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Topic: Some helpful thoughts...
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~nae
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From: Vic, Australia
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted September 19, 2005 12:29 AM
 
A basic emotion such as fear can be described as an abstract feeling or as a tangible molecule of the hormone adrenalin. Without the feeling there is no hormone; without the hormone there is no feeling. Wherever thought goes, a chemical goes with it, and our cells are constantly eavesdropping on our thoughts and being changed by them. A bout of depression can wreak havoc with the immune system; falling in love can boost it. A remembered stress, which is only a whisp of thought, releases the same flood of destructive hormones as the stress itself. Distressed mental states get converted into the biochemicals that create disease, healthy mental states fend off disease, and there is a lot of scientific evidence to support this claim; during my psychology major I wrote a literature review comparing the efficacy of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for the treatment of anxiety disorders. One particular study claimed that psychotherapy actually produced the same chemical changes in the brain as drugs - the drugs are an effective intervention to help stabilise hormone levels, but in the long term mental dis-eases such as anxiety and depression can only be cured with psychotherapy, ie by changing one's thoughts/ perceptions/ awareness. A change in thinking produces observable changes in brain chemistry, however changes in brain chemistry due to drugs cannot alter the way a person thinks. Another example of this is the placebo effect; by telling patients they are recieving a painkiller and instead giving them sugar pills or injecting them with physiological saline, 30% will experience the same pain relief as if a real painkiller had been administered. Simply the belief that they are recieving a painkiller is enough for some patients to experience pain relief.
Using the same notion, because the mind influences every cell in the body, human aging is fluid and changeable; it can speed up, slow down, stop for a time, and even reverse itself. Everything that happens to you is a result of how you see yourself, so if you want to change your body, you must change your awareness first. For example, if you are the sort of person who experiences time as a scarce commodity that is constantly slipping away, then you are creating a completely different personal reality from someone who perceives that he/she has all the time in the world. This is because when your attention is in the past or the future, you are in the field of time, creating aging. However, if your life is concentrated in the present, the past and future are not impinging upon it, and a space is opened up for a completely new experience - the experience of ageless body and timeless mind.
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SunChild
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posted September 19, 2005 10:23 AM
Great article Nae! 
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lotusheartone
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posted September 19, 2005 12:52 PM
~nae,Thanks, that was wonderful! Love and Light to ALL IP: Logged |
iAmThat
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From: third rock from the Sun
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posted September 19, 2005 06:22 PM
Great!!! IP: Logged |
~nae
Knowflake Posts: 39
From: Vic, Australia
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted September 20, 2005 10:42 PM
Some of it is directly quoted from Deepak Chopra's book Ageless Body Timeless Mind, and some of it is my own words.
Here's some more:The aging process is learned; therefore you're in a position to unlearn the behaviour that's making you age, adopt new beliefs, and be guided into new opportunities. But because aging happens so slowly, it remains outside most people's awareness except in those isolated moments of recognition when we realise that youth is slipping away. In the absence of being aware, physiological processes slip out of our control, so if you want to change your body you must change your awarness first. Here's some helpful thoughts for changing your awareness:
The skin replaces itself once a month;
the stomach lining every five days;
the liver every six weeks;
the skeleton every three months.
To the naked eye, these organs look the same from moment to moment, but they are always in flux. By the end of this year, 98% of the atoms in your body will have been exchanged for new ones. Like Linda said, if you don't first believe that immortality is possible, you will never achieve it. A belief is something you hold on to because you think it is true. But unlike a thought, which actively forms words or images in your brain, a belief is generally silent. The stronger the belief, the more rooted in the body it is and the more immune to conscious control. Changing a belief is a long process that starts with changing your thoughts. I'm hoping some of what I've said in this topic will provide some new thoughts and guide some people towards new beliefs. To continue:
People don't grow old; when they stopping growing, they become old. New knowledge, new skills, new ways of looking at the world keep mind and body growing, and as long as that happens, the natural tendency to be new at every second is expressed. We are constantly making and unmaking our bodies. The body is a process, and as long as that process is directed toward renewal, the cells of the body remain new, no matter how much time passes or how much entropy we are exposed to. If you think about it: unlike machines, which run down with too much use, the human body is capable of getting better the more it is used. A well-exercised bicep doesn't deteriorate; rather, it gets stronger. Also musing on Linda's teachings: mortality is built into the system of competition for food. Some animals have to die in order for others to live; otherwise survival of the fittest would have no meaning. Linda said that people such as hunters, fishermen, etc cannot achieve immortality. In a practical sense, this is true, because to achieve immortality one must liberate his/hers-elf from this kill-or-be-killed cycle and make a conscious decision not to kill in order to live. It would seem a cosmically gross injustice for someone who steals life to be able to keep their own indefinitely. IP: Logged |
iAmThat
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From: third rock from the Sun
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posted September 21, 2005 09:37 PM
Hi Nae,
Great thoughts.You said "immortality one must liberate his/hers-elf from this kill-or-be-killed cycle and make" It is possible for a human to live only on air. But its very very very rare. Did you hear of a Indian yogi who did that recently? He was all over television and scientists are researching on how he survived. Are you following the Gospel of Thomas thread in the Universal Forum. Theres a verse there "In the days you ate, you made them alive..........". It is the role of Lamb to feed the hungry lions and humans. There in lies its salvation may be to become a lion someday ...Hehehe
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lotusheartone
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posted September 22, 2005 04:09 AM
~naeYour words of wisdom, are amazing, for you SEE, the Love and Light, the univerasal Laws.
So, perfectly expressed.
Thanks
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~nae
Knowflake Posts: 39
From: Vic, Australia
Registered: Nov 2004
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posted September 23, 2005 01:06 AM
iAmThat, just took a squiz...I liked this one: "Lucky is the lion that the human will eat, so that the lion becomes human. And foul is the human that the lion will eat, and the lion still will become human."
LOL!
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posted December 21, 2008 07:50 AM
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Randall
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posted December 30, 2008 09:37 PM
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