22:03.799
various ways if the law means order
of seeing and correct conduct. A person

3797
05:22:03.919 --> 05:22:07.000
' s dharma is his job or
profession. It is also the responsibility towards

3798
05:22:07.080 --> 05:22:11.799
your family, the higher purpose of
your life, and the spiritual ideal to

3799
05:22:11.840 --> 05:22:17.080
which you are committed. The daharma
root is a verb that means to hold

3800
05:22:18.080 --> 05:22:21.959
in its broadest sense. Dharma is
what sustains the individual, the guiding force

3801
05:22:22.080 --> 05:22:26.759
that puts order in chaos. Therefore, the ultimate way to avoid entropy,

3802
05:22:26.200 --> 05:22:32.680
aging, and death is to live
in the weapon. The universe evolves because

3803
05:22:32.799 --> 05:22:36.279
it guides it. The daharma current
is the invisible intelligence that weaves the fabric

3804
05:22:36.400 --> 05:22:41.279
of life. Human consciousness is able
to directly touch the dharma, to connect

3805
05:22:41.360 --> 05:22:45.880
with it and thus guide its own
evolution. This, finally, is what

3806
05:22:45.919 --> 05:22:51.560
makes us human. Not only do
we evolve, but we guide our own

3807
05:22:51.560 --> 05:22:56.279
evolution. Da arma is not a
set of religious teachings, but a true

3808
05:22:56.360 --> 05:23:00.599
force that can be discovered and used
in the next section. In practice we

3809
05:23:00.680 --> 05:23:04.959
will see how this can be achieved, for with orientation our inner intelligence can

3810
05:23:06.040 --> 05:23:11.159
create a permanent state of body,
ageless and timeless mind. We all experience

3811
05:23:11.240 --> 05:23:17.200
moments when peace, power and love
arise spontaneously only to disappear. Far from

3812
05:23:17.240 --> 05:23:21.400
being fortuitous, you are centered and
out of reality reflect the ability of the

3813
05:23:21.479 --> 05:23:23.560
mind to keep its course, for
if you follow the weapon without ceasing,

3814
05:23:23.880 --> 05:23:29.959
peace, love and power have no
end. They are the natural results of

3815
05:23:30.080 --> 05:23:34.319
the most natural time of consciousness,
temporality. The great joy of writing this

3816
05:23:34.400 --> 05:23:38.560
book was for me to take a
theme full of fear, aging and turn

3817
05:23:38.639 --> 05:23:42.720
it into a vehicle of fullness.
Human beings are not trapped in time,

3818
05:23:42.919 --> 05:23:48.680
squeezed into the volume of a body
and the duration of a life. We

3819
05:23:48.759 --> 05:23:52.880
are travelers in the infinite river of
life. That is what Christ meant by

3820
05:23:52.000 --> 05:23:56.360
counsel he gave in to the world, but not to him. That'

3821
05:23:56.439 --> 05:24:00.400
s what Carlos Castañeda learned from Don
Juan when he wrote. His sense of

3822
05:24:00.479 --> 05:24:03.840
detachment had disappeared, which was what
had given him the power to love without

3823
05:24:04.799 --> 05:24:11.959
that detachment. He only had worldly
needs, despair and hopelessness the distinctive features

3824
05:24:11.080 --> 05:24:17.240
of the everyday world. Although we
often identify love with clinging and possession,

3825
05:24:17.400 --> 05:24:22.360
there is a deep truth here.
Losing the power of detachment amounts to losing

3826
05:24:22.439 --> 05:24:26.400
the ability to love detachment. It
is not cold, disinterested or lack of

3827
05:24:26.400 --> 05:24:30.720
feeling. It' s a free
sense of self. Without the hindrance of

3828
05:24:30.759 --> 05:24:36.240
boundaries, our journey does not begin
or end in the physical world. The

3829
05:24:36.360 --> 05:24:38.880
Earth is a beautiful jewel, green
and blue that hangs on the tapestry of

3830
05:24:38.880 --> 05:24:44.919
eternity for a long time that we
remain here to drink pure water and aspirate

3831
05:24:45.000 --> 05:24:51.119
the life- giving air. Our
home is rather eternity. We are of

3832
05:24:51.360 --> 05:24:56.319
temporal essence, we were born in
the bottomless pond that fires bubbles of time

3833
05:24:56.319 --> 05:25:00.080
and space. A bubble is a
moment, now a millennium, but the

3834
05:25:00.159 --> 05:25:04.479
pond itself is pure spirit. No
matter how many stars and galaxies arise from

3835
05:25:04.560 --> 05:25:08.279
it to explode on the surface.
As fragile foam, nothing has been removed

3836
05:25:08.400 --> 05:25:15.720
or added. The being is deep, clear, permanent always the same as

3837
05:25:15.799 --> 05:25:19.119
amazement to think that our daily existence
springs from that infinitely renewable source. But

3838
05:25:19.200 --> 05:25:23.720
life has no other basis. Intelligence, power, and limitless freedom are inherent

3839
05:25:23.799 --> 05:25:29.279
in the unified field that Einstein and
the ancient sages shared in their vision.

3840
05:25:30.720 --> 05:25:33.599
Immortality dawns when you understand that you
deserve your place in the eternal flow.

3841
05:25:34.439 --> 05:25:38.759
When you know, you can claim
your immortality here and now at every second,

3842
05:25:40.279 --> 05:25:45.959
for time is nothing but quantified immortality. Nature waits to pour generously upon

3843
05:25:47.639 --> 05:25:52.720
you this supreme gift. After having
nourished us for millions of years, the

3844
05:25:52.720 --> 05:25:57.159
sea, air and sun still sing
the song that we must begin to appreciate

3845
05:25:57.279 --> 05:26:03.439
once again, what nature says around
us, in the space between our atoms

3846
05:26:03.479 --> 05:26:10.319
permeating each thought the same breath,
the same silent whisper circulates through each cell.

3847
05:26:11.279 --> 05:26:15.639
It is the rhythm of life itself
that calls each of us with gentle

3848
05:26:15.759 --> 05:26:21.759
insistence. I cherish a few verses
from the ancient Begbeth that articulates this eternal

3849
05:26:21.759 --> 05:26:25.959
song. Although my spirit may wander
through the four corners of the earth,

3850
05:26:26.400 --> 05:26:30.279
let it come to me again so
that I can live and travel here?

3851
05:26:30.919 --> 05:26:36.520
Though my spirit may go far over
the sea. Let him come back to

3852
05:26:36.639 --> 05:26:41.319
me again so that I can live
and travel here, even if my spirit

3853
05:26:41.439 --> 05:26:45.599
can go far to the bright rays
of light? Let him come back to

3854
05:26:45.720 --> 05:26:51.400
me again so that I can live
and travel here, even if my spirit

3855
05:26:51.520 --> 05:26:55.799
can go far to visit the sun
and dawn? Let him come to me

3856
05:26:55.919 --> 05:27:00.279
again so that I can live and
travel here, even though I am spirited

3857
05:27:00.360 --> 05:27:03.919
I can wander through the steep mountains? Let him come to me again so

3858
05:27:03.000 --> 05:27:07.040
that I can live and travel here, even though my spirit can go far

3859
05:27:07.119 --> 05:27:11.599
in all the ways that live and
move? Let him come to me again

3860
05:27:11.680 --> 05:27:15.759
so that I can live and travel
here, even if my spirit can go

3861
05:27:15.880 --> 05:27:18.360
far to distant realms? Let him
come back to me again so that I

3862
05:27:18.400 --> 05:27:22.599
can live and travel here, even
if my spirit can go far to all

3863
05:27:22.680 --> 05:27:26.319
that is and is to be?
Let him come to me again so that

3864
05:27:26.400 --> 05:27:30.360
I can live and travel here,
even though my spirit may wander through the

3865
05:27:30.439 --> 05:27:33.599
valley of death? Let him come
to me again so that I can live

3866
05:27:33.720 --> 05:27:37.599
and travel here, even if my
spirit ambulates the corners of the earth?

3867
05:27:37.400 --> 05:27:41.279
Let him come to me again so
I can live and walk here? Even

3868
05:27:41.319 --> 05:27:45.680
if my spirit ambulates at great distance
over the sea? Let him come to

3869
05:27:45.759 --> 05:27:49.680
me again so I can live and
walk here? Even if my spirit ambulates

3870
05:27:49.759 --> 05:27:53.159
into lightnings of light? Let him
come to me again so I can live

3871
05:27:55.479 --> 05:27:59.520
and walk here? Although my spirit
of ambulation to visit the sun and the

3872
05:27:59.599 --> 05:28:02.599
dawn, let it come to me
again so that here I will live and

3873
05:28:02.680 --> 05:28:07.479
walk? Even though my spirit wanders
through the steep mountains, let it come

3874
05:28:07.520 --> 05:28:11.080
to me again so that I will
live and walk here? Even though my

3875
05:28:11.200 --> 05:28:14.279
spirit of ambulation, with every living
and mobile form, let it come to

3876
05:28:14.400 --> 05:28:17.919
me again so that here I will
live and walk? Even if my spirit

3877
05:28:17.959 --> 05:28:21.479
ambulates for very distant realms, let
it come to me again so that I

3878
05:28:21.520 --> 05:28:25.400
will live and walk here? Though
my spirit of ambulation for what is and

3879
05:28:25.439 --> 05:28:27.400
will be, let it come to
me again so that I may live and

3880
05:28:27.520 --> 05:28:33.119
walk here? Even though my spirit
wanders through the valley of death, let

3881
05:28:33.200 --> 05:28:37.639
it come to me again so that
I may live and walk here? Read

3882
05:28:37.759 --> 05:28:42.599
it out twice. Then stay silent
with your body for five minutes, directing

3883
05:28:42.680 --> 05:28:47.959
your consciousness to each part of your
body, knowing that this consciousness is spirit.

3884
05:28:48.919 --> 05:28:52.680
Spirit is healing energy, the flow
of life and intelligence in each cell.

3885
05:28:53.560 --> 05:28:57.200
When we re- intonate with the
innate joy and delight of our bodies,

3886
05:28:59.040 --> 05:29:02.279
the signs of the deep- durated
sage will appear, creating healing from

3887
05:29:02.279 --> 05:29:07.080
within. An ancient Chinese poem by
Chantsu says that which fills the universe I

3888
05:29:07.159 --> 05:29:11.840
consider my body and that which directs
the universe I see as my own nature.

3889
05:29:14.560 --> 05:29:18.599
I hear silent music. In these
words they remind me that cosmic breath

3890
05:29:18.720 --> 05:29:22.639
is my next breath and cosmic dance
is the next beat of my heart.

3891
05:29:22.880 --> 05:29:30.159
In practice timeless mode. The deepest
reality you have awareness of is that from

3892
05:29:30.240 --> 05:29:34.799
which you draw your power. For
those who are only aware of the material

3893
05:29:36.200 --> 05:29:38.880
world, power is limited to material
forces, but on a deeper plane there

3894
05:29:38.919 --> 05:29:44.000
is a creative power that molds and
body the power of evolution or gives weapon.

3895
05:29:45.240 --> 05:29:48.479
To get in touch with the core
of life, you must get in

3896
05:29:48.560 --> 05:29:52.119
touch with the creative power of the
universe. That power is expressed through your

3897
05:29:52.159 --> 05:29:57.040
personal creativity. When you' re
in the field of creativity, you lose

3898
05:29:57.200 --> 05:30:03.439
track of time. They' re
just the flow. There are three forces

3899
05:30:03.560 --> 05:30:08.159
that permeate all life, creation,
maintenance and destruction. All three are present

3900
05:30:08.240 --> 05:30:12.319
in the lifetime of cells, stars, trees, planets, and galaxies.

3901
05:30:14.200 --> 05:30:18.599
Since every form must become sustained and
disappear even when each period of life develops

3902
05:30:18.720 --> 05:30:26.439
in a sequence over time. The
three forces themselves exist simultaneously the genes of

3903
05:30:26.479 --> 05:30:30.639
each species. They include the code
to create new cells, keep each one

3904
05:30:30.759 --> 05:30:33.560
for some time, and destroy it
to make room for another generation of tissues.

3905
05:30:34.639 --> 05:30:37.119
This intelligence three in one is what
you' re trying to simulate.

3906
05:30:37.200 --> 05:30:41.279
When you consciously shape your life it
is up to you to choose what aspect

3907
05:30:41.400 --> 05:30:47.759
will be the most dominant creation,
maintenance or destruction, since you have the

3908
05:30:47.840 --> 05:30:52.599
power to vary the balance of forces
you are above and beyond them. As

3909
05:30:52.680 --> 05:30:59.680
long as creation dominates your existence,
you will continue to grow and develop evolution

3910
05:30:59.720 --> 05:31:04.840
mocks entropy, decadence and aging.
The most creative people in any field resort

3911
05:31:04.919 --> 05:31:10.759
intuitively to that knowledge. They grow
with full awareness of being the source of

3912
05:31:10.880 --> 05:31:15.919
their own power, whatever their field. They generally share certain traits. One

3913
05:31:17.080 --> 05:31:22.799
is able to establish contact with silence
and enjoy it. Two connect with nature

3914
05:31:22.880 --> 05:31:30.560
and enjoy it. Three trust their
feelings. Four can remain centered and functioning

3915
05:31:30.680 --> 05:31:34.720
in the midst of confusion and chaos. Five are like kids, enjoy fantasy

3916
05:31:34.759 --> 05:31:41.520
and play. Six themselves are their
point of reference, place the highest confidence

3917
05:31:41.599 --> 05:31:47.479
in their own consciousness. Seven do
not adhere rigidly to any point of view.

3918
05:31:47.759 --> 05:31:52.680
Although passionately dedicated to their creativity,
they remain open to new possibilities.

3919
05:31:53.319 --> 05:31:59.040
These seven points provide us with a
practical pattern to assess how much creativity our

3920
05:31:59.159 --> 05:32:03.240
life unfolds. The following exercise shows
how to develop and strengthen these aspects.

3921
05:32:04.720 --> 05:32:11.759
Exercise a creative action plan. Everyone
has a fixed routine that dominates their day.

3922
05:32:12.159 --> 05:32:17.159
Almost everyone fills our waking hours with
the same activities, seeing the same

3923
05:32:17.240 --> 05:32:22.000
family and friends, working with the
same companions, walking the same streets and

3924
05:32:22.119 --> 05:32:26.040
even having the same thoughts. It
has been estimated that ninety percent of the

3925
05:32:26.080 --> 05:32:29.919
thoughts a person has in a day
are a literal repetition of those he had

3926
05:32:30.000 --> 05:32:34.479
the day before. This routine leaves
little room for real creativity, unless you

3927
05:32:34.560 --> 05:32:40.159
decide to make room for it.
However, in quantum terms, there is

3928
05:32:40.240 --> 05:32:44.880
infinite space for creativity, because every
second is full of unlimited choices and unseen

3929
05:32:45.000 --> 05:32:49.520
possibilities. Once you begin to open
up space for the new and the unknown,

3930
05:32:49.799 --> 05:32:53.279
you open the way for deeper powers
to emerge. From the voids of

3931
05:32:53.319 --> 05:33:02.919
daily existence, the most extraordinary historical
events occurred in ordinary days. The most

3932
05:33:03.000 --> 05:33:08.799
extraordinary thoughts arose in minds that conceived
many ordinary thoughts. The next exercise gives

3933
05:33:08.880 --> 05:33:12.479
you a way to open up some
space in your life for growth. The

3934
05:33:12.560 --> 05:33:18.279
more consciously you follow it, the
more limitless growth will be. Draft an

3935
05:33:18.360 --> 05:33:22.639
action plan for the next six months
based on the seven qualities of very creative

3936
05:33:22.720 --> 05:33:27.400
people. According to the list on
this page. There' s no need

3937
05:33:27.479 --> 05:33:32.279
to force all those points into every
day. Enough commitment to allow these aspects

3938
05:33:32.439 --> 05:33:38.759
of your life to arise more fully
in mind. One experiences silence. First,

3939
05:33:38.840 --> 05:33:44.240
take some time to experience silence.
Ideally, it is a brief period

3940
05:33:44.319 --> 05:33:48.119
of meditation of fifteen to thirty minutes
in the morning before going to work,

3941
05:33:48.279 --> 05:33:53.319
then a second period at sunset when
you return home. It is a time

3942
05:33:53.400 --> 05:33:59.560
to simply exist, but its very
simplicity can make it the most important period

3943
05:33:59.639 --> 05:34:03.840
of your life. Silence is a
precious commodity, especially in the bustle of

3944
05:34:03.919 --> 05:34:08.000
modern society, in a world that
is more than a little crazy. Finding

3945
05:34:08.040 --> 05:34:12.639
the core of silence is like regaining
the strength of sanity and peace. The

3946
05:34:12.720 --> 05:34:18.720
mind is replenished in the quantum source
silence of all activity. If in your

3947
05:34:18.840 --> 05:34:22.200
life you dominate only activity you spend
more energy than you earn, the most

3948
05:34:22.279 --> 05:34:26.919
basic rhythm of nature, activity and
rest deviates too much in one direction.

3949
05:34:29.599 --> 05:34:33.080
Silence is the great teacher to learn
his lessons. You must pay attention to

3950
05:34:33.080 --> 05:34:37.759
him. There is no substitute for
creative inspiration, knowledge, and stability provided

3951
05:34:37.840 --> 05:34:42.560
by knowing how to get in touch
with the inner core of silence. The

3952
05:34:42.599 --> 05:34:48.319
great Sufi poet Rumi wrote only leaves
the agitated waters calm, The sun and

3953
05:34:48.400 --> 05:34:52.639
the moon will reflect on the surface. Of your being two spending time in

3954
05:34:52.680 --> 05:34:57.919
nature. He plans to spend a
period of time in contact with nature.

3955
05:35:00.000 --> 05:35:03.959
There is no healthier way to discharge
the accumulated energies. When you move away

3956
05:35:04.000 --> 05:35:08.200
from the artificial confines of the material
world and return to nature, the body

3957
05:35:08.319 --> 05:35:15.599
mind system spontaneously disposes of its excess
energies in city environments. It is not

3958
05:35:15.639 --> 05:35:18.439
always easy to find a green and
open place, a wide panorama of sky

3959
05:35:18.720 --> 05:35:22.400
and clouds of pure air with which
to fill your lungs. But if you

3960
05:35:22.520 --> 05:35:26.799
find a piece of land where you
can stand without shoes and with your arms

3961
05:35:27.080 --> 05:35:30.479
stretched out in the sun, take
advantage of it. In the absence of

3962
05:35:30.479 --> 05:35:34.599
that, seek to perís mendar the
nature where you live, rising early to

3963
05:35:34.680 --> 05:35:40.000
appreciate the sunrise or stopping a few
moments at sunset to contemplate the sunset,

3964
05:35:40.520 --> 05:35:45.840
the moon and the stars. The
cells in your body are exquisitely harmonized with

3965
05:35:45.919 --> 05:35:48.880
the cycles of the moon, the
sun, and the stars. When you

3966
05:35:48.959 --> 05:35:55.279
drink nature with your senses, this
invisible connection is strengthened even in the very

3967
05:35:55.400 --> 05:35:59.319
center of congested urban areas. It
is possible to cultivate a garden on the

3968
05:35:59.360 --> 05:36:03.599
window forestick. Nothing to see the
seeds sprout. Go out to the roof

3969
05:36:03.639 --> 05:36:06.919
of your building to soak up the
sun. It also allows some contact with

3970
05:36:07.040 --> 05:36:11.159
nature. As you can, capture
at least a few moments of freshness and

3971
05:36:11.240 --> 05:36:15.680
feel the nourishing contact of the earth, the sun and the sky. Three

3972
05:36:15.759 --> 05:36:21.840
to experience and trust in emotions.
Start keeping a diary of your feelings.

3973
05:36:22.560 --> 05:36:26.520
This doesn' t have to be
a complicated task. Just make a list

3974
05:36:26.639 --> 05:36:30.400
of some key emotions and write down
an example of each as it arises on

3975
05:36:30.520 --> 05:36:37.040
your day. Start by noting the
key words of basic positive emotions, such

3976
05:36:37.159 --> 05:36:42.840
as love, joy, sympathy,
acceptance, happiness, cordiality, confidence with

3977
05:36:42.919 --> 05:36:48.400
passion. It is then a column
of more abstract feelings associated with creativity and

3978
05:36:48.479 --> 05:36:55.439
personal development, such as psychological penetration
and intuition, discovery, transcendence, faith

3979
05:36:55.560 --> 05:37:00.840
fusion, forgiveness, peace, revelation. Finally, he notes the primary negative

3980
05:37:00.959 --> 05:37:06.520
emotions, which can be anger,
envy, anxiety, grief, guilt,

3981
05:37:06.599 --> 05:37:11.520
greed, distrust, selfishness. Look
at this sheet of paper in the morning

3982
05:37:11.599 --> 05:37:15.479
and take it with you to serve
as a reminder, although you will benefit

3983
05:37:15.520 --> 05:37:21.000
much more and write down your feelings
in some detail, exposing them and reliving

3984
05:37:21.200 --> 05:37:25.040
how strong they were, what kind
of circumstances caused it and how important an

3985
05:37:25.040 --> 05:37:26.680
emotion had for you. In particular, you can get a good result with

3986
05:37:26.799 --> 05:37:32.319
a silent diary, that is,
take a look at the list and just

3987
05:37:32.400 --> 05:37:37.560
briefly remember each emotion. The objectives
of keeping this diary are as follows.

3988
05:37:38.319 --> 05:37:44.400
One, discover how often you feel
things that happen to you unnoticed. Two,

3989
05:37:44.639 --> 05:37:49.560
allow the spontaneous release of emotions that
you would normally repress or try to

3990
05:37:49.560 --> 05:37:55.880
forget three, really know your emotions. Many people cannot specifically describe what it

3991
05:37:55.959 --> 05:38:00.720
feels like to experience compassion or psychological
penetration, for example, but if you

3992
05:38:00.799 --> 05:38:04.159
are alert to any emotion, you
will come to know them intimately. It

3993
05:38:04.240 --> 05:38:08.799
' s the first stage to master
your emotions. Four, make your emotions

3994
05:38:08.880 --> 05:38:15.080
something to enjoy. The life of
feelings must be rich and satisfying, but

3995
05:38:15.279 --> 05:38:19.240
if your emotions are unknown to you, you cannot enjoy them. Many people

3996
05:38:19.319 --> 05:38:23.319
have been convinced of having little,
if any, emotion. However, despite

3997
05:38:23.720 --> 05:38:29.080
our efforts to suppress them, there
is a feeling linked to each of our

3998
05:38:29.159 --> 05:38:33.119
thoughts. When you bring it out, you get back into the whole connection.

3999
05:38:33.400 --> 05:38:37.319
Mind body and totality is the most
satisfying state in which you can live

4000
05:38:38.880 --> 05:38:42.159
in your daily inventory. Don'
t skip any words on the list,

4001
05:38:42.400 --> 05:38:47.080
or delay in a single category,
even if you' ve been angry several

4002
05:38:47.159 --> 05:38:48.720
times in the same day, think
of a single case and go on.

4003
05:38:49.680 --> 05:38:53.880
In addition, it is important not
to focus too much on negative emotions,

4004
05:38:55.080 --> 05:38:59.040
which are the easiest to experience,
usually, the most advantageous for yourself.

4005
05:39:00.279 --> 05:39:03.720
I ask you to bring out negative
emotions so that you can better understand their

4006
05:39:03.720 --> 05:39:08.720
origins. Being aware of the origin
of an emotion allows the dissipation of negative

4007
05:39:08.720 --> 05:39:12.319
feelings. This always happens, although
in the case of repressed or stubbornly rooted

4008
05:39:12.439 --> 05:39:18.799
negativity. The process takes time.
Negative emotions limit the world and separate us

4009
05:39:18.799 --> 05:39:22.919
from it, when the object of
this exercise is to awaken creative and expansive

4010
05:39:22.000 --> 05:39:27.279
emotions. If you take your diary
seriously, you will be amazed at the

4011
05:39:27.360 --> 05:39:33.439
diversity of the emotions you experience during
the day without realizing all that you pay

4012
05:39:33.439 --> 05:39:37.479
attention to grows, although you may
think that words such as revelation or psychological

4013
05:39:37.560 --> 05:39:41.159
penetration only rarely apply to you by
just looking at your list and focusing on

4014
05:39:41.279 --> 05:39:48.639
each feeling a few seconds will create
space for real contact with emotions to develop.

4015
05:39:48.759 --> 05:39:52.319
It tends to be extremely difficult in
the midst of work and other activities.

4016
05:39:52.400 --> 05:39:56.000
Emotions don' t follow a routine. If you' re prone to

4017
05:39:56.080 --> 05:40:00.360
get away from your feelings. The
rush of modern life makes it even easier

4018
05:40:00.400 --> 05:40:04.000
for you to repress and escape them
as they arise. However, there is

4019
05:40:04.080 --> 05:40:10.279
nothing more important to experience. Your
feelings. They' re the most spontaneous

4020
05:40:10.360 --> 05:40:14.119
part of your composition. The most
primary expression of your consciousness as it relates

4021
05:40:14.240 --> 05:40:18.279
to the world. You are the
totality of all the relationships you have and

4022
05:40:18.319 --> 05:40:23.599
your emotions are the most accurate mirror
of them. Four remain centered in the

4023
05:40:23.720 --> 05:40:29.400
middle of chaos. In order to
stay focused and serene when everything around you

4024
05:40:29.479 --> 05:40:33.319
is confusion. You need to develop
the ability to find your center. To

4025
05:40:33.360 --> 05:40:37.680
do so, identify two moments of
your workday when things are more frenetic and

4026
05:40:37.720 --> 05:40:41.560
stressful for you the most obvious possibility. It' s time for more work

4027
05:40:41.639 --> 05:40:47.319
or the densest transit time when you
come home. Now plan to set aside

4028
05:40:47.400 --> 05:40:51.880
five minutes to focus just before those
two periods. Using the following technique,

4029
05:40:52.520 --> 05:40:56.479
find a place where you can be
alone and silent as far as possible.

4030
05:40:57.520 --> 05:41:03.599
Sit comfortably and close your eyes,
pay attention to your breathing by concentrating on

4031
05:41:03.680 --> 05:41:08.599
the passage of air through your nostrils. Visualize the air as slight volutes that

4032
05:41:08.720 --> 05:41:14.240
enter through the nose and come out
again gently. After two minutes, he

4033
05:41:14.240 --> 05:41:17.680
begins to feel the body, that
is, he repairs the inner sensations,

4034
05:41:18.240 --> 05:41:22.959
the skin, the weight of the
limbs, etc. After one minute gently

4035
05:41:22.319 --> 05:41:29.400
take attention to the center of your
chest and put it lightly. There it

4036
05:41:29.520 --> 05:41:33.720
is possible that within a few seconds
you will be distracted by a thought or

4037
05:41:33.799 --> 05:41:38.240
a fleeting sensation Don' t resist, but when you notice that this happens,

4038
05:41:40.520 --> 05:41:44.000
the attention to your chest gently ends
the exercise by sitting quietly without doing

4039
05:41:44.000 --> 05:41:48.560
anything. Although the technique is very
simple, it often produces dramatic discharges of

4040
05:41:48.599 --> 05:41:52.720
negative energies. You may feel that
your shoulders are free of a heavy burden

4041
05:41:52.759 --> 05:41:57.799
and that a feeling of lightness and
calm permeates your whole being The most important

4042
05:41:57.919 --> 05:42:03.720
thing is that you will understand with
experience that staying focused is the most natural

4043
05:42:03.759 --> 05:42:07.159
and comfortable way to face any situation
by chaotic. Whether it' s focusing

4044
05:42:07.240 --> 05:42:12.319
is a way to go back to
the self and get rid of the confusion

4045
05:42:12.400 --> 05:42:18.200
that surrounds you five being like a
child scores two or three totally childish things

4046
05:42:18.200 --> 05:42:21.680
that you can do tomorrow. Think
of something that makes you evoke childhood,

4047
05:42:22.119 --> 05:42:25.840
have an ice cream, play in
the square, fantasize about the shapes of

4048
05:42:25.919 --> 05:42:30.159
the clouds. Start incorporating these activities
into your current life. Increasingly, your

4049
05:42:30.159 --> 05:42:34.400
goal is to find within you that
place where you are still a carefree child.

4050
05:42:37.520 --> 05:42:41.639
The new paradigm tells us that no
fact ever disappears, only withdraws from

4051
05:42:41.720 --> 05:42:45.200
consciousness to return to the field.
Therefore, your childhood is still there with

4052
05:42:45.240 --> 05:42:52.720
you ready to be evoked and integrated. Your choice of activity should be fun,

4053
05:42:52.080 --> 05:42:56.000
but not for adults, even if
you think you' re too old

4054
05:42:56.080 --> 05:43:00.880
to play, jump on the rope, or for toys. Find something that

4055
05:43:00.959 --> 05:43:04.680
will irresistibly return you. The happiness
of the child is a good idea to

4056
05:43:04.720 --> 05:43:10.599
prepare a comforting dessert, apple pie
or bread pudding, for example. When

4057
05:43:10.680 --> 05:43:15.439
you do your childish activity you should
be a child maybe decide to go to

4058
05:43:15.479 --> 05:43:19.959
the square to swing, climb the
parallels or simply participate watching how they play.

4059
05:43:21.040 --> 05:43:25.840
Children put their minds in that innocent
and carefree way that children exhibit.

4060
05:43:26.400 --> 05:43:30.400
The feeling you' re trying to
recapture is not a return to childhood,

4061
05:43:30.000 --> 05:43:34.159
but something much deeper, as the
brilliant writer and therapist established. H to

4062
05:43:34.240 --> 05:43:40.880
the more. When we observe a
child write to the most, we see

4063
05:43:40.959 --> 05:43:45.080
that this feeling of fullness, of
intrinsic liveliness, of enjoying existence is not

4064
05:43:45.200 --> 05:43:49.520
the result of anything else. It
is valuable to simply be yourself not because

4065
05:43:49.520 --> 05:43:55.319
of what you do or stop doing. It is there in the beginning when

4066
05:43:55.439 --> 05:43:59.880
we are children, but we slowly
miss what often happens with time or we

4067
05:44:00.159 --> 05:44:03.680
lose track of inner joy. There
may be numerous sources of pleasure and success

4068
05:44:03.720 --> 05:44:07.880
outside of us, but they do
not fit our feelings, which can remain

4069
05:44:07.959 --> 05:44:14.080
at very low levels of courage and
satisfaction. Finally, the desire to be

4070
05:44:14.159 --> 05:44:18.159
young again is a symbol of the
deepest desire to stay new. Babies and

4071
05:44:18.200 --> 05:44:22.880
children have no problems in this regard. When you put yourself back in the

4072
05:44:22.959 --> 05:44:27.119
most childish mental setting you can imagine, open up space to learn, as

4073
05:44:27.200 --> 05:44:30.279
the other person says, that we
are pleasure, we are joy. We

4074
05:44:30.319 --> 05:44:36.759
are the deepest importance. And the
highest value six is the point of reference

4075
05:44:36.840 --> 05:44:41.119
itself. The highest state of consciousness
we can achieve is that of unity,

4076
05:44:41.520 --> 05:44:47.520
which erases the differentiation between observer and
observed. In unity, everything that once

4077
05:44:47.560 --> 05:44:52.319
seemed to be out there looks like
part of oneself. What prevents this experience

4078
05:44:52.360 --> 05:44:57.279
is a lack of sense of self
built with images of past experiences. The

4079
05:44:57.400 --> 05:45:03.080
image of oneself is necessary to a
very limited extent. You must know your

4080
05:45:03.080 --> 05:45:07.119
identity, your profession and other technical
details. But almost everyone carries that image

4081
05:45:07.200 --> 05:45:11.759
of themselves with a multitude of opinions, beliefs, preferences and antipathies and other

4082
05:45:11.880 --> 05:45:18.720
strange lumps. To free yourself from
this baggage and re- experience yourself as

4083
05:45:18.840 --> 05:45:22.639
a free person without hindrance, you
must strive to remove the hardened patina from

4084
05:45:22.639 --> 05:45:26.520
the image. From yourself. Your
action plan can take many different directions to

4085
05:45:26.599 --> 05:45:33.520
achieve this goal. You can start
a new activity that is totally incongruous with

4086
05:45:33.560 --> 05:45:37.959
your self image. If you are
a grey suit executive, dedicate yourself to

4087
05:45:37.040 --> 05:45:42.040
aerobic dance, if you are a
housewife to lifting weights, it is to

4088
05:45:42.119 --> 05:45:48.040
contact people and situations that challenge you
to leave behind the old customs. Work

4089
05:45:48.119 --> 05:45:52.919
as a volunteer with the disabled or
the homeless when you see yourself in front

4090
05:45:53.000 --> 05:45:57.159
of very different people, you will
learn to overcome innate fear and resistance and

4091
05:45:57.200 --> 05:46:00.880
you will end up being reflected in
them, which is a powerful means of

4092
05:46:00.959 --> 05:46:07.959
discovering common humanity. Write your autobiography
to record all the details of your life.

4093
05:46:08.119 --> 05:46:11.880
As candidly as possible, it will
help you to get rid of entrenched

4094
05:46:12.319 --> 05:46:17.319
attitudes, showing you where they came
from. The act of writing also forces

4095
05:46:17.360 --> 05:46:21.200
you to articulate things that you normally
take for granted, such as what you

4096
05:46:21.319 --> 05:46:26.959
feel about parents and career. Be
as detailed and explicit as you can concentrate

4097
05:46:27.040 --> 05:46:32.439
on what you felt in every period
of your life. Don' t justify

4098
05:46:32.599 --> 05:46:37.040
your actions or paint yourself better than
you are If you struggle to express yourself,

4099
05:46:37.400 --> 05:46:40.479
try to open up the flow of
words by referring to yourself in the

4100
05:46:40.479 --> 05:46:42.599
third person. Instead of suffering the
domination of a father who loved and feared

4101
05:46:42.720 --> 05:46:47.639
at the same time, it will
be already dominated by a father who loved

4102
05:46:47.680 --> 05:46:52.759
and feared at the same time,
Decide to take a step every day to

4103
05:46:52.840 --> 05:46:56.000
correct a behavior that does not seem
to you expression of your true. I,

4104
05:46:56.919 --> 05:47:00.200
for example, can be one of
those people who always say what others

4105
05:47:00.319 --> 05:47:04.240
want to hear the next time you
discover yourself falling into that trap say what

4106
05:47:04.319 --> 05:47:10.400
you really think. The situation does
not need to be dramatic or decisive.

4107
05:47:11.360 --> 05:47:17.680
Maybe someone will talk about the bus
always arriving late not surprised face that badly

4108
05:47:17.799 --> 05:47:21.279
conserved is the area. Instead of
pleading with the complaint, express what you

4109
05:47:21.680 --> 05:47:26.919
really think about the matter. Conversely, if you are usually extraverted and tend

4110
05:47:26.040 --> 05:47:30.639
to consider that others should listen to
you and listen to them for a change.

4111
05:47:32.639 --> 05:47:37.000
These simple exercises can be a real
challenge. You need to learn how

4112
05:47:37.040 --> 05:47:40.119
to lower your social facade. The
more you practice, the less important.

4113
05:47:40.240 --> 05:47:45.880
It will seem to you to wear
the mask, expand your efforts in meditation,

4114
05:47:45.119 --> 05:47:49.680
yoga, creative visualization, or other
inner disciplines that separate you from your

4115
05:47:49.680 --> 05:47:53.720
limited consciousness. These practices are useful
for everyone, but if you apply yourself

4116
05:47:53.799 --> 05:47:57.319
with dedication, you will go even
more quickly along the path where self is

4117
05:47:57.319 --> 05:48:04.000
discovered. If seven us practice of
disassociation, being detached means being free from

4118
05:48:04.080 --> 05:48:08.759
outside influences that tarnish your true self. This lesson is not one that teaches

4119
05:48:08.799 --> 05:48:15.599
our culture. Modern people attach a
high value to commitment, enthusiasm, passion,

4120
05:48:15.959 --> 05:48:19.479
deep dedication, etc. But they
do not realize that these qualities are

4121
05:48:19.639 --> 05:48:26.279
not the opposite of disassociation. Engaging
in a relationship, for example, means

4122
05:48:26.360 --> 05:48:30.159
ultimately loving and understanding enough to let
the other be who he wants to be.

4123
05:48:30.680 --> 05:48:36.279
To face the work with passion means
to provide creative space to focus it

4124
05:48:36.400 --> 05:48:41.720
from all angles, looking for new
directions and opportunities. These new opportunities can

4125
05:48:41.799 --> 05:48:45.360
only arise from your inner creative core, with which you will not be able

4126
05:48:45.400 --> 05:48:48.400
to get in touch if you are
immersed in your work and overwhelmed by the

4127
05:48:48.400 --> 05:48:52.119
details. The paradox is that,
in order to obtain the maximum passion of

4128
05:48:52.240 --> 05:48:56.479
life, you must be able to
take a step back and be yourself passion

4129
05:48:56.520 --> 05:49:02.200
and dedication love and dedication, self
precision and contentment. All that is born

4130
05:49:02.279 --> 05:49:06.759
into being are qualities of the essential
self that blooms when you are free from

4131
05:49:06.759 --> 05:49:11.360
close bonds. For almost all of
us, the person who loved us most

4132
05:49:11.439 --> 05:49:14.959
deeply was our mother. But we
do reflect. We will see that such

4133
05:49:15.279 --> 05:49:18.959
love often implied child power and control. You had to do what your mother

4134
05:49:18.959 --> 05:49:23.439
said. Otherwise, she could withdraw
her love from you. I' m

4135
05:49:23.520 --> 05:49:26.759
your mother and you must pay attention
to me. The opposite of your master

4136
05:49:26.799 --> 05:49:30.080
and my greatest happiness is to see
you become what you desire the first statement.

4137
05:49:30.759 --> 05:49:34.240
They can make love, but it
is not a love that easily allows

4138
05:49:34.360 --> 05:49:42.360
freedom. Finding your freedom is necessary
and involves getting rid of expectations, preconceived

4139
05:49:42.479 --> 05:49:48.000
results, and self- centered views. Imagine two mothers standing in the hallway

4140
05:49:48.080 --> 05:49:52.880
of a supermarket trying to control a
nervous child who cries loudly and concentrates everyone

4141
05:49:52.000 --> 05:49:59.000
' s attention. One of them
is furious and embarrassed. His primary intention

4142
05:49:59.040 --> 05:50:02.840
is to prevent him from making a
fuss. But with young children this doesn

4143
05:50:02.919 --> 05:50:07.759
' t work. Of course,
feelings are your world. Giving a show

4144
05:50:07.799 --> 05:50:11.119
at the supermarket doesn' t matter
at all. Therefore, when the mother

4145
05:50:11.200 --> 05:50:17.400
orders well, stop crying shut up
right now, the child knows that she

4146
05:50:17.759 --> 05:50:21.560
is not really attentive to her feelings
and therefore does not allow her to exist.

4147
05:50:22.599 --> 05:50:26.119
The mother just wants a result,
she wants things to end up in

4148
05:50:26.200 --> 05:50:30.639
a certain way. The second mother, on the other hand, sees that

4149
05:50:30.720 --> 05:50:36.240
her child is truly afflicted and does
not care if others feel it. He

4150
05:50:36.360 --> 05:50:38.799
does not think about how it will
affect her, but he cares about the

4151
05:50:38.919 --> 05:50:45.119
child and wants him to be happy
again. He says things like what'

4152
05:50:45.119 --> 05:50:48.119
s wrong with you. You'
re scared of something. Well, I

4153
05:50:48.279 --> 05:50:52.119
' m here. The words you
use are not the important thing. Maybe

4154
05:50:52.159 --> 05:50:56.000
he' ll just pick up the
kid and pet him for a moment.

4155
05:50:56.000 --> 05:51:00.080
The little boy' s quantum mechanical
body perceives that his feelings have been understood.

4156
05:51:02.159 --> 05:51:04.040
Therefore, there is no threat,
for your mother' s intention is

4157
05:51:04.159 --> 05:51:11.759
to heal, not just to end
an unpleasant situation. Your quantum mechanical body

4158
05:51:11.919 --> 05:51:15.680
has as much sensitivity as a child' s. You can use it to

4159
05:51:15.759 --> 05:51:18.880
return to your true self, which
exists above and beyond the distressing circumstances of

4160
05:51:18.959 --> 05:51:26.400
your life. Again, this involves
the issue of self- image. Orient

4161
05:51:26.479 --> 05:51:29.599
yourself toward your true self, not
towards your self- image. It is

4162
05:51:29.639 --> 05:51:33.159
the most basic healing attitude that can
be adopted when you turn to it.

4163
05:51:33.200 --> 05:51:37.240
I use your feelings, your needs
and your values as a point of impulse

4164
05:51:37.319 --> 05:51:42.119
to look for that plane of your
being where feelings, needs and values are

4165
05:51:42.119 --> 05:51:47.680
already satisfied. This self does not
exist in action, although paradoxically you can

4166
05:51:47.759 --> 05:51:52.479
find it through action. He will
present himself as a silent witness who remains

4167
05:51:52.520 --> 05:51:56.959
apart from the activity, simply observing
and appreciating what is happening. Combating soldiers

4168
05:51:57.080 --> 05:52:02.720
and adventures s a s s s
NS often feel of him soon passable and

4169
05:52:02.720 --> 05:52:08.439
observant targets completely divorced from the frenzied
activity around them. For my part,

4170
05:52:08.759 --> 05:52:15.159
I have discovered that the moments of
disassociation are characterized by the following. I

4171
05:52:15.240 --> 05:52:19.000
' m present with my body.
My breath becomes very refined almost null.

4172
05:52:21.680 --> 05:52:26.080
Mental activity has calmed down. I
don' t feel any threat. There

4173
05:52:26.159 --> 05:52:32.360
is a certainty of being in my
rightful place. I perceive my inner world

4174
05:52:32.439 --> 05:52:36.560
as unbounded open space. Consciousness spreads
in all directions, rather than focusing on

4175
05:52:36.599 --> 05:52:42.639
specific thoughts. Self- acceptance flows
into the middle. Things out there seem

4176
05:52:42.720 --> 05:52:48.639
intimate to me. An extension of
myself. This experience of units also my

4177
05:52:48.720 --> 05:52:53.240
practical definition of love. For most, love is an emotion that comes and

4178
05:52:53.360 --> 05:52:59.000
goes Sometimes we feel it intensely.
Others do not perceive it at all.

4179
05:52:59.040 --> 05:53:03.479
But the essence of love is not
a feeling. It' s a state

4180
05:53:03.479 --> 05:53:07.000
of being. To be more accurate, it is the state in which you

4181
05:53:07.080 --> 05:53:11.759
are in contact with being. Who
really experiences. Love feels tremendously real and

4182
05:53:11.919 --> 05:53:15.200
alive with no desire to do anything
but exist within the satisfaction of love.

4183
05:53:17.279 --> 05:53:21.560
The greatest action of love is simply
to be what is not action. That

4184
05:53:21.639 --> 05:53:25.880
is why love is a supreme state
of disassociation. However, the most satisfactory

4185
05:53:26.040 --> 05:53:32.159
state. To make your action plan
a success. You need to find an

4186
05:53:32.240 --> 05:53:36.080
escape for your love, a place
where you can freely toast it. The

4187
05:53:36.200 --> 05:53:40.200
more open your love experience is,
the closer you will come to finding its

4188
05:53:40.200 --> 05:53:44.080
essence. Love that does not flow
is not love, it is only desires

4189
05:53:44.159 --> 05:53:48.959
and longings. The renowned mythologist Joseph
who both pointed the way for the expression

4190
05:53:48.040 --> 05:53:53.159
of love when he said follow your
happiness. Happiness is the tickling rush of

4191
05:53:53.279 --> 05:53:57.000
love in action the flow of being
that lengthens to meet itself and bends backwards

4192
05:53:57.080 --> 05:54:02.560
enchanted by it contact, love wants
to find itself and when the circuit is

4193
05:54:02.639 --> 05:54:11.119
completed, happiness flows. Ask yourself
don' t find happiness. Then note

4194
05:54:11.240 --> 05:54:15.439
the steps you can take to increase
this experience in your life. Don'

4195
05:54:15.560 --> 05:54:19.279
t confuse pleasure with love. There
are many things that give pleasure, such

4196
05:54:19.360 --> 05:54:23.880
as watching television and that contain very
little love. Love brings pleasure, by

4197
05:54:25.240 --> 05:54:30.479
the way, but in a deeper
way. Bringing food to an invalid in

4198
05:54:30.560 --> 05:54:33.000
his home is an act of love
far more pleasant than watching television, for

4199
05:54:33.000 --> 05:54:37.240
example, and such an act can
be learned much more in terms of solidarity,

4200
05:54:37.560 --> 05:54:44.240
compassion and understanding. So don'
t be distracted by superficial pleasures.

4201
05:54:45.319 --> 05:54:48.599
The deep joy and delight that exist
at the core of life must be diligently

4202
05:54:48.680 --> 05:54:53.599
discovered. When you make your list, you will discover that many of your

4203
05:54:53.720 --> 05:54:59.040
most treasured moments of happiness are gone
forever. For example, you can'

4204
05:54:59.119 --> 05:55:02.479
t repeat the brand- new feeling
of falling in love with the person you

4205
05:55:02.479 --> 05:55:06.880
' ve married. But love has
depth behind depth. When you make your

4206
05:55:06.880 --> 05:55:08.560
list, you will remember what you
felt the day your children were born.

4207
05:55:10.040 --> 05:55:12.279
In that memory there is a key. Your children can still be a source

4208
05:55:12.360 --> 05:55:19.279
of happiness if you resolve to deepen
your relationship with them even further. There

4209
05:55:19.360 --> 05:55:25.040
' s nothing more important than reconnecting
with your happiness. Isn' t there

4210
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anything richer? There' s nothing
more real exercise two being love versus being

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05:55:32.439 --> 05:55:37.599
in love. I' d like
to continue exploring the state of love,

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05:55:37.000 --> 05:55:41.240
because it' s our safest way
back. Being the ancient sages declared that,

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05:55:41.360 --> 05:55:47.520
ultimately, everything is made of consciousness. And when we experience pure consciousness,

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05:55:47.919 --> 05:55:52.880
without images or supposed strangers, that
is love. The great poet come

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05:55:52.959 --> 05:55:56.680
Free Bendrenet Chegó declared love is not
a mere impulse. It must contain the

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05:55:56.680 --> 05:56:00.599
truth, which is the law,
the fusion of love, truth and reality,

4217
05:56:00.799 --> 05:56:03.680
is the great revelation of consciousness,
of unity, the moment when a

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05:56:03.880 --> 05:56:07.639
person can truly say I am the
whole and I am love in one breath.

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05:56:10.479 --> 05:56:14.119
Seen from that perspective, love is
the feeling state that is always present

4220
05:56:14.200 --> 05:56:19.959
when a person maintains a perfect alignment
with dharma the flow of evolution. Being

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05:56:21.040 --> 05:56:23.919
in love is not the same.
When you fall in love, an opening

4222
05:56:25.000 --> 05:56:29.680
opens through which repressed feelings precipitate and
fix themselves on someone else. If love

4223
05:56:29.759 --> 05:56:33.240
is deep enough, that other person
seems ideal and perfect. This has nothing

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05:56:33.360 --> 05:56:37.840
to do with their real state,
which can be quite imperfect and even destructive.

4225
05:56:38.360 --> 05:56:42.680
But the power of love changes reality, changing those who perceive how and

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05:56:42.799 --> 05:56:48.560
why this happens. Physiologists have measured
the increase of certain key neurotransmitters, such

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05:56:49.000 --> 05:56:52.799
as serotonin, in the brain of
people in love, but the chemical elements

4228
05:56:52.880 --> 05:56:59.119
are just crude markers. Obviously,
serotonin doesn' t make people fall in

4229
05:56:59.240 --> 05:57:03.439
love. It is only the biochemical
basis of pleasant sensations that activates being in

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05:57:03.520 --> 05:57:10.119
love. In a series of revealing
experiments, David c mc Cleyan, Harver

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05:57:10.200 --> 05:57:14.400
' s psychologist, probed the physiology
of love. He had a group of

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05:57:14.479 --> 05:57:18.319
subjects watch a short film by Mother
Teresa, doing her daily job of caring

4233
05:57:18.360 --> 05:57:23.119
for the sick and abandoned children of
Calcutta. The film exhibited a deep offering

4234
05:57:23.200 --> 05:57:29.040
of love, while the audience watched
it m was discovered by Cleyan that it

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05:57:29.119 --> 05:57:33.319
increased a marker in his immune systems. It was today' s daring eg

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05:57:33.400 --> 05:57:38.279
in nantegen minicobe. Elevated SLG rates
evaluated in a person' s saliva indicate

4237
05:57:38.360 --> 05:57:45.080
a high immune response. In fact, the high immune response is also characteristic

4238
05:57:45.159 --> 05:57:48.919
of those who have just fallen in
love with the popular saying. If you

4239
05:57:49.000 --> 05:57:55.240
don' t even want to catch
a cold fall in love, recognize this

4240
05:57:55.240 --> 05:57:59.360
link between emotions and physiology. The
funny thing is, when the film ended

4241
05:57:59.400 --> 05:58:03.240
and the audience was asked what they
thought of Mother Teresa, not everyone praised

4242
05:58:03.319 --> 05:58:07.319
her work. Some had objections of
one kind and another based on differences in

4243
05:58:07.360 --> 05:58:11.959
religious beliefs. Others said it upsets
them to see children hungry or attacked with

4244
05:58:12.040 --> 05:58:18.599
leg. However, all present experienced
an increase in SLG rates. His physical

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05:58:18.680 --> 05:58:23.759
response to love seemed more powerful than
rational attitude. Before this,ém se

4246
05:58:23.880 --> 05:58:27.439
cleylan questioned one of the most popular
definitions of love offered by modern psychology,

4247
05:58:27.599 --> 05:58:32.360
according to which love is a reflected
response that arises when two people meet each

4248
05:58:32.479 --> 05:58:40.319
other' s needs. According to
that definition, love would depend on a

4249
05:58:40.360 --> 05:58:45.240
person’ s conscious assessment of the
benefits of a relationship. But there were

4250
05:58:45.319 --> 05:58:52.840
people there whose bodies were responding on
a much deeper level, deeper even than

4251
05:58:52.880 --> 05:58:59.240
the pleasure m is clapping. He
also discovered that the positive effects on the

4252
05:58:59.319 --> 05:59:03.959
immune response of viewers declined and disappeared
one or two hours after they had seen

4253
05:59:03.040 --> 05:59:08.119
the film. It remained high among
those subjects who revealed a strong security of

4254
05:59:08.200 --> 05:59:12.599
being loved in their own existence and
who maintained strong ties with family and friends.

4255
05:59:14.680 --> 05:59:18.400
This suggested that some people were already
in a loving state, rather than

4256
05:59:18.360 --> 05:59:23.919
experiencing it as a passing state.
They had incorporated it as a characteristic,

4257
05:59:25.240 --> 05:59:29.400
in other words, in these people
was present, although with a lesser degree,

4258
05:59:30.080 --> 05:59:33.720
the affirmation of the enlightened sage.
I' m love. What is

4259
05:59:33.840 --> 05:59:38.680
love as a characteristic before as a
passing phase until the most passionate experience of

4260
05:59:38.759 --> 05:59:42.759
falling in love ends up cooling.
Then people are horrified to discover that little

4261
05:59:42.880 --> 05:59:48.959
true love remains in a lasting sense. When analyzing this problem more Cleyan wondered

4262
05:59:49.040 --> 05:59:55.319
what had become of the experiences described
in the poetry of love. These experiences

4263
05:59:55.400 --> 05:59:59.240
did not refer to the selfish advantages
of being in love, but to devotion

4264
05:59:59.319 --> 06:00:03.000
to the trueistic and immortal. Shakespeare
was wrong to declare love is not love

4265
06:00:03.040 --> 06:00:07.520
if he gets upset, when he
encounters or bows down to the mover.

4266
06:00:08.040 --> 06:00:14.200
Oh, it' s not always
a fixed mark that looks at the storm

4267
06:00:14.319 --> 06:00:18.799
and never gets disturbed m se Cleyan
I also knew examples cited by psychological literature

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06:00:18.919 --> 06:00:23.680
in which a person had a senseless
loving relationship in terms of obtaining objective benefits.

4269
06:00:25.799 --> 06:00:30.159
These people feel deep love and devotion, despite the fact that there is

4270
06:00:30.240 --> 06:00:36.479
no rational reason to feel that way. All this suggested to em it is

4271
06:00:36.520 --> 06:00:40.880
clear that love is a state that
transcends reason, whose purpose is simply to

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06:00:41.279 --> 06:00:45.639
allow the experience of a wider shared
reality. In this regard, a critical

4273
06:00:45.720 --> 06:00:49.000
point was a person' s reaction
to the death of a loved one.

4274
06:00:49.959 --> 06:00:55.840
If two people were in love,
only by what they could obtain that interdependence

4275
06:00:55.959 --> 06:00:57.799
would form the basis for loving and
being loved. Therefore, the death of

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06:00:59.279 --> 06:01:03.400
the mother would cause great pain by
tearing the bond. This could be seen

4277
06:01:03.400 --> 06:01:07.880
in real- life relationships, by
the way, but MM was considered by

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06:01:07.000 --> 06:01:15.080
her personal experience to be something very
different possible. The death of a beloved

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06:01:15.080 --> 06:01:19.040
companion should cause sorrow and intense suffering. According to this theory. However,

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06:01:19.400 --> 06:01:23.360
I did not react that way.
When my wife died of cancer a few

4281
06:01:23.439 --> 06:01:27.040
years ago, we had loved each
other very much. In forty- two

4282
06:01:27.080 --> 06:01:32.119
years of happy marriage, we raised
five children until we reached a well-

4283
06:01:32.639 --> 06:01:37.000
adapted maturity. But when she died
I didn' t feel the amount of

4284
06:01:37.119 --> 06:01:41.080
pain this theory requires. The experience
was much more like the poet' s

4285
06:01:41.200 --> 06:01:45.360
vision of love. We had felt
that we were part of something bigger than

4286
06:01:45.479 --> 06:01:49.159
the two of us, something that
nourished us and sustained us a whole long

4287
06:01:49.240 --> 06:01:55.000
shared life and that continued to sustain
me already dead to her. This describes

4288
06:01:55.119 --> 06:01:59.520
a step toward the realm of temporary
moratoria. When two people use mutual love

4289
06:01:59.599 --> 06:02:03.520
as a door to that kingdom,
the death of the beloved does not close

4290
06:02:03.639 --> 06:02:07.200
the door or deprive the other of
the flow of love. Ultimately, all

4291
06:02:07.200 --> 06:02:11.240
love comes from within. We deceive
ourselves by believing that we love someone else.

4292
06:02:12.040 --> 06:02:17.360
It' s a pretext that we
grant ourselves permission to feel love only

4293
06:02:17.400 --> 06:02:21.200
you can open and close your heart. The power that love has to nourish

4294
06:02:21.240 --> 06:02:26.119
and sustain us depends on our dedication
to it in here. It is important

4295
06:02:26.159 --> 06:02:30.919
to talk about love, think about
it, look for it, and encourage

4296
06:02:32.040 --> 06:02:37.759
it to give it the form of
an exercise. Think of love, take

4297
06:02:37.759 --> 06:02:41.319
time to remember the love you shared
with your parents, the times you expressed

4298
06:02:41.400 --> 06:02:47.279
love to your brothers and friends.
Meditate that it is the most worthy of

4299
06:02:47.319 --> 06:02:51.520
love in the most loving person of
your life. Today he reads deeply the

4300
06:02:51.639 --> 06:02:55.040
poetry of love, such as that
found in Shakespeare' s sonnets and what

4301
06:02:55.200 --> 06:02:57.560
scriptures such as The New Testament or
Dick Veda' s devotional hymns say about

4302
06:02:57.599 --> 06:03:07.799
him. Talk about love directly express
your feelings to someone you love. If

4303
06:03:07.880 --> 06:03:11.479
you can' t do it verbally, write him a letter or a poem.

4304
06:03:11.479 --> 06:03:15.159
You don' t have to send
it. Exercise is for you,

4305
06:03:15.279 --> 06:03:19.040
to stimulate the state of love in
all cells, but it is preferable for

4306
06:03:19.080 --> 06:03:22.720
you to send it, as you
should listen to expressions of love as an

4307
06:03:22.720 --> 06:03:27.439
answer. Don' t let your
love be taken for granted. Leave a

4308
06:03:27.520 --> 06:03:30.319
note for your loved one to find
in his pocket or on the kitchen table.

4309
06:03:33.599 --> 06:03:37.639
Three look for your love. It
is possible to do this in many

4310
06:03:37.639 --> 06:03:41.840
ways. Our society closely identifies intimacy
with sexual treatment, but helping the homeless

4311
06:03:41.840 --> 06:03:47.159
and the sick is an act of
love. So is giving a sincere compliment

4312
06:03:47.240 --> 06:03:52.200
or writing a note of thanks and
praise. We all like to hear that

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06:03:52.279 --> 06:03:56.279
we are loved or that we are
loved if you seek the opportunity to satisfy

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06:03:56.439 --> 06:03:59.599
people in this regard. His gratitude
will be reflected in your physiology, as

4315
06:03:59.680 --> 06:04:04.880
the happiness of being loved at your
turn four fosters love. Parents often tell

4316
06:04:04.919 --> 06:04:08.959
our children that openly showing love and
affection is suitable only for the very little

4317
06:04:10.040 --> 06:04:15.000
ones. By teaching good manners and
respect we often create an abyss that love

4318
06:04:15.040 --> 06:04:22.200
too sensitive and shy cannot cross.
We inflicted our children this sense of separation,

4319
06:04:22.720 --> 06:04:26.040
because it was inflicted on us.
The story of almost everyone is the

4320
06:04:26.119 --> 06:04:30.200
story of a love that hopes to
be tempted to sprout out of affection,

4321
06:04:30.479 --> 06:04:34.639
which must wait silently for fear of
emerging consider yourself in the duty to give

4322
06:04:34.720 --> 06:04:40.240
those around you permission to love.
Encourage her affection by showing yours without caring

4323
06:04:40.319 --> 06:04:45.720
what you get. In return,
true love obtains complete satisfaction simply by flowing

4324
06:04:45.799 --> 06:04:48.799
into what is loved. If it
is reciprocated to us, joy is greater,

4325
06:04:49.439 --> 06:04:53.040
but that is neither a requirement nor
a requirement. Love without ulterior motives

4326
06:04:53.119 --> 06:04:59.360
is rare. All psychological theories based
on selfish love are certainly confirmed s or

4327
06:04:59.439 --> 06:05:03.599
s we observe around us. But
even the most demanding and selfish love is

4328
06:05:03.720 --> 06:05:07.919
a way of loving. It'
s a drop taken from the ocean.

4329
06:05:07.279 --> 06:05:12.840
If you encourage her, she can
grow into the ocean. The education of

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06:05:12.919 --> 06:05:18.880
love begins in a moment and ends
in eternity. It activates feelings of charm

4331
06:05:18.000 --> 06:05:22.880
and resolves in the peace that belongs
to being itself. In some unforgettable verses,

4332
06:05:23.319 --> 06:05:27.840
the poet that Alil Gibran expressed this
truth. But the temporal in You

4333
06:05:27.919 --> 06:05:33.840
knows the temporality of life and knows
that yesterday is only today' s memory

4334
06:05:33.959 --> 06:05:38.279
and that tomorrow is today' s
dream. And that which sings and beholds

4335
06:05:38.360 --> 06:05:41.840
in You still dwells among the boundaries
of the moment that scattered the stars through

4336
06:05:41.959 --> 06:05:47.000
the sky. Use love as if
it were your mirror of the temporal,

4337
06:05:47.319 --> 06:05:49.759
let it nourish your certainty of being
beyond change, beyond yesterday' s memory

4338
06:05:49.799 --> 06:05:56.520
and tomorrow' s dream. There
are endless ways to discover your true self

4339
06:05:56.599 --> 06:06:00.319
but love holds the brightest torch.
If you follow science will guide you beyond

4340
06:06:00.439 --> 06:06:04.439
the limits of old age and death, get out of the circle of time

4341
06:06:04.520 --> 06:06:10.119
and find yourself in the circle of
love. If you like content like this,

4342
06:06:10.560 --> 06:06:15.240
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