Last year, a very powerful (and some say, confusing) movie came out. It's called "The Fountain". The film is directed by Darren Aronofsky and the main characters are played by Hugh Jackman and Rachel Weisz. What is it about? It's about a man searching for the Fountain/Tree of Life to save his love, and this happens during three different time periods (and, one could say, levels of consciousness) that eventually merge in infinity.
The reason I bring it up is that the search for a cure to aging, disease and death - the Fountain of Eternal Life - seems to be eternally elusive.
And yet... we do have everything we ever needed to remain young and vibrant, even to reverse aging, for the entire span of our existence... right in front of us. It is a common phenomenon, to not see what is right in front of our noses, that some have appropriately named "the elusive obvious".
Allow me to explain it for you as best as I can.
The Universe, the whole of reality, is energy moving back and forth from a formless state to varying degrees of form. These forms are characterized by varying degrees of vibrational frequency/consciousness. This means that to transform one thing into something else, the vibrational frequency/consciousness of that form must change.
Kind of like changing the temperature of water.
If you remove heat and the temperature drops below zero celcius, the water molecules slow down (slower vibrational frequency) and the water freezes into ice, a different physical form of water. If you add heat to the ice, that means that the water molecules start to move faster and faster, until the ice melts into water and eventually into steam at 100 celcius, when the water molecules move so quickly that they expand . That's another physical form that water can take.
The good news is that we, and everything else in the universe, work the same way.
Our life and our bodies are pure energy that has taken specific physical forms. To change our bodies, we must change our vibrational frequency/consciousness.
There are two general approaches here:
1. Starting from inside and working your way out.
2. Starting from outside and working your way in.
An example of inside-out vibrational transformation would be meditation.
An example of outside-in vibrational transformation would be physical exercise.
Today I read about a new study done by the Buck Institute for Age Research titled: Resistance Exercise Reverses Aging in Human Skeletal Muscle. It explains how resistance exercises - that build muscle - reverse aging in muscle cells. Yes, reverses. That means that with resistance exercise, your body and YOU... become younger. And the study was conducted over a six month period with subjects 65 and older, proving that we can become physically younger at any age.
Another thing to keep in mind is that the less muscle you have, the more fat your body will gain over time, even if you eat less.
The reason why this happens is that muscle is a metabolic tissue, it's active, it's alive, it burns calories. The less muscle you have, the less you are able to burn calories, and the more fat you put on over time. It's fine to be thin (if it's healthy), but if you're thin and you have no muscle on your body, you will put on fat... and you will not feel very alive. In fact, you'll look and feel old.
To reverse aging and look and feel young for the rest of your life, train your body to build muscle. And if you train your muscles intensely enough, your heart and lungs will get strong too.
Starting from the outside-in, physical exercise is the REAL Fountain of Life!
So find some kind of resistance exercise you enjoy (yoga, pilates, running, weight training, sports, martial arts, ect.) and start now. In six months time, with more muscle and less fat on your body, you'll look and feel younger and more alive than you have in years.
*Next week, I'll address the topic of more inside-out training for the Fountain of Life.
CHB
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