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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 chapter follow me as lily secrets