Quantum youth the land where no one is old. I' d like you
to join me on a discovery trip. We will explore a place where the
rules of everyday existence do not apply. These rules explicitly say that aging,
becoming fragile and dying is the ultimate destiny of all, and so it has
happened century after century. However, I want you to put on hold your
assumptions about what we call reality, so that we can become pioneers in a
land where youthful vigor, renewal, creativity, joy, satisfaction and temporality are
common experiences of everyday life, where old age, senectud, disability and death
do not exist and are not even taken into account as a possibility. If
there is such a place, what prevents us from going there? It is
not a dark continental mass or a dangerous sea not recorded on maps. It
is our conditioning, our vision of the world today and the lens that our
parents, teachers and society taught us. This way of seeing the things of
the old paradigm has just been called a hypnosis of social conditioning, an induced
fiction and in which we have all collectively agreed to participate your body ages without
you being able to dominate it, because it has been programmed to comply with
the rules of that collective conditioning. If there is something natural and inevitable in
the aging process, it will not be possible to know until the chains of
our ancient beliefs are broken in order to create the ageless body experience and timeless
mind, which is the promise of this book. You need to rule out
ten assumptions about who you are and what the true nature of mind and body
is. These assumptions form the foundation of the world view that we share.
They' re one. There is an objective world independent of the observer and
our bodies are one aspect of this objective world two. The body is composed
of masses of matter separated from each other. In time and space three.
Mind and body are separate and independent things. One from the other four.
Materialism is primary. Conscience is secondary. In other words, we are physical
machines that have learned to think five. Human consciousness can be fully explained as
a product of biochemistry. Six, as individuals, are disconnected and self-
sufficient entities. Seven. Our perception of the world is automatic and gives us
a proper picture of how things really are. Eight, our true nature is
fully defined by body, self and personality. We are brisses of memories and
desires enclosed in packages of flesh and bones. Nine, time exists as absolute
and we are captive to that absolute. No one escapes the ravages of time.
It is necessary to be part of reality. We are inevitable victims of
disease, aging and death. These assumptions go far beyond aging. Define a
world of separation decadence and death. Time is seen as a prison from which
no one escapes. Our body is a biochemical machine that, like all machines,
must end up stopping at a certain age. He affirmed the Sthames.
Once it is in our nature to wear ourselves out, to fall into trouble
and die. And that' s all this posture. The hard line of
materialistic science overlooks much of human nature. We are the only creatures on earth
who can change their biology for what they think and feel. We have the
only nervous system that has awareness of him, phenomenon of aging. Lions and
old tigers don' t realize what' s happening to them, but we
do and as we are aware of things. Our state of mind influences that
of which we have consciousness. It would be impossible to isolate a single thought,
a feeling, a single belief or assumption that has no effect on aging
directly or indirectly. Our cells are constantly heard to our thoughts and are changed
by them. A depression attack can cause disasters in the immune system. Falling
in love can strengthen him. Despair and lack of hope increase the risk of
heart attacks or cancer, thus shortening life. Joy and satisfaction keep us healthy
and prolong life. This means that it is not possible to draw with certainty
the line between biology and psychology. The memory of a attention that is only
a brisna of thought releases the same torrent of destructive hormones as the tension itself
as the mind, influences all the cells of the body. Human aging is
fluid and changing. It can be accelerated, delayed, timed and even reversed.
Hundreds of scientific discoveries over the past three decades have verified that aging depends
on the individual to a much greater degree than has ever been dreamed of.
However, the most significant discovery is not found in isolated findings, but in
a completely new world view. The ten assumptions of the old paradigm do not
accurately describe our reality. They are inventions of the human mind that we have
become rules to challenge aging at its very center. This whole vision of the
world must be challenged first, for nothing has more power over the body than
the beliefs of the mind. Each assumption of the old paradigm can be replaced
with a more complete and expanded version of truth. These new assumptions are also
only ideas created by the human mind, but they give us much more freedom
and power. They give us the ability to rewrite the aging program that now
directs our cells. The ten new assumptions are one. The physical world,
including our bodies. It' s a reaction from the observer we created.
The body, as we create the experience of our world two in its essential
state. The body is composed of energy and information, not solid matter.
This energy and information is an outcropping of infinite fields of energy and information that
span the universe three. The mind and body are inseparably one. The unity
that I am is separated into two streams of experience. I experience the subjective
current as ideas, feelings and desires. I experience objective current like my body.
However, on a deeper plane, the two currents are found in a
single creative source. It is from this source that we must live four.
The biochemistry of the body is a product of consciousness, beliefs, thoughts and
emotions create the chemical reactions s NS sustain life in each cell. An aged
cell is the final product of consciousness that has forgotten how to stay new.
Five, Perception seems to be automatic, but it' s actually a learned
phenomenon. The world in which you live, including the experience of your body,
is completely inspired by the way you learned to perceive it. If you
change your perception, you change the experience of your body and your world.
Six, there are impulses of intelligence that create new forms in your body every
second. What you are equals the total sum of these impulses. By changing
their schematics, you' ll change seven. Even if each person appears separate
and independent, all of us are connected to intelligence patterns that govern the cosmos
is found out. Our bodies are part of a universal body. Our minds
an aspect of the universal mind. Eight time does not exist as absolute,
only eternity. Time is from time to time, cut by us into fragments
and pieces, seconds, hours, days, years. What we call linear
time is a reflection of our perception of change. If we could perceive the
immutable, time would cease to exist as we know it. We can learn
to begin metabolizing the immutable, eternity, the absolute. In doing so,
we will be ready to create the physiology of immortality nine. Each of us
inhabits a reality that is beyond all change. In the depths of us,
without the five senses knowing. There is an intimate core of being a field
of immutability that creates personality, self and body. This being is our essential
state. It' s who we really are ten. We are not victims
of aging, disease and death. These are parts of the stage, not
of the viewer, which is immune to any form of change. That spectator
is the spirit, the expression of the eternal being. These are vast,
supposed factors of a new reality, but they are all based on the discoveries
of quantum physics made almost a hundred years ago. The seeds of this new
paradigm were planted by Einstein Borg, Eisenbert and the other pioneers of quantum physics,
who understood that the accepted way of seeing the physical world was false,
although the things out there seem real. There' s no proof of reality.
Apart from the observer. There are not two people who share exactly the
same universe. Every vision of the world creates its own world. I want
to convince you that you are much more than your limited body, your self,
and your personality. The rules of cause and effect, as you accept
them, have tightened on the volume of a body and the duration of a
life. In reality, the field of human life is open and unlimited in
its deepest plane. Your body is ageless and your mind is timeless, one
one. Once you' re with that reality, which is consistent with the
quantum vision of the world, aging will fundamentally change. Let us end the
tyranny of the senses, why we accept something as real because we can see
it and touch it. Everyone has a prejudice in favor of things that are
comfortingly three- dimensional, just as our five senses inform us. View,
hearing, touch, taste and smell serve to reinforce the same message. Things
are what they seem according to this reality. The earth is flat, the
ground is stationary under your feet, the sun rises east and sets west,
all because it seems so to the senses. These facts were immutable as long
as the five senses were unquestionedly accepted. Einstein understood that time and space are
also products of our five senses. We see and touch things that occupy three
dimensions and experience the facts as if they occurred in order. In sequence,
however, Einstein and his colleagues were able to remove this mask of appearances.
They repositioned time and space in a new geometry that had no beginning, no
end edges, and no solidity. Each solid particle of the universe turned out
to be a ghostly bunch of energy vibrating in an immense void. The ancient
model of time space was shattered, replaced by a temporary and flowing field of
constant transformation. This quantum field is not separate from us. It is we
there where nature goes to create stars, galaxies, quarts and leptons. You
and I are going to create ourselves. The great advantage of this new world
view is its immense creativity. The human body, like everything else in the
cosmos, is constantly made again at every second. Although your sense is reported
to be inhabiting a solid body in time and space. This is only the
most superficial layer of reality. Your body is something much more miraculous, a
flowing organism, powered by millions of years of intelligence. That intelligence is dedicated
to overseeing the constant change taking place within you Each cell is a miniature terminal
connected to the cosmic computer. From this perspective, it hardly seems possible for
humans to age as weak and helpless as it may seem. A newborn baby
has a great defense against the ravages of time If the baby could preserve his
state of immunity almost invulnerable, we would all live for at least two hundred
years, according to physiologists. If the baby could keep its shiny flexible arteries,
such as silk, the cholesteron would not find a place to stay and
heart disease would be unknown. Each of the fifty billion newborn hom cells is
clear as a drop of rain without traces of toxic waste. These cells have
no reason to age, because within them nothing has begun to discourage ordering their
perfect functioning. However, baby cells are not new. Actually, the atoms
they contain have been circulating through the cosmos for billions of years, but the
Baby is new thanks to an invisible intelligence that has come together to model a
unique way of life. The temporal field has invented a new dance step the
throbbing rhythms of a newborn body. Aging is a mask of the loss of
this intelligence. Quantum physics tells us that there is no end to cosmic dance.
The field of universal energy and information never ceases to transform itself into new
at every moment. Our bodies obey that same creative impulse every second. Approximately
six billion reactions occur in each cell. If that transformation current ever stopped,
your cells would fall into the disorder that is synonymous with aging. Yesterday'
s bread becomes stale, because it is there prey to moisture, fungi,
oxidation and various destructive chemical processes. A gorge of chalk crumbles over time because
the wind and rain punish him without his power to rebuild. Our bodies also
support the oxidation process and the attack of various fungi and germs are exposed to
the same wind in the same rain. But we, unlike the loaf of
bread or the chalk ravine, can renew ourselves. Our bones do not just
accumulate calcium as chalk does. Constantly circulate New calcium atoms enter our bones that
come back out to become part of the blood, skin, or other cells
as required by the body' s needs. In order to maintain life,
your body must live on the wings of change. At this moment you exhale
atoms of hydrogen, oxygen, carbon and nitrogen that just a moment before were
enclosed in solid matter, your stomach, your liver, your heart, your
lungs and your brain bro disappear in the air replaced as quickly and incessantly as
they break down. The skin is renewed once a month, the lining of
the stomach every five days, the liver every six weeks, the skeleton every
three months. At first glance, these organs seem the same at every moment,
but they are in permanent flux. Towards the end of this year.
Ninety- eight percent of the atoms in your body will have been changed by
new ones. A huge proportion of this incessant change works for your benefit.
Only one over in millions reacts with an amino acid in a way that does
not achieve perfection. Just a billion- to- million- dollar neuron discharges
poorly into a strand of deoxyribonucleic acid gou built with millions and millions of genetic
information. Only one can stop repairing properly when damage occurs. These rare mistakes
are imperceptible and one thinks they are of little importance. The human body is
like a great loosperian actor, capable of representing Hamlet a thousand times and hesitating
in a single syllable. But invisible cracks in the perfection of the body have
their importance. Yes, the accuracy of our cells is slowing down. Proportion
the always new ones becomes slightly less new and we age from the age of
thirty years, at the turn of turtle of one percent per year, the
average human body begins to discalabrate. Wrinkles appear the skin loses its tone and
freshness. The muscles begin to loosen, instead of indicating three parts of muscle
for one part of fat. The proportions are getting even. Eye and hearing
decrease. Bones become thin and brittle. Strength and resistance decline without pause,
making it more difficult for us to do the same work than before. It
raises blood pressure and many biochemical elements depart from their optimal levels. The most
worrying for doctors is cholesterol, which gradually rises over the years, marking the
insidious advance of heart ailments that kill more people than any other disease. On
other fronts, cellular mutations begin to bleed out, creating malignant tumors that attack
one person in three, especially after the age of sixty- five. Over
time, these various age changes, as gerontologists call them, exert a massive
influence. It' s the thousand small waves that bring the tide of old
age. But at any time, given aging, it only explains one percent
of the total changes that occur annually in your body. In other words,
ninety- nine percent of the energy and intelligence you make up remains untouched by
the aging process. If we take the body as a process, by eliminating
this one percent dysfunction, it would end aging, but how we attack that
one percent. To respond to this, we must find it now a key
to control that manipulates the inner intelligence of the body. The new reality introduced
by quantum physics has enabled us for the first time to manipulate the invisible intelligence
underlying the visible world. Einstein taught us that the physical body, like all
material objects, is an illusion. Trying to manipulate it can be like saying
the sam bra and ignoring the substance. The invisible way is the real world.
When we are willing to explore the unseen planes of the body, we
can draw upon the immense creative power that lies at our source. Let me
expand on the ten principles of the new paradigm. In the light of that
hidden potential that awaits beneath the surface of life, there is no objective world
independent of the observer. The world you accept as real seems to have definite
qualities. Some things are big, some are small. Some things are hard,
some are soft. However, none of these qualities have meaning outside of
your perception. Take any object a folding chair, for example, for you,
the chair is not very large. For an ant, however, it
is immense. For IT, the chair is hard, but a neutrino would
go through it without slowing down, because for a subatomic particle, the atoms
of the chair are separated by whole kilometers. The chair seems to be motionless,
but if you look at it from outer space, you' d see
it swinging around with everything on earth at one six zero kilometers an hour.
Likewise, any description you make of the chair can be completely altered, simply
changing your perception. If the chair is red, you can make it look
black looking through a green glass. Yes, the chair weighs two and a
half kilos. You can reduce its weight to a kilo by putting it on
the moon or increasing it to fifty- zero kilos by putting it in the
gravitational field of a dense star. As there are no absolute aas qualities in
the material world. It is false to say that there is even an independent
world out there. The world is a reflection of the sensory apparatus that records
it. The human nervous system captures only a negligible fraction of less than one
percent per billion of the total energy vibrating in the middle. Other nervous systems,
such as that of a bat or a snake, reflect a different world
that coexists with ours. The bat perceives a world of ultrasound, the snake
a world of infrared light both hidden for us. Out there there is actually
only formless data in the gross state waiting to be interpreted by you. The
one who perceives you take a quantum soup in radically ambiguous flow, as physicists
call it, and use your senses to freeze that soup in the solid,
three- dimensional world. Sir John Daccos, the eminent British neurologist, pinch
the sensory illusion with an amazing but irrefutable assertion. It must understand that there
is no color in the natural world, no sound, nothing of that kind,
no textures, no designs, no beauty or aromas. In short,
none of the objective facts on which we usually base our reality is fundamentally valid
as disturbing as this may seem. It is an incredible liberation to understand that
you can change your world, including your body, simply by changing your perception.
At this very moment, your perception of yourself is causing immense changes in
your body. To give an example, in the United States and England,
mandatory retirement at the age of sixty- five is set an arbitrary cut-
off date for social utility. The day before the age of sixty- five,
a worker contributes his work and his value to society. The day after
he becomes one of those who depend on society. From a medical point of
view, the results of this perceptual change can be disastrous. In the early
years after retirement, heart attack and cancer rise sharply. A premature death takes
over men who were healthy before retiring. Death by premature retirement, as I
know called the syndrome, depends on the perception that our useful days are over.
This is just a perception, but based on the one who sustains it
to create disease and death. By comparison, in those societies that accept old
age as part of the social fabric, the elderly remain extremely vigorous, lift
weights, climb and flex their backs in a way that we do not accept
as normal in our elders. If you examine old cells like those that form
brownish spots on the skin with a high- power microscope, the scene presents
the devastation of a war zone. Over here and over there, fibrous veins
run, fat deposits and undisclosed metabolic waste form ugly lumps. Those dark,
yellow pigments that we call lipofusins have accumulated to the point of associating between ten
and thirty percent of the inside of the cell. This scene of devastations created
by subcellular processes that have failed more if you measure with a less materialistic lens.
You' ll see that old cells are like maps of a person'
s experience. There are printed the things that have caused you to suffer,
along with those that have brought you joy. The tensions you have long forgotten
on the conscious plane, continue to send signals like microchips, buried and cause
you anxiety, nervousness, apprehension fatigue, feelings, doubts, disappointments. These
reactions cross the barrier between mind and body to become part of you. Toxic
deposits accumulated in old cells do not occur uniformly. Some people acquire many more
than others, although there is little genetic difference between them by the time you
turn seventy. Your cells will look unique, reflecting the unique experiences you have
processed and metabolized in your tes and organs. Being able to process the chaotic
raw vibrations of quantum soup, turning them into significant and orderly fragments of reality,
opens up enormous creative possibilities. However, these possibilities only exist when you
are aware of them. As you read this book, a huge portion of
your consciousness is dedicated to creating your body without participation. Yours, the one
we call autonomous or involuntary nervous system, was designed to handle functions that have
escaped your consciousness. If you' d start walking down the street absorbed in
your thoughts. The involuntary centers of your brain would not stop dealing with the
world, alert to any danger and ready to instantly activate the reaction. A
hundred things that you don' t pay any attention to continue without pause breathing,
digesting, creating new cells, repairing the damaged old ones, purifying toxins,
maintaining hormonal balance, converting the accumulated energy of fat into glycemia, dilating
pupils, raising and lowering blood pressure, maintaining body temperature, swaying as you
walk, moving blood among muscle groups that make the most effort and perceive noises
and movements in the surrounding environment. These automatic processes play a huge role in
aging, as aging declines our ability to coordinate these functions. An entire life
of unconscious existence leads to numerous deteriorations. Instead, a whole life of conscious
participation prevents them. The mere act of paying conscious attention to body functions,
rather than leaving them on autopilot, will change your way of aging all the
supposedly involuntary functions, from heart beating and breathing to digestion and hormone regulation.
The age of biofeedback and meditation can be consciously addressed. We' ve been
taught that. Patients have been instructed in labs mind body to lower their blood
pressure at will or to reduce the acid secretions that cause ulcers among several dozens
of things. Why not apply this capacity to the aging process, why not
change old patterns of perception for new ones. As we shall see, there
are plenty of techniques to influence advantageously the involuntary nervous system two. Our body
is composed of energy and information to transform past patterns. You must know what
they' re made of. Your body seems to be composed of solid matter
that can be broken down into molecules and atoms, but quantum physics tells us
that each atom is in more than ninety- nine comma ninety- nine ninety
- nine percent empty space and that the subatomic particles that move at radiance velocity
through that space are actually bunches of vibrant energy. However, these vibrations do
not occur at random insignificado by such information. Thus, a group of vibrations
is encoded as hydrogen atom or oxygen. Each element is, in fact,
its own unique code. Codes are abstract. So are ultimately our cosmos and
how much it contains. If we break down the physical structure of the body
to reach its ultimate source, we will see ourselves in a dead end,
because molecules give way to atoms. The atoms to subatomic particles and these particles
to energy ghosts that dissolve in an empty space. This void is mysteriously printed
with information, even before any information is expressed. Just as in your memory,
there are silently thousands of words without you uttering them. Thus, the
quantum field contains the entire universe unexpressedly. So it has been since the big
explosion, when millions of galaxies were compressed into a space millions of times smaller
than the point with which this phrase ends. However, even before that infinitesimal
point, the structure of the universe existed in forms and manifests the essential matter
of the universe, including your body. It' s not matter, but
it' s not vulgar matter, it' s not thinking matter. The
void that exists within each atom beats invisible intelligence. Genetists primarily locate that intelligence
within DNA. But only for the sake of convenience. Life unfolds as DNA
imparts its coded intelligence to its active twin, the ribonucleic acid that in turn
enters the cell, and imparts intelligence fragments to thousands of enzymes, which then
use their specific intelligence fragments to make proteins at each point. This sequence requires
the exchange of energy and information. Otherwise, life could not be built from
inert matter. The human body obtains its primary energy by burning sugar that is
transported to cells in the form of glucose or glycemia. The chemical structure of
glucose is closely related to that of sucrose or common table sugar. But if
you burn common sugar, you will get the exquisite and complex structures of a
living cell, you will only get a lump of ash, traces of water
and carbon dioxide. In the air. Metabolism is more than a combustion process.
It' s a smart act. The same sugar that remains inert in
a cube keeps life alive with its energy, because the body' s cells
infuse it with new information. Sugar can bring its energy to a kidney,
heart, or brain cell, for example. All these cells contain completely unique
forms of intelligence. The rhythmic contraction of a heart cell differs completely from the
electrical discharges of a brain cell or from the exchange of sodium from a kidney
cell. As wonderful as this wealth of diverse intelligence is. Deep down,
there is only one intelligence shared by the whole body. It' s the
flow of that intelligence that keeps you alive when it stops flowing at the time
of death, all the knowledge deposited in your DNA and rendered useless. As
this flow of intelligence ages, it is difficult in several ways. The specific
intelligence of the immune, nervous and endocrine systems begins to fall. Physiologists now
know that these three systems function as major body controls. Immunological cells and endocrine
glands are equipped with the same receptors of brain signals as neurons, therefore,
are like an extension of the brain. This prevents us from confining them to
the gray matter. When intelligence is lost in the immune system or in the
endocrine system, the senectud infiltrates the whole body. As all this happens on
an invisible and unmanifested plane, the losses go unnoticed until they reach a very
advanced stage and are expressed in a physical symptom. The five senses cannot go
deeper than to experience the millions of quantum exchanges that create aging. The exchange
rate is at a time of too fast and too slow. Too fast because
individual chemical reactions require less than a ten thousand cin of too slow a second,
because their cumulative effect will not be shown in whole years. These reactions
involve information and energy on a scale millions of times smaller than a single atom.
The deterioration of age would be inevitable if the body were simply material,
because all material things are prey to entropy. The tendency of systems ordered to
become disorderly. The classic example of entropy is a car that rusts in a
dumpster. Entropy breaks down the ordered machinery into undone oxide. There' s
no chance that the process will work the other way around, that a lot
of rusty junk will be put back together in a new car. But entropy
does not apply to intelligence. An invisible part of us is immune to the
ravages of time. Modern science is just beginning to discover the implications of all
this, but it has been taught for centuries through the spiritual traditions in which
teachers have preserved the youth of the body to very advanced age. India,
China, Japan, to a lesser extent the Christian West have given birth to
sages who grasped their essential nature as a flow of intelligence. By preserving this
flow, year after year, they overcame entropy from a deeper plane of nature.
In India, the flow of intelligence is called prana, usually translated as
a life force that can increase and grow at will, move around and manipulate
in order to maintain order and youth in the physical body. As we shall
see, the ability to establish contact with the prana and use it is within
all of us. Yobis move prana without using anything other than attention, because
in a deep plane, attention and prana are the same. Life is consciousness.
Conscience is life three mind and body are inseparably one. Intelligence is much
more flexible than the mask of material that hides it. Intelligence can be expressed
equally as thought or as a molecule. A basic emotion, like fear,
can be described as an abstract sensation or as a tangible molecule of the hormone
adrenaline. Without the feeling, there' s no hormone. Without the hormone,
there' s no feeling. In the same way, there is no
pain without the nerve signals that transmit the pain. There is no relief for
pain without endorphins that adjust to pain receptors to block those signals. The revolution
we call medicinally and body was based on this simple discovery wherever a thought goes,
a chemical element accompanies it. This clarification has become a powerful tool that
allows us to understand, for example, why recent widows are twice as likely
to develop breast cancer, or why diseases are four times more likely in chronic
depressions. In both cases, states of mental distress become the biochemicals that create
the disease. In my professional practice I can meet two patients attacked with angina.
The typical oppressive pain characteristic of heart disease. One patient will be able
to swim, run and even climb mountains, completely ignoring their pain or perhaps
not even feeling it, while the other almost fainted of pain with just getting
out of the chair. My first impulse will be to look for a physical
difference between them, but I can find it or not. According to cardiologists,
there is angina pain when one of the three coronary arteries is at least
50% blocked. This block occurs almost always in the form of a theroma,
an injury to the inside of the arterial wall formed by dead cells,
blood clots and fatty plates However, that of 50% blocked is only a
practical rule. Some angina patients become incapacitated by pain when they only have a
small lesion in a single artery that barely blocks blood flow. Others, on
the other hand, have run marathons despite large multiple blockades affecting up to eighty
- five percent. You should add that angina is not always caused by a
physical blockage. The arteries are surrounded by a layer of muscle cells that can
spasm and compress the blood vessel by closing it. But it is a very
individual reaction in terms of body mind. My two patients express different interpretations of
pain. Each patient prints a unique perspective to his or her state. Pain
or any other symptom emerges to consciousness only after interacting with all past influences that
operate in the body mind system. There is not a single answer for everyone,
not even for the same person at two different times. Signs of pain
are raw data that can be applied for many purposes. High- effort athletics,
such as the long distance race, subjects the athlete to a pain that
he interprets as a sign of the ogre. Whoever wants a fish to wet
his feet. The same pain inflicted under other circumstances would be very ill received.
The runners admire the coaches who push them to the limit, but they
may hate such treatment in military service. Medicine just begins to use the body
mind bond to cure the defeat of pain. That' s a good example.
By supplying a placebo or innocuous drug, thirty percent of patients experience the
same relief from the pain they would have felt if they had taken a real
painkiller, but the body mind effect is much more sacred. The same harmless
pill can be used to calm the pain, to prevent excessive gastric secretions in
ulcer patients, to lower blood pressure, or to fight tumors. All side
effects of chemotherapy, including hair loss and nausea, may be induced. If
we supply cancerous people with a sugar pill and assure them that it is a
powerful anticancer drug. There are cases where simple injections of sterile saline solution have
led to remission of advanced malignant tumors As the same inert pill can cause such
different responses. We must conclude that the body is capable of producing any biochemical
response once the mind receives the right suggestion. The pill in sicare of meaning
the power that activates. The placebo effect is the power of suggestion alone.
This suggestion then becomes the body' s intention to heal. Then why not
skip the sugar pill trick to go directly to the intention, If we could
effectively activate, the intention not to age the body, would carry it out
automatically. We have very exciting evidence to prove that this possibility exists. One
of the most feared diseases of old age is Parkinson’ s disease, a
neurological ailment that causes uncontrollable muscle movements and a drastic delay in body actions,
such as walking over time. The body gets so stiff that the patient can
' t move at all. The origin of Parkinson' s has been identified
in an unexplained depletion of a critical brain chemical called dopamine. But there is
also a simulated Parkinson' s disease that occurs when brain cells that produce dopamine
have been chemically destroyed by certain drugs. Let' s imagine a patient affected
by this type of Parkinson' s at an advanced stage of immobilization. If
you try to walk, you will only take one or two steps before stopping.
Stiff as a statue. However, if we draw a line on the
ground and tell him to practice it, that person will be able to walk
through it miraculously, despite the fact that dopamine production is completely involuntary and its
provision seems exhausted, as evidenced by the fact that his brain cannot order the
leg muscles to take one step further with the sole intention of walking the awakened
brain. That person can petrify again after a few seconds, but once again,
if we ask him to cross an imaginary line, the brain will respond
again by extension. The disability and inactivity of many elderly people is only a
latent state. By renewing their intentions to lead an active and useful life,
many elders can dramatically improve their motor capacity, strength, agility, and mental
speed. Intent is an active part of attention is the way to convert automatic
and unconscious processes using simple body mind exercises. Almost any patient can learn in
a few sessions to turn a hasty heart rate, a gash or floating anxiety
into a more normal reaction. What seems out of control can be controlled by
the proper technique. The implications for ageing are enormous. By inserting an intention
into the thought processes, just as I want to improve my energy and vigor
every day, you can begin to exercise control over those brain centers that determine
how much energy will be expressed in the activity. The decline of vigor in
old age is mostly due to people hoping to decline without wanting it. They
have implanted a defeatist intention in the form of a powerful belief and the body
mind bond automatically fulfills this intention. Our past intentions create obsolete programs that seem
to have dominions over us. Indeed, the power of intention can be awakened
again at any time, long before aging, you can avoid those losses and
programs your mind to keep you young using the power of your intention four.
The biochemistry of the body is a product of consciousness. One of the greatest
limitations of the old paradigm was the assumption that our consciousness plays no role in
explaining what is happening to us in the body. However, one cannot understand
the healing of a person unless one understands also his beliefs, his n r
s PNS, set expectations and the image he has of himself. Although the
image of the body as mindless machines continues to dominate the mainstream of Western medicine,
there is unquestionable evidence to the contrary. It can be shown that death
rates from cancer and heart disease are higher among people who suffer from psychological stress
and lower among those who have a strong sense of resolve and well- being.
One of the most widely reported medical studies in recent years is by David
Spiegle, Shanther' s psychiatrist, who proposed to show that the mental state
of patients did not influence whether or not they survived cancer. Like so many
doctors. I thought that attaching importance to the patient' s beliefs and attitudes
would do more harm than good, because the idea I caused cancer would cause
feelings of guilt and author reproach Spiegel took eighty- six women with breast cancer
has advanced sick people who basically could not be helped with conventional treatments and provided
half of them. There are weekly psychotherapy ns combined with self- hypnosis lessons.
At any rate, this represents a minimal intervention that a woman could do
in one hour of therapy per week, time she had to share with several
more patients to fight a disease that is inevitably fatal in advanced stages. The
answer seemed obvious. However, after following the patients for ten years, Espigel
was shocked to learn that the group undergoing therapy survived on average. The double
that the other more revealing group was still the fact that at that late date
only three women will be left alive, all of them from the Therapy group.
This study is amazing because the researcher did not expect to discover any effect,
but other researchers provided a decade of similar findings. A meticulous study conducted
by Jale in nineteen hundred and eighty- seven, according to Mrgensen' s
report, found that breast cancer spread faster among women with repressed personality, lacking
hope and unable to express anger, fear and other negative emotions. Similar discoveries
have emerged about arthritis, rheumatoid, asthma, intractable pain, and other ailments
dominated by the ancient paradigm. Doctors have prejudices against these results, as pointed
out by the bricity and in their enlightened book they merit in minimal medicine and
meaning. The dominant message that is unceasingly preached in the editorial pages, medical
publications and classrooms of universities is that the biology inherent in the disease is of
overwhelming importance. While feelings, emotions, and attitudes are simple traveling companions.
What the new paradigm teaches us is that emotions are not fleeting events isolated in
mental space, they are expressions of consciousness, fundamental matter of life. In
all religious traditions, the breath of life is the spirit. Raising or lowering
the spirit to someone means something fundamental that the body must reflect. Consciousness makes
a huge difference in aging, because even though every kind of higher life ages,
only humans know what happens to us and we translate this knowledge into decay
itself. Fear of old age makes you grow older in a hurry to accept
it gracefully. Instead, move away from your door many miseries, both physical
and mental. The saying of common sense is as old as it thinks it
is, it has profound implications. What is a thought is an impulse of
energy and information, like everything that exists in nature. The packages of information
and energy that we label trees, stars, mountains and oceans could also be
considered thoughts of nature. But our thoughts are different. On an important point.
Nature is stranded with its thoughts. Once their patterns have been established,
things such as stars and trees follow a cycle of growth that automatically passes through
the stages of birth, development, decay, and dissolution. We, on
the other hand, are not stranded in our life cycle. By being conscious,
we participate in all the reactions that occur within us. Problems arise when
we do not recognize ourselves responsible for what we do. In his book of
howt graphhe univer is the holograph universe Michael Houber draws a brilliant comparison with King
Midas. Like everything he played turned into gold. Midas could never know the
true texture of nothing water wheat meat or feathers, everything became the same hard
metal as soon as he touched it. Just as our consciousness turns the quantum
field into common material reality. We cannot know the true texture of quantum reality
in itself or through our five senses, nor think of it, for a
thought also transforms the field, takes the infinite possibilities of emptiness and shapes a
specific fact of time space. What you call your body is also a specific
fact of time space. And as you experience its materiality, you overlook the
touch of midas, which turns pure abstract potential into something solid. Unless you
become conscious of consciousness, you will never be able to surprise yourself in the
act of transformation. Five. Perception is a learned phenomenon. The power of
consciousness would not change our life at all if nature had provided us all with
the same answers to experience. Obviously it' s not like that. There
are not two people who share the same perception of anything. The face of
the person you love may be the face of my worst enemy. Food that
makes you hungry can make me nauseous. These personal answers must be learned.
That' s where the differences originate. Learning is a very active use of
the mind that leads to active changes or s ns of the body. The
perceptions of love, I hate pleasure inause stimulate the body in very different directions.
In short, our body is the physical result of all the interpretations we
have learned to make since we were born. Some patients undergoing organ transplants report
strange experiences. After receiving a kidney, liver, or donated heart without knowing
who the donor was, they begin to share in their memories. When the
tissues of one person are placed inside a stranger, associations belonging to another begin
to be released. In a heart transplant case, the woman woke up with
a craving for beer and chicken from Mecdonnols. That surprised her because she had
never wanted those things before. When he began to have mysterious dreams in which
a young man named Timmy appeared, he tracked down the donor of his new
heart. He turned out to be the victim of a traffic accident when he
contacted his families. Or that the victim was a young man named Timmy.
The woman was shocked to learn that the young man had a predilection for beer
and that he had died on his way home from a Mecdonnols place. Instead
of looking for a supernatural explanation for these incidents, we could see in them
the confirmation that our body is made of experiences transformed into physical expression. As
experience is something that we literally incorporate, we become a body. Our memories
have infiltrated our cells. Therefore, to receive the cells of another is to
receive at the same time their memories. Your cells are constantly processing. Experience
and metabolize it according to your personal criteria. You don' t just absorb
raw data through your eyes and ears and seal them with a judgment, but
you become physically in interpretation. By internalizing it, he who is depressed by
having lost his job casts sadness on his whole body. The production of neurotransmitters
in the brain is exhausted, hormone levels are lowered, the sleep cycle is
interrupted. The gropeptide neers receptors on the outer surface of epithelial cells are distorted.
The blood plates become more sticky and prone to bind to their tears.
They contain different chemical traces of tears of joy. This entire biochemical profile changes
dramatically when that person has a new job and if it is more satisfactory,
his production of neurotransmitters, hormones, receptors and all the other vital biochemists up
to the same DNA begins to reflect that sudden favorable turn. Although we give,
of course, that DNA is a closed repository of genetic information, its
active twin, RNA responds to daily existence. Medical students, during exam times,
have a reduced production of interleukin two, a critical element in the immune
response that fights cancer. The production of interleukin two is under the control of
the messenger RNA, which means that the student' s nervousness, by passing
his test s speaks directly to his genes. This point reinforces the great need
to use our consciousness to create the bodies that we truly desire. Nervousness through
a medical exam happens sooner or later, as depression goes through a lost job,
but the aging process must be counteracted every day. Your interpretation of how
you age is critical to what happens in the next four, five, or
six decades. In neurological terms, a brain signal is just a series of
energy fluctuations. If you' re in a coma, these signs have no
meaning. If you are alert and conscious, the same signals open up to
infinite creative interpretations. Shakespeare did not make metaphors when he wrote the phrase"
prosperous" we are the matter from which dreams are made. The body is
like a manifest dream, a three- dimensional projection of brain signals that transform
into the state we call real. Aging is but a series of misoriented transformations,
processes that should remain stable, balanced and in renewal, but that deviate
from its course due to this is presented as physical change. However, what
has actually happened is that your consciousness doesn' t matter if in your mind
or in your cells it deviated first by becoming aware of how that error occurred,
you can put your body' s biochemistry back on line. There is
no biochemistry out of consciousness. Every cell in your body has perfect awareness of
what you think and feel about yourself. Once you accept that fact, all
illusion of being a victim of a mindless body that degenerates disappears. Random six.
There are impulses of intelligence that constantly create the body in new forms.
Every second. Creating the body in new forms is necessary in order to meet
the changing demands of life. A child' s vision of reality, for
example, contains much that is not familiar. Until you learn more about the
world, your body is expressed in inexperienced and poorly coordinated behavior. At three
months of age, the baby cannot differentiate between a stairway and the painting of
a stairway. His brain hasn' t captured what optical illusion is. By
six months, his reality had changed at that age. Babies know how to
recognize optical illusions. Using that knowledge, their bodies can be better managed in
three- dimensional space. Mirrors stop looking like holes. On the wall you
can climb the actual stairs, but not the stairs paintings. The round is
different from the flat, etcetera. That change of perception is not just mental.
A whole new way of using eyes and hands has been achieved. The
physical dimensions of various brain centers for form recognition and motor coordination have been affected.
As long as new perceptions continue to enter your brain, your body will
be able to respond in new ways. There is no secret of more powerful
youth, as a patient of 80 years of age succinctly expressed when you stop
growing older. New knowledge, new skills, new ways of looking at the
world keep the mind and body growing. As long as it is, the
natural tendency to be new to every second in the quantum world is expressed.
Change is inevitable. Not aging. The chronological age of our physical body is
irrelevant. The youngest zinc has molecules whose age is the same as those of
the oldest zinc. In both cases, the chronological age of the body could
be set at five billion years, the age of the various atoms a year
at the same time that it takes these atoms to replace within our tissues or
three seconds for a cell to stir its enzymes to process. Food, air
and water you' re really as old as the information that revolves through you
and that' s great luck. You can control the information content of the
quantum field. Although there is a certain amount of fixed information in the atoms
of food, air and water that it constitutes in each cell, the power
to transform that information is subject to free will. One thing you can possess
without limits in this world is your interpretation of it. There are notable medical
cases of young children, for example, who, feeling very loveless, stopped
growing up. This syndrome called psychosocial ananism, occurs among severely abused children,
which turns their lack of love and affection into an exhaustion of the growth hormone,
challenging the assumption that the growth hormone is released according to previously programmed rhythms
that every child has printed on his or her adn. In these cases,
the power of interpretation is imposed on the genetic seal, causing a change in
its information fields. Body of a person' s self- interaction, there
arise interpretations that are experienced as internal dialogue, thoughts, judgments and sensations rotate
unceasingly in the mind. I like that I don' t like it I
' m afraid of thirteen, I' m not sure, etcetera. Inner
dialogue is not random mental noise It is generated in a deep plane by your
beliefs and assumptions Essential belief is defined as something that you take for granted about
reality. As long as you hold on to it, your belief will adjust
your body' s information fields to certain parameters. You will perceive something as
pleasant or unpleasant, distressing or joyful, according to how it meets your expectations.
When someone' s interpretation changes, there is also a change in their
reality. For children suffering from psychosocial dwarfism, putting them in a loving environment
is more effective than giving them growth hormones. Your belief that they are undesirable
and unworthy can be so powerful that the body does not grow even when it
is injected with hormones. However, if loving adoptive parents can transform the essential
belief of children who consider themselves unworthy of love. These respond with naturally produced
torrents of growth hormones, and that usually leads to a normal state of height,
weight, and development. When seen otherwise, your personal reality changes on
a physiological plane. Here is a powerful metaphor of how fear of aging and
the deep conviction that we are destined for decay can transform into aging itself as
self- fulfilling prophecy generated by the destructive image we have of ourselves. To
escape from this prison we need to reverse fear- based beliefs. Instead of
believing that the body decays over time, it nourishes the belief that your body
is new at every moment, instead of believing that your body is a mindless
machine nourishing the belief that your body is imbued with the deep intelligence of life,
whose sole purpose is to keep you. These new beliefs are not just
more pleasant, they are true. We experience the enjoyment of life through the
body and therefore it is natural to believe that the body does not oppose us,
but rather desires the same thing that we seven desire. Despite the appearance
of being separate individuals, we are all connected to the models of intelligence that
govern the cosmos. You and your environment are one thing. If you look
at yourself, you will notice that your body ceases at some point, you
are separated from the wall of your room or the sidewalk tree by an empty
space. However, in quantum terms, the distinction between solid and void is
insignificant. Every cubic inch of quantum space is filled with an almost infinite amount
of energy and the smallest vibration is part of vast fields of vibration that span
entire galaxies in a very real sense. Your environment is your prolonged body.
With every breath you inhale hundreds of millions of atoms exhaled yesterday by someone in
China. All the oxygen, water and sunlight around you are hardly distinguishable from
what' s inside IT. If you want you can experience yourself in a
state of unity with everything that is in contact with you. In the common
waking state, you touch a rose with your finger and feel it solid,
but in truth a bunch of energy and information. Your finger comes into contact
with another bundle of energy and information? The rose your finger and the thing
you touch are just tiny outcrops of the infinite field we call universe. This
truth inspired the ancient sages of India who declared As is the microcosm, so
is the macrocosm, so is the atom, so is the universe, so
is the human body, so is the cosmic body, so is the human
mind, so is the cosmic mind. It is not just mystical teachings,
but real experiences of those who were able to liberate their consciousness from the state
of separation to identify themselves, instead, with the unity of everything in the
consciousness of unity. People, things and facts out there become all part of
your body. In fact, you' re just a mirror of relationships centered
on these influences. The famous naturalist already declared every time we tried to take
something alone we found him tied to everything else in the universe. This should
not be a rare experience, but the first block in the building of everything
we know. The possibility of experiencing unity has tremendous implications for aging, because
when you have a harmonious interaction with your prolonged body, you feel cheerful,
healthy and youthful. Fear is born of separation. They held the ancient Indian
sages. With this statement they deepened deeply into the why of aging as we
see ourselves as something apart, We create chaos and disorder between us and things
out there, we provoke wars and destroy the environment, death. The final
state of separation looms as fearsome unaware of the very perspective of change that is
part of life. It creates an unspeakable fear, because with notice loss,
fear brings to violence. As inevitable wake. Being separated from other people,
things and deeds, we want to force them to do what we want.
In harmony there is no violence. Instead of trying slightly to control the uncontrollable.
The person in unity learns acceptance, not because it is necessary, but
because in truth there is peace and order in himself and in his prolonged body.
J chrisna Morti, the modern sage became a wonderful onage, always alert,
full of wisdom and vitality, never diminished. I remember seeing him jump
up the steps of a stand. When I was eighty- five years old,
I was deeply moved when a woman who had known him for many years
told me that I had discovered one thing in him that was completely free of
violence. Quantum view of the world is not spiritual in its equations and postulates,
but Einstein and his colleagues shared a mystical reverence for his discoveries. Nielspord
compared the wavy aspect of matter to the cosmic mind. At the end of
his life, oh In Shering was convinced that the universe itself was a living
mind. Echoing Asek Nedn, he held that gravity and all other forces were
thoughts in God' s mind. The truth is that probing in our own
spirit always brings to humans the bounds of the spirit in its broadest sense.
By putting this coincidence in objective terms, the new paradigm allows us to actually
cross the boundary that in other times divided body and spirit. The transformation from
separation to unity, from conflict to peace is the goal of all spiritual traditions.
We do not live in the same objective world. One time a disciple
asked his guru Yes, the teacher answered, but you see yourself in the
world and I see the world in myself. This small perceptual change creates a
huge difference between freedom and servitude. We are all servants of disorder that we
create by considering ourselves separate and isolated the perfect example is the personality of type
with its exhausting and frustrated behavior, with its eternal feeling of being pressed by
deadlines that type of person unable to relax with any kind of acceptance, to
let oneself be carried feeds their past pains turning them into anger. This repressed
whirlwind is projected in the middle as hostility, impatience, reproach and panic,
not assumed in his incessant effort to dominate others. That person reacts to the
small tensions with harsh criticism against herself and others in creating so much chaos.
The type A person, especially if he or she belongs to the world of
commerce, is fooled into thinking that he or she is competing successfully. In
fact, their efficiency level is very low and frustrations accumulate. The feedback that
this personality receives from its prolonged body creates more disasters within the physical body.
It increases cholesterol and blood pressure. The heart is subject to unnecessary stress,
which seriously increases the risk of stroke or fatal heart attack. The type is
an extreme example of the damage that occurs by not interacting harmoniously with the prolonged
body itself. As we see, the tension we perceive in the middle is
directly related to almost all age- related changes that attack everyone. What ages
us is not so much the tension as the perception of attention. Anyone who
does not see the world out there as a threat can coexist with the environment
free of the damage caused by the response to tensions. In many ways,
the most important thing that can be done to experience a world without aging is
to feed the knowledge that the world is one eight. Time is not absolute.
The underlying reality of all things is eternal and what we call time is
actually quantified eternity. Although our body and the whole physical world are a display
of constant change, reality is more than the process. The United, the
verse, was born and developed. When he was born, existence, time
and space emerged. Before the time of the great explosion, time and space
did not exist as we know them. However, for the rational mind it
is almost impossible to ask questions such as what was before time and what can
be greater than space. Einstein himself, when working out quantum principles in his
youth, for the first time retained the ancient idea embraced by NYTN, that
the universe was stable, that time and space were constant, eternal, that
they had never been born and would never die. This stable version of reality
remains what our five senses offer us. You can' t see or feel
the time when it accelerates or slows down even when Einstein showed that that'
s how time works. Space cannot be felt when it expands or contracts,
although that is also part of a rhythmic universe. To go further, imagining
those regions without dimension where time and space are born requires a radical change in
perception. This change is imposed on us because the universe must have some kind
of timeless source. And the same goes for us. We believe that we
exist in time, because the body is composed of change. To change you
need to have a flow or sequence. In this sequence there is a before
and after. Before this breath, there was one last breath after this heartbeat
will come the next heartbeat, but theoretical and mind. If we had the
necessary time and equipment, we could do an electrocardiogram of all the heartbeats that
a heart had in its existence and with the graph in hand, we would
have past present and future contents. In the same place, we could look
at it in an inverted or backward position. We could fold it in half
so that the last heartbeat and the first beat were next to each other.
This kind of manipulation is what quantum physics reveals about the most basic facts of
time space. In nature, when two inters particles change, states of energy
can move backwards in time as easily as forward. Things that happened in the
past can be altered by energy facts in the future. The whole notion of
time as an inexorably shot forward arrow has been forever shattered in the complex geometries
of quantum space, where multidimensional strands and curves take time everywhere and even stop
it. The only absolute that remains is the temporal, for now we understand
that our entire universe is only an incident that springs from a greater reality.
What we perceive as seconds, minutes, hours, days and years are cut
pieces of that greater reality. It is up to you to cut off the
temporal in the way you desire your consciousness. It creates the time you experience
who experiences time as a scarce article that escapes endlessly. It creates a very
different personal reality than the one who perceives having all the time in the world.
You spend the day under pressure due to lack of time, you suffer
from those symptoms of panic and drowning that causes the disease of time translated by
the body in rapid heart rhythm or irregular rhythms, distorted digestive, insomnia and
high blood pressure. These individual differences express our way of perceiving change, as
the perception of change creates our experience of time. When you fix your attention
on the past or the future, you are in it field of time,
creating aging. An Indian teacher who seemed remarkably young for his age explained this
by saying most spends life in the past or in the future, but my
life is supremely concentrated in the present. When a life is concentrated in the
present it is more real because the past and the future do not affect it
at this time. Where are the past and the future nowhere. There is
only the present moment. Past and future are mental projections. If you can
free yourself from these projections without trying to revive the past or master the future,
a space for a whole new experience opens up. The experience of the
ageless body and timeless mind. It is of great importance to be able to
identify with a reality that is not limited by time. Otherwise, there is
no way to escape the decline that time inevitably brings. A simple exercise of
body mind will allow you to grasp an attism of temporality. Choose a moment
of the day when you feel relaxed and unpressed. Sit quietly in a comfortable
chair and take off the watch by hand so you can easily consult it,
without having to pick it up or move your head too much. Now close
your eyes and become aware of your breathing. Let your attention follow the stream
of breath that enters your body and comes out of it. Imagine that your
whole body rises and falls with the flow of every breath. After one or
two minutes, you will feel the heat and relaxation invading your muscles. When
you sit very ero sitting and serene inside, slowly open your eyes and take
a look at the second hand of your watch what it does according to your
degree of relaxation. The seconds will behave in different ways. For some people
it will have stopped completely, effect that will last between one and three seconds.
For others, the hand will hesitate half a second and then return from
a leap to its normal march. Others will see it moving, but at
a slower pace than usual. Unless you tried this little experiment, it seems
very unlikely. But once you' ve gone through the experience of watching a
clock stop, you won' t doubt again that time is the product of
perception. The only time that exists is the time that captures your consciousness.
You can learn to bring your consciousness at will to the region of timelessness to
master this experience. Meditation is the classical technique. In meditation, the active
mind retreats to its source, just as the changing universe must have had a
source beyond change. Your mind, with its tireless activity, arises from a
state of consciousness beyond thought, feeling, emotions, desire and memory. This
is a profound personal experience. In the state of timelessness or transcendent consciousness,
you experience the feeling of fullness rather than change, loss and decay. There
is stability and satisfaction. You feel that infinity is everywhere. When this experience
becomes reality, the fears associated with change disappear, the fragmentation of eternity in
seconds, hours, days and years becomes to secondary and primary perfection of every
moment. Now that meditation has entered the cultural experience of the West, researchers
have applied scientific measurements to the subjective experience of silence, fullness and eternity.
It has been discovered that the physiological state of the meditators undergoes definite changes towards
a more efficient fantioning. Hundreds of individual findings demonstrate a slower respiratory rate,
a reduction in oxygen consumption, and a decreased metabolic rate. In terms of
aging, the most significant conclusion is that the hormonal imbalance associated with the stress
of which we know that accelerates the aging process is reversed. This, in
turn, slows down and even reverses the aging process. According to measurements of
various biological changes associated with decay. From my experience with studies of people who
practiced transcendental meditation, it has been established that those who have meditated a long
time can present a biological age between five and twelve years younger than their chronological
age. The most fascinating aspect of this research, which has been going on
for more than two decades, is that the biological process of aging, if
it does not need to be manipulated, can achieve the desired results only through
consciousness. In other words, meditation alters the frame of reference that gives the
person his expanse of time. On a quantum plane, the physical facts of
time space, such as heart rhythm and hormone levels, can be affected simply
by bringing the mind to a reality where time does not exert such a powerful
command. The new paradigm shows us that time has many planes and that everyone
is at our disposal in our own consciousness. Nine we all inhabit a reality
of no change that lies beyond all change. The experience of this reality puts
change under our domain. For the time being, the only physiology you can
sustain is based on time. However, the fact that time is linked to
consciousness implies that it could sustain a very different style of functioning the physiology of
immortality, which would correspond to the experience of non- change. Non-
change cannot be created as a product of change. It requires leaving consciousness linked
with time to pass into temporal consciousness. This movement has many gradations. For
example, if you are too short of time at work, your body'
s reaction to pressure is not automatic. Some people bloom under the pressure of
time, using it to fuel their creativity and energy, while others are defeated
by it, lose the incentive and feel a burden that will not give them
satisfaction compared to the stress it causes them. The person who responds creatively has
learned not to identify with the pressure of time. It has transcended it,
at least in part unlike those who feel constrained by stress. For this,
identification with time has become overwhelming. He can' t escape the tic CT,
the internal clock. Your body can only reflect your mood in several useful
ways. Our cells constantly adjust to our perception of time. A biologist would
say that we have chained or worked in sequence, a series of processes spanning
millions of events related to mind and body. It is very important to understand
that you can reach a state where processes linked to time can be realized.
This is demonstrated by a simple analogy. Observe your physical body as if it
were a record of signals exchanged between your brain and all cells. The nervous
system that sets the classes of messages sent functions as body software. The myriad
of different hormones, neurotransmitters and other messenger molecules are the information that is processed
through the software. All this constitutes the visible programming of your body. But
where the programmer is is not visible, but it must exist. At every
second thousands of decisions are made in the body mind system countless choices that allow
your physiology to adapt to the demands of life. If I' m in
India, I see a cobra on the path and jump back in fear,
you can see the visible apparatus that controls this event in the muscle reactions I
exhibit, activated by chemical signals from my neo- nervous system. My accelerated
heart rate and agitated breathing are other visible signs that it has been put into
action. Adrenaline hormone was added by the adrenal cortex as a reaction to a
specific brain chemical element sent by the pituitary. If a biochemist could trace each
of the molecules involved in my fear reaction, I would still overlook the invisible
decision maker who decided to have the reaction, because while I reacted in a
fraction of a second, my body didn' t jump back stupidly. A
person with a very different schedule would have very different reactions. A snake collector
could lean forward with interest. A Hindu devotee by recognizing a form of schive
could kneel with religious respect. The fact is that any reaction would have been
possible. Panic anger, misteria, paralysis, apathy, curiosity delight, etc.
The invisible programmer is unlimited in terms of its modes of programming the visible
device of the body. At the time I stumbled upon the snake, all
the basic processes of my physiology, breathing, digestion, metabolism, elimination,
perception and thought depended on the meaning of a cobra. For me, personally,
there is truth in Odes Huxley' s saying. Experience is not what
happens to you. It' s what you do with what happens to you.
Where you can locate a meaning. The quick and easy response is to
say that it is located in the brain. But this organ is in constant
flux, along with all the others. Like migratory birds, with every second
coming in and out of my brain. Billions of atoms. It swirls electrical
waves that never form the same scheme twice in life. Your basic chemistry may
vary depending on what you eat at lunch or if you experience a sudden change
of mood. However, my memory of the serpent does not dissolve in that
sea of change. My memories are at the disposal of the programmer who stands
above memory, silently observing my life, taking into account my experiences, always
ready to harbor the possibility of new choices. For this programmer is but the
conscience of choice. Appreciate the change without being overwhelmed. Therefore, it escapes
the limitations linked to the time that arise in the normal world. As a
result, the yoke who fears snakes learned that fear at some point in the
past. All my reactions are part of the self linked to time and its
tendencies. In less than a thousandth of a second, your previously programmed fear
awakens the entire sequence of bodily messages that produce my actions. For most of
us there is no other self perceptible, because we have not learned to identify
with the decision maker, the silent witness, whose consciousness is not defined by
the past. However, in a subtle way, we all feel that something
within us has not changed much, if ever since we were little. When
we wake up in the morning, there is a second of pure consciousness before
the old conditioning automatically falls into place. At that moment you are neither happy,
nor sad, nor important, nor humble, nor old or young.
When I wake up in the morning, this self dresses very soon with the
mantle of experience in a matter of seconds. I remember who I am,
for example, a forty- six- year- old doctor with a wife,
two children, a home on the outskirts of Bustin and ten minutes to
get to the clinic. That identity is the product of change. The self
that is beyond change could be waking up anywhere in Delhi at five years of
age, sniffing food prepared by my grandmother, or in Florida at eighty years
of age, listening to the wind among the palm trees. This invariable self,
which the ancient sages of India called simply being serves me as a real
reference point for experience. Any other reference point is limited by change, decline
and loss. Any other sense of self is identified with pain or pleasure,
poverty or health, happiness or sadness, youth or old age, all conditions
linked to the time imposed by the relative world. In the consciousness of unity
the world can be explained as a current of the spirit, which is consciousness.
Our whole goal is to establish an intimate relationship with being as spirit.
To the extent that we create this intimacy, the experience of the ageless body
and the bodyless mind ten becomes a reality. We are not victims of aging,
disease and death. These are part of the scenario, not the viewer,
which is immune to any form of change. Life in its source is
creation. When you get in touch with your own inner intelligence, you get
in touch with the creative core of life in s s in the or ancient
paradigms. Life control was assigned to the enormously complex molecule that has revealed less
than one percent of those secrets to geneticists. In the new paradigm, the
control of life belongs to consciousness. All the examples cited here of children who
can reduce the secretion of growth hormones, of medical students who alter their production
of interleukins when they feel nervous about yogis that can manipulate at the will of
the heart rhythm, indicate that the most basic body processes respond to our mood.
The millions and millions of changes that occur in our cells are only the
passing panorama of life behind the mask is the one who sees who represents the
source of the flow of consciousness. Everything I can experience begins and ends with
consciousness. Every thought or emotion that captures my attention is a tiny fragment of
consciousness. All the goals and expectations I set are organized in consciousness. What
the ancient sages called being can be defined, according to the terms of modern
psychology, as a continuum of consciousness and the state known as unit consciousness,
the state in which consciousness is complete. The person knows the whole continuum of
herself without masks, empty illusions or broken fragments. Since we do not maintain
the continuity of our consciousness, we all fall into voids of one kind or
another. Vast areas of our bodily existence escape control, leading to sickness,
old age, and death, but that is to be expected when consciousness has
fragmented. In a famous series of experiments carried out in the early seventies at
the meninge clinic is va my Rama, a famous spiritual adept from India,
demonstrated his ability to raise his heart rate from seventy to three hundred pulsations per
minute, which is far above normal reach. Essentially the heartbeat became a palpitation
that no longer pumped blood the normal rhythmic way. In a common person,
palpitations can cause cardiac arrest and other serious and even ninstal problems. It'
s something that attacks thousands of unsuspecting people every year. However, Esbami and
Rama were not affected by that heart event that was under the direct control of
their consciousness. This means that if a person dies in a matter of minutes
from a sudden interruption of his normal heart rate, this category covers all types
of arrhythmias, fibrillation and tachycardia. In fact, it has suffered a loss
of consciousness in our materialistic view of the world. We locate this loss in
the heart muscle, saying that the electrochemical signals that coordinate a healthy beating of
the heart, have been disordered, rather than orchestrating their individual conoctractions in a
single, unified pulsation throughout the heart. Many millions of heart cells fall into
isolated and chaotic contractions, making the organ look like a sac of twisted snakes.
However, this horrendous spectacle feared by all cardiologists is secondary. The primary
is the loss of consciousness between the heart cells. They are This loss of
consciousness is not local, but general. The person himself has lost contact with
the deep planes of intelligence that govern and control his cells. In truth,
each cell is nothing but organized intelligence in various layers of visible and invisible patterns.
An adept as it is goes my branch shows us that our consciousness should
not be so, fragmented and reduced. If you knew yourself as it is,
you would understand that it is the source, course, and goal of
all that flowing intelligence. What the religious traditions of the world call spirit is
the whole continuity of consciousness that oversees all fragments and pieces of consciousness. It
is the voids in the knowledge of ourselves that make us victims of disease,
aging and death. Losing consciousness is losing intelligence. Losing intelligence is losing control
over the final product of intelligence, the human body. Therefore, the most
valuable lesson that the new paradigm can teach us is this. If you want
to change your body, change your consciousness first. Everything that happens to you
is the result of how you see yourself to a point that might seem very
strange to you. In the sea battles of World War I, German sailors
were sometimes immobilized in lifeboats for days and weeks. After his ship had sunk,
invariably the first to die were the youngest. This phenomenon was a mystery
until it was understood that the older sailors, having survived other shipwrecks, knew
that the crisis could be overcome. Young people who lacked that experience perished because
they were trapped in a hopeless situation. Guided by these incidents, researchers working
with animals have managed to induce rapid aging, disease and death in rats and
laboratory mice. By putting them in situations of great stress, for example,
they are thrown into water tanks without any chance of escape. Animals that have
never been found in such a situation perceive it as desperate soon give up and
die. Animals that have been gradually conditioned to deposits persevere and survive swimming long
hours without showing signs of deterioration caused by stress. The history of human aging
is largely characterized by hopelessness. Our fearsome images of aging, accompanied by the
high rates of illness and senility among the elderly, resulted in gloomy expectations that
were fulfilled on their own. Old age was a time of inevitable decline and
loss of growing physical and mental weakness. Now our entire society awakens to a
new perception of aging. Sixty- seventy- year- olds usually expect to
be as vigorous and healthy as forty- fifty. But there is an underlying
assumption that has not suffered, a radical challenge that humans must age. To
have to age is a fact that we inherit from the old paradigm stubbornly fixed
in our world view until a change of consciousness can bring new facts into the
light. A vision of the world is only one way to order the infinite
energy of the universe in a system that makes sense. Aging made sense in
a scheme of nature where all things changed, withered and died. It makes
much less sense in a world where we are surrounded by an endless flow of
intelligence in constant renewal to you it is up to you to choose which point
of view to adopt. You can choose to see that the rose blooms and
dies. You can choose to see the rose as a wave of life that
never ends, as next year new roses will emerge from its seeds. Matter
is a captive moment in space and time. With a materialistic view of the
world and of ourselves we make the captive aspects of the universe assume too much
importance. According to this book, go on spreading. I want you to
experience how fluid and effortless it could be if you changed your view of the
world. Despite its solid physical appearance, your body resembles a river similar to
the sacred river so beautifully described by Germán rock in his spiritual novel Sidarta.
In that book comes a time when if Dharma, the seeker of enlightenment,
finally has peace after years of wandering, it ends by a large river in
India, where an inner voice whispers to him. Love this river stay next
to him learn from him. For me, this whisper says something about my
body, which flows and flows in the processes of your life. Like rivers.
My body changes when the moment changes. If I could do the same,
there would be no gaps in my life, no memories of past traumas
that would trigger new pain, no expectation of future pains that would make me
fall in fear. Your body is the river of life that sustains you,
but it does so humbly without seeking recognition. If you sit down and listen
to it, you will discover that deep intelligence dwells in you and within you.
It is not an intelligence of words, for the knowledge of words,
compared to the millions of years of wisdom woven into a single cell, does
not seem so great. If Darta wanted to learn from the river and hear
that it is of tremendous importance, it is necessary to desire a meeting with
the flow of the body in order to learn from it. And that means
you must be willing to open up to the knowledge that was overlooked in your
old way of seeing that going on. It seemed to him that whoever understood
that river and its secrets would understand much more, many secrets, all secrets.
Everything that' s happened to you is registered in your body. But
the most important thing is that there are also new possibilities there. Aging for
isé is being something that is happening to you, when in reality it is
largely something that your body has learned to do, It has learned to fulfill
the programming that you, the programmer, supplied to it. As much of
these programming was unconscious, dictated by beliefs and assumptions of which you hardly had
a conscience. It' s important to ruin the whole idea building that gave
you the material world. As you know it now we need to return to
the body, for the intimate experience we have of our physical self contains the
most personal truth. Being at ease with your sensations of this moment allows you
to escape into the shadow of threat that hangs above all when order is losing
the battle against entropy. That is the world in which we have been taught
to believe. But there is another way and another world. Such was the
greatest lesson Darta learned from the river. At the end of the novel he
talks about it with his oldest friend and partner Va his Deva. You have
also learned the secret of the river, that there is no time or such
thing. A luminous smile spread over Vasudeva' s face. Yes, yes,
Dharta. This is what you want to say that the river is everywhere
at the same time, in the fountain and in the mouth, in the
waterfall, in the barge, in the current, in the ocean and in
the mountains wherever you want, and that for him there is only the present.
Without the shadow of the past or the shadow of the future.“
That is,” Sidarth said,“ and when I learned that I reviewed
my life and it was also a river. And if give the child,
if give the mature man and if give the old man were separated only by
shadows, not by reality. He spoke with delight, but Basudeva merely smiled
at him radiantly and pointed out his agreement with a head motion. The self
- delusion fostered by centuries of materialism is that we can conquer the river and
dominate its flow. If we did, our only achievement would be to die.
The truth about each of us is that our life extends into larger and
larger fields of experience. There are no limits to energy, information and intelligence
concentrated in the existence of a person in physical form. This infinite creativity has
been incarnated in your cells in a form that is not manifest. It is
expressed in the silence of the mind, in the emptiness, that in reality
it is a fullness of unknowns, meanings, possible, possible truths, possible
creations. The void in the center of each atom is the womb of the
universe, in the flash of a thought. When two neurons interact, there
is an opportunity for a new world to be born. This book is dedicated
to exploring that silence, in which the breath of time does not wither,
but renews, looks to the earth, where no one is old, is
nowhere, but in you In practice how to reinterpret your body, The first
step to experiencing your body differently is to change the interpretation you give it.
There are not two people who experience their body exactly the same way, because
each interprets the experience, including the experience of inhabiting a body according to their
own personal beliefs, values, assumptions and memories. An aging body involves a
style of interpretation, an ageless body has in itself the opposite style. Try
to get rid of the assumption that your body gets older, because that'
s the way it is. If you are sure that aging is natural,
inevitable and normal. I don' t intend you to erase those assumptions instantly,
even if you tried you couldn' t, because the old paradigm has
taught us all to accept those assumptions without questioning. However, while respecting your
deep beliefs about aging, disease, and death. Authorize yourself to set aside
for a moment the old paradigm, the quantum vision of the world or new
paradigm teaches us that we are constantly doing and undoing our body under the illusion
that it is a solid and stable object. The body is a process.
As long as that process is directed towards renewal, the cells of the body
will remain new for a long time to pass and as exposed as we are
to entropy. The great enemy of renewal is habit. When we apply to
the present petrified interpretations of the past, there will always be a vacuum,
a bad adjustment between the necessity of the moment and the solution of the past.
To have a renewed body you must be willing to have new perceptions that
give rise to new solutions. The following exercises are designed to help you open
up new perceptions. Some serve to absorb the new knowledge of the quantum vision
of the world as it applies to your body. Others are exercises of new
experiences to acquire an inner feeling of that ageless plane that exists in your body.
As we move towards subsequent exercises, the ideal will be for knowledge and
experience to begin to melt. That' s the sign that you' re
fully absorbing that new world view instead of the old exercise. One to see
through the mask of matter, the most important step to acquire the experience of
the body without age is to thawed the perceptions that have in sedarra you in
sensations of isolation, fragmentation and division. These isolated perceptions reinforce the idea that
one can only believe in the reality of the five senses. So, let
' s see if we can go beyond the senses to look for a plane
of transcendent speguerrity, which is in fact, more real than the world of
the senses. Look at your hand and examine it carefully. It follows its
lines and its familiar folds feel, the texture of the skin, the flexible
meat that quilts, the submerged hardness of the bone. This is the hand
that your senses reveal to you, a material object composed of flesh and blood.
In this first exercise we will try to thaw your hand and give you
a different experience of it beyond the reach of your senses. As you retain
the image of your hand in the eye of the mind, imagine that you
are examining it with a high- power microscope, whose lens can penetrate the
finest tissues of matter and energy. At the lowest power, you no longer
see smooth meat, but a group of individual cells loosely bound by connective tissue.
Each cell is a protein thing bag that presents itself as long chains of
smaller molecules linked by invisible bonds. As you get closer you see separate atoms
of hydrogen, carbon, oxygen, etc. They don' t have any
solidity. They are ghostly and vibrant shadows that the microscope reveals as pieces of
light and darkness you have reached the boundary between matter and energy, for the
subatomic particles that form each atom swirled electrons dancing around a nuclear center of protons
and neutrons are not spots and points of matter. Rather, they look like
traces of light left by fireworks. During the night. At this level you
see that all the things I thought were solid are just traces of energy.
As soon as you see a trail, the energy has passed to other places
without leaving anything substantial that you can touch or see. Every trace is a
fleeting quantum fact that dies in terms of repairing it. Now you' re
starting to sink even deeper into quantum space. All light disappears replaced by yawning
abysses of black void far away in the horizon of your vision you see a
last flash, as the most distant and imperceptible star seen in the night sky
retain flash in the mind, for it is the last remaining matter or energy
not detectable by any scientific instruments. The blackness closes. You find yourself in
a place where not only matter and energy have disappeared, but also space and
time have left behind. Your hand as made of time space. Like all
the facts of time space, your body must have an origin beyond the fourth
dimension. In this region there are no things such as before or after any
concept of big or small. Here your hand exists before the big explosion and
after the universe ends up in the heat death of absolute zero is actually n
is. These terms have no meaning, for you have reached the womb of
the universe the prequantial region, which has no dimension and which has all dimensions
you are everywhere and nowhere, your hand has ceased to exist. Not so
when crossing the boundary of the fourth dimension, the very notion of place and
time is no longer applicable. You still have at your disposal the roughest levels
of perception your hand still exists on all those levels that you have traversed quantum
subatomic, atomic, molecular, celler, connected by the visible intelligence to the
place where you are now. Each plane is a layer of transformation into a
whole different from the one above or below. But only where there is but
pure information, creative potential idea, are all planes reduced to their common origin.
Cabila on this exercise a moment to absorb her lessons. The three-
dimensional body presented by s S S s NSR two is a mirage. Each
solid particle of matter consists of more than ninety- nine thousand nine hundred ninety
- nine percent of empty space. The vacuum between two electrons is proportionally as
empty as the space between two galaxies. If you dig deep enough into the
fabric of matter and energy, you come to the origin of the universe.
All the events of time space have a common source, outside of reality that
we perceive beyond what your body exists as pure creative potential multilayered process, controlled
by intelligence, now examine your hand with new understanding. It is the starting
point of a dizzying descent into the dance of life, where the dancer disappears.
If you get too close and the music gets lost in the silence of
eternity, the dance is eternal, the dance is you exercise two close the
void. Now that we' ve touched that plane of quantum space that underlies
all physical existence, I want you to feel more comfortable there. We generally
think that space is cold and empty, but quantum space is full. It
is the continuity that connects everything in the universe. When the quantum field is
active, you give rise to an event of time space. When it'
s still, it' s just quantum space. But this does not mean
that the field is empty. In it he imagines the earth surrounded by magnetic
force lines that radiate from the north and south magnetic poles. All the independent
magnets on the planet participate in this field. They are small individual outcrops of
magnetism. However, even if there is no magnet in your immediate vicinity,
the magnetic field surrounds you with a horseshoe- shaped magnet. It is a
local outcropping of the field an event of time space. While the lines of
magnetism surrounding the earth are thirty- three. A presence does not invent it
masters as linked as aspects of an underlying energy field as your body emanates,
electromagnetic frequencies. You are one more expression of the same field, the pulsations
of nerve signals running through your limbs, the electrical charge emitted by your heart
cells, and the mild current field surrounding your brain. All this proves that
you are not isolated from any form of energy in the universe. Any appearance
of isolation is only a product of the limitation of your senses, which are
not attuned to these energies. Imagine two candles placed on a table in front
of you, separated by a meter. In your eyes, they seem separate
and independent. However, the light they throw fills the room with photons.
All the space between them is surmounted by light and, therefore, in the
quantum plane there is no real separation. Now carry one of the candles out
at night and hold against a background of stars. The luminous points of the
sky may be millions of light years away, but in the quantum plane each
star is as connected to your candle as the second candle of the room.
The vast open space between them contains waves of energy that bind them when you
look at the candle and the distant stars in your retina fall photons of light
from one and the other. There they activate flashes of electrochemical discharges that belong
to a vibrational frequency different from visible light, but that are part of the
same electromagnetic field. Therefore, you are another candle or other star whose local
concentration of matter and energy is a flowering of the infinite field that surrounds and
sustains you. Think of this organic link between everything that exists. The lessons
of this exercise are however isolated something seems to the senses. Nothing is isolated
in the quantum plane. The quantum field exists in IT, around IT and
through IT. You' re not looking at the field in every wave,
in every particle. The field is your long body. Each of your cells
is a concentration of information and energy within the totality of information and energy in
your body. Likewise, you are a local concentration of information and energy in
the whole, which is the body of the universe. When you begin to
possess this knowledge, nothing in your environment will seem threatening to you. As
a result, the fear of isolation will lose its power over you the uninterrupted
flow of consciousness will counteract entropy and aging exercise three. Aspiring the field,
the quantum field transcends everyday reality, but keep a close intimacy with your experience,
Search for a word in your memory, feel an emotion, grasp a
concept. These are events that change the whole field. Sir James Jeans,
an eminent British physicist, once commented when an electron vibrates, the universe trembles.
There is no minimal activity in any of your cells that can cross the
entire quantum field unnoticed. At its most refined level. All physiological processes are
recorded in the fabric of nature. In other words, the more refined a
process is more linked to the basic activity of the cosmos. Here is a
simple breathing exercise that can give you a remarkably lived experience of this phenomenon.
Sit comfortably in a chair with closed eyes, gently and slowly suck through the
nostrils, imagining that you attract the air from an infinitely distant point. Visualize
the air that comes gently to you from the edge of the universe. Feel
like it fills your body with freshness. Now exhale slowly and easily by sending
each atom of air back to its infinitely distant source. Perhaps it will help
you imagine a strand that extends from you to the far corners of the cosmos.
You can also imagine a star suspended before you that sends light from an
infinitely distant place in one case or another. And more, imagine the strand
or the star as if they were your source of air. If you'
re not capable of visualizing, don' t worry. It will be enough
for you to keep the word infinite in mind as you breathe whatever technique you
use. The goal is to feel that every breath comes to you from the
quantum field, just as it actually happens on a subtle plane. By re
- establishing the memory of your connection with the quantum field, your body will
awaken the memory of renewal exercise four to redefine after having absorbed the knowledge that
your body is not an isolated sculpture. In space and time define yourself again.
By mentally repeating the following statements, I can use the power of my
consciousness to experience a body that is fluid, rather than solid, flexible,
rather than rigid quantum, instead of dynamic material, instead of static composed of
information and energy, instead of chemical reactions, at random an intelligence network,
instead of a stupid, fresh and always renewed nary sea, instead of entropic
and temporary decadent, rather than time- bound. Another good set of statements
to redefine. I am not my atoms, They come and go, I
am not my thoughts, They come and go, I am not my self.
The image I have of myself changes. I' m above and beyond
all that, I' m the witness, the interpreter, the me.
Beyond the image of my self, this self lacks space and time. Repeating
these statements does not serve only as a mental reminder. The human body,
as a process, rather than as an object, is constantly filled with messages
of all kinds. The verbal messages we hear in the head are just a
version of the information, which cells exchange every second. As the consciousness of
every person is colored by past experiences, the flow of information that exists within
us suffers the influence of unconscious traces of which we have little consciousness. We
' ll examine in detail how those unconscious tracks break. The false the flow
of messages creating the loss of intelligence that results in aging. At the moment
remember that you can change these tracks, giving the unconscious new assumptions and beliefs
with which to operate. Every thought you have active in your brain a messenger
molecule. This means that every mental impulse is automatically transformed into biological information.
By repeating these new statements, affirming before yourself that your body is not defined
by the old paradigm, you allow new biological information to be produced through body
- mind bonding. Your cells receive that redefined sense of yourself as new programming.
In this way the gap between your former isolated self and the image of
you begins to close how to be ageless and timeless. Part two, aging
and consciousness. Consciousness has the power to change aging, but it is a
two- edged sword that can both heal and destroy. The difference lies in
how your consciousness is conditioned or trained to adopt diverse attitudes, assumptions, beliefs,
and reactions. When these mental patterns are destructive, the person is driven
by his mind to destructive behavior. When mental patterns are constructive, the person
is motivated towards self- improvement behavior before being trained. Consciousness is only a
field of energy and information. It is the faculty that allows the mind to
have thought before the thought has a real presence. Compared to a single expression
of matter and energy, either an atom or a galaxy. The quantum field
is incomparably more powerful, as it has the potential to generate infinite convi nations
of time- space events that have never occurred. Similarly, as always,
it remains capable of generating new mental impulses that, in turn, generate new
biological information. Your consciousness is far more powerful than any thought you might have.
Maintaining This creative potential is the characteristic of not aging giving up on it
in favor of habits, rites, rigid beliefs and long- standing behaviors,
it is characteristic of aging. In ancient China, Tao Techin proclaimed the same
truth, everything flexible and flowing will tend to grow. Everything rigid and blocked
will wither and die. The impressions of past experiences set in our minds predictable
models that activate predictable behaviour. We all have a complex inner life where positive
and negative thinking patterns are swirled. But the simple fact is that consciousness can
be trained. It is the most fundamental thing that happens to us from birth
onwards, as it will be melted into which a seal ring sinks. The
raw conscience and report can retain an impression and once the impression is established,
the consciousness accommodates around it the illusion of not being able to choose childhood we
were more impressionable than ever. Our consciousness was as it would be fresh,
not yet marked by experience. When old age comes, that same consciousness has
been conditioned thousands of times and, as it will be old, used too
many times. The mind becomes brittle and rigid. It is difficult to find
even a small corner that is not conditioned by multiple layers of experience. Old
bodies reflect that underlying stiffness that is felt in all cells. The number of
impressions that overlap within us is overwhelming. Behavioral psychologists have calculated that only the
verbal keys provided to us by our parents in the early childhood that still run
inside our head like tape recorders with sor udina, equal more than twenty-
five zero hours of pure conditioning for each of us. The learning process that
teaches us to age complex and never ends involves attitudes inherited from the family,
parents and societies of the early years. What your mother said when she detected
her first wrinkles. He looked at them as the dreaded symbol of lost youth.
It continued to be considered beautiful and desirable. How your father received retirement
as the end of his useful existence or as the threshold of a better time.
Your grandparents were benign and wise or distant guides, strangers who inspired fear.
The signs of old age they presented were seen as senectud or simply as
change. The conditioning effect is always the same choice is restricted. The act
of eating, for example, is a choice that almost all of us exercise
freely several times a day, but those who suffer from anorexia find that choice
severely limited. In the anorexic consciousness there are powerful impressions of low self-
esteem, harshness, repressed anger guilt and images of a defective body. These
impressions can be extraordinarily intricate, but the end result has the simplicity of a
graph. That person can no longer eat normally. The mere vision of active
food, the unconscious conditioning, the repulsive sensation to flora spontaneously, killing the
appetite. If the condition has progressed to an extreme point, the anorexic is
practically paralyzed, forced by its old condition to starve even when the food is
abundant. Every doctor hears the same distressed complaint from someone who has a eating
disorder. I have to act like this. I have to do what I
' m doing. This condemnation is an illusion, as the ligatures of conditioning
may be broken as it rules But this illusion is overwhelming because of the convincing
under its influence, the physiological mechanism of hunger is distorted in abnormal responses.
The same mechanism applies to our theme, ageing. Within each one is hidden
the conviction that it must age, which operates upon us with such strength that
our bodies adapt to it whenever the possibility of choosing seems eliminated is operating some
form of illusion. Thousands of years ago, Zancara, the greatest of the
Indian sages, declared that people age and die because they see others grow old
and die. It has taken centuries to begin to grasp this extraordinary acuity.
As a physical process. Aging is universal. According to all appearances, inevitable.
A steam locomotive does not wear out until it disarms because it sees other
locomotives do the same. The only conditioning that affects any machine is simple wear.
Certain parts run out before others because they absorb more impact or friction.
Our body also absorbs impact and friction. Various organs and tissues run out before
others. The physical picture looks so much like mechanical wear that we can'
t understand the deeper part of the sancara phrase. The aged body responds to
social conditioning. There are societies where people share very different conditioning styles. Yes,
therefore, it ages in a very different way. In recent decades,
anthropologists have discovered with surprise that many supposedly primitive peoples are immune to the signs
of aging that the West has long accepted This boed igen co- author of
a fascinating book on the health of primitive man skin l detec Prescription. The
paleolithic recipe points to at least twenty- five traditional societies around the world where
heart disease and cancer, two long- standing ailments associated with aging are almost
unknown. These societies are our best testing ground for the hypothesis that normal aging
actually a series of symptoms born of abnormal conditioning. Eaton cites cultures native to
many places Venezuela, the Solomon Islands, Tasmania and the deno a certain African,
whose members all enjoy low blood pressure throughout their lives. This is completely
contrary to the trend of the United States and Western Europe, where almost everyone
experiences several points of increase in blood pressure for every decade accomplished and one in
two elderly should be treated for hypertension. Deafness is another characteristic of senectud that
modern societies have long accepted as normal and inevitable, even deafness may be starting
here at a younger age. In a study carried out in genesis on first
- year university students, it was discovered that 60 percent already had significant hearing
loss. Approximately twenty- five million adult Americans have lost hearing power in a
proportion that enables them to receive an incapacity pension. However, certain tribes of
Bushmen living in Botswana, as well as mavans in southern Sudan, do not
show significant loss of hearing as they age. Similarly, although cholesterol levels tend
to rise with age. In industrialized countries, tribes such as Tanzanian Hazes and
North Mexico' s Tarahumara Indians rarely exceed a cholesterol reading of 150. This
level, which is 60 points below the U S average, powerfully protects these
peoples against premature heart attacks. Moreover, these low levels persist throughout life,
while in our culture cholesterol tends to rise slowly, but firmly as we age
a wide variety of cultures has managed to escape one or more of these diseases
of civilization. Inadequate name, as there are highly civilized societies that are also
characterized by good health. Breast cancer that attacks one in nine Americans is extremely
rare. In both China and Japan, colon cancer is a serious threat to
American men. It also has very little incidence there as in several indigenous African
tribes. The populations of Japan, Taiwan or Africa leave their traditional environment to
move to the United States. Exposure to civilization and its improved lifestyle is often
disastrous. Cups of heart attacks, colon cancer, hypertension, which were a
fraction of ours, increase dramatically. The typical thing is that towards the second
generation there is no advantage. But this change is due only to diet and
lifestyle. In support of this explanation, epidemiologists point to Japanese residents in Hawaii,
a site that is considered an intermediate cultural point between East and West,
both in diet and lifestyle and eat less fat than that consumed in the North
American continent, but more than is customary in Japan. Japanese immigrants to Hawaii
suffer from heart attacks, in a proportion that also occupies a midpoint between Japan
and the United States. However, this long- accepted explanation lost firmness when
some of the data were examined in more detail, as noted by psychologist Baber
Onstieni David Sobo, author and co- author respectively of Hilling Brain' s
book. The healing brain. If we look at the entire spectrum of Japanese
immigrants from California, there was a subgroup that maintained low proportions of heart disease,
with no correlation with diet or blood cholesterol levels. They were men who
maintained strong ties with Japanese culture, despite having moved to America. The various
ways in which his conscience remained Japanese. Living in a Japanese neighborhood, educating
with other children of the same origin, speaking the native language, and observing
traditional customs and social ties helped to produce healthy hearts with high or low blood
cholesterol. What kept these men healthy was an invisible but very powerful social bond.
They continued to share the consciousness of the traditional Japanese, which is a
prolonged form of mind that cannot fail to have physiological effects in the same sense.
True is your done, especially mechigen car industry workers fired in difficult times,
have shown that those who felt strongly supported by family, relatives and friends
had less tendency to develop physical or mental symptoms. Similarly, when a group
of pregnant women were asked if they felt supported by their family and friends,
it was discovered that ninety- one percent of the serious complications of pregnancy occurred
among those who claimed to lead a life full of stress and with little social
support. Social support is a complex phenomenon that covers all interactions of language customs,
family structure and social traditions that bind people to each other. The net
result is that consciousness is programmed. Social binders are produced on the plane of
the mind. You realize that someone else is like you and you think she
sees you the same way. What you share is a larger being, an
interwoven psyche, as sensitive and intricate as an individual psyche. Be written from
books about the aging process with the assumption that aging is something that happens to
you. However, we now see that this is something that social conditioning taught
our body. Differentiation is of the utmost importance. If aging is something that
happens to you, you' re basically a victim, but it' s
something you learned you' re in a position to unlearn the behavior that'
s making you grow old, adopt new beliefs, and let you orient yourself
to new opportunities. There is an aphorism that the late numen jas enci made
famous. Belief creates biology. Nothing so true was ever said about aging.
Our inherited expectation that the body will be spent over time, accompanied by waves
of beliefs that we are destined to suffer, age and die creates the biological
phenomenon we call aging. Life is consciousness in action. Despite the thousands of
hours of recording that program our reactions, we continue to live because the consciousness
there are new ways to fr flee. It is always available The positive side
of consciousness, its ability to heal, learning not to age the link between
belief and biology. Although consciousness is programmed in a thousand different ways, the
most convincing are what we call beliefs. A belief is something you cling to
because you consider it true. But unlike thoughts that actively form words or images
in your brain, belief is often silent. A person with claustrophobia does not
need to think. This room is too narrow or in this crowd there are
too many people put in a small crowded room, your body reacts automatically somewhere
in your consciousness. There is the hidden belief that generates all the physical symptoms
of fear. No need to think. In this the flow of adrenaline that
causes his heart palpitations, the sweaty palms, the wheezing breath and the dizziness
are activated in a deeper plane than the thinking mind. Jóbics desperately struggle to
use thought to calm fear, but it' s no use. The habit
of fear has sunk so deeply that the body remembers fulfilling it. Even if
the mind resists with all its might, the thoughts of a claustrophobic there is
nothing to fear. Small rooms are not dangerous if the others are so quiet.
Why can' t I dominate this. They are rational objections, but
the body acts following orders that impose upon thought our beliefs concerning old age have
that same kind of power over us. Let me give you an example.
In the last twenty years, gerontologists have carried out experiments to show that,
by staying active throughout life, even at the age of eighty, the loss
of muscle and skeletal tissue is slowed down. Among the retirees There was the
news that they should continue walking, running, swimming and doing domestic work under
the emma. What is not used is lost millions of people now expect to
stay strong in old age. With this new belief installed something happened that was
previously considered impossible. Some daring gerontologists at the University of Tabs visited a nursing
home there selected a group of the most fragile residents and subjected them to a
diet of weight exercises. It could have been feared that the sudden introduction of
exercise would exhaust or kill these fragile people. On the contrary, they flourished
eight weeks later. The lost muscles had returned by three hundred percent, improved
coordination and balance and regained a general sense of active life. Some of the
subjects who no longer walked without help were able to get up in the middle
of the night to go alone to the bathroom, an act of claimed dignity
that cannot be considered trivial. However, the most wonderful thing about this achievement
is that the youngest subject in the group was eighty- seven years old and
the oldest ninety- six. These results were always possible. Nothing new was
added to the capacity of the human body. All that happened was that a
belief was changed and as it happened it changed aging. If you' re
ninety- six years old, if you' re afraid to move your body,
it' ll be consumed to get into a gym. At that age
you must believe that it will do the body good, you must be free
from fear and believe in yourself. When I say that aging is the result
of a belief, he did not imply that one can turn old age away
by mere thought. On the contrary, the stronger my belief is, the
more rooted it will be in the body and the more immune it will be
to control. Conscious according to the belief system that you and I have,
nature has locked us into bodies that age against our will. The tradition of
aging extends backwards, as far as historical records and even in prehistory. Animals
and plants age in compliance with a universal law of nature. It is hard
to imagine that old age is the result of learned behavior, because biology cannot
be denied. However, the basic belief that aging is a fixed and mechanical
process something that happens to us is just a belief as such prevents us from
seeing all kinds of facts that do not fit the belief system that we cling
to. Among the following statements he believes certain how many correspond to the facts
to age is natural. All organisms age and die. You see aging is
inevitable. You can' t stop it. Getting older is normal. It
affects everyone more or less the same way to age is genetic. I'
ll probably live as long as my parents and grandparents. Ageing is painful,
causing physical and mental suffering. Ef aging is universal. The law of entropy
makes all ordered systems wear and tear and integrate. G aging is fatal.
We all grow old and die. If you take for granted one of these
claims or all of them you are under the influence of beliefs that do not
conform to reality. Each statement contains a little objective truth, but it is
also possible to refute them. One at a time. Ageing is natural,
but there are organisms that never age, such as unicellular amoebas, salts and
protozoa. There is also a part of you that does not age your emotions
you, the type of personality, the intellectual quotient and other mental characteristics,
for example, as well as large portions of your adn Physically, makes no
sense to say that the water and minerals of your body age, as it
is old or sage water. Only these components make up seventy percent of your
body. You see aging is inevitable, but the bee at certain times of
the year can alter its hormones and completely reverse its age. In the human
body, hormonal alterations may not be so dramatic, but there is enough room
for any day your hormonal profile to be younger than the previous day, month
or year. Getting old is normal. However, there is no normal aging
curve that applies to everyone. Some people run away entirely from certain age symptoms,
others, on the other hand, are affected by them long before they
reach the old age of aging. It has a genetic component that affects everyone,
but not to the degree that is usually assumed. If the parents have
become octogenarians, the child' s life expectancy increases by only three years.
Less than five percent of the population has genes so good or so bad that
they can lengthen or significantly shorten their lives. By comparison. By adopting a
healthy lifestyle, you can delay the symptoms of aging. Up to thirty years.
Ageing is often painful both physically and mentally. But this is not the
result of aging itself, but of the various diseases afflicting the elderly, many
of which can be avoided by faith Aging seems universal, because all the ordered
systems break down over time, but our body resists that decline very well.
Without negative influences from within or from outside, our organs and tissues could easily
last between one hundred and fifteen and one hundred and thirty years before the age
alone made them stop working that finally aging is fatal, because we must all
die. But in the vast majority of cases, perhaps in ninety- nine
percent, the cause of death is not old age, but cancer, heart
attack, stroke, pneumonia, and other diseases. It is extremely difficult to
ensure what it would be like to observe the aging of the body itself.
Two cars abandoned in the rain will rust more or less at a par The
oxidation process attacks them equally, turning iron and steel into ferrous oxide. According
to an easy- to- understand chemistry law, the aging process does not
obey such simple laws in some of us. It is a uniform and slow
even process, like the turtle that crawls towards its destination. In others it
is like approaching an invisible cliff. There is a long and safe health plateau
followed by a sharp decline in one or two years, which will be the
last of life. Finally, others will keep most of the body healthy,
except for a weak link like the heart, which will fail long before the
other organs. It would be necessary to follow a person’ s evolution for
most of his adult life to find out how he ages and by then it
would be too late. The fact that aging is so personal to the very
frustrating result for medicine, which is very difficult to foresee and treat many of
the main ailments associated with old age. Two young women can eat the same
amount of calcium and have equally healthy hormone levels. However, after menopause,
one will develop an invalidating osteoporosis, the other will not. Two twin brothers
with identical genes may have remarkably similar medical histories throughout their lives, but one
will become ill with Alzheimer’ s, arthritis, or cancer. Two of
the most common ailments in old age. High blood pressure and high cohu and
sterol are equally unpredictable. The aging body refuses to behave according to the laws
and rules of mechanics. After decades of intensive research, there is no proper
theory about human aging. Even our attempts to explain how animals age have given
rise to over 300 different theories, many of them contradictory. The ideas we
had about aging have undergone drastic changes over the past two decades. In the
early 1970s, doctors began to observe that the body of some exagenaries and septuagenaries
still functioned with the vigor and health of the mature age. They were people
who ate sensibly and cared for the physique. Most of them didn' t
smoke. They had abandoned the habit after the surgeon general' s first warnings
about lung cancer. In the early 1960s, they had never suffered heart attacks,
although they presented some of the accepted signs of old age high blood pressure
cholesterol and a tendency to incorporate fat into the presvicia and not to perceive the
sounds of high vibrations. These people didn' t have any elders. What
was called the new old age was born. Old age was characterized by irreversible
declines on all fronts, physical, mental and social. For countless centuries.
People assumed that they would reach old age if they were weak, senile,
socially useless, sick and poor. To reinforce these gloomy expectations there had been
gloomy events. Before the 20th century. Only one out of ten people reached
the age of sixty- five for entire centuries. In the past, the
human body was exposed to the murderous influence of a harsh environment, inadequate nutrition,
life- long physical work and untamed epidemics created conditions that accelerated aging.
If we look through the stories of immigrants who arrived in the country at the
beginning of the century, some of their photographs will horrify us. Forty-
year- old women are oblivious and literally demacrated as if they were seventy misled.
There are teenage boys who look like mature men, heavily punished under the
surgeon' s scalpel. The lungs, kidneys, and livers of these people
would have been identical to those of a modern person who doubled them in age.
Aging is the body' s response to the conditions imposed on it both
inside and outside. The sands of age move under our feet, adapting to
our way of life and being. The new old age appeared on the scene
last half century of improved living conditions and intense medical advances. The average life
of the American, who in nineteen hundred was forty- nine years old,
jumped in nine hundred ninety- seventy to seventy- five. To put this
huge increase in perspective, the years of life we have gained in less than
a century are equivalent to the total length of life that individuals had for more
than four thousand years. From prehistoric times to the dawn of the industrial revolution,
the average life span remained below forty- five years. Only ten percent
of the general population used to reach sixty- five. Today, on the
other hand, 80 per cent of the population reaches that age at the very
least. The mystery of aging. Despite this proof that aging is a fluid
and changing phenomenon, we are still operating under the belief that it can be
strictly considered a biological process. When you look at your body and repair how
much it has changed physically since you were young, aging seems like an obvious
phenomenon. It' s actually a long way from it. Twenty years ago,
in my time as a young intern, I worked in a vast,
horrible veterans' hospital outside Boston. On a typical day he examined dozens of
patients, mostly old soldiers who had fought in two world wars. The past
few years had taken too obvious a tithe. Even with their eyes closed,
the sound and touch of those bodies were unmistakable. They were shaking their hands
when I took their pulse. His lungs were whistling under the stethoscope. The
energetic bumbom of young hearts had given way to weaker and more fragile rhythms.
I knew that under the thin veil of that dry, wrinkled skin an invisible
destruction was carried out. Blood vessels were hardening. Pressure was rising. Had
he been able to sink his hand to touch the three coronary arteries, he
would almost certainly have found one or more thickened by the fatty plaques. The
main artery of the body would be hard as a lead tube hardened by calcium
deposits, while the delicate arterioles of the head would seem so thin that the
slightest contact would cause them to get rid of, causing a stroke. Also
the vertebrae and hip bones would be becoming thin and brittle ready to fracture.
If the man slipped on the ladder all over the body, there would be
hidden tumors restrained only by the slow metabolism of the elderly, which mercifully slows
the spread of cancer. All this may seem like a tight description, though
gloomy about the aging process, but in reality I did not examine the elderly,
but the sick. Doctors from all over America made the same mistake.
Reduced to treat various diseases. We forgot what aging is like when there is
no disease. Moreover, the few medical researchers who were interested in the aging
process, a hundred, tended to work in veterans' hospitals, like the
one where I did my boarding school. By definition. The normal aging they
observed was abnormal. Normal people aren' t hospitalized. No one would think
of defining childhood by studying patients in a children' s hospital. In general,
however, old age was defined in this way for the total population,
only five per cent of persons over the age of sixty- five, whether
in hospitals or institutions for the mentally ill, are hospitalized. It is surprising
that this figure is not significantly higher than among the younger age groups. Obviously,
there are many reasons apart from old age, for someone to end up
interning. These places are held by widows, homeless, alcoholic, mentally incapacitated
or destitute persons. The doctor can' t spend a day in a typical
hospital in big city without a patrol car unloading a few of my helpless miserables
collected in the street and destined to become the impersonal statistics that researchers use to
define old age. Afraid of old age, he warned platoon more than 2,
000 years ago, for he did not come alone, telling the truth.
What afflicts us most from aging is not often old age itself, but
the diseases that accompany it In wildlife. Few animals die simply from getting too
old. There are other factors, such as disease, ambimbre, weather exposure
and wild stalkers, which kill the majority long before they reach the potential duration
of life. If you look at a flock of sparrows in front of your
window this spring, half of them will have died of various causes. Therefore,
in practice it matters little that sparrows can live for more than ten years
and are kept safe and sound in a cage among birds there are long lifetimes.
Eagles n n n n S or s NS in living fifty years parrots
over seventy, which seems strange, considering how fast their metabolism and the rapid
rhythm of heart. But in the process of aging there is very little logic
in itself. The evolutionary purpose of aging is unknown to biologists, since nature
has so many other means to put an end to an animal' s life.
For example, mortality is included in the system of competition for food.
Some animals must die in order for others to survive. Otherwise, the survival
of the fittest would make no sense between bears and deers. For example,
during the breeding season. The males fight for the territory. When the strongest
gain the right to procreate with the females, they also gain the best territory,
lands where food abounds, while the defeated must conform much poorer consolations,
where many will go hungry and will soon die u u o. An animal
is either lucky enough to survive until it completes its lifetime. Your body won
' t be old, it' ll just be plagued with disease. Cancer,
heart ailments, hardened arteries, arthritis, and stroke wreak havoc among aged
beasts. Older lions suffer from coronary occlusion, old eagles have cataracts. Aging
is mixed to such an extent with other factors that it is very difficult to
separate it. The same confusion occurs among humans. Although we are proud to
have escaped the adversities of wildlife, modern ones rarely die of old age.
In nineteen hundred and thirty- eight, the British medical publication Dolensed included the
report of an experienced pathologist who claimed never to have examined a corpse that had
succumbed only to age. The most approximate case was that of a ninety-
four- year- old man who had died slowly turning out without a declared
illness, but the appearances were misleading. The autopsy found that he had suffered
an undiagnosed case of lobular pneumonia. One of the most common causes of death
among the elderly. Even if common sense likes to think that we age from
simple wear and tear. No theory of wear aging has ever resisted close scrutiny.
The aged body only seems to be spent as a tractor or a widely
used washing machine. How that machine goes the doctor asks any elderly patient as
if his heart were a clock to which he was finishing his rope. However,
unlike machines that run out with excess use, the human body is able
to improve. The more you use it. A well- exercised biceps does
not deteriorate. Rather it strengthens. Leg bones increase their mass in proportion to
the weight they carry, which explains why austeoporosis is virtually unknown in tribal societies,
where physical activity is standard throughout life. Moreover, if wear was the
real cause of aging, it would be a good strategy to spend your life
in bed. In fact, prolonged rest is disastrous for physiology. A hospitalized
patient who is forced to rest for a few weeks will suffer as much loss
of muscle and bone tissue as if he had aged for a decade. Any
purely physical theory of aging is necessarily incomplete. Let' s look at arthritis,
one of the most common symptoms of old age in medical school. We
were taught that common osteoarthritis is a degenerative disease. This means that their cause
is simply wear and tear. After the hard use of all life, the
cartilage that padded the joints intended to withstand the greatest weight deteriorates. Thus,
it is explained that the preferred sites of arthritis are the knee and hip joints
that sustain the body’ s load. The soft synovia covering that covers the
bones in the place where they are also ends up inflaming or deteriorating, causing
pain, swellings and the burning sensation of arthritis. Sometimes the synovial fluid dries
and the bones scrape each other, creating holes or beaks. This kind of
degeneration afflicts humanity since the stone age. Now it is believed that the familiar
image of the prehistoric man walking with his shoulders bent is a distortion of the
true aspect of the healthy caveman. Apparently, what confused archaeologists was that many
of the intact skeletons found in the excavations were deformed by column arthritis. As
a cause of arthritis. Attrition seems attractive to common sense, but it does
not explain a number of things. There are people who never suffer from arthritis,
even if they submit their joints to extreme attention. Other people end up
arthritic after spending their lives in a sedentary desk job, not to mention that
certain favorite sites of the disease, such as fingers, should never bear any
weight. New theories about arthritis are directed towards hormones, genetics, autoimmunity failure,
diet, and other factors. After all, no sure cause is known.
However, another common type of arthritis, rheumatoid, has been related to
emotional factors. This ailment seems to prefer women with a strong tendency to repress
their emotions, who adopt passivity and depression as a way of coping with stress
rather than becoming angry or facing serious emotional issues. The disease worsens during periods
of tension for unexplained reasons. It also often disappears, perhaps obeying a deeper
current of change. The three ages of man. The complexity of the forces
operating within an aged body. It becomes even more obvious when we ask a
question of apparent simplicity what age you are before rushing to answer. Note that
there are three separate ways to measure an individual' s age. Chronological age,
the one that has according to the calendar, the biological age that your
body has according to the critical vital signs and cellular processes, the psychological age,
the one that has as you feel. Only the first of these is
fixed, but the chronological age is also the least reliable of all three.
A 50- year- old can be almost as healthy as he was when
he was twenty- five. Another, on the other hand, can already
have a body of sixty and up to seventy years to really know how old
you are is put into play. The second measure, biological age, tells
you how time has affected your organs and tissues, comparing them with other people
of your same chronological age. However, time does not affect the body evenly.
Virtually every tissue cell and organ ages at its own pace, which makes
the biological age much more complex than the chronological one. A middle- aged
marathon runner may have the muscles of someone' s legs, heart, and
lungs twice younger, but the knees and kidneys may have quickly aged due to
excess stress their eyesight and ears may be declining along their own syncratic idio pathways.
Over the years, you return uniquely to the age of twenty, when
muscle development, reflexes, sexual impulse and many other primary functions reach their peak.
Most of us are similar to the eyes of physiologists. In youth,
the heart, brain, kidneys, and lungs always exhibit a healthy color and
firmness. They' re in short supply or not. There is evidence of
malformed, sick or dying tissues, but by the age of seventy there are
not two bodies even remotely similar to that age. Your body will be different
from all the bodies in the world. Age changes will reflect the unique character
of your life. Biological age also has its limits as a measuring tool.
The aging process, considered purely biological, progresses so slowly that its fatal effects
rarely reach those of faster diseases. Almost all critical organs can function well at
thirty percent of their maximum capacity. Therefore, if from the age of thirty
years the body decreases its function at the rate of one percent per year,
it would take seventy years until it turns a hundred for it to be threatened
to an organ, especially with imminent exhaustion. But social and psychological influences are
always active. The lifestyle subjects us to various conditions and the differences in our
way of aging are much earlier. Two men who have had a brain thrombosis
at fifty years of age and in identical medical conditions can and often have very
different results. One recovers very soon from the attack responds well to physical therapy
and easily recovers speech and movement until returning to normal life. The other can
respond poorly to treatment, become overwhelmed by depression, and give up all activity.
In a short time he can grow old and die. The determining factor
is the psychological age, the most personal and mysterious of the three measurements,
but the one that offers the most possibilities to reverse the aging process. Biological
age is known to vary. Regular physical exercise, for example, can reverse
ten of the most typical effects of biological age, including high blood pressure,
excess fat, inadequate sugar levels, and reduced muscle mass. Gerontologists have found
that when an elder agrees to adopt a better lifestyle by changing his habits,
life expectancy increases by an average of ten years. Therefore, the arrow of
time can move quickly or slowly, stop on its path and even turn on
the net, the body becomes biologically younger or older, depending on how we
treat it. However, it is even more flexible. The elderly, the
psychological, like the biological age, the psychological is completely personal. There are
not two people who are exactly the same psychological age, because there are not
two people who share the same experiences. Let us listen to Anna Lntwin'
s one hundred and one year old voice, who made a very important observation
in her childhood that would influence her way of aging in the following eighty or
ninety years back in Norway, when she was little people who reached fifty-
five. At the age of sixty- five, they sat all the time.
I never felt so old. That' s being old. Today I
don' t feel that old the age you feel has no limits and can
be reversed in a fraction of a second. An old woman, remembering her
first love, suddenly seems to have been eighteen years old again, a mature
man, learns that her beloved wife has died and withers into lonely senectud in
a matter of weeks. Instead of giving a fixed figure to answer the question
how old you are, we need to find a moving scale that shows how
quickly our three ages move in relationship. Let' s take two fifty-
year- olds recently divorced. He suffers from depression, acute, with a
history of heart disease and excess weight. Ve is a happy, healthy,
optimistic married man and is satisfied with his work. Due to the various factors
at stake. The true age of Ayvés is best expressed with a graph in
three planes. Full diagonal chronological age, B, biological age, psychological age
bb AH at thirty, thirty- five, forty, forty- five,
fifty, fifty- five sixty. The arrows indicate the direction of aging and
their reading length indicates the speed with which the process occurs. Although there b
are chronologically fifty years old. He has been under so many negative influences that
his body has biologically ten years more and ages quickly. His psychological age is
more or less the same as that indicated in the calendar, but also there
quickly ages the picture is very different in the case of B, who is
younger in both the biological and the psychological scales. His good physical and mental
health indicates that he slowly ages on the biological plane and actually rejuvenates psychologically.
In general, the state of a is much worse than that of be,
depending on how severe your depression and heart disease are. Their composite age could
be up to sixty years, but this figure is artificial. He ignores the
fact that all the factors that age him are reversible, both with regard to
his chronological age within ten years could feel as happy, optimistic and healthy as
B, in which case he would decline to his composite age. When gerontologists
try to predict longevity. They should take into account the following psychosocial factors in
order to properly determine whether the aging process is to accelerate or delay. Negative
factors that accelerate aging. The asterisk points to the factors of greatest importance depression,
the inability to express emotions, to feel unable to change or change others,
to live only loneliness, absence of intimate friends, lack of a regular
daily routine, lack of a regular work routine, dissatisfaction with work, having
to work more than forty hours a week, financial concerns debts, habitual or
excessive concerns, lamenting sacrifices made in the past, irritability, getting angry easily
or not being able to express the anger critical of himself and other positive factors
that delay the aging marriage. Happy or successful couple relationship and long satisfaction with
work, feeling of faith personal happiness, ease of laughter sexual life, satisfying,
ease of making and preserving intimate friends, regular daily routine, regular work
routine, taking at least one week of vacation every year, feeling that you
take the wheel of personal life, enjoying free time and satisfying hobbies, ease
of expressing optimism about the future, feeling secure in the financial, living within
your means. As you can see, the psychological age is not reduced to
the phrase given. You' re as old as you sit and change.
Psychological age involves interconnected personal and social factors. Among the important factors there are
several that we have already touched. The importance of a regular routine in everyday
life and at work is highlighted in almost all studies on longevity. Job satisfaction
emerges as the most reliable indicator that the individual is at low risk for heart
attack. On the other hand, feeling dissatisfied with the work makes that risk
extremely high. Living alone is precarious. A happy married life, on the
other hand, indicates that it will grow old slowly. The combinations of these
factors become very complex, reflecting the complexity of personal life. Gerontologists have reached
great extremes in trying to quantify some of these factors with feasible results. For
example, those who have lived only four years will have a psychological age,
something different from those who have lived only eight years. The relative value assigned
to regular daily routine has the threefold importance that a satisfying sex life and optimism
about the future nullifies point by point, the negative factor of not having a
hobby or a hobby. But any attempt to quantify someone' s personal constitution
inspires certain reservations. Despite the general accuracy of these factors, they overlook the
essence of personal life, which is their ability to change and transform, to
play many chords both cheerful and sad, to experience sudden reversions and abrupt illuminations,
when I think of myself my image is not a fixed collection of attributes
inside things always change at times drastically. The list cannot quantify intangible qualities,
such as the ability to provide and take into account others. In general,
this is a limitation of modern psychology, which relies too much on impersonal numbers
and data. However, there is an unusual study that filled that void quite
well. Larry Skerwitz, a psychologist at the University of California, recorded conversations
of nearly six hundred men, of whom one third suffered from heart disease,
the others were healthy. When listening to the recordings, he counted the number
of times each one used the words me and mine Comparing their results to the
frequency of the disease. Sker Witz found that those most using first- person
pronouns were at greater risk of heart problems in addition. After following the subjects
for several years, he discovered that the more men talk about themselves, the
greater the chance that they will suffer from thrombosis. Counting the times someone said
I was an ingenious way of quantifying egocentrism. For me there is something very
appropriate in the fact that the heart suffers the more the less it opens to
others. According to Skerwitz' s conclusion, the antidote was to be more
generous. Listen carefully to others, give to others your time and your energy.
Let others get away with their work with other reasons than satisfying your own
needs. With those words, it goes beyond quantifiable data, moving on to
very attractive themes of love and compassion to our intuitive feeling that an open and
affectionate person should age well. So far, quantified research has shown something very
valuable. The biological age corresponds to the psychological age. If you review the
list of positive psychosocial influences, objective words such as happy, satisfied, and
optimistic indicate the absolutely personal character of these factors. By feeding your inner life,
you use the power of consciousness to defeat aging at its very source.
On the contrary, changes of consciousness toward apathy, hopelessness and dissatisfaction push the
body into rapid decline. The value of adaptability. It is terrifying to observe
the elder who abandons his desire to live and it is very difficult to show
him what he is doing when life loses its meaning. The energy that sustains
the body seems to drain silently like a pile that is spent, but we
do observe with more attention. We can show that this exhaustion of vitality,
curiosity and the desire to live is controllable. Actually, they have nothing to
do with normal aging. The body is capable of replenishing automatically renews its energies
after periods of exhaustion however severe the tensions are, once the body has responded
it returns to a state of equilibrium. This tendency to remain in balance is
completely necessary for life and turns out to be a key mechanism of survival.
In nineteen hundred and fifty- seven he was Andres Danvar, a professor of
medicine at Columbia University, reported on a study of centenary and agile nonagenaries.
He discovered that the dominant feature among these people was psychological adaptability to stress.
This characteristic, more than any other, differentiated them from the general population.
While everyone has opportunities to feel pain, shock, sadness, and disappointment,
some recover much better than others. Damar went on to gather six traits that,
in his opinion, presented all the precentenaries who had the most chance to
fulfill the century of life, one, respond creatively vamentarily to change. This
feature more than another made the precentenaries stand out among ordinary people. Two lack
of nervousness. Nervousness is a great enemy of our ability to improvise and create,
three continuous ability to create and invent four high levels of adaptive energy,
five ability to integrate new things into one' s existence, six desire to
continue living. Like every predictor model, this one has its fault. It
must be recognized that some people vegetate and reach the age of one hundred,
as well as other rigid and uncreative people or others who care nothing to continue
living or not. But among the centennials are much more common the positive qualities,
as a description of the type of old age that are most desirable.
The lady list is extremely useful. Their precentenaries are special because they reveal that,
as well as not, they have a strong or weak immune system.
So we also vary in our ability to adapt mentally. Some face themselves with
elasticity of the journey of life however hard it may be, rather than with
brittle rigidity. They are the reeds that bow to the storm, not the
oaks that stay stiff and break. Adaptability can simply be defined as being free
of conditioned responses. Stay open to change, accept the new and welcome what
is unknown. It is a choice that involves defined personal abilities, as the
mind abandoned to inertia tends to reinforce its old habits and increasingly fall prey to
its adaptiveness questionnaire conditioning. If you want to know if you have learned the
skills that make you adaptable, answer the following questions, assigning you the following
score. Almost never, Sometimes, usually almost always Zero a point, two
points, three, points. One. When I face a problem and have
no idea how to solve it, I adopt the attitude that the right solution
will emerge. Two in my life, things happen in due time. Three
of us are optimistic about my future. Four when someone rejects me I suffer,
but I accept that that person had the right to decide. Five I
feel the loss of deceased family and friends, but the pain resolves itself and
I move on. I' m not trying to get back what can'
t be recovered. Six when I argue with someone, I defend my position,
but it is also easy for me to recognize the successes of the other
side. Seven votes for the man, not the party. Eight I dedicate
time to worthy causes, even if they are unpopular. Nine think I'
m good at listening. I don' t interrupt the others when they talk
ten. If someone plays something with a lot of emotion, I hear it
without expressing my point of view. Eleven put to the tour between a job
well paid, but boring and one I like for half the salary I stay
with that I like. Twelve my way of directing other people is to allow
them to do what they want instead of trying to master them. I'
m intruding as little as I can. Thirteen. It' s easy for
me to trust others. Fourteen I' m not likely to worry. Difficult
situations affect me less than most. Fifteen that in a competitive situation I am
a good loser. I say good play instead of me was out of shape.
Sixteen. It' s not so important to me to always be right.
Seventeen I feel comfortable playing with young children I easily enter your world.
Eighteen I don' t think much about my moods. Nineteen I can easily
feel someone else' s feelings. Twenty I feel comfortable with quiet people,
nervous people. It doesn' t make me nervous total score score evaluation Fifty
points or more you' re an exceptionally adaptable person who has spent a lot
of time on personal growth. Others seek your guidance and your advice gives high
priority to your ability to stay comfortable under pressure and ready to accept new challenges.
You' re proud to be able to resolve conflicts well. Thirty to
forty points. You adapt reasonably well to everyday challenges, but the effort you
have devoted to this aspect is probably limited. You are such a person that
others think carefree, but you may have more worries and regrets that you have
not faced conflicts worry you and tend to fall under the influence of people whose
emotions are stronger than yours twenty to thirty points. You have definite ideas about
right and wrong behavior and consider it a high priority to defend your point of
view. So far you strive for personal growth. It hasn' t been
a priority in your life. He is often an organized and purpose- oriented
person. If you are in a situation of conflict or competition, you certainly
want to be on the side of the winners. Less than 20 points.
You need to work hard with your sense of self dominated as a child by
one of your parents or you both fear rejection and worry or criticize when others
disagree with you. You have your way of doing things and you don'
t like surprises. You are probably obsessively ordered with many hidden concerns or,
on the contrary, very disorganized, prone to strong reactions to external events one
after another. The purpose of this test is not to make you feel superior
or inferior, but to spur conscious growth. The common denominator of all adaptable
people is that they strive daily to keep their consciousness open. Most of this
book is dedicated to that work. I do not consider that there is no
higher purpose in life than trying to open up consciousness until experiencing reality in all
its impact, with all its beauty, its truth, its wonder and its
sacred character. Low consciousness occurs when life is not lived thoroughly and life is
not appreciated. This tendency is usually so subtle that the damage takes months and
years to be evident, but the trail of clues is very obvious to anyone
who wishes to observe. The age changes that develop in the mind and body
are the final products of having given in without thinking to supposed rigid beliefs and
opinions. Some, for example, have absorbed the idea that in old age
they will lose memory often reinforced expectation by those who believe in old age These
people, as soon as they turn fifty- five or sixty, begin to
worry about any small failure of memory. Even though we all, young or
old, have occasional failures. Memory is something or something or on. You
can' t be forced to remember anything, but you can be forced to
forget. One way to do that is to block a memory with nervousness.
You remember the last time, in the middle of an emergency, you had
to call your house, you ran to a pay phone. In a state
of nervousness and as soon as you lifted up the receiver, thought passed through
your mind what my number is. I can' t remember my number.
This thought doesn' t go away until you calm down and let the fog
of anxiety go away. Then memory can arise spontaneously. Some people are so
distressed by the prospect of aging that they can only infiltrate that affliction. In
all situations where you must remember something, a friend' s name, an
address, the place where you left your keys begin to try to control your
memory. Well, I' m gonna forget about this with what they don
' t do, but make things worse until they get caught up in a
vicious circle. Convinced as they are that the senectud n s NS harasses them
they put the loss of memory by not allowing the necessary tranquility so that the
consciousness can act the development of any trait of character begins early in life and
begins to exhibit towards the mature age. The best way to ensure adaptability for
old age is to strive for it when you are still young. This was
demonstrated by a classic study that George Vallient, Hurverd' s psychologist, began
fifty years ago. He took one hundred and eighty- five young men to
Hurverth students during World War II and controlled their health for nearly forty years.
Goan found that even if someone seemed perfectly healthy in his youth, he was
likely to die prematurely if he reacted badly to stress, fell into depression,
or was psychologically unstable. Of the men who had the best mental health,
only two contracted chronic illnesses or died at the age of fifty- three.
However, of the forty- eight whose mental health was most deficient or s
die ons nearly ten times more died or contracted chronic diseases. Before reaching that
age, Vayan concluded that early aging, defined as irreversible physical decline, slowed
with good mental health and accelerated with poor mental health. The most formative years
to establish these conditions, he discovered, were those between the ages of twenty
- one and forty- six, because that is the period when a person
usually establishes a sure sense of self, despite the most terrible childhood traumas or
fail in that attempt once the seed is planted. Mental health results are physically
present during the 50s. That last part of the mature age is the dangerous
decade we often call the danger zone, because that' s when premature heart
attacks, uncontrolled hypertension and many types of cancer appear in large numbers. To
express it more generally, go discovered that the aging process is something learned.
People who have good mental health teach their bodies to age well. Depressed,
insecure and unhappy people are taught their bodies to grow old badly. Although Ivat
observed that there used to be three older people in the lives of those who
contracted chronic diseases and died young. He had the intelligence to understand that it
is not stress that makes people sick, but to renounce inner adaptability. In
the face of stress, the greatest threat to life and health is not having
to live. Children display tremendous vitality and face each day with open arms.
This is natural in them. If it remains natural unless you learn habits and
numbing abilities that stifle curiosity and spontaneous wonder go. He was among the first
to establish that depression often leads to prematur aging, chronic disease and early death.
In general, at the root of depression there is a kind of emotional
numbness. The individual feels that he has no laughter or joy in himself,
because these positive emotions are blocked by the unhappy cnsers inside they stalk the old
traumas and when they try to sprout new sensations, they are nitroated by those
traumas. Not even the most beautiful of experiences, such as having a baby,
can survive if it must be filtered by that pre- existing hopelessness.
The give to them generates a torrent of powerful hormones, causing a wave of
energy throughout the body. When a woman has healthy memories of her early childhood,
she experiences this surge of energy as a strong bond with her child.
At the same time, the body renews its energies. After his exhaustion.
I leave, in a few days the whole system mind and body has returned
to express the joy and power of motherhood. However, in a woman who
associates early childhood memories with emotional sorrows and pains, the torrent of new energies
that occurs during active birth, on the other hand, the old programming,
joy and power are transformed into apathy and fatigue postpartum depression is the result of
repeated memories that acquire a new validity in life. Although the vast majority of
depressions are treated with antidepressant drugs, that medication does not cure the underlying sadness
of trauma and numbness, which are the real cause of evil. When you
retire to the drug, depression blooms again. Although it takes more time,
more value, and more psychological penetration, it is more effective to treat depression
through psychotherapy. Divan' s classic psychiatry is often despised, but a lasting
cure is sometimes achieved by advising the depressed patient, discovering the inner pain and
releasing him, which no drug can do. This implies that the premature aging
that Bayán so closely linked to depression and mental instability. It would also be
treatable in a similar way. Indeed, all of us are learning and not
learning to grow old, only that we have not yet seen the opening of
consciousness in that way. While writing this part of the book, my family
received a visit from my wife' s uncle, who traveled from New Dei.
We want a lot. I learn, as it would be called,
in India, at seventy- five years old, retired from his work in
a company climbs up and down the stairs, jumping with much more agility than
I did. In his youth he was a tennis star and still plays every
day of simple pleasures and satisfied with his luck. Contemplate life with serenity and
joy. Envious. I put aside my consulting books to ask him what he
was doing to stay so young. Here' s what Prentio answered me well.
You know, I never get to the extremes. That' s how
I was born. I never took the habit of eating too much. This
morning I served a banana and cereal, and that' s all I want
at night as sand and I don' t drink, but a little cognac
from time to time. Second, I sleep very well. That' s
because of my diet, because if sine in abundance my sleep is altered.
Third, I don' t deal with trivialities. I' m leaving that
for my wife, Rio You know, I remember birthdays and social engagements.
Fourth, I play tennis that I love. Prentio is living proof of the
effectiveness of his method, but the important thing is that he doesn' t
actually have a method. His way of aging is only the result of being
like another person with completely different habits, but with the same easy acceptance of
himself would age. Likewise, in our society we collect hundreds of external indications
about how to live, but experience teaches us over and over again that it
is internal indications that we must obey. Prentio did not elaborate his lifestyle according
to an outside authority, He developed his own way of living moderately, sanely
and healthy. Almost all those who grow old successfully do the same. They
keep on instincting for what' s right for them. The fact that effective
survival is so individual. It' s not a casual factor. It is
one of the most important. In a society where we are automatically trained to
seek the advice of experts as an external authority, where internal indications of the
body are drowned with a torrent of external directives, the isolated individual who defeats
the system is a rarity. Social scientists have dedicated themselves to evaluating these people
and the results reveal striking similarities. In nineteen hundred and seventy- three,
at a major gerontology conference held at Duke University, three studies were presented describing
the type of person who can reach a healthy old age of eighty- five
to one hundred years. These people account for less than five per cent of
the current population. In his research of psychologists carried out at the University of
Checkrge Bonis Nogarren, he focused on life satisfaction, which contains five factors the
person. One finds pleasure in daily activities, two considers that his life makes
sense, three believes that he has achieved his main objectives, four has a
positive image of himself and is considered valuable. Five is optimistic. From his
research in Hurvelh, psychologist George Vallien took a similar perspective as we have seen,
that of mental health. He believes that the longest- lived individuals are
also the best adapted in their psychological life, a state characterized by one having
a stable family life, two considering their marriage to be satisfactory. Three rarely
live alone four continue progressing in their careers, not having incapacitating mental illnesses,
six, not being alcoholics, seven having fewer chronic illnesses. The third perspective
was that of Ereckp Feffer, a psychiatrist at Jeuke, who for many years
was director of a long- term study of American elders. Coinciding with the
two previous works, Feffel noted that full use of physical and mental capacity was
the best way to age well. People who successfully age, he discovered,
are the ones who do not give up training throughout adult life in three main
areas, physical activity, psychological and intellectual activity, and social relationships. If
we translate all these findings into larger terms, a profile emerges of people who
age well in the psychological plane and, therefore, in the biological one.
Ageing is something that happens in the mind. Therefore, it has unique variations
in humans. After twenty years, any dog is an old dog after three,
any mouse is an old mouse. After a hundred, any blue whale
is a very old blue whale. In all these beasts, biological age is
the only figure that counts. However, everyone knows someone who is young,
at the age of eighty, and others who look old at the age of
twenty- five. Sir Frans Speken, the great Renaissance, had a caustic
opinion of the elderly who have too many objections deliberate too long, venture too
little and repent too soon. That' s the kind of old age everyone
wants to avoid. Fortunately, there is nothing in our physical constitution that imposes
it on us. If you don' t want to grow old, you
can decide not to. Belinda, a patient of mine who has turned eighty,
is the product of long winters of neuhempho and crops. On rocky floors.
He raised compadres who had no time to grow old and who led an
active life while still being octogenarian. They taught their daughter to value inner qualities,
such as self- confidence and others, faith, honesty, and dedication
to the family. Belinda has escaped many miseries typical of old age. He
doesn' t take drugs for high blood pressure, like fifty percent of the
elderly. Many who do not take them should do so, because since the
dioretics have been improved, the pressure medications wake up upset and are often avoided.
He has not had the slightest cerebral or cardiac thrombosis and has no signs
of diabetes. I don' t think any of this is due to chance.
Today is the youth of your old age. What you are doing today
affects a result that will be presented in thirty or forty years. Belinda'
s good health is a direct result of her lifestyle at a time when the
first wrinkle had not yet appeared. This is medically confirmed by the evidence that
diseases of old age, such as hypertension, heart ailments and arteriosclerosis, arise
from microscopic alterations of our tissues that begin as early as ten years, when
not earlier. Why do you think you' ve aged? I also once
asked Belinda. I didn' t get into trouble, he kept me awake,
and I worked hard every day of my life. Many elders have a
secret of longevity. Belinda' s faith in hard work is something that many
share, but in truth, almost all of those secrets are reduced to invisible
traits in the person' s consciousness. Some individuals are nourished on the most
basic level of their consciousness, others not in purely physical terms. Belinda'
s life, dedicated to heavy agricultural work under the sun and rain bearing New
England' s incredulous climate, could easily have aged her earlier. Hard work
wears off some people, while others make them flourish. The difference lies in
complex psychological and social factors to which the body constantly responds. We need to
study these aspects in more depth so that the three ages of chronological, biological
and psychological man form a coherent picture. Consciousness as a field effect, as
much of our internal programming, It is unconscious to overlook the fact that the
most powerful influence we can exert on our aging comes simply from our consciousness to
gain control over the aging process. First we must be aware of it and
there are not two people who share the same consciousness. What is outside our
consciousness cannot be controlled. Obviously, and since aging is such a slow process,
it remains out of the consciousness of the majority, except in those isolated
moments of capture in which we understand that we miss youth, something shakes our
consciousness to tell us that we no longer have as much vigor and sexual appeal
as in other times. However, these distressing moments are not aging. It
is during the lack of consciousness, when we see nothing happen, when physiological
processes escape our control. Not being aware of a bodily process does not mean
that it has ceased. Your conscious uptake is matched by unconscious uptake. The
ability of the brain to monitor functions that the human nervous system does not think
of is designed in such a way that critical functions, such as breathing and
heart rhythm, can function alone or be managed voluntarily. I' ve already
mentioned it' s my branch the Indian adecto, which demonstrated such a remarkable
domain of bodily functions that they thought they were totally automatic. In one case,
it raised the surface temperature on one side of the hand while the other
side cooled. The variation was two degrees Celsius per minute, until one side
of the hand was hot red and the other grey cold. The total temperature
difference was approximately five and a half degrees. What a power it was that
was displayed there. Spiritual tradition. India has a branch of esoteric practice called
Tandra, which teaches complex exercises to master involuntary reactions. Tibetan Buddhism contains similar
teachings. Young monks must demonstrate their control of the body by sitting in a
frozen lake to melt the ice around in the heat they generate in a state
of intense meditation. Native Americans, Uphies, and all Shaman cultures around the
world contain similar practices. However, however esoteric these exercises become. The power
they summon is not mystical. It' s the same power of consciousness that
you use when you decide to volunteer breathing, blinking, balance, or any
other autonomous function. This change occurs in your consciousness without you having to think
about it. Therefore, we overlook the implicit power that it expresses. In
fact, as soon as you pay attention to any function, a transformation occurs.
For example, if someone puts in your hand a weight of two kilos
and lifts it n times for you your arm will not increase its muscle strength
at all. On the other hand, if you voluntarily perform the same act,
the ex- motor cut of your brain sends very different signals. Not
only your biceps, but also the heart and tissues of the lungs will receive
an increased stimulus, as well as the specific areas of your brain that control
motor coordination. Passive movements of your arm are analogous to unconscious and involuntary behavior.
The second form of activity involves the intricate process called learning, which is
at the root of growth, the opposite of aging. So, every time
you exercise the BICEPS, you' re teaching him to be stronger. Brain,
lungs, heart, endocrine glands and even the immune system adapt to a
new mode of functioning. The other way around. If you move the body
without consciousness, passivity takes the place of learning. Biceps, heart, lung
glands, endocline and immune system end up losing function instead of winning it.
When you begin to exercise control over any bodily process, the effect is sacred.
The body mind system reacts to any stimulus as to a global event,
that is, to stimulate a cell, is to stimulate them all. There
is a parallel in quantum terms, since a reaction at any point in time
space, including past, present and future, causes a change in the entire
quantum field, as expressed by a Nobel laureate. If you tickle the country
around here, laugh over there. It is now judged crucial to understand aging,
the fact that consciousness behaves as a field on a wider scale. Walter
Emeboritz, experienced doctor at Steantford, who specializes in aging. It has coined
the term disuse syndrome to describe how lack of attention to the basic needs of
the body, especially the need for physical activity, can destroy health and lead
to rapid premature aging. According to a well- known principle of physiology,
any part of the body that falls into disuse will begin to atrophy and wither.
Gritz took another step, discovering that this effect extended to the whole body
and beyond the cardiovascular system. When a person decides to abandon physical activity,
he is essentially inviting all of his physiology to atrophy. As a result,
a constellation of problems appears, an artery heart and other parts of the cardiovascular
system become more vulnerable. Two, the skeleton and muscles become more fragile.
Three, obesity becomes high risk, four is installed depression and five signs of
premature aging indicate that the body is biologically older than indicated by the calendar.
These are the five components of Boritz' s disuse syndrome that can be seen
today in countless elderly people. The physical rivers on this list are not surprising,
but it seems odd that being inactive alone can lead to depression for a
long time, considered a personality disorder or mood. However, studies of the
Russian space programme have shown that young astronauts subjected to forced inactivity of space flight
are prey to depression. When imposed on them a regular exercise schedule, depression
is avoided. The cerebral mechanism that controls depression seems to be related to a
type of neurochemicals called catecholamines. In depressed patients whose catecholamine levels are abnormally low,
healthy levels can be restored through the supply of antidepressant drugs, but the
natural way to achieve this is through regular exercise. Exercise, being sacred,
sends chemical messages between the brain and the various muscle groups. Part of this
flow of biochemical information stimulates the production of catecholamines. Therefore, every time a
doctor prescribes an n and depressive. According to Boritz, he is offering a
substitute for what the body prescribes internally and provides exercise. The news that exercise
counteracts aging has been widespread, but its preventive effects of depression may not be
so well known. The most fascinating thing, however, is that the underlying
logic that the function precedes the structure can be extended to say that consciousness precedes
the function. In other words, parts of the body that age loss of
structure are not just those that are not used enough loss of function. The
individual has also withdrawn his conscience from it. The man who learned to age
let me show how a personal pattern is formed that defines a person’ s
aging according to the biological and learned components. I have a sixty- seven
- year- old patient named Peory, who retired as a real estate broker.
His wife began to worry when she noticed that it wasn' t the
usual one. When he brought him in for a test. Herry was apathetic
and indifferent to questions. His wife commented that when he came home late after
shopping or visiting a friend, he used to be absent with television and barely
realized that she had come in. When I asked Piery how she felt,
her response was evasive. I' m just getting old. Nothing more.
He said there' s nothing wrong with me that he couldn' t be
cured when he was 20 years younger. But the truth is that the 20
- year- old Perry already cultivated the seed of habits and beliefs that would
make him what he is today. Like many of his generation, what has
lived longer than his parents, who spent their lives working hard at the Boston
shoe factories. Probably seeing them grow old deeply marks the expectations he has for
himself of his father. They kept it in the closet when they were sixty
- five. Then she withdrew to a rocker to read the newspapers, little
interested in creating a new life, gained weight and began to drink more than
before. Three years after receiving his gold watch, he suffered a heart attack.
The doctors advised him to give up any activity, resigning him to a
life of disability. However, in the course of a year he suffered a
second coronary thrombosis, this time fatal. Kry' s mother, on the
other hand, remained active all her life, like so many other working women,
in addition to serving in an accounting job, caring for her family and
caring for cooking, cleaning and clothing. Many things can be said about that
kind of life, but it kept her in a much better physical state than
he did of her husband. He had no heart problems or arterial depression.
Luckily, I didn' t smoke a habit I thought was inappropriate for ladies.
However, after the death of her husband, she fell into apathy and
loneliness. Their existence seemed to have lost its meaning if no one to care
for and not wanting to be a burden to their children, lived semi-
recruited. He finally died after a series of brain thrombosis. Today' s
vision of aging had been programmed by these two life stories. Although he probably
had no awareness of following his father’ s footsteps, he seemed to be
on the threshold of repeating how to age them. By adopting his beliefs without
knowing it, by losing contact with his own consciousness, he had lost control
of the aging process. As my medical specialty is endocrinology, Qur and his
wife came to consult me in case it was a thyroid problem. Disorders that
can mimic aging include thyroid deficiency and potiroidism, which causes abnormal decrease in metabolism.
His victims become slow and clumsy, his hair dyes gray and his skin
wrinkles. This imitation of natural aging disappears once the normal levels of thyroxine are
provided the hormone, which is missing, however, that today had adequate thyroid
levels, which left the burden of explanation to other influences. When someone seems
to be getting older so badly that signs of zenectud, weakness, and disability
are present, it is important to investigate their lifestyle. In a person'
s daily routine, problems arise that are too often ignored, especially when they
are things of age. It is estimated that between thirty and fifty percent of
cases of senility result from the following treatable factors malnutrition, drug side effects,
smoking, alcohol abuse, pressure dehydration, inactivity. All these factors begin in
consciousness and arise already from neglect, already from habit. Just her in combination.
Any of them can dramatically affect a person' s appearance and way of
acting. In the old age of the pary parents in general, little attention
had been paid to the destructiveness of these factors. The elders forgot to eat
well, they neglected the liquids, they took advantage of tobacco and drink to
calm the loneliness and spent the day sitting quietly, because that was being old.
In the past, doctors used to simultaneously prescribe pressure medications, sleepers,
and tranquilizers to the elderly, knowing very well that most of them mixed these
drugs with alcohol or took them in doses without bides. Doctors allowed and even
recommended smoking. Recently, a man told me that when I was a child,
his grandmother consulted the family doctor for a non- oidal congestion and he
advised her to smoke menthol cigarettes, following his doctor' s instructions responsibly.
She smoked her first cigarette at age 60 and kept the addiction until her death.
Fifteen years later. Giving advice on food did not fall within the sphere
of action of doctors. The elderly had to be severely dehydrated or malnourished,
sometimes even into a coma to seek professional intervention. Even today, when we
know that the lack of essential vitamins can create symptoms of senility, especially the
lack of vitamin B twelve Many elderly people are not given this information. Let
us now look at Kerry' s state, taking into account the above list.
As his wife had told me that he spent most of the day sitting
in the house, the physical inactivity was already given to my questions. What
he revealed today was that he drank more since he was retired and that he
often started early when he was working. It was a rule never to have
a drink before five o' clock in the afternoon. But, as I
said melancholy, my self- discipline went to hell. I think that'
s what happens. Because he was slightly hypertensive, he was taking a pressure
medicine, he didn' t know exactly what it turned out to be a
vein that had not changed the dose in two years. I' m trying
not to take the pills. If I don' t get the pressure up,
he confessed I asked him how he knew when he was getting the pressure.
Well, when I feel tense or when my importuna wife responded. Actually,
hypertension doesn' t match the nervous tension. Despite his name, he
doesn' t have clear symptoms either. By the way, and in order
for the medication to be effective, it is necessary to take it every day
especially when it comes to vetablo that before they require a period for the body
to adjust to them. Among the preventable problems of ageing, a large number
are due to the indiscriminate use of prescription drugs. Unless you are aware of
this danger, mixing medicines becomes a habit that many accentuate as they age.
Among the drugs most commonly used by the elderly are omegas and dioretic drugs,
widely prescribed for high blood pressure. Sedatives are also very common, along with
aspirin and other painkillers taken for arthritis. In addition to abusing these drugs,
too often taking them, it often happens that the elderly do not regularly control
the dose by a doctor Many tend to forget to stop medication and to know
what disorder each drug is not serving. In the United States, there are
many elderly people who drink and the combination of drugs and alcohol is almost always
dangerous. Therefore, a person' s medication should be thoroughly reviewed in the
face of the first physical or mental symptom of abuse or misuse. In the
case of Hebey, I also suspected that there was a high level of depression.
Hidden. Someone who spends the day watching TV and does not pay attention
to his wife when she gets in well may be mild or clinically depressed.
The typical image of the old man sitting in a quiet corner that we once
accepted as normal, was probably due to depression to becoming silent or withdrawn apathetic,
anxious and childishly helpless are common signs of that state. Chronic fatigue is
often a physical consequence of depression. In fifty percent of cases, certain severe
depressions called involutive depressions specifically affect older people for reasons that are still unknown.
However, many cases of depression can be directly linked to social and personal problems.
A person who feels useless, discarded, not loved or upset for his
family can only fall into depression. In these cases, the ultimate solution is
not medicine, but personal change. Alan Manger, a psychologist at Heverd,
has shown that internees in geriatric institutes improve considerably by introducing simple alterations in their
existence, giving them a pot with a plant to attend to. They are
allowed to decide their own menus and clean their rooms. Instead of being passive,
lonely and dependent people who play the role of old asylum- seekers.
These people recover the sense of usefulness and worth in the case of PERY the
last hidden factor could be dehydration, which begins to affect the judgment before the
person detects any problems. He doesn' t drink enough water every day.
It is one of the most common evils in the wheel of old age.
Although very little has been reported, chronic dehydration is an important cause of preventable
aging. Some authorities count dehydration among the main causes of death among the elderly.
It is, by the way, an avoidable complication that leads to many
problems. When the fluids of the body fall below a certain level, physiology
begins to enter a toxic state, the vital electrolyte balance is lost and,
over time, also that of brain chemistry. This can result in a horde
of difficulties, from deterioration of the kidneys to heart attack, through fainting dizziness,
lethargy, and declared senile dementia. When a person loses the ability to
care and begins to forget to drink water, a vicious circle is established.
The same can be said of almost all the causes of false senility. The
longer they go unheeded, the more difficult it becomes for the person to see
the problem, but even though he thinks he is not interresnara, his wife
was worried and promised to remind him of those things. Some would be easier
than others. Like she was in charge of cooking. She could take more
care of her husband' s diet. Adding a multiple vitamin pill does not
hurt and sometimes helps. He would see to it that he drank more water
and took his medicines properly. That additional attention could also help to cheer him
up. But I was most concerned about alcohol and depression. My way of
seeing what I was walking on the looserope today. The image I had of
whether it was summed up in two disturbing words, I' m old.
It would cost to imagine a more invalid phrase, more apt to lead someone
to the flight of alcohol or the dead end of depression. Aging as a
whole is a vicious circle. When someone considers it natural to live withdrawn,
isolated and useless after a certain age, he creates the very conditions that justify
his beliefs. Our deepest assumptions are those that trigger physical changes. Therefore,
it would be naive to think that aging can be avoided with a simple list
of avoidable causes. What good it is to say to a man like Kry
to quit drinking if he feels desperate the very fact of aging is a swamp
of hidden feelings that most find it too difficult to cope with. In any
case, drinking is a merciful anesthetic compared to living in fear and hopelessness.
It is much easier to follow internal programming than to make way for new territories,
but over time our hidden programming leaves us with no elections and it becomes
more difficult to break the bonds of self- destructive behavior. In this respect,
aging seems a lot like an addiction. The individual believes that the situation
is dominated, when in reality the conduct dominates him from the outside. That
' s what I saw in Heary. He was turning before my eyes into
a dying man and the tragic thing was that he didn' t realize what
was being done. Conscience, when conditioned, assumes the form of habit.
Unconscious repetition reinforces destructive patterns and unless new learning occurs, inertia will lead the
body downhill year after year to the consciousness and reversal of aging. The luminous
aspect in Bey' s case was that almost everything that happened to him could
be corrected by creating a new mode of consciousness. To achieve this, we
take advantage of the fact that consciousness always generates biological information. The slightest change
of consciousness is enough for energy and information to form new patterns. If old
habits are so destructive, it is because new patterns are not allowed to emerge
into existence. Therefore, conditioned consciousness is synonymous with slow death. On the
contrary, by increasing someone' s awareness by taking them to a new focus
and drawing them away from ancient schemes, aging can be altered. The psychologist
of a n Ne and her colleagues from Hurverd offered a brilliant demonstration of this
in nineteen hundred and seventy- nine, effectively reversing the biological age of a
group of elders through a change of consciousness that was achieved by a simple and
ingenious method. The subjects, all over seventy- five years of age and
in good health, were to meet for a one- week retreat at a
country site. They were informed in advance that he would be subjected to a
series of physical and mental examinations, but they were also given an unusual stipulation.
They were not allowed to carry newspapers, magazines, books or subsequent family
photos. At one thousand nine hundred and fifty- nine, the purpose of
this strange requirement was seen when they arrived the place had been prepared to reproduce
life as it was twenty years earlier. At the reading tables there were not
publications of one thousand nine hundred and seventy- nine, but numbers of liphe
and of the tsar of idneig Post dating from one thousand nine hundred and fifty
- nine. The only music broadcast was 20 years ago. In accordance with
this retreat, men were asked to behave in everything as if they were in
a thousand nine hundred and fifty- nine. Every conversation should refer to events
and people of that year. All the details of that country week were prepared
for each subject to feel, look, talk and behave as if he were
about fifty- five years old. During this period, the Angel team carried
out extensive measurements of the biological age of the subjects. Gerontologists have not been
able to determine the exact markers that define biological age, as I said before,
but a general profile of each man was compiled, using measurements of physical
strength, posture, perception, cognition and short- term memory, along with
thresholds of hearing, sight and taste. Huever' s team wanted to change
the context in which these men saw themselves. The premise of the experiment was
that looking old or young directly influences the aging process itself to change the context.
To me, nine hundred and fifty- nine, the experimenters had the
subjects use identification photos taken twenty years earlier. The group learned to identify each
member through those photos, before, by the current appearance, they were instructed
to speak exclusively at the present time of one thousand nine hundred and fifty-
nine. It seems to you that President Izenover will be running with Nixon in
the next election. They referred to the wife and children as if they were
also twenty years younger, although they were all retired. They talked about their
careers as if they were still in full activity. The results of this representation
were remarkable compared to a control group that made the retreat, but continued to
live. In the world of nineteen hundred and seventy- nine, the fantasy
group improved in memory and manual dexterity. Its members were more active and self
- sufficient in such things as serving themselves when eating and cleaning their rooms.
His behavior was much closer to that of fifty- five years than that of
seventy- five. Many had come to rely on younger lyar fames for everyday
tasks. The most notable change may have been related to aspects of ageing that
were considered irreversible. Impartial judges were asked to study the photos of these men
before and after the experiment. Those judges detected in the faces. A visible
rejuvenation of three years as a means of measuring the fingers of the hand,
which tend to shorten over time, indicated that the fingers had lengthened. The
stiff joints gained flexibility and the posture began to rise. As in younger years.
It improved muscle strength measured by handshake, as well as hearing and sight.
The control group also showed some improvements. Langer explained it by the fact
that traveling and being treated in a special way made them feel younger, but
it had worsened in markers such as manual skill and finger length. Although intelligence
c considers fixed in adults, more than half of those in the experimental group
showed an increase in intelligence in the five days of that return to a thousand
nine hundred and fifty- nine, while a quarter of the control group declined
in the scores of the intellectual co- efficiency test. Professor Langer' s
study marked a milestone in demonstrating that certain supposedly irreversible signs of aging can be
reversed using psychological intervention. She attributed her success to three factors. One asked
men to behave as if they were younger. Twelve treated them as having the
intelligence and independence of younger people, unlike the way they used to be treated
at home. For example, they were asked for opinions with respect and three
were paid attention to them. He asked them to obey complex instructions in the
daily routine. As all three factors overlapped, Anger was unable to determine with
certainty which of them was the most important. He speculated that a similar reversal
of aging could have been achieved by assigning to men any complex task, such
as the task of composing an opera, a mission that Verdi imposed when he
was about eighty years old. I have been meditating on the results of the
teacher to the Angel for several years since I first took care of them.
When writing about personal time. The old paradigm tells us that time is objective,
but in reality, our body responds to subjective time, as recorded in
memories and inner sensations. Anger turned these men into travelers of the inner time.
They went back twenty years on the psychological plane and the body followed him.
The simplest explanation I can give is that two aspects of consciousness, attention
and intention were changed. Consciousness always has these two components. The focus is
on a local perception. The intention causes a change in that location. In
the Angel experiment, the attention of the subjects was sharply focused in the year
of nineteen hundred and fifty- nine. This started a new flow of biological
information, because everything they saw and listened to all of their conversational topics had
to be related to that specific location. At the same time, they should
act with an intention to try to be as they were twenty years earlier.
None of these factors are magical. We all pay attention to various things during
the day. We all carry out various desires and intentions. Magic lies in
the way the body follows this change of consciousness through the barrier of time.
It is neither feasible nor realistic to try to live in the past, but
here there are valuable clues that can be followed. One more time. We
see that the quality of life we lead depends on the quality of care.
What you pay attention to will become important in your life. There is no
limit to the changes that consciousness can bring about in our society. We do
not use the flow of attention to produce results. We have no idea of
the energy and information that are beginning to be generated within us. Each time
we experience a change of consciousness in the following exercises, we will explore how
to consciously invoke the power of consciousness to use it for our own benefit,
for if we do not knowingly use it, our consciousness will be trapped in
the old conditioning that creates the aging process. In practice use the power of
consciousness. The following exercises have been designed to demonstrate that you can consciously direct
the flow of energy and information from your body. There are great benefits to
getting once you start deliberately using your consciousness. You can take advantage of more
useful levels of information in the form of body keys that you ignore. Your
body will tell you what it needs and when it needs it. This is
the opposite of letting oneself be carried away by the habit that is never exactly
suited to the true needs of the body. You can enter your attention into
parts of the body that express discomfort at the simple location of your consciousness in
a source of pain. You can get healing started, because the body naturally
sends healing energy. Wherever you focus, you can activate desires and intentions to
satisfy them more efficiently. An intention is basically a disguised need and the body
mind system is prepared to directly and spontaneously satisfy all needs. This is very
different from the addictive or compulsive desires that our old programming has included in us.
When these three areas operate properly, conditioning begins to dissolve in our deepest
cellular planes. This is necessary to prevent the body from aging. There are
numerous spiritual teachings related to the power of consciousness. The techniques of North American
native shamans may differ markedly from those used by Tibetan monks or Hindu yogis,
but in general, consciousness is used as a healing power. When allowed to
flow freely. It restores balance by bringing awareness into contact with the smooth patterns
and mons pous of the old conditioning. These patterns begin to melt, because
ultimately everything we perceive or think is simply an aspect of our consciousness. The
discomfort that the body manifests as pain, numbness, spasm, inflexibility and trauma
are all of them, not two that consciousness can unleash by itself. Through
practice and dedication. You can cure any imbalance of the body mind system through
consciousness. Once you learn the right techniques of reclamation, release and psychological penetration,
what follows are some initial procedures to locate attention and fulfill intentions. In
later sections we will move towards deeper and more powerful techniques but even at this
stage, the linkages that are forged between mind and body are extremely useful.
To turn away from the old paths that create aging exercise, one pays attention
to your body, although we all know how to pay attention to something that
is outside of oneself, just as we all feel diverting our attention to a
condition of the body, such as a toothache or muscle spasm. There are
many subtle keys that escape us in everyday life. The consciousness has many planes
and it must be allowed to flow from one to another, for the flow
is its natural state. In this first exercise, you should easily direct your
attention to each area of the body. When this happens, the act of
paying attention releases deeply accumulated tensions. Your body as a creature, wants attention
and feels comforted when it receives it. Lie down or sit in a comfortable
chair with your eyes closed. Choose a quiet room, free of noises that
can distract you. Focus your attention on your toes, right hold them down
until they feel tense. Then loosen the tension and experience the relaxation that if
you do not suffer. Don' t rush to think about it or relax
them. Take time to feel what' s going on. Now let a
long and deep sigh escape, as if you were breathing through your toes,
let all the fatigue and accumulated tension go with your breath, do not buff
or blow. Just let the sigh escape in a long exhalation, like sighs
of relief, without holding it. If you emit a groan or a better
grunt, it' s a sign of deep release. Now repeat the procedure
with the right foot instep by first fixing your attention on it. He then
tightens his muscles by arching his foot back and ends up relaxing them. When
you feel the instep relaxed, let a sigh slip away as if you were
breathing through your toes once you' ve mastered it. This basic technique focuses
attention on all parts of the body. In the following order remember that this
is not a simple muscle relaxation technique. Should you comfortably delay attention on each
part of the body right foot toes in comb ankle floor two stages, flexing
backwards and bending forward? Left foot, comb fingers, ankle plant, two
stages, flexing backwards and flexing forward? Right neck and upper thigh, left
buttock and upper thigh. Abdominal muscles, diaphragm, lower back, upper back.
Right hand. Doll fingers, two stages, flexing backwards and bending forward?
Shoulders, two stages, bending forward and flexing upwards. Towards the neck
neck, two stages, bending forward and flexing backwards. Face, two stages,
wrinkling the face on a tight face and then straining the forehead and eyebrows.
This exercise seems quite complicated when described verbally but flexing various parts of the
body is simply following the two of the natural uo in which the joints and
muscles move. After a session, you will be able to make your tour
of the body effortlessly. Abbreviated version. A complete circuit of the body,
as described above, takes about fifteen minutes. If you' re short of
time. The abbreviated version covers only toes, diaphragm, fingers, shoulders,
neck, and exercise face. Two focused intents. This exercise shows that it
is enough to have an intention to achieve a result. Properly focused consciousness,
that is, easily and effortlessly, has the ability to carry out quite specific
orders. An intention does not need to be a verbally expressed thought. Actually,
our deepest intentions are body- centered. Our most fundamental needs of love,
understanding, encouragement, support permeate each of the cells. The desires that
arise in your mind are often clouded by selfish motives that are not true needs.
People are often mired in the pursuit of money, professional goals, and
political ambitions in ways that are disconnected from the fundamental need for comfort and well
- being that every healthy organism must satisfy. Many of us are so far
from our basic needs, so programmed to run behind what the ego desires,
that we must learn again the basic mechanisms by which care and intention actually function.
There are many ways to gain satisfaction, apart from those that teach us
our culture, outward- oriented. In this sense, the most valuable lesson
is that intentions, if allowed to act, seek satisfaction automatically. Every cell
in your body seeks satisfaction through joy, beauty, love, and appreciation.
It is hard to understand when the mind sets its program apart to satisfy other
kinds of desires lacking in love, joy and joy. However, millions of
people have been programmed to achieve these goals only in the three related procedures.
We remain here you will experience the way in which intentions can be met effortlessly,
jumping to ego and rational mind for better results. Exercise one as preheating
in order to put your body in a receptive state. Although the intentions that
are carried out are simple, they will give you confidence in your ability to
direct the consciousness, which is essential if you want to change the entrenched patterns
of aging, as aging itself is an intention that your cells obey beyond your
control. One takes a piece of string about thirty centimeters long and binds a
small weight at the end to form a pendulum. It can serve a plumb
to fish a washer or a screw of two and a half centimeters. Hold
the string with your right hand and lay the elbow on a table or on
the arm of the armchair so that you can hold the pendulum firmly. Sit
comfortably and make sure the pendulum doesn' t move, now look at the
weight and project the intention of the pendulum moving side by side. The simplest
way to try is to visualize how you want the weight to move, but
you can verbalize if you want the words side by side. Keep your attention
fixed on the pendulum and intent well firm in the mind, but be careful
to keep your arm still. You will be surprised to see that within a
few seconds the pendulum begins to move on its own. If you initially move
erratically, do not try to correct your swing simply wait until you automatically find
the desired movement. Now change your intention to direct the pendulum from front to
back. Imagine again the movement in your mind and challenge it there effortlessly.
Typically, your pendulum will hesitate a few seconds away and, after some erratic
movements, will take the desired direction. After observing it a few seconds away,
have the firm intention of the pendulum moving in circles, it will stop
moving erratically again for one or two seconds and then move exactly as you visualized
it. The more you try to keep your arm rigidly still at the faster
the pendulum will move. The funny thing is that doing this exercise in a
group has the greatest effect. I have seen several hundred people mesmerized by the
movement of their pendulums, who instantly changed direction to the touch of an intention,
moving frequently in wide fast arches. Although this exercise is very simple,
its effect is usually mysterious. Two comfortably seated. He has his right hand
open with his palm out. Formulate the intention that your palm will warm up
to help you. Imagine that your hand touches a bright red iron or a
burning coal. Hold the image in your mind. Within a few seconds the
feeling of heat will begin to appear. Now raise your left hand and point
towards it at the two fingers on the right, joined and stretched out formulates
the intention that the heat will spread from your right hand to the palm on
the left. To help you, move your right forwards and backwards, as
if you were painting the other hand with warmth, but don' t let
them touch you. Almost everyone will feel that the heat is transmitted from one
hand to the other. Some will experience a slight tingling or stinging sensation in
the left palm. This exercise is more effective if you guide someone else to
do it. If you do it just get familiar with the instructions first so
you can try it without interruption. Three, sit comfortably and hold a common
thermometer between the thumb and index of your right hand, close your eyes and
for a moment attend to your breathing. As your body relaxes, continue to
track your breathing rhythm. Then, look at the temperature of the thermometer,
you will change it by the mere intention of cold. As you breathe through
your mouth, feel the fresh air coming in and out of your throat.
In doing so, think of the fresh word. Now imagine that the thermometer
is a piece of ice that you can barely hold between your fingers. After
one or two minutes notice the temperature of the thermometer, it is likely to
have dropped between a half degree and two and a half degrees. If you
don' t notice any change, resume exercise another couple of minutes and check
your intention for warmth while breathing through your nose, feel the heat in the
center of your chest for a moment. Now think of the hot word and
imagine that the thermometer is a red arm that can barely hold. After a
minute or two, look at the thermometer. It is likely to have risen
between half and two and a half degrees. If you don' t see
any change, resume the exercise another couple of minutes and consult again. The
last two exercises are based on classical experiments carried out more than fifty years ago
by the pioneer of Russian neurologists to R Luria. Luria' s most famous
subject was a journalist he called simply that man endowed with an almost infallible photographic
memory, he could attend a press conference without taking notes and then repeat each
of the words spoken by any speaker. He was able to memorize long series
of selected numbers, randomly and remember any scene he would have witnessed even in
the tiniest detail. In addition, it could use simple visualizations to change all
kinds of involuntary functions. If he imagined himself looking at the sun, his
pupils would contract, if he imagined himself sitting in the darkness, they would
dilate. He could raise and lower the temperature of his hands using the procedure
described above. Once you' ve mastered it. That you can prove his
method of altering the heart rate. If he wanted his heart to beat more
quickly, he imagined running behind a train leaving the station, if he wanted
to delay it, he would see himself lying in bed taking a nap.
He considered these achievements to be remarkable, just as future researchers would do a
generation later when they saw esbami and branch perform the same feats. In both
cases, however, biofeedback without machines was demonstrated, rather than requiring a hocioscope
or sonic signal to indicate that an intention was being carried out. That and
esbami and branches were based on the very feedback system of their bodies, although
we are usually not aware of it. The body constantly regulates temperature, heart
rate, and other autonomous functions through the procedure of listening to its own internal
messages. The smallest change in any function is recorded, even slightly in the
consciousness of the nervous system. As these exercises show, they can voluntarily take
advantage of these silent signs. Consciousness is a field and by sending an intention
to that field you change the flow of biological information. This is recorded in
the conscious mind as vague sensation, intuition or just as a silent knowledge.
The answer varies between different people, but practice strengthens sensitivity to one' s
own consciousness. As far as aging is concerned, this sensitivity is necessary,
because the new paradigm tells us that aging begins as a distortion in the field
of consciousness. The smooth flow of information from his body is blocked by tensions,
memories, past traumas and random errors. Although these imperfections are subtle,
the conscience does not overlook them. The heart, liver, kidneys, and
all other organs know when they work badly. The disturbances produced in cellular intelligence
end up being recorded in the mind as discomfort, pain, or simple feeling
of discomfort. What we are learning to do here is to retine these perceptions
so that they register at an earlier stage. The sooner an altered function is
detected, the easier it will be to correct it using only consciousness. Declared
aging is a very crude sign that the body has suffered a loss of energy
and information at some vital point, usually in the brain. The immune system
or endocrine glands. Cancer, diabetes, and senility are typical manifestations of advanced
dysfunction. There are rare cases in which patients have used the power of consciousness
to cure themselves from very serious disorders, but it is much easier to correct
the underlying problem at an early stage. The first stage of any physiological alteration
occurs in consciousness itself. Naturally, the best way to return these alterations to
balance is to also use the stress exercise three a trigger for the earth transformation.
All intent is a trigger for transformation. As soon as you decide you
want something, your nervous system responds so that you reach the desired goal.
This applies to simple intentions, such as getting up to look for a glass
of water, and also to complex ones, such as winning a game of
tennis or playing a mozart sonata In one case or another, the conscious mind
does not have to direct all neural signals and muscle movements to achieve its goal.
The intention is inserted into the field of consciousness, activating the appropriate response.
When I lie down to sleep my intention to sleep activates a complex series
of biochemical and neurological processes, medical science cannot imitate this controlled connection in the
plane of intelligence. That connection can only be crudely manipulated from the molecular plane.
For example, I can fall asleep taking a sleeping pill, but the
resulting type of sleep will not be natural. There will be alterations in the
normal sequence of sleep stages, especially r M. The stage you dream of
when you have an intention. Your brain can only supply the reactions you'
ve learned. If you play tennis well or are a good pianist, your
trained response will produce very different results from those that get people less prepared than
you. However, the deepest ability lies in managing the intention itself. People
who succeed most in any company usually manage their desires without unduly fighting the environment.
They' re in the flow. If you review the section on adaptability
page one hundred and five, you will find a good description of how they
solve your problems. The most successful people allow the solution to come forward on
its own, relying on their own ability to face difficult challenges. By creating
a minimum of anxiety, conflict, concern and false expectations, they promote a
very efficient use of their physical and mental energies. The resulting ease of functioning
body mind is either directly or sun with aging well the more you naturally exist
in the flow of your consciousness. Minor is the wear and tear of your
body. As with all abilities, people have enormous variations in their use of
intent. When Professor Alan Minger and her colleagues offered a group of elders the
challenge of acting as if they were twenty years younger. The researchers provided their
subjects with a center of common intent. The key to reversing the age of
these men was for their bodies to respond to external data from the past.
In the following exercise you are asked to participate in a kind of internal journey
through time using a visual image of your past. The purpose is to experience
the speed with which your body adapts to this intention with sensations of renewed youth,
sit comfortably or lie with your eyes closed. Pay attention for a moment
to your breathing, following with ease to climb up and down your chest,
feeling the air that passes through your nostrils, feel the arms that gain weight
at your sides. When you are relaxed in the sight of the mind,
one of the most wonderful moments of your childhood should be a vivid scene of
joy in which you are preferably the center of some activity. For example,
a scene of those occurred in my childhood while playing cliquet in summer, my
father took us to the hills of northern India. I vividly remember one of
those places called Armchair, nesting in the cool green mountains. I see the
flat meadow bordered by hills where we played. There was a case where I
made a victorious career and that' s the moment I like to relive in
memory. I feel the weight of the bat in my hands and the dry
hit against the ball. I see her flying high against the green and red
roofs of the distant huts. I feel the fresh air and enthusiasm in the
body. As I run, my heart beats. My legs strive with you
all their power. In my mind I see myself with very open arms embracing
that victorious moment. I participate in it with all my fibers, not only
with the memory and intensity of the desire to be there again. In my
youth it makes me feel light, expanded, happy, absorbed in an experience
so full that it stops time, seeks your own moment and finds out what
power it has for you. The details are important. That is why it
is easier to use intense physical experiences. Feel the air and the sun on
your skin. You can see if you' re hot or cold. Look
at the colors, the textures, the faces. Name the place of your
scene and the people who are there he repairs in how they dress and what
they do. But the most important thing is to recapture the feeling of your
body when you rise to melt with that moment and become it. By regaining
the flow of a magical instant active in your body a transformation. The signals
sent by your brain are as easily activated by memories and visual images as by
real images and sounds. The more experienced your participation is, the closer you
will get to doubling the body chemistry of that youthful moment. The old channels
never close, only remain unused. Therefore, by changing it, contact your
inner experience can return in time using memory biochemistry as an exercise vehicle. Four,
intentions and the countryside. The new paradigm tells us that our underlying reality.
The field is continuous and, therefore, is present equally at all points
of space. Time. Your consciousness and all the intentions that rotate from it
are woven into that continuity. This means that, when you have a desire,
you actually send a message to the whole field, s lighter nano t
crosses the universe on the quantum plane. We have already seen that when you
have an intention related to your body, it is automatically fulfilled. The same
should happen, therefore, with the intentions you send out of your body.
The field has the organizational power to automatically fulfill any intention. Everyone knows occasional
cases in which a wish is unexpectedly fulfilled and something one wanted appears out of
nowhere, a call from an unexpected old friend, with no income from money,
job offers, new relationships. These are the moments when your connection to
the field is clear. When your desires don' t come true, your
consciousness has been blocked or disconnected from its source in the field. If your
consciousness is open and clear, it is normal for all desires to be fulfilled.
It does not take a special act of Providence to fulfill a wish.
The universal field of existence has been designed to operate for that purpose. If
it wasn' t designed that way, you wouldn' t be able to
move your toes blink or carry out any order mind body. All voluntary actions
depend on the invisible transformation of an abstract intention into a material result. Your
body is the material result of all the intentions you' ve had in your
life. In the last exercise we remember a moment of the past using the
intention to create a certain response, mind and body. If you imagined your
experience with enough vividity, involuntary reactions of all kinds blood pressure, heart rate,
breathing, body temperature, etc, will begin to conform to exactly what
you felt in the past. You will be reliving not only a visual image,
but all the physiological response that accompanied the image. Millions of such sacred
responses participated in the creation of the physiology you now experience. But since you
didn' t possess the ability to deliberately use these intentions for your benefit.
Your body contains accumulated impressions of trauma and stress that contribute to the aging process.
In the next section I will describe how to remove those old impressions.
But here it is important to learn the mechanics of intention that prevents aging.
From the beginning, an intention is a signal sent by you to the field.
The result you receive from the field is the highest compliance that can be
provided to your nervous system. In particular, when two people want the same
thing, they do not always get the same result. This is because the
quality of intention changes when it is sent to the field and is reflected again
as a result. For example, if you have a strong desire to be
loved, the love you desire and will receive is very well conditioned. From
your experience, St Paul' s love is totally different from the love known
to a mistreated child. Anyway, when a desire is fulfilled, the mechanism
has certain similarities for everyone. One looks for a certain result two. The
intention is specific and defined. The person is sure of the person who wants
three. Little or no attention is paid to the details of the physiological processes
involved. Indeed, paying attention to details inhibits the flow of intelligence impulses that
produce the result, delaying or preventing success. In other words, the person
adopts an attitude of non- interference. Four, the person expects a result
and trusts to get it. However, there is no eager attachment to a
result. If you are anxious to fall asleep, for example, that prevents
your desire from being fulfilled. Concern, uncertainty and doubt are the three primary
obstacles that prevent us from making efficient use of the power contained in each intention.
Power still exists, but we turn it against itself. In other words,
when you doubt that a wish will be fulfilled, you are essentially sending
a self- defeating intention that the field counts as cancelling your first wish.
Five participates in a retro- alino of self- reference. In other words,
every intention that is fulfilled teaches you to fulfill even better the next intention.
When the result is presented it confirms the power of intention on a conscious
plane, increases confidence and strengthens success. The effect reinforces itself. This transforms
doubt into certainty. People whose desires are not fulfilled also experience feedback, but
it reinforces failure six at the end of the process, there is no doubt
that the result has been obtained by a definite and conscious process that extends beyond
the individual to a larger reality. For some it is god or providence,
for others it is zero or absolute. I have been using a more scientific
term the field, but not excluding any of those more traditional spiritual names.
In all cases, the material world is the expression of a manifest and predominant
intelligence that responds to human desire. These six steps exhibit the most important characteristic
of that of inner intelligence has in itself organizational power. This organizational power is
the link between intention and outcome. Without it there could be no cause and
effect, quantum soup would remain chaos, for without organizational power there can be
no patterns, order natural laws, physical structures or biochemical processes. To take
advantage of this knowledge you can use the following exercise with any desire. Don
' t worry if you haven' t been very successful in fulfilling your intentions
so far. The most important step in achieving something is to gain clarity about
the mechanisms of intention. By doing this exercise, you will clear a path
to greater success. You just have to trust that the field will automatically satisfy
all the impulses sent to it. One way or another, all desires reach
their goal. It is only your limited perspective on time space, which tarnishes
your perception that the result is being produced. One, sit quietly and employ
any rare methods already suggested to relax the body and feel inwardly serene. Two,
set your intention on the result you want. Be specific, you can
visualize the result or verbally express it for yourself. Three, don' t
miss out on details. Don' t force anything or try to concentrate.
Your intention should be as natural as raising your arm or drinking a sip of
water. Four, wait for the result and believe in it becomes aware that
it is safe. Five understands that doubts, worries and attachment will only interfere
with the outcome. Six, let go of the wish. You don'
t need to dispatch the same letter twice. You know the message has been
delivered and your result is on the way. Seven Stay open to feedback coming
to you Whether from within or from the middle. Understand that each and every
one of those feedbacks has been evoked by you This last step is of utmost
importance. Being so conditioned by the materialistic view of the world, we all
tend to seek material results. However, some people who desire wealth may actually
be looking forward to the security they believe is guaranteed by wealth. If that
is the dominant intention in your consciousness, the field could favor a result that
would provide a sense of security rather than material riches. The feedback produced by
an intention is able to manifest itself in unexpected ways, but there is always
some result however slight it may be. With regard to ageing, almost all
of us want to avoid physical and mental deterioration. We may have a specific
intention, such as not contracting Alzheimer' s disease or cancer, but these
intentions may not be effective, as they are forms disguised as deeper desires.
Such as not wanting to suffer or die. My suggestion is to try to
stay at the most youthful operational level possible. You can also express the intention,
both in physical and mental function, to improve every day. To reinforce
the results of that intention, you can resolve to pay attention to everything you
can do best day by day. Don' t set any limiting expectations.
Maybe one day you just notice that you wash your clothes more warmly or that
you appreciate twilight. The consciousness opens in a thousand directions and it is always
valuable to keep all channels open. Here' s a form that might take
your intention today. My intention is to experience one more energy, two more
liveliness, three more youthful enthusiasm four, more creativity, five a continuous improvement
of my physical and mental capacity. In all planes you can add the following
intention, as a broader desire. My intention is that my inner creative intelligence
orchestrates and spontaneously guides my conduct, my feelings and my reaction to all situations,
so that the five intentions expressed are automatically fulfilled. Finally. It will
be helpful to remember that you can rely on this approach, because you are
turning to the fundamental nature of your physiology. Just like he operates constantly.
My internal keys are my best feedback. The more I respond to them,
the more I will amplify the strength of my intention to obtain the result I
desire. Part three, to defeat entropy, the basic material of the human
body. It' s extremely fragile. If you isolate them to a single
cell and leave it in the open on a temperate spring day, it will
wither to death in a matter of minutes. Within each cell there is a
microscopic strand of genetic material your DNA, which is even less resistant, even
though your genes are secreted by the nucleus of the cells. Every day they
' re damaged. Radioactivity, ultraviolet light to one, chemical toxins and pollution,
mutations, random X- rays and even the very process of life.
When food is metabolized in cells, highly reactive oxygen atoms, called free radicals,
are released, and among the many chemical elements that damage DNA. The
world is a dangerous place for life. If we look beyond the localized dangers
of our planet, there is a cosmic force always ready to destroy life.
It is called entropy, the universal tendency of order to decompose. In disorder,
entropy arose into existence at the very moment of the great explosion. From
the creation of the universe. Heat, light, and all other forms of
energy have been dissipating, spreading in time as the universe expands. This tendency
to spread, to take energy to less concentrated areas is entropy. Entropy is
a one- way arrow. When an old car starts to rust and decompose,
the process cannot be automatically reversed. Similarly, an aged body does not
automatically rejuvenate. When matter and energy meet in orderly patterns, entropy suffers a
defeat, but physics has always maintained that these islands of negative entropy are temporary.
Even though some of them planets, star galaxies, resist for a long
time, sooner or later, stars run out, planets lose their orbital momentum,
galaxies dissipate. Planet Earth is an island of negative entropy that feeds on
the energy provided by sunlight. When sunlight no longer exists, we will succumb
to entropy, cooling to life. Entropy drags the whole cosmos. At its
end, then all the energy will be distributed evenly in the vastness of space
this ultimate heat death is billions of years away, but each molecule is driven
toward it. Some of the most fundamental constitutive blocks of matter, such as
proton, have such a long life n n to decay, while other exotic
subatomic particles, such as the meson, arise to physical existence a few millionths
of a second before disappearing again. The breakdown of order is inherent in the
physical constitution of the universe. It is the nucleus of the reason why our
bodies deteriorate and age over time. If we want to defeat aging, we
must first learn to defeat entropy. The opposite of chaos. The human body
exists in total defiance of entropy, as it is incredibly orderly and capable of
increasing its order with increasing complexity. Why are we alive, then, to
begin with, what strength works against chaos to affirm ever- higher intricacies of
order. The creation of the human adn, with its millions and millions of
chemical bases exactly encoded, depended on the capacity of less complex chemical elements,
amino acids and sugars to remain intact millions of years and persist in the construction
of increasingly complex molecular chains. These structures could collapse into any movement, dissolving
again into quantum soup. The force of entropy makes no exceptions, pushing everything
towards dissolution and chaos in purely material terms. Physics does not describe a force
that works against entropy. However, it is obvious that the universe has not
been limited to expanding after the great explosion. It' s evolved. The
primordial hydrogen atoms that emerged into existence shortly after the great explosion did not content
themselves with that simple life. They increased in complexity to form helium atoms,
whose order remained stable and then led to even more complex atoms, to reach
the ultraheavy of uranium and plutonium. Evolution or growth creates more complex structures from
the less complex ones. However, in the theory of evolution a great hole
was opened before the scientific insistence that the entire chain of evolution, beginning with
the simplest algae and bacteria, even reach the most complex organ of nature.
The human brain came up by chance. While it may be true that animal
survival depends on random selection, the deepest flaws in this explanation are obvious.
When a baby is conceived, the fertilized egg repeats the process of cell division
that has previously produced millions of babies. The growth of a cell until divided
into two, those, two, into four, those, four into eight
and so on is evolution in action. There' s nothing out of it
at random. Therefore, why we say that the process that created birth was
the work of chance. Obviously, there is an opposing force that drives evolution,
creating life, holding back the threat of entropy. That opposing force is
intelligence, which, on the quantum plane, is much more than a mental
phenomenon. Intelligence keeps in order the plane of each cell in its DNA and
many scientists now believe that the same can be said of the entire universe.
In his cosmeck plumprent book of the cosmic plan, British physicist pol Davis cites
many theoretical findings in support of the new view that the universe organizes and reacts
to its own events in a way very similar to that of our cells.
The cosmos is not limited to expanding like a globe, it grows like a
living entity. The universe is revealed in a new, more inspiring light writes
Davis, unfolding from its primitive beginnings and progressing step by step towards increasingly elaborate
and complex states, something that progresses shows signs of intelligence. As much as
the mainstream of science resists using the term intelligence is synonymous with creative power.
It enters into our chaos and from quantum soup forms beautiful symmetries, instills life
and breath into dead molecules. When entropy is imposed, intelligence must wane.
The two forces are in constant battle, as both exist since the great explosion.
What determines the result of that shock is born a human baby, which
is a monumental victory for intelligence, but the baby one day begins to age,
which is a victory of entropy. It is not appropriate to equate aging
with entropy. Here it is necessary to make a differentiation, subtle but necessary.
Creation and destruction coexist in each cell. Some chemical reactions are creative in
the production of new proteins, for example, from amino acid component blocks,
while others are destructive, such as the digestion process, which breaks down food
complexes into simpler compounds, or the metabolism process that burns sugars and releases its
accumulated energy. Without destruction, life could not exist. Therefore, aging is
not simply the destruction of the body. Here is a point of utmost importance
that ignores those who equate life with mere play of random material forces. Actually,
entropy is on the side of life. He plays as one of the
players in a complex balance of forces. Without intelligence, the balance would be
lost immediately. For example, there is a terrible endocrine disorder called progeria,
caused by the deformation of only one hundred thousand genes of a newborn baby.
Progeria extremely rare disease leads to rapid aging. Wrinkles, baldness, muscle loss,
and hardening of arteries begin to appear in early childhood. By the age
of 12, the child affected by progeria may have suffered massive thrombosis or be
a candidate for orthocoronary referral. Death occurs very early, usually before the age
of twenty. Progeria is the horribly accelerated drastic entropy, and that happens by
altering a single gene A tiny speck in the body' s intelligence pattern.
By breaking the balance that each cell must maintain in order to remain alive,
the forces of disorder are unleashed. The same lesson applies to normal aging as
long as the body can be renewed according to its plane of order. Entropy
is countered when an old cell of the stomach or foot is broken down is
replaced Each time a food particle is metabolized it is secreted into waste and the
new food is already broken down. We call this balance of creation and destruction
no dynamic change. In other words, change takes place within a stable framework.
As far as our body is concerned, this state of sixty- eight
does not change dynamically. It is crucial to break the balance in any direction
equals disaster. Lack of change leads to death, excessive change to a savage
disorder, as when a cancerous cell begins to divide indiscriminately until it invades vital
tissues and causes its own destruction, along with that of the rest of the
body. Every cell knows how to defeat entropy by bringing intelligence to the rescue
every time the disorder gets in the way. The most critical example is that
provided by the same adn. For a long time it was thought to be
an inert chemical element that remained unchanged in the nucleus of the cell. Now
it is known that DNA has a remarkable capacity for self- repair. Faced
with the attack of free radicals and other harmful influences. At least seven different
types of error may appear in a DNA filament. You can imagine DNA as
a computer tape whose information becomes convoluted by breaking, twisting, or wrinkling.
If genes passively accept that damage as any other chemical element, the information encoded
in the double spiral would become increasingly confusing, making an orderly life impossible.
But DNA has learned to repair. It can only perceive exactly what type of
damage has occurred and by means of its most special replenishes on site due to
the appropriate links. This amazing display of intelligence has been directly related to human
aging. If you draw a graph of the life expectancy of various animals,
starting with ranges and mouse, to continue with elephant cows and end with man,
the resulting curve corresponds almost perfectly to the ability of each animal' s
DNA to repair itself. The long tail range, for example, has an
extremely short life span, almost always less than a year, while humans have
the longest life of all mammals, with a known maximum of between one hundred
and fifteen and one hundred and twenty years at the beginning of the seventy-
two young gerontologists John Heart and Bethel Zerlow, exposed the DNA of various animals
to ultraviolet light in order to cause a specific type of damage. Certain adjacent
molecules of the DNA filament merged unnaturally l s s S. S. L.
So they calculated what degree of repair occurred in the period of one hour.
In fact, the cells of the range were repaired more slowly than those
of the mouse, who lives somewhat more. The speed of repair increased in
cows and elephants, culminating with humans with the fastest known rate of genetic repair.
Later, Dr. Edwardshnatter of National entrchit sonnage at National Institutes on Ageing
verified that older cells were repaired much less efficiently than young women. The general
conclusion is that aging results from the inability, already the dn to keep up
with the damage that constantly suffers millions of times a year. If this is
how the balance of forces yields within us, why does nature allow this to
continue. If a human cell has an efficiency of ninety- nine percent for
self- repair, why evolution did not complete the remaining deficit. This is
a disconcerting question, for to answer it it would be necessary to know the
secret of life itself. What we can say is that, in the course
of a lifetime, each of our cells suffers more damage than it can repair.
Ageing is the result of this deficit. If the cells will always be
repaired to perfection, each cell would be as new as on the day of
our birth and we would never age. This implies that, avoiding as many
genetic errors as possible, we would avoid the result of those errors the aging
process. Looking from the plane of intelligence. Your cells want to be new
at every moment, but old cells are sown with past errors that have taken
the physical form of toxic wastes, accumulated pigments, cross- link molecules and
damaged adn. These pieces of rigid matter no longer flow or change as necessary
for life. In this section we will see the living plane of the body
that is made of intelligence to discover how it allows errors to occur. There
is no biological need to do so, and there are many techniques to correct
and avoid them. Unlike the range, the rat, the cow, or
the elephant, you are not confined to a fixed genetic repair index. According
to the new paradigm, your whole body is a field of consciousness and the
activity within your cell suffers the direct influence of your thoughts and actions. You
' re intruding your DNA through the chemical messages your brain sends, and these
messages directly affect the transmission of DNA information. A lasting legacy of mind and
body research carried out over the past twenty years is that we have a very
precise notion of how intelligence information is produced in physiology. We no longer doubt
that invisible volutes of thoughts and emotions alter the fundamental biochemistry of all cells.
This knowledge awakens the hope that the error of aging can be abolished at its
very source, in the depths of that of cellular consciousness wrinkles in the quantum
field, the transformation of messages into molecules to follow the trail to entropy.
From the visible to the quantum plane. We can examine one of the symptoms
of aging, wrinkles. When standing before the mirror in the bathroom, study
the tiny wrinkles that form with age in the corners of the eyes or around
the mouth. The lines on your face are old bozan and known emotions.
The map of anxiety, anger, frustration, satisfaction, happiness and joy is
more deeply engraved on the skin with each passing year. Wrinkles should indicate only
where there have been smiles, commented Mark Twain. But even if each wrinkle
was the trace of a smile, as formed for a cell biologist, the
cause of wrinkles is found in the cell structure. Your skin is made up
of many types of tissue, vessels, blood, nerves, follicles, hairy
muscles that erect the hair and make chicken skin, fat cells, and two
layers of epithelial cells. The dermis and the epidermis. All this is surrounded
by water and loose connective tissue. This connective tissue consists mainly of collagen,
a protein that has the very useful property of binding with water. The glue
does not provide the skin with a soft and moist padding that, in addition
to giving it thickness, gives it the ability to stretch and fold. When
the body moves, the collagen itself is not made of cells, but it
is the nearby cells that produce and repair it. Therefore, the state of
this connective tissue is under the supervision of DNA. When people age collage,
it does not undergo changes, becoming more rigid and less humid. By losing
adaptability, it no longer returns to its place When it stretches or folds it
begins to retain wrinkles that become permanent the theory of free radicals. There are
many physical influences that can accelerate collagen aging, excessive exposure to sunlight smoking,
vitamin deficiency, malnutrition, dehydration, a poorly active thyroid, and genetic predisposition
to name only a few. However, there is no clear division between these
influences and psychological factors. A widow crying to her husband can consume herself and
wrinkle very soon. The skin of the cancerous person undergoing chemotherapy may age prematurely
both because of the collateral effect of drugs and because of his state of emotional
confusion. What these various influences have in common that all can facilitate a specific
type of error in the molecular structure of collagen. Different collagen molecules are attached
to each other by a process known as a chemical action link, which permanently
closes the outer atomic shell of collagen. The cause of the link lies in
the destructive tendency of free radicals. Those highly unstable oxygen atoms that bind indiscriminately
to many molecules vital to the body, including DNA. In the mid-
fifties, Anamhamen' s doctor, a researcher at the University of Nebraska,
was the first to elaborate the theory that free radicals are an important and even
primordial cause of aging in the cellular plane. The link is just one example
of the damage they can inflict. Free radicals can also disintegrate nearby molecules,
release pieces of molecules, confuse information in various parts of cells, bind cell
membranes, facilitate cancer mutations, and make it difficult for the mitochondria to function
in energy factories within each cell. Some cholesterol researchers believe that free radicals are
responsible for the damage that cholesterol does to the body. In the laboratory environment.
It is almost impossible to get the cells to receive cholesterol in their normal
form, but once ns, free radicals react with oxidizing it by the same
process that comes back rancid by greasing the cells, they absorb it very soon
as sharks round the cell. Free radicals attack almost any molecule. The extent
of the damage they do is so wide that the theory of aging by free
radicals has grown in popularity with every decade. Free radicals provide an excellent example
of functioning entropy, as the changes they produce tend to be irreversible and permanent.
Wrinkled skin is less orderly than unwrinkled skin and usually does not repair itself.
Similarly, when you break a plate, the damage suffered by the plate
is irreversible. This is due to that entropy follows the arrow of time.
Once something orderly breaks down the scattered matter and energy will not automatically meet again.
The future only offers more disorder. The pieces of broken dishes will end
up breaking into smaller flakes. The aged skin will end up with wilting and
dying. Paradoxically, free radicals are necessary for life chemically, free radicals of
the body are generally unstable variations of the oxygen atom. The most common examples
are hydrogen peroxide and oxidyl, which vary with respect to their stable parent by
having an additional electrical charge in the outer shell. This seemingly minor alteration makes
free radicals want to bind instantly to nearby molecules in order to compensate for the
extra load and become stable. Therefore, a free radical is actually a temporary
stop which leads from one stable molecule to another. The normal life of these
unstable particles can be measured thousand and more than a second. Each cell emits
millions of these fleeting molecules by processing vital oxygen by metabolizing food. If free
radicals are so pernicious, why does the body produce them. Far from being
lost bullets running around the cell, free radicals play their part in the overall
balance of the body. In some cases they are extremely beneficial. White cells
in the immune system use them to bind with bacteria and viruses to kill these
invaders. In that role, the tendency of free radicals to link up with
what they have in sight saves our lives to protect themselves from harm. Every
cell produces on tops that degrade, neutralize and detoxify free radicals. Among these
predators of free radicals and include several antioxidants, such as superoxide, desmutase and
catatase, which can bind to millions of highly reactive oxygen and turn them synocos
before they attack a vulnerable molecule. Again, the real issue in question is
the balance between creation and destruction, not the molecules or the chemical reactions involved
in the very origin of the With the appearance of a simple bacterium, nature
had already imagined how to counter free radicals by generating antioxidant peaks. If this
caution had not been taken, the oxygen in our atmosphere might well have annihilated
the possibility of life on earth. Instead, thanks to cellular intelligence, which
pushes against entropy, oxygen made life possible. Thanks to the success of the
book Life Extension, published in nineteen hundred and eighty- three by Durk piers
En and Cendisha, millions of people have become familiar with the theory of aging
by free radicals. The premise of their approach is that free radicals are the
enemies of the body. Therefore, readers are urged to be medicated with a
wide variety of antioxidants. However, the eminent Japanese research physician, I,
who is equal loyal advocate of free radical theory, has shown in the laboratory
that if it is a cell culture with antioxidants, little effect is usually achieved
in reducing the production of free radicals. Even less effective would be for a
person to swallow those antioxidants. Many would be nullified by digestive juices in the
mouth, stomach, and intestines long before they reach the cells they should protect.
Still, life- promoters swallow all kinds of antioxidants in the form of
vitamins, additives, and prescription drugs. Among the preferred ones are vitamins that
follow, two substances that Dr Nigua found especially ineffective when applied to cells in
test tubes. The irony is that life- prolongers tend to be very healthy
people, of whom they previously considered that additives should be banned on bread.
The cookies the cereals and other foods now prepared to follow the dictates of the
prolongation of life, those same people are inferring preservatives such as BHT and BH
in massive quantities compared to the few parts per million necessary to prevent a loaf
of bread from returning to rancid. On the shelf of the warehouse there are
more exotic drugs with antioxidant properties such as EDOPA and bromocritin, none of which
was originally developed for the purpose of delaying aging. Each of them is a
potent drug full of side effects and can cause permanent damage and are taken in
excessive doses or too long. The life- prolonging pharmacy does not stop there
Let us add other favorite supplements against old age, such as beta carotene,
the whole vitamin B complex sinti selenium, and we will supposedly be armed with
the best scientifically consecrated defense against self- destruction of the body through free radicals.
But why believe, for starters, that the body is self- destructive.
I think that whole life extension company overlooks the main thing. The damage
caused by free radicals is not causal, but secondary, as well as the
rod fired by a gun is not responsible for having pulled the trigger. In
its normal state, the body controls free radicals without problems. Your body doesn
' t fight blindly to defend its life against bad chemical elements. That idea
is too simplistic. If you could see a cell when it produces its myriad
of free radicals and submerged antioxidants, all at the same time, you'
d see that both float in the same environment, not as loose hidden cannons,
but tightly guarded and controlled by the superlative intelligence of DNA Both are kept
in balance and used according to need. If free radicals have such a great
appeal to scientists, the main reason they are things fill our need for physical
objects that can be weighed, measured and labeled. It cannot be denied that
free radical damage occurs and is suspiciously linked to aging, along with cancer and
heart disease, the main causes of death. However, older people have not
been shown to necessarily have higher levels of free radicals in their cells or lower
levels of antioxidants. What I would like to suggest is that damage by free
radicals is just a kind of imbalance between those that can occur in the plane
of cellular intelligence. When the balance leans toward entropy. If the intelligence of
the body is in full force, disorder and chaos do not attack the cells,
the basic premise of the prolongation of life. Avoiding damage by free radicals
before it occurs is valid. However, to do so we must learn to
directly influence the exercise cellular intelligence. Working against entropy one of the simplest ways
to avoid entropy is to give the body something to do. Physics opposes entropy
with work, which is defined as orderly application of energy. Without work,
energy simply dissipates. We have already seen that physical and mental neglect, disuse
syndrome, favors premature aging. There is no group that is at higher risk
of depression, illness, and premature death than that of completely sedentary people.
At present, the value of regular exercise for all ages is well documented.
In other times, physiologists believed that exercise benefited us primarily in youth, when
muscles are in their best stage of development. However, research with elders has
clearly shown that at any age and even among the centennials. The person who
exercises will receive himself an increase in strength, endurance and muscle mass. By
the way, this applies to both men and women. In the past,
almost all exercise research was conducted on men, but it has now been established
that women also need to stay active at all ages. One of the special
advantages of impaired exercise in which it can reverse the previous effects of entropy.
Researchers at the University of Taffts, where the U S federal government sponsors a
large center for the study of human aging, have shown that the principles such
symptoms of biological aging can be improved by increasing the activity of the effect is
increased with a secondary emphasis with the improvement of the diet. Two scientists from
Taffts, William Bevens and Brian Rosenberg, have outlined these findings in their biomarkers
book. The title refers to the ten age markers that are now considered reversible.
Thin muscle mass, strength, basal metabolism rate body fat, aerobic capacity,
blood pressure, blood sugar tolerance, cholesterol ratio, diagonal bar, HDL,
bone density, body temperature regulation. These markers typically get worse when we
get older. There are many variations between different individuals. However, before TAF
findings emerged, normal aging was considered to include the following one more muscle.
The average American loses three kilos of muscle per decade from the young adult age.
The loss rate increases after forty- five years two force older people are
less strong because the beams of muscles and motor nerves, called motor units,
have been deteriorating. Between the ages of thirty and seventy. The average person
loses twenty percent of the motor units of muscles with similar losses in all muscle
groups, large and small throughout the body. Three cups of basal metabolism,
the basal metabolic rate, how many calories the body needs to maintain itself deteriorates
to two percent per decade from the age of twenty four body fat. Between
the ages of twenty and sixty- five, the average person doubles his or
her fat ratio with respect to muscle mass. Sedentary life and excesses in eating
can raise this ratio even more five. Aerobic capacity at sixty- five years
of age, the body' s ability to efficiently utilize oxygen declines from thirty
to forty- six percent. Blood pressure. Most Americans have an even increase
in blood pressure with age seven blood sugar tolerance. The body' s ability
to use blood glucose declines over the years, raising the risk of producing type
two diabetes eight ratio cholesterol diagonal bar hd L. Total cholesterol tends to rise
in both men and women up to the age of fifty, about. Good
hd L cholesterol, which protects the body from heart disease loses ground to bad
LDL cholesterol, which increases the risk of heart attack nine density. Bones tend
to lose calcium with age, making the skeleton weaker, less dense, and
more brittle. This trend, if it goes too far, becomes the disease
called osteoporosis. Ten body temperature regulation. The body' s ability to maintain
a stable internal temperature of 37 degrees weakens with age, making the elderly more
vulnerable to both heat and cold. When the Taffs team discovered that the ten
biomarkers could be reversed in older people, they offered broad support for the benefits
of the exercise. Evan if the Usenberg, consider that the most important are
the first two more muscle and strength, because the tendency of the body to
double its fat and to lose half of the muscle mass towards sixty- five
or seventy years create many of the other problems of metabolism. Traditionally, one
of the classic markers of aging has been the deterioration of lean parts and medical
eXpressures that designates all tissues that are not fat, i e bones, muscles
and vital organs. With every decade of life From adult youth. The average
American loses three kilos of lean parts. Many of the people who gain weight
more and more from adulthood assume that their problem is an excess of fat.
For Taffts researchers, the real problem is a combination of excess fat with very
little lean parts, especially muscles. Fat and muscle tissue do not share the
same metabolism. Comparatively, fat is much more inactive. It serves as energy
accumulator tissue, while muscle is energy consuming tissue. If you were a member
of a prehistoric city of hunters and harvesters, it would be useful to have
a thick layer of fat in your body. The accumulated energies provide the body
with a fuel reserve for hambrone times and its insulating vacity layer retains body heat
in winter, but being biologically much less active, fat is poorly suited to
modern life requires far fewer calories to maintain than muscle tissue. This also applies
to the other components of lean parts, bones, and vital organs, but
to a lesser degree. Whoever has more muscle than fat will have a faster
metabolic rate. Therefore, you can eat more without gaining weight. Gerontologists have
found that the muscle has a lot of responsibility for the overall vitality of the
body, more than was even supposed among doctors, based on their research.
Evans and Lousen shame argue that muscle mass is critical. Along with strength they
claim that by acquiring muscles in advanced years, the elderly can significantly rejuvenate their
entire physiology. Since the proportion of loss of lean parts accelerates from the age
of forty- five, the TAFT team concentrates on large- scale exercise programs
for the age groups over forty- five, investing in our social programming,
according to which vigorous physical activity corresponds to young people. The loss of muscle
strength was previously considered inevitable as age increased, muscle groups throughout the body are
connected to the central nervous system. Through nerves. Engines, nerves and muscles
together make up the motor units. By studying transverse cuts of muscle tissue,
physiologists determined that motor units are lost over the years. The TAFS group decisively
proved that this trend can be reversed. Twelve men, aged between sixty and
seventy- two years, were subjected to three weekly weight- lifting sessions under
supervision. For three months they were asked to train at eighty percent of their
maximum repetition, the greatest weight they could lift from an attempt. By the
end of the experiment, the strength of the men had increased dramatically, the
size of their quadriceps was more than double and the poplets had grown to more
than triple. At the end of the program, these elders could lift boxes
heavier than the twenty- five- year- olds who worked in the laboratory.
The same success was achieved with a softer weight lifting program for people over
the age of ninety- five. The clear implication is that we must re
- examine our idea of taking things easy. As you age the same exercise
regimen that develops muscles has a sacred effect and helps to bring the other biomarkers
online. Blood pressure and blood subkar tolerance improved, the typical metabolic decline of
old age was reversed and the body' s ability to regulate its internal temperature
stabilized. Good physical condition is also intimately related to general well- being,
although this was not the primary objective. The TAFS team had the joy of
discovering that their subjects felt much younger and in a better mood than in many
years. How much exercise is needed to achieve these benefits. In the laboratory,
the type of activity varied widely according to what was studied. Just twenty
minutes walk three times a week improved the cholesterol ratio, diagonal bar hd it.
But exercise, to be more effective, must be indicated individually, taking
into account weight, age, and physical condition. If we look back on
history, the benefits of maintaining physical activity throughout life were evident in ancient times
in societies of hunters and harvesters. Our human ancestors stood tall and upright.
They had excellent bones and muscles that they kept at all ages. The widespread
incidence of arthritis is a flagrant exception. Osteoporosis, on the other hand,
was virtually unknown. Everyone remained in good condition and physically active until the end
of life. Compare this with modern North America, where health promoters spread the
concept of keeping themselves in good condition for life, while statistics reveal that forty
percent of adult Americans are completely sedentary. The percentage is much higher among the
elderly and only 20 percent can be considered active in a reasonable sense the value
of the balance. Before deciding that the way to avoid aging is to work
hard, keep in mind that work according to physics is not synonymous with sweat
and effort. Work is needed to create order and oppose the force of entropy.
Exercise has a quantum effect no matter how much or how little you do,
it gives the body the chance to restore subtle operating patterns. The quantum
nature of exercise has emerged slowly through small research in the 1960s. A Swedish
physiologist named Bent Sauthin wanted to observe the effects of absolute bed rest on the
human body. Severely ill patients had always been advised to recover in bed,
but there was some doubt that this Council was prudent. Saltin asked five young
people whose condition varied between the excellent and the sedentary, to stay three weeks
in bed at 24 hours a day. At the end of that time,
he discovered that all his subjects, whatever their previous physical condition, suffered a
decrease in their aerobic capacity equal to twenty years of aging. It was an
amazing find. But the most fascinating part is that, when each subject was
allowed to get out of bed for five minutes a day, almost all the
loss of function was avoided. It was not necessary to move or use the
muscles in any way. Simply exposed to quantum force gravity allowed the bodies to
remain normal. In a later American study, runners were examined to see if
intense physical exercise prevented osteoporosis. According to some experts, the best protection against
the disease is not to take calcium or estrogen supplements, but to achieve a
good density, that is, in the years of youth. As the bones
become stronger, the more weight they have to endure the long distance run,
the higher the density of the legs should be increased by a considerable proportion.
The application to aging goes beyond osteoporosis in which the bones become extremely thin without
getting this disease. Aging sharpens the bones to almost everyone, among the very
elderly. Hip fractures affect one in three women and one in six men.
At the taf aging centre, the twelfth density of a group of young runners
was compared with those of women who did not exercise regularly. Even though they
were 20 percent thinner than non- sporters, the runners had stronger bones in
their legs. This made sense, as those bones were subjected to more work
and weight, but the researchers took the surprise of discovering that the runners also
had denser bones in their forearms, even though they received no extra weight.
Somehow, the whole skeleton shared the message of depositing more calcium into bone tissue
thanks to chemical signals, probably in the form of hormones activated in the quantum
plane. The whole body knew that exercise was done in quantum terms, which
promotes order is beneficial to oppose entropy. All physiology is an island of negative
entropy. Therefore, we must sacredly direct our efforts to maintain order in all
aspects. As the body uses both creation and destruction to keep its vital processes
going. The solution is not in constant work. Exercise must be balanced with
rest, because during exercise there is extensive muscle destruction that must be restored during
rest periods. In every aspect of life. The key is the equilibrium very
general term that can be broken down into four titles. Moderation, regularity,
rest activity equal to balance. Moderation means not to reach extremes of regularity by
following a consistent routine. Rest is rest, activity is activity. These four
things seem simple, but only the human species has conscious control over them,
being the only species endowed with self- consciousness in the lower animals. It
is instinct that dictates the cycle of rest and activity that humans can freely ignore.
If we ignore it in the wrong direction, what we do is accelerate
entropy. This has become visible in the worst aspects of modern life, which
paradoxically mixes the greatest comfort with a growing disorder. A striking example of how
our bodies reflect. The imbalance of our lifestyle lies in the major heart disorders
of the elderly in our society, which cause more deaths than all the other
diseases added up. In the 1920s, cardiology emerged as a flourishing specialty in
direct response to the alarming epidemic of heart attacks that mysteriously invaded our society.
The epidemic worsened unchecked for another fifty years when it finally fell in the late
1960s. There were few coincidences in what had happened. We still wonder why
Americans, preceded only by Finns, suffer more coronary thrombosis than any other people
in the world. William Mosler, founder of Johns Hopkens Medical School and the
most famous American physician of the early century, noted that in ten years of
practice in a hospital, he saw no case of angina. From the chest
this typical pain that indicates the presence of a heart disease. In seven years
of work at Johns Hopkens Osler he saw a total of four cases of angina.
Today, all cardiologists see that number in the course of ons an hour
From a thousand nine hundred, the incidence of heart attacks in this country doubles
every two decades. Dr Poul dadle White, the most eminent cardiologist of the
generation that followed Osler' s, believed that the epidemic was mainly due to
two changes that had occurred in the United States during this century, the enormous
acceleration in the pace of daily life and a general enrichment of the diet.
Enrichment means basically more fat. In the 1920s and later, foods such as
butter, cream, and steak became accessible not only to wealthy people, but
to all. The rapid pace of life was due to the increasing use of
the car, which greatly shortened the time when people arrived at destination I therefore
gave new impetus to the disease of hurrying. This saw that these two great
changes suited the desires of a better material life. The Irish immigrant, who
put a bet on Sara' s instead of cabbages and potatoes, thought he
was improving his family' s luck. Replacing the horse and the calesa with
a model was a goal shared by everyone. Our growing consumption of red meat
and other foods high in saturated fats, such as milk, cheese, ice
cream and eggs, has been particularly unbalanced. If a graph of the incidence
of heart attacks, arteriosclerosis, breast cancer and colon cancer in the countries of
the world were drawn, it would be seen that certain nations tend to fall
to the bottom in almost all diseases Japan, Taiwan, Thailand, El Salvador,
Sri Lanka, while others rise to the top United States, Canada,
Australia, Germany. If a graph of the world' s countries is now
made according to the consumption of milk, meat, red, eggs and cheese,
the same distribution occurs, nations with low death rates turn out to be
those where there is little consumption of fat- rich foods, while richer diet
societies have catastrophic rates of heart attacks, hardening of arteries and cancer. Reaching
a good cardiovascular condition also became much more difficult in our idle society, where
pleasures such as radio, television and movies are more tempting than exercise, at
least superficially. For starters, exercise is artificial. Until the 20th century,
people maintained intense activity, whether they wanted it or not, before the United
States became a mechanized society, the concept of exercise by exercise itself was almost
unknown, as daily life contained an enormous amount of physical activity. It would
have been laughable to advise a farmer' s wife to do aerobics Until the
year nineteen hundred, human labor represented eighty percent of the total calories spent on
tilling the land, although tractors and harvesters were already widely in use, now
mechanized almost all agriculture human labor represents just one percent of the total calories spent
to resume the normal activity that the body needs. We must all consciously oppose
the tendency towards increased physical idleness, as well as other more intangible changes.
Before nineteen hundred and twenty, one half of Americans lived in small cities,
especially in Farms. From that date, the majority moved to live in cities.
Migration to urban areas continues, although there are certain signs of reaction,
with the move of middle- and upper- class families to rural areas However,
they are not going to till the land, but they are looking for
a purer air and less noise than in the city life is no longer covered
by sunrise and sunset. We get up and sleep when we want to work
in offices without contact with the outdoors. If we wish, we can work
all night. More importantly, we do not yet work for ourselves, because
we are often tied to other people' s goals. Large companies set schedules
and dates, assign tasks and descriptions and effectively retain decisions in the hands of
a privileged few. The fact that modern life tends to be so unbalanced in
defiance of the innate needs of the body does not go unnoticed for physiology.
Your body sends unmistakable signals Every time your needs are not met. The stomach
says it' s too full. Muscles tremble when more of their strength is
demanded. Those who pay attention to the body' s instincts, who try
to flow with daily activity instead of pushing and running, have more chances of
establishing a natural rhythm. Despite the few physical requirements of modern life. The
overall benefit of the balanced lifestyle emerged in a thousand nine hundred and sixty-
five in South California, when a research team led by Narie Bawk and Luster
bussele now dean of public health at the University of Los Angeles decided to follow
the aging patterns of those residing in Alameda County. It was divided between almost
seven points zero, zero, zero subjects, a twenty- three- page
questionnaire asking them for many details about their state of health and lifestyle. After
five and a half years, three hundred and seventy- one of those subjects
had died. Analyzing the original responses to these questionnaires, the researchers found that
the most important feature of the survivors was not their monetary income, their physical
state or their genetic inheritance, but extremely simple habits. One sleeps seven to
eight hours a night, two have breakfast almost every day, three do not
eat between meals four normal weight, i e up to five percent less and
up to ten percent excess in women and twenty percent in men. Five regular
physical activity, i e participate frequently in active sports, long walks, gardening
or other exercises. Six moderations in drinking, i e no more than two
glasses of alcoholic drink a day, seven never smoking cigarettes. This is a
very short list of balanced habits of the kind that children learn in their mother
' s lap, but led to dramatic conclusions. Analyzing the statistics, Belloc
discovered that a forty- five- year- old man who observed between none
and three healthy habits had expectations of living as an average of twenty- one
as six years older. Whoever respected six or seven of these good habits could
live thirty- three years longer. In other words, something as simple as
having a breakfast of any kind and getting enough sleep added more than eleven years
to a person’ s life. By comparison, the fact that both parents
and the four grandparents have reached eighty years only increases life expectancy by three years.
Cumulative results were not as dramatic in the case of women or women,
but the same pattern was observed in all ages. A forty- five-
year- old woman who respected at least six good habits had expectations of living
seven or two years longer than anyone who followed less than four. This increased
to seven eight by the age of fifty- five. As impressive as they
are. These figures are much more so when we look beyond survival towards general
health. A mature person aged fifty- five to sixty- four who practiced
the seven good manners was as healthy as young adults aged twenty- five to
thirty- four who respected only one or two. The trend also remained in
the older age groups. If a person practiced the seven good habits at seventy
- five years of age, his health was comparable to that of a person
of thirty or forty who neglected good habits. What seems to result is the
pure regularity, the type of diet or physical activity practiced was not taken into
consideration. By comparison, similar studies in the population of Southern California have shown
that people over sixty- five years old who take large doses of vitamins and
adhere to strict healthy food diets do not gain significant benefits in life expectancy.
Researchers at the University of Los Angeles Supla also noted that older subjects generally followed
a healthier lifestyle, indicating that those who did not had died at an earlier
age. This coincides with the general surgeon' s calculation that two thirds of
the diseases experienced in old age are preventable. They headed the list of those
who died in the early years of the study for sedentary life and smoking in
general. The study showed that those with good habits throughout their lives had expectations
of enjoying a 30- year health advantage over those with bad habits. Almost
three decades after that study, no one has questioned its main conclusion. A
balanced lifestyle is one of the most important steps to slow down the aging process.
We must now delve into the deeper mechanisms of balance to see if that
beneficial effect can be improved. The human body blooms with order, but the
ultimate responsibility for creating order from disorder resides in each cell. The secret of
keeping destruction at bay is revealed only on the invisible plane, where intelligence is
constantly preserving the balance of life. The flow of intelligence, preserving the balance
of life on its own. The molecules of the body have no intelligence.
Oxygen or hydrogen are no more shrewd, just because they are processed by a
human cell. The same sugar molecules that remain inert in a sugar cube are
found with small variations within DNA, but in us sugar comes to life.
The basic fuel of the body is glucose or blood sugar, the only food
in the brain. If we burn a bucket of sugar in a gas flame,
we get a flash of light and heat and a greasy piece of coal.
But the same sugar burned in the brain produces all the thoughts and emotions
we have. The schistine chapel, the lost paradise and Beethoven' s ninth
symphony are many other achievements of burnt sugar. The same can be said of
this book and your ability to read it, starting with the DNA, RNA,
and enzymes they produce. Our cells form equipment with molecules that react in
exact order. But this fact leads to confusion. It is the intelligence of
the body that makes the true decisions, which is invisible. It acts like
choreography and graph which invents every step of dance, but prefer not to appear
on stage. As all the cells in the body are made of molecules that
found their place because the DNA directed them there. It could be said that
physiology is nothing but intelligence in uers and that all the processes in progress within
each cell are essentially intelligence. Speaking to herself, a polygraph expert named Clive
Baxte has conducted hundreds of amazing experiments that prove this theory. The basis of
the polygraph or lie detector is that it measures the small changes in the galvanic
response of the skin its ability to conduct electricity, which allows indirectly to measure
whether a person' s body is tense associated with lying or relaxed, associated
with telling the truth. However, the same differences in electrical charges occur in
the face of a threat or excitement. The polygraph will jump if the subject
looks at an erotic image or relives past trauma. The amazing thing is that
Baxter discovered that even cells removed from the body and placed in another room react
to these stimuli when the subject does. If a few cells are scraped from
inside the mouth and connected to the polygraph in one room while the subject sits
in another, the electric shocks will remain flat and stable when the subject is
calm and will be violently altered when looking at an erotic illustration. The moment
he stops looking, his polygraph calms down again and also the polygraph of his
cells in the other room. The distance does not seem to affect this mysterious
result. In one experiment, Baxter asked a veteran World War II sailor to
watch battle movies in the Pacific. As soon as the man saw the shooting
of a burning fighter plane, his polygraph exhibited a strong Davidic response. At
the same moment, seen by a simultaneous video team, there was a sudden
activity in a polygraph connected to cells in his mouth. Ten kilometers away.
This man had seen planes shot down by enemy artillery fall into combat. His
memory of danger was activated and all the cells in his body knew it.
Intelligence because it is abstract and invisible must react to make your brain known.
He makes his intelligence known by producing words and concepts. Your body makes its
intelligence known by producing molecules capable of carrying messages. It is fascinating to see
how these two types of intelligence merge together. The whole operation occurs in the
quantum plane, where the dividing line between the abstract and the concrete is blurred.
In the source of intelligence there is very little difference between thoughts and molecules,
as a simple example, the body as information will show. If you
bite a lemon, the juice immediately causes your mouth to fill with water,
as the salivary glands under your tongue begin to segregate two digestive sachets called milaza,
salivary and bad cup. These enzymes begin to digest the sugar found in
lemon juice before passing it to the more complex stomach gastric juices. There'
s not much mystery. The presence of food in the mouth immediately activates digestion,
but what happens if you just visualize a lemon or repeat three times for
your insides the word lemon your mouth is also filled with water and the same
salival tops are produced. There' s nothing to digest, though. The
message sent by the brain is more important than the actual presence of food.
Words and images also operate as real molecules to activate the constant process of life.
We can represent the process as a constantly renewed circle. Message molecule.
A message is not a thing but your body makes it a thing that'
s how nature operates behind the illusion of physical reality. Our materialistic prejudice forces
us to continue to regard molecules as a source of life, regardless of the
fact that a body that has just died contains exactly the same molecules as before
it died, including an entire complement of DNA. We take it for granted
that lemon juice is the real thing, while the word lemon is something false.
After all, saliva doesn' t digest words, but actually swim.
We' re digesting messages at all times. Lemon juice molecules activate salivation by
entering the taste bud receptors that send a message to the brain, triggering response
messages to the salivary glands. There is nothing as miraculous in nature as this
transformation. By comparison, turning lead into gold is trivial, as lead and
gold are only small rearrangements of a few neutron protons and electrons. If you
hear the words I love you and your heart starts to beat, there has
been a much more amazing metamorphosis, an emotion in someone else' s mind
has transformed into adrenaline molecules running through your bloodstream. These, in turn,
activate receptors located on the outside of your heart cells, which, for their
part, indicate to each cell that the appropriate response to love is to contract
faster than usual. The most important thing is that your body feels transformed by
knowing that you are loved to experience a feeling of mildness and joy. The
world seems more lived and everyday problems seem to disappear. Why are these answers
appropriate, As the body has learned that the word love is the spring that
awakens a throbbing joy in the heart and not the words outcry or heat.
This mystery challenges the most complex knowledge of biology, medicine, psychology, chemistry
and physics, but it is of vital importance. The heart remains physically intact
thanks to a torrent of messages from the genes. These, in turn,
are formed by subatomic messages that come and go in quantum dance. In relation
to the language we use to refer to ourselves is of tremendous importance. Child
psychologists have found that young children suffer a much deeper influence from parental attributional claims.
For example, you' re a bad boy, you' re a
liar. You' re not as smart as your sister than prescriptive. For
example, always wash your hands before eating, don' t take toys to
your mouth, don' t be late for school. In other words,
telling a child what causes a much deeper impression on him than telling him what
to do with the system. Mind, body is organized around those verbal experiences.
Wounds caused by words can create far more permanent effects than physical trauma,
as we literally create ourselves from words. This is especially important when we analyze
those two powerful words young and old. There' s a huge difference between
saying I' m too tired to do that and saying I' m too
old to do that. The first statement conveys a subliminal message that things will
get better if you are too tired. Now your energy will come back and
later you won' t be tired. Being too old sounds much more definite,
because in our culture the old is defined by the passage of linear time.
Old things don' t get young again. Words have the power to
program consciousness. Therefore, it is important to avoid passive acceptance of the negative
connotations contained in the old word. As many hope to accumulate more problems and
sorrows in old age glorify youth, not because of their special character, but
because it was before all problems began. On ech Web the wave of age,
a penetrating book on aging in the United States, Hendar Walt, quotes
a birthday card that says sideways, don' t feel old, We have
a friend of your reverse age and on his good days he can still eat
alone. This kind of black humor provokes laughter because it exposes only a little
bit of the affliction that could be overwhelming if we faced it in its entirety.
But the joke is either fun or morbid, it contains a complaint that
another birthday card expresses nakedly you have just turned thirty for the rest of your
life you will never have fun again. Lo. What this message directly says
is that aging arouses deep resentment. What he leaves unsaid is that we can
do nothing to avoid it. The sad fact is that our society, lacking
good models of old age, has carried the word itself with layers of prejudice.
I say in detail the implications of considering the old and the young as
opposing poles. If the young is good, the old must be bad.
If young people have everything, old people must be losing it. If the
young is creative and dynamic, the old must be foolish and serious. If
the young is beautiful, the old must be ugly. If being young is
exciting, being old must be boring. If young people are full of passion.
Old people must be indifferent. If the children are our tomorrow, the
old ones must be ours yesterday. The typical American way to handle this polarity
is to focus on being young forever. The pages of magazines and television screens
are full of young and beautiful bodies judging by mass advertising. The United States
is a paradise inhabited by under thirty years of age, with perpetually tanned skin,
slender muscles and ecstasy smiles. But the image of the United States as
the country of eternal youth is in grave disagreement with reality. In July of
nineteen hundred and eighty- three there were more people in this nation over sixty
- five years of age than teenagers. That means we officially stopped being young
a decade ago. It is difficult to reconcile this fact with a system of
values in which the words young and old are polarized and the positive pole is
youth. Raising youth as an ideal of life is one side of the coin.
The other is the refusal that old age exists. On TV Only three
percent of the characters are over sixty- five years old against sixteen of the
general population. Old people are rarely used as models of advertising in society.
It is considered rude to ask someone their age, among those who respond,
many will subtract a few years. Unlike what happens in China and other countries
where old age is valued. There people tend to add a few years.
Dictual points out that, although now those over sixty- five years of age
enter the healthiest maturity ever, the image of young people as vigorous, powerful
and attractive people still has its shadow in an image of the elderly as incompetent,
inflexible, tied to the past, sexuous, uncreative, poor, sick
and slow. For those who accept that these degrading terms apply to old age,
their atributive power is as strong as those of childhood, which makes us
feel guilty, ashamed and unworthy for years to come. Words are more than
symbols. They' re the activators of biological information. If we study this
carefully. The young word is the code of many things that in n really
baby have nothing. It' s about youth. The highest rates of crime,
drug abuse, alcoholism, schizophrenia and social unrest are among young people.
However, youth is a symbolic ideal to which almost everyone responds positively. If
we wanted to, we could transfer the same positive value to old age.
A verse from the Old Testament that goes back to the times of Solomon’
s reign of clear. The joy of the heart is life. For a
man, joy is what gives him the length of days. The belief that
long life represents maximum joy is repeated in other cultures, especially in those that
estimate the advanced age and where each year completed adds more value. Okusai,
the great Japanese artist, began his life as a child prodigy at the age
of six. He knew how to draw remarkably, but he tells us that
he was not satisfied with his ability, but, after turning seventy, looking
forward, he predicted that by the eighties I will have considerable talent, the
hundred sublime beings and the one hundred ten I will give life to a simple
line, to a simple point. Okusai did not reach one hundred and ten,
for he died in one thousand eight hundred and forty- nine, when
he was ninety years old. But despite his old age, he believed that
the best was to come in our society. The old word implies a growing
disorder and fragility, but in truth, the disorder as the result of the
imbalance can be presented to any age agenarian concept that usually runs a certain time
tocios the days can have a dry immune system eva to that of a forty
- five- year- old man who leads a sedentary life. Despite our
fears that the aged brain may be prey to senility, the vast majority of
the elderly retain their faculties intact and many creative abilities mature toward the end of
life. In nineteen hundred and ninety- two, a wonderful ninety- nine
- year- old pianist, my former Orzovski, announced that faith would leave
his hundredth birthday with a concert at meaty hall, following a long tradition of
master musicians who continued to play after the eighties and nineties, including Toscanini,
Horwitz, Cubingstein and Serkin. Although we identify creative genius with children prodigies like
Mozart, creative researchers point out that the longest careers are usually the ones that
start late. If we look beyond the false duality of old and young,
what we find is a different reality. The body is a network of messages
that are constantly received and transmitted. Some of these messages nourish and sustain us,
while others lead to disorder and decomposition. Experiences that nourish life go far
beyond cell biology. The tenderness of the mother who watches her baby taking the
first steps feeds the child' s body. It is enough to witness as
languish and a baby when maternal love is withdrawn, even for a day for
the growing child it is possible. A teacher' s breath is as important
as a hot lunch that raises your back, vitamin milk, or self-
esteem. Once we reach adulthood, win, the sincere respect of our co
- workers removes heart disease so effectively and with much more naturality than counting milligrams
of cholesterol. Respect makes the heart feel confident and confident, two ingredients that
must exist in every healthy body. The decisions we make based on our happiness
and satisfaction are, therefore, exactly those that determine how we will age medicine
has realized that nutrition has immense psychological value. If newborns are touched and caressed,
it increases the level of growth hormone and greases myelin, a protective layer
of motor nerves. The loving maternal urge to pamper the baby translates directly into
life- supporting biochemical reactions. Infants deprived of loving care can result in mons
ly deformed or dysfunctional. Certain experiments made with prayer monkeys consisted of removing newborns
from their mothers and giving them the possibility to choose between two artificial substitutes,
a cold wire mesh model with a vibron protruding from the middle or a warm
padded cloth model, which had no vibron and offered no milk. In all
cases, the young monkey preferred to hold on to the soft and warm mother,
even if she did not provide them with food. The instinct of seeking
emotional food proved more powerful than that of seeking physical food. The music of
the body how you can lead a nutritious life. This is a broad and
frightening question. Given the harsh conditions of our environment, there are not two
people who lead identical lives or contain the same information within their body mind system.
Still. There are some basic rules that govern the inner intelligence of all.
One s inteligne is made to flow two. Every impulse of intelligence has
a physical correlation. Three. The body remains in balance by means of rhythms
and complex cycles. These biorhythms are our link to the greatest rhythms of nature.
Four. When the body is in balance, it emits signs of comfort.
When out of balance, it emits signs of discomfort. Comfort indicates that
a person is in harmonious relationship with his environment. The discomfort indicates that some
form of dissonance has arisen. Five, Living in harmony with the rhythms of
the body defeats entropy, allowing a seamless flow of biological information. Living in
opposition to the rhythms of the body produces an increase in entropy that leads to
disorder. If my intention is to live in harmony with my environment, the
best indication of success is the feeling of comfort of my body. We go
through so many experiences in life that it is difficult to have a sense of
the true basis of comfort. At every moment of the existence. Many physical
and psychological factors merge, but nature has programmed us biologically with rhythms and cycles
that have a remarkable similarity in most people. A certain new science, called
chronobiology, the biology of time, has studied the effects of these cycles on
everyday life. The chronobiology, founded and thus called by Dr Vanshouberg, professor
of medicine at the University of Menzora, ensures that the body has an internal
music that we can and should tune in so that you pass the view of
my last word to this one. For example, ten or twelve activities need
to be intertwined with total precision. Every cell phone and on it. Every
brain neuron pulses hundreds of times. For the second, with electrical charges created
by pumping potassium and sodium ions through the cell membrane, the synaxis or empty
spaces between the different neurons trigger neurotransmitter discharges to send signals through the optic nerve
and through the visual cortex. The tiny muscles that move the eyes ex three
are constantly rocking like a dead- end engine, throbbing with chemical discharges.
All this cellular pulsation in turn depends on incredibly fast vibrations of atomic clocks in
the quantum plane. Biorhythms have many medical implications. The body temperature of each
one has a daily cycle. As for hormones, they move in complexly woven
cycles, whose daily rhythms form plot with monthly and seasonal cycles. Growth hormone,
for example, changes daily, while a woman' s menstrual cycle reflects
monthly hormone rhythms. Rheumatoid arthritis hurts more in the morning. When the body
' s natural inflammatory agents appear to be low. This is the best time
to take aspirin or other soothing drugs. Blood pressure and adrenaline peak in the
morning. That may explain why so many cardiac or brain thrombosis occur at nine
o' clock. In asthmatics, bronchial tubes are more constricted at night than
in the morning. By studying individual patient cycles, we can prevent diseases.
Some babies may have blood pressure cycles that report high blood pressure in adulthood,
for example, and heat fluctuations in the breast may predict tumors. The host
doctor has made fascinating findings about how the outcome of a surgical operation or chemotherapy
may be altered depending on when it is performed. For example, women who
have had breast cancer during the menstrual period or in the previous week are four
times more likely to have a reproduction of the disease and to die within 10
years compared to women who have undergone surgery between the seventh and twentieth days of
the menstrual cycle. This finding is consistent with a preliminary study by the New
York Alban Medical Center. The reason may be that hormones released around the menstrual
period cancel out the immune system by averaging the cycle. Instead, predatory immune
cells can be present in large numbers and destroy any malignant cells that the surgeon
overlooks synchronizing chemotherapy by adjusting to the body' s biorhythms. He has also
helped patients with rectal, pancreatic or ovarian collo bladder cancer, according to researchers
at the University of Texas at Housten. Since cancer cells have different activity models
from normal cells, it is better to supply drugs when cancer cells are active
and normal inactive. Therefore, lower doses may be given and toxicity reduced.
After extensive testing of many critical functions at various times of the day, chronobiologists
have developed a schedule for optimal efficiency. Attention increases noticeably tomorrow, noon late
or late afternoon. Nightfall. From nightfall to midnight at dawn, short-
term memory is at its peak. Decreases the weakness of allergens. Sex hormones
get to the maximum. Maximum body temperature. Increased attention. Humor is at
its best, the view is sharper, manual dexterity reaches its peak. Flexibility
is at its highest point. Long- term memory is at its best.
Best time for easy and repetitive tasks, Best time for physical exercise. Taste
and smell charge their greatest acuity. Worse time for allergies, worse time to
eat an abundant meal. If you want to lose weight, metabolism is at
its lowest point. The attention is very low. Between three and six in
the morning, period of greater propensity to accidents, more common period to give
birth can be discussed whether or not it is advisable to try to live according
to these exact schedules. The fact that the body delivered to his will awakens
and sleeps, naturally in a twenty- five- hour cycle, known as
Circadian rhythm, does not prevent us from waking up and sleeping according to a
twenty- four- hour cycle without suffering any harm. On the other hand,
studies carried out on night workers have shown that the body never fully adapts
to the reversal of the cycle of vigil and sleep. Night workers suffer from
a higher incidence of colds and depression than daytime workers and tend to have a
chronically weakened immune system. The fundamental importance of biorhythms, I believe, is
that they provide the basis for the state of non- dynamic change. I
used this phrase earlier to designate the balance of opposites that must be maintained in
order for the body to resist disorder. We need to feel and move in
balanced cycles. If you decide to run a marathon and your body insists on
maintaining its normal operating levels, you will collapse very soon. For you to
run, you need an accelerated heart rate, higher body temperature, and high
blood pressure. In medical terms, the runner must suffer a fever, mild
tachycardia and hypertension, but all this is perfectly normal when it runs, assuming
it stays within healthy limits and everything goes back to its point of equilibrium.
When the runner is again at rest, we are driven and brought by a
tide of balance and imbalance that goes and comes to every second dozens of bodily
functions are disturbed, which means that any fixed definition of health loses meaning.
It would be like trying to define a symphony by stopping the orchestra in a
chord. Food, water and air flow through us in rhythmic patterns determined by
dozens of variants and the residue of experience accumulates as changing sand dunes. Structure
and movement. The fixed and the changing count equally. Your doctor can tell
you that you have a resting pulse of eighty a blood pressure of 120 diagonal
are and a body temperature of thirty- seven degrees Celsius, all of which
is considered normal. However, this assessment is only for convenience. Such measures
are only valid for the time of the day when they are performed, for
each dance around its point of equilibrium, creating the music of the living body.
When the music dies. Aging is characterized by the loss of many points
of balance fundamental to the body. The elderly usually notice that their body temperature
recovers more slowly from extremes of cold and heat, decreases their sense of balance,
making it difficult to walk, blood sugar, hormone levels and metabolic cup
change to understand why this happens, we can study one of the worst imbalances
of aging. High blood pressure, if hypertension is not treated, can shorten
life in an average of twenty years, which makes it much more lethal than
any other disease alone. Hi i r or r hyper n n n is
not a disease, but an altered cycle in the body' s natural rhythms.
It is the brain that controls blood pressure by attaching to a cycle that
goes up and down throughout the day, responding to all kinds of internal and
external keys. Measuring blood pressure is therefore like taking a snapshot of a wave.
At least three well- separated readings are needed to glimpse the peaks and
valleys of the cycle that sometimes takes several days to complete. Blood pressure goes
up and down in all, but in some the fall does not return to
its previous circle. This is how the elevated pressure begins to leak. Over
time, the cyclic shift will eventually be diverted to hypertension. This trend is
common among those who age according to a foreseeable general pattern. Here' s
the table for men between the ages of 20 and 70, average blood pressure
in men. Age twenty- two hundred twenty- two over seventy- six,
age thirty- hundred twenty- five over seventy- six, age forty
- one hundred twenty- nine over eighty- one. Age fifty- one
hundred thirty- four over eighty- three age sixty- one hundred forty over
eighty- three, age seventy- one, age forty- eight over eighty
- one. The table shows a similar ascent in both diastolic and high-
systolic low indication, but in different proportions. Diastolic or resting blood pressure increases
half that of the other. The same trend occurs in women, although the
rise is generally slower. This elevation is not normal. In order to stay
healthy, the body needs to maintain normal indications that round the 120 diagonal eighty,
although for a time higher levels may be acceptable, since hypertension is usually
defined as one whose indicators exceed the 140 diagonal ninety. The average man seems
to be safe until after seventy years, but in reality there are sixty million
Americans, about a third of all adults, who have already crossed the threshold
toward hypertension. Even a small incursion can be dangerous. Half of the deaths
associated with high blood pressure occur among border patients, whose pressure is around 130
diagonal 90. Many men from thirty to forty years old are already on this
part of the scale. Compared to a healthy person, who suffers from hypertension
is twice as likely to die in the following year. Triple risk of dying
from a heart attack. Quadruple from cardiac arrest and seven times the risk of
brain thrombosis. The price of losing internal balance is very high. The list
of influences that can raise blood pressure is long and varied. If you demand
a lot of blood pressure from your body, emotional and nervous stresses can cause
the same result even without any outside influence. The time of day exerts its
effect. One of the complications that can make the day difficult. Gnostic of
hypertensions that some people present the maximum indicator at night, but ninety percent of
patients with high blood pressure are classified as essential hypertensives, which means that there
is no identifiable cause for that disorder. Some researchers have put portable monitors on
secretaries, nurses, and brokers who have normal blood pressure. The monitor can
electronically send a constant reading of normal blood pressure changes that cause typical day events.
These researchers discovered that fiction is normal. If you talk about a fixed
number. When the secretary received a scream, the nurse was tending to a
gunshot wound or the stockbroker was trading in the frenzy of a low market,
blood pressure was going to the ceiling. The proportion of promotion depended on the
person and the care. There were also individual variations. As for the duration.
The nurse could continue with high blood pressure six hours after the emergency,
when she was already at home seemingly relaxed and eating quietly, so her body
was concerned, the memory of stress was as real as stress itself. This
gives us a valuable clue. The body' s memory of stress causes normal
cycles to be disturbed by balance. Instead of returning to the original position,
they deviate a little over time. The net result is a state of dynamic
imbalance. Vaivén' s dance continues, but somewhat out of line applied to
aging. This can be represented by a simple diagram state of rest stress state
of rest. Each point represents one of the many points of balance of blood
pressure, body temperature, endocrine levels, etc, which the intelligence of the
body keeps in balance under stress. They all move evenly just to get back
to the original position. When the body returns to its state of rest.
Let' s say the chart above is yours at the age of twenty.
When you' re sixty, the image will be diverted to stress, even
if you' re not under stress. The process of aging state of rest
stress state of rest. The difference between the state of rest and stress is
now much greater and when the tension passes, the body still feels the effects.
Balance points have moved as a result of keeping too much of the memory
of stress. In physical terms, stress hormones have damaged various tissues. In
subjective terms, the person feels less energy and starts a vague sense of deterioration
that will increase over time. The deviated points on the right make me think
about the way the elders walk. His forward- looking stance denotes the imbalances
that are devastating his physiology. Finally, the balance collapses at the time of
death. Approximation to death state of rest stress state of rest. The scattered
points represent points of equilibrium that depart from order, meaning that the intelligence of
the body has little or no control over them. Near death, the body
is so close to total imbalance that adding any tension in the form of a
disease, an emotional blow or simple everyday challenges represents too great an effort for
the weakened network of information that is the plane of life. Balance points begin
to get messy in some critical area. The heart rate is erratic, it
is broken, the immune system, an ulcer is pierced, the state of
non- dynamic change loses its coherence and in death, the points of balance
are disseminated. In disorder, entropy has triumphed. The best defense against this
catastrophe is to preserve and renew the instinct that leads the body to balance.
The fact that blood pressure is under the control of the nervous system, autonomous
or involuntary, in other times convinced doctors that it escaped conscious control. However,
three decades of research on biofeedback, meditation, hypnosis, and other body
mind techniques have shown that the mind is capable of taking command of involuntary functions.
The deeper question is to uncontrol an uncompromised rhythm, such as blood pressure,
means that a much broader effect such as aging could also be controlled.
It is not possible to connect someone to a biofeedback machine that emits a sonic
signal every time that person ages. Fortunately, there is a very broad base
cycle in the body that directly reflects the aging process, the hormone cycle.
These messenger molecules carry in themselves an enormous amount of information circulating within us.
If hormonal balance can be preserved, we will have a reliable indicator that the
intelligence flow is also balanced. In many of the most important changes in aging,
mediators may be active hormones for attention that can be avoided by controlling stress.
This is the possibility that we will then investigate the invisible threat of aging
stress and body rhythms. For more than fifty years, physiologists know that animals
under stress age very quickly if you put a mouse on an electric grid and
apply shocks to it. You don' t need to raise the power to
such a level to kill him by simply applying very slight discharges at irregular intervals,
you will awaken the mouse' s reaction to stress. Every time this
happens, the body breaks down a little bit. Within a few days.
Subject to that tension, the mouse will die and the autopsy will reveal that
its tissues present many signs of accelerated aging. As the discharges themselves were mild,
the cause of death was not external tension, but the mouse' s
reaction. His body killed himself. Similarly, s s s human. We
can endure extraordinary stresses of the environment, but if we are too demanded our
response to stress turns against one' s own body and begins to cause decompostures,
both physically and mentally. In war, which is a state of is
three continuous and extreme. All borderline soldiers fall sooner or later into war neurosis
or combat fatigue and are kept under fire for too long. Both syndromes are
signs that the body exceeds its own resistance mechanisms. The human brain retains a
primitive memory that is programmed to face every tension, basically the same way our
ancestors faced the saber tigers. If someone points a gun at you and threatens
to shoot instantly, you make a dramatic leap to an intensified state of attention
all over your body, a response bursts out that requires you to fight or
run away preparing for action. An alarm message from the brain releases a torrent
of adrenaline from the adrenal cortex that runs through the blood and neo. It
was completely the usual functioning of the body. Most of the time your cells
are busy in renewal. About ninety percent of cell energy is normally applied to
producing new proteins and to manufacturing adn and arn However, when the brain perceives
a threat, the construction process is put aside, already decided, to fight
and to flee. Your body needs a strong burst of energy to boost the
muscles. To allow this, the normal style of metabolism that builds the body,
called anabolic metabolism, becomes its opposite, the catabolic metabolism that breaks down
the tissues the adrenaline launches a cascade of responses, It raises blood pressure,
muscles tighten, breathing becomes fast and shallow, Sexual desire and hunger are nullified,
digestion ceases. The brain becomes hyper alert and the senses mysteriously acute.
In moments of intense fear, as in battles, soldiers hear themselves breathe as
if they were bellows, and the eyes of the approaching enemy seem great as
saucers. As a temporary record, stress response is vital, but if time
does not end, the effects of catabolic metabolism are disastrous. In prolonged situations,
each aspect of excitation under stress leads to a specific disorder resulting disease response,
mobilized energy, fatigue, muscle destruction, diabetes, increased cardiovascular activity,
stress- induced hypertension, suppressed digestion, ulceration, growth, suppressed psychogenic dwarfism,
suppressed reproduction, impotence, loss of livid, menstruation interruption, suppression of
response, increased risk of immune disease, increased acuteness of thought and perception,
neuronal damage or death. The most striking of these consequences of prolonged stress is
that, overall, they are very much like aging. Hypertension, ulcers,
impotence, muscle wear and diabetes are common signs of aging. The elderly have
less resistance to the disease and senility seems to be directly linked to the loss
or damage of brain neurons. Superficially, these symptoms do not seem related,
but they are unified as extreme results of the stress response. Stress researchers have
shown that excitement only occurs at the beginning of attention. If the threat does
not cease, the citation becomes exhaustion, as the body cannot return to normal
anabolic metabolism, which builds reserves of tissue and energy. Therefore, the elderly
seem to be victims of war neurosis, exhausted by too long exposure to the
struggle of life. As aging progresses, there is a universal even decline in
the response to stress. Older people take longer to recover from stress and tolerate
stronger tensions less. For example, it is extremely rare for a young person
to die of grief, a fact that becomes more frequent with aging. This
decline is more than a fall in a straight line is exponentially duplicated. This
means that a year of old age causes as much deterioration in the response to
stress as two years of age. Grown up in very old people can take
only six months. With the passage of time, the instinct to return to
balance completely breaks down and even the mildest tensions. A flu attack, a
fall without gravity the loss of a small sum of money become extremely difficult to
bear. When you blame yourself for the stress of a disease, people hastily
deduce that the problem is an excessive stress. Actually, the failure is in
the body' s resistance mechanism. Mice suffering from excess discharge are a good
example. If their bodies had time to recover between one discharge and another,
the animals would not suffer harm, but the frequency of the discharges overwhelms physiology
and over time, exhausts their ability to return to normal. When Han Salley
introduced the concept of stress in the 1930s, he assumed that a powerful external
stress factor, such as a physical wound, hunger, exposure to heat or
cold, lack of sleep would cause the same response to stress at every opportunity.
But it didn' t work out that way. When two monkeys are
deprived of food for a long period, their bodies react by producing glucocorticoids.
He' s got three hormones we' re already familiar with. Faced with
the danger of starvation. The body of monkeys must begin to break down their
muscles in order to survive. But one of the monkeys is provided with artificially
sweetened water that has no nutritional value. His glucocorticoids levels do not rise.
Although he has not actually received any food. The monkey perceives that his situation
has improved, and that is enough to indicate to his body that the threat
of starvation has passed in many ways. Stress research has not recovered from this
amazing discovery. How can a mirage of food replace the actual food? The
only possible answer, in my view, is that the monkey felt fed from
within and his body accepted that perception of satisfaction as food. The theory of
stress must be modified to include the bonding of the body mind, as invisible
elements, such as interpretation, belief and attitude, have an enormous importance in
the actual functioning of the response to stress. Stress stages. When you experience
attention, your reaction has three phases. One to the event that brings attention,
two, the internal evaluation that you make of it, three the reaction
of your body, which makes the response to stress. Something so hard to
handle is that, once initiated, the mind no longer has control over it.
In totally inappropriate situations, such as being in the middle of a traffic
jam or receiving criticism at work, the response to hopeless stress can be triggered
if it can meet its goal, fight or run away. Modern life is
full of external events that produce stress that cannot be avoided. A city is
essentially a monolithic stress machine that produces noise and environmental pollution, along with excessive
speed, overcrowding, crime and rudeness. With regard to a single always prevailing
stress factor, noise pollution. Studies suggest many harmful effects. The incidence of
mental disorders rises under air corridors in the vicinity of airports. Children living near
Los Angeles airport have a higher blood pressure than the abnormal one. In the
vicinity of uncontrollable noise, sleep disturbances continue long after one believes one has adapted
to it. Outbreaks of violence and rudeness are more common in noisy working environments.
No need for loud noise to be harmful. Stress occurs when any irritating
noise repeats over and over again out of your control. This carries with it
the task of facing stress In phase two the evaluation. Even if you can
' t control the event that causes tension and your body' s reaction to
it, your evaluation. The vital link between the event and the reaction depends
on you Any situation that seems outwardly the same can become powerful stress by changing
its interpretation. A cop who appears at the scene of a crime provokes a
tremendous fear in the criminal, but a great relief in the victim. A
cancer diagnosis induces terrible stress in the patient, but not in the doctor.
The completely personal way we filter all the facts determines the ability to produce tension.
In us. The external stress motives are basically activators. If you don
' t feel active, there' s no stress. The myth has been
imposed that some people benefit them. Stress. They perform best with tight time
limits and bloom in the heat of competition. What actually happens is that they
don' t activate physiologically. No one can use the body to constantly add
cortisol and adrenaline. As we have seen, the function of these hormones is
to break down tissues. Prolonged production of these elements leads to disease. Therefore,
stress management is much more complicated than is generally assumed, because every person
basically projects his or her interpretation of a given situation from his or her memory.
Our way of reacting to new situations is always influenced by our past experiences.
Instead of appreciating each new situation on its own. We put it in
old categories. This happens instantly and is beyond our control. Conscious. If
you hate raw oysters, it may be enough to see them for you to
gag. If you are outraged by a conflicting divorce, your anger will resurface
when you meet your ex with Miyuje on the street. It is essential to
neutralize these old impressions, otherwise you have no control over stress. The event
that brings attention will automatically activate your response, making you his prisoner. This
unfortunate state has been the subject of extensive research such as despair, diagonal bar,
defenselessness such as aging. It causes deep sensations of both types. This
research has proved extremely valuable. A classic physiology experiment is to tie two mice
together, so that only one has freedom to eat, sleep, walk and
develop activities, while the other is passively dragged. Soon, the two will
have considerable differences. The animal that has freedom of choice continues robust and healthy,
while the other deprived of autonomy will be apathetic, prone to disease and
aged ahead of time. The dragged mouse has not suffered physical abuse, but
losing his freedom of choice extension enough to activate in his body great destructive reactions.
In experiments that include similar techniques, laboratory animals can be induced to develop
virtually any disease. If a disease, such as a chemically induced tumor,
has been introduced, it can be made much faster. When a group of
rats is piled up as if they were inhabitants of an tenant, their immune
system declines and signs of hypertension, neurosis, apathy, and depression appear.
When a newborn monkey is separated from his mother and deprived of emotional nutrition,
he shows signs of disorientation, hyperactivity, introversion and various learning disabilities. In
general induced stress has been found to accelerate the spread of cancer in rats rabbits
and mice, in addition to encouraging heart attacks, the critical factor interpretation.
Everyone has a different level of stress tolerance, but these are the factors that
seem to be perceived as the greatest threat in a given situation lack of foresight,
lack of control, lack of exits for frustration. When these elements are
present, innocuous situations can become stressful, sometimes without keeping any proportion to the
stimulus itself, driving on the highway behind a winding car, shattering nerves because
you can' t foresee what will happen. Next. The same thing happens
yes, being at an airport, your flight is delayed indefinitely. Both situations
contain the element of unforeseeableness. If you find that you can' t open
your car you' re forced to wait an hour until the locksmith arrives,
it' s very frustrating. Even if you know you can open it.
You usually assume that the car is under your control, but suddenly you discover
that it is not. It is also maddening to engage in a heated discussion,
just so that the other ends up giving two of the reason from good
to good. Even if you' ve won the dispute, suddenly you'
re dead. For your anger, it is unnecessary to say that everyday life
is full of similar situations. As they build up. We internalize the memory
of them by reinforcing our conditioned responses. In a series of accurate experiments,
stress researchers have shown that there is no need for external tension to provoke a
response to stress, but the simple perception of inadvertence lack of control and lack
of exit for frustration. Experiments are carried out with rats to which small cages
are placed and electric shocks are applied under various unforeseen conditions. If rats are
given a red light as a warning that a discharge will occur, they will
have a lower response to stress compared to rats that are not given any warning.
The signal allows the animals to foresee discharge and, thus removed anxiety the
body can relax. Rats are mere to unforeseeable discharges should always be kept alert
Active state. Uncontrollable stress is subjected to two rats with equal discharges, but
one may press a lever to decrease the power of the discharge. The other
simply receives a discharge at the same time as the first animal. Like the
second rat, it has no control over the situation, it has a more
intense response to stress, although the discharges are the same for both. In
a fascinating variation of the same subject, a rat is provided with a lever
that must be pressed to prevent the discharge. If you are prevented from doing
so, you will experience a reaction to stress. Even if no download is
applied to it. Just remembering that before I had control creates a situation of
stress lack of exits for frustration. When discharges are applied to lab rats,
they exhibit less stress and can gnaw a piece of wood or attack another rat.
The same reduction occurs if you give them something to eat or drink or
a wheel to play on. For millions of people, life is so frustrating
that their only hope of relieving stress is to overeat and drink. While entire
societies try to escape their distresses by attacking other countries. They burst out over
matters that seem trivial to the observer, but frustration and lack of control are
conditions under which to live. It' s very painful. When you suddenly
die to someone close to you the unbearable pain of loss gets stuck in powerful
intangible tensions. You would not have been able to foresee death, you would
not have been able to prevent it and, in many cases, there seems
to be no way of sufficiently expressing the accumulated feelings of loss and abandonment.
This becomes especially painful, and the person to whom you need to express your
feelings is the one who has died. In medical terms, the number of
diseases that are due to these elements is large. Dr Georg Gigle, a
psychiatrist at the University of Rochester, investigated one hundred and sixty cases of sudden
death that had no physical explanation. Fifty- eight percent occurred at a time
of mourning or loss, thirty- five percent at times of threat, Only
six percent coincided with a moment of pleasure. It is not tension itself that
is fatal, as other people survive the same losses and threats. What is
missing is the ability to endure attention. This vulnerability surpasses physical factors. When
a person under the age of 50 dies of a heart attack, for example,
one in two times there is none of the classic risk factors for hypertension,
high cholesterol, and smoking. The First Class of Cancer in America.
Lung cancer is directly linked to smoking, a habit that for most is purely
an outlet for frustrated emotions. A pleasure used such as a caged rat uses
the piece of wood to gnaw in the laboratory. Animals less evolved than frog
rats, for example, do not respond to intangible stress factors. The key
factor is memory. If an animal has only one primitive memory, it will
not recognize the difference between one situation and the next. Rats recall the disagravel
sensation of the electrical discharge and can therefore be trained to operate a lever in
order to avoid repetition. When removed to the lever. Remembrance is also enough
to anticipate the next download. They have expectations. It is a case similar
to that of the nervous patient who jumps in the dentist' s chair as
soon as he hears the lathe, the mere sound awakens, an expectation of
pain that in turn activates the response to pain. In both cases, the
factor causing attention is expectation. This has enormous implications for aging, because we
all carry within us a world, the world of our past. We generate
our own tensions as we go back to this world and the traumas printed on
it. Without the memory of stress there would be no stress, because our
memories ordered that we should be frightened or angry. We feel frustrated and unchecked.
Just one situation reminds us too much of an earlier moment when we were
frustrated and unchecked. The curse of memory is that we age from within our
inner world ages and isolates us from the reality that never ages. The perfection
of human memory is amazing. In the early days of psychoanalysis, Freud was
amazed at the accuracy of his patients' unconscious retention. The past could lead
a depressed patient to trauma at two years of age, when his mother had
left him one night in the hospital where his tonsils were to be operated on.
At first, Freud discovered that memory was not entirely unearthed. Blankets of
numbness and denial covered the original feeling of having been abandoned. However, if
the patient had enough courage, those robes could gradually be removed with complete clarity.
The patient then remembered exactly what had happened in the hospital that night,
not only his feeling in all its nuances, but the most insignificant physical details,
the time the clock marked, the number of steps they took to the
operating room, the color of the nurse' s hair. But why not
remember those details They have been printed on us as microchips, adding their broadcast
to all future facts. In human life there are few simple tensions, if
any still exist, because as soon as a new fact is presented, the
seal of old memories is activated, activating the kind of tension we expect.
Therefore, stress becomes a self- fulfilling prophecy. Our reactions are in line
with our expectations. It is the fact that no event can avoid the seal
of interpretation. Which gives memory to its treacherous power, the connection of hormones.
The reaction to stress includes the production of powerful chemical elements that the body,
as I have described, must isolate before suffering damage. Endocrinologists classify stress
hormones as glucocorticoids, segregated by the adrenal glands, as part of the greater
activity required of the body under stress. The function of glucocorticoids is to activate
the change from anabolic metabolism to catabolic metabolism. Specifically, glucocorticoids break down the
liver' s glucagon, a form of stored energy that the body can use
in case of need. When the Lucagon runs out, the glucocorticoids themselves break
down proteins in extreme conditions, such as periods of famine. The body should
fight starvation by starting to consume its own muscles in order to maintain the level
of sugar in the blood. Once again, the chemicals responsible are glucocorticoids.
The best known of glucocorticoids is cortisol, which plays a hidden role in the
aging of certain animals, specifically the Pacific Salmon. After the incubation, the
young Salmon spends the first four years of life at sea until he is mysteriously
guided for thousands of miles to the same freshwater lake in which he was born.
After a heroic journey against the current, passing through rapids and prey built
by man, the mature Salmon procreates and dies almost immediately, making the fish
aged overnight, becoming a weak and worn- out beast. It is not
just exhaustion, but an inner aging clock, included in your DNA that waits
until spawning is done to emit large amounts of corticosteroid hormone from the adrenal glands.
Cortisol is a potent stress hormone in all animals. In salmon, it
' s a death hormone. Its fatal emission occurs even if the fish is
removed from the water before its strenuous emigration and allowed to procreate in optimal physical
condition. Aging clocks respect their own plan without taking into account the medium.
If you take salmon upstream, providing it with the right food and protecting it
from all stresses, you can' t save it. After spawning the biological
clock of the fish knows that the right time has come to die. Suitable
in nature is a very flexible term. The cocksucker, who barely lives a
day and the giant clam that survives more than a hundred years. They each
have an appropriate time of life. Nature balances many ingredients to determine how long
an animal will live. The size, weight, metabolic rhythm, food supply,
prey animals, reproductive age and number of offspring, among other factors,
influence the time when aging will begin. A mouse in a wild environment can
live a year or less, but in the course of that year the mature
animal mates, has a certain number of young and keeps its species in motion
in the balance of nature. That' s enough. Its species can keep
its population going before aging and dying its purpose is fulfilled in animals. The
beginning of old age is linked to its physical evolution. Each animal has evolved
to a time of life that is the most suitable for survival. If mice
lived a hundred years and continued to have offspring for dozens of years, the
world would be invaded by mice and prey animals that feed on them. However,
nature does not allow such grotesque imbalances to persist. All species adapt to
their own lifetime and follow their specific patterns for aging. Sometimes the specific intention
of nature is difficult to decipher, because, for example, the tiny,
bats, brown live twelve or more years, while the field mouse, which
weighs the same and has an equally fast metabolism, struggles to survive just one
or two seasons. Factors that influence the life time of different animals are so
complex subtle that it is difficult to explain how animals age. Today there are
more than 300 theories that rival to give the answer. The imagination is disturbed
by the clocks of aging, because they are time bombs that animals have not
known within themselves as instruments of their own destruction. Many biologists speculate that the
human adn contains an aging clock. If true, it must be much more
variable than salmon, as humans die at very variable ages. In the Roman
Empire, average life expectancy was around twenty- eight years. Today it has
risen to seventy- five years in the United States and eighty- two five
among women in Japan, the longest- lived group in the world. This
increase has been achieved thanks to the characteristic that differentiates us from the lower animals,
free will. The moment of our death is not determined at birth.
We humans challenge destiny, building shelters against the elements, cultivating ready or s
or rs of hunger and inventing cures for disease. However, the biochemical heritage
we carry in us presents a constant threat. Like the salmon of the Pacific,
our body has the ability to emit large doses of hormone without the command
of our will. For example, every time we are in a threatening situation
we produce a small dose of non- lethal cortisol. For many physiologists,
this means that our body is not well adapted to modern life. Also out
of our control. Conscious is the effect of glucocorticoids on a series of destructive
processes. Muscle wear, airway or betes, fatigue, osteoporosis, thinning of
the skin, redistribution of body fat, fragility of blood vessels, hypertension,
fluid retention, suppression of the immune system and alteration of mental functions. All
of these are signs of steroid poisoning, so it is a danger if patients
are treated for too long with large doses of steroids. In situations where a
person can' t give up the stress response or fails to express it,
his or her own body administers a small dose of poisonous steroids. Thus,
the danger of repeated inappropriate stress is much greater than any catastrophic stress. Alone.
Meditation decreases the biological age. The link between aging and stress hormones has
been clearly demonstrated, but the problem of how to control these hormones remains.
As the reaction to active stress in a fraction of a second and without prior
notice, it is impossible for us to dominate the molecules themselves. However,
there is a body mind technique that goes directly to the root of the stress
response, freeing us from the reminded tensions that give rise to new tensions in
meditation. It is often discovered that cortisol and adrenaline levels are lower in those
who meditate for a long time, and their resistance mechanisms always tend to be
more powerful than the average. Before the 1970s began, we did not even
suspect these benefits. Meditation offered little appeal to Western medicine until a young physiologist
at the University of California named r Q WAWS showed that, beyond its spiritual
implications, meditation had profound effects on the body. In a series of experiments
initiated in the late 1960s. As part of his doctoral thesis, Walls took
groups of volunteers who practiced transcendental meditation EMET, almost all of them of college
age, and connected them to monitors to measure critical body functions during meditation.
Subjectively, these young volunteers reported experiencing greater calm and inner silence. Although it
had been thought that it took years of practice to achieve a deep meditative state
until then, MT' s technique soon produced deep relaxation and significant changes in
breathing, heart rhythm, and blood pressure. The MT is based on the
silent repetition of a Sanskrit word determined omandre, whose sound vibrations gradually lead the
mind out of the normal thought process into the underlying silence. As such,
a mantre is a very specific message inserted into the nervous system, as mantres
have been used in India for thousands of years. Its exact physiological effect is
well known as part of the science of yoga or union. The goal of
yoga is to unite the thinking mind with its source in pure consciousness. In
modern terms, pure consciousness means quantum space. The silent void, which is
the belly of all matter and all energy. Pure consciousness exists in the void
between two thoughts. It is the invariable background against which all mental activity occurs.
Usually, we cannot suspect the existence of that state, because the mind
is too concerned with it torrent of thoughts, desires, dreams, fantasies and
sensations that fill the waking consciousness. Thus, the ancient Indian sages had to
devise the specific technique of meditation in order to show the mind its own origins
in quantum depths. When Waus started this research, the mechanics of meditation was
not well understood in scientific terms. He was the first to show that sitting
in meditation with closed eyes induces the nervous system to enter a state of alertness
at rest, that is, the mind remains awake as the body enters into
deep relaxation. In the lingo of physiology, WAUS called this waking state hypometabolic
to indicate that the subject' s metabolism decreased, although the waking consciousness was
maintained to its discovery. The state of alertness at rest generated considerable curiosity in
the medical profession, which until then had considered rest and alertness as opposites.
Sleep is a hypometabolic state in which oxygen consumption decreases, the heart beats more
slowly and consciousness is erased. The waking state, on the other hand,
is characterized by increased oxygen consumption, a faster heart rate and an alert mind.
The description of MT in this text cannot really teach the reader how to
meditate. The technique of MT can be described verbally or in writing, but
to learn it properly it is necessary to receive personal instructions from a well-
prepared meditation teacher. Thousands of people start the technique just to leave it prematurely.
This is because there is no greater challenge than the intimate relationship with oneself
opened by meditation. Devoting to this practice without giving it more importance almost always
leads to failure, as the benefits are too deep to be discarded so lightly.
I have decided, though reluctantly, not to tell my readers how to
meditate. As a result, perhaps fewer will be initiated, but the purity
and value of teaching will be preserved, making it better for those who begin.
It was correctly discovered that in meditation these opposites joined together, although the
meditating subjects remained alert enough to press a button every time they transcended, that
is, when they experienced pure consciousness, they fell into a state of rest
twice as deep as the deepest sleep. Even more they did so very quickly,
usually before ten minutes after closing their eyes, in contrast to the four,
five, or six hours that it took us to achieve the deepest relaxation
when we slept. Beginning in nineteen hundred and seventy- eight, Waldes investigated
the effects of meditation on human aging. He used three markers of biological age
as a summary of the aging process as a whole. Blood pressure, short
- range vision, and the hearing threshold, all of which typically decline over
the years, were able to show that all of these markers improved with MT
practice in the long term. Indian that actually biological age was reversed. The
meditators who regularly practiced the technique for less than five years had a biological age
on average five years below their chronological age. Those who had meditated for more
than five years were twelve years younger than their continuous chronological age in the next
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