The Fountain of Youth
The Fountain of Youth
Those seeking some sort of "Fountain of Youth" intuitively know
that there is "an
answer" close at hand. Most of us today are in the habit of
looking for immediate and manufactured answers. They are looking
for external chemicals that they can ingest or inject which will
enhance their body systems. We assume that the currency from
which to acquire our goal is in our wallets. If only we could
find the most esoteric vitamin(s) or special exercise teacher or
for that matter machine, we could buy some magic. Those of us on
this path are an example of the error in assuming that the grass
is always greener on the other side, someplace other than our
own consciousness or Bio-yard. The search should be turned
around not to external, man-made chemicals, but to the body's
internal pharmacy. Those chemicals are potentially available
from their very own bodies. The search should be for the way to
activate this production of these chemicals from their personal
"Fountain of Youth". We should stop searching for a foreign and
synthetic fountain. The internal pharmacy holistically maintains
all of the body chemicals in concentrations that are the correct
ratio to one another. The absolute perfect ratio is called
homeostasis, which in reality, is a very demanding theoretical
goal that is approachable but not actually totally attainable.
When outside chemicals are inserted without body control to
maintain them at holistic concentrations, they act to further
disturb homeostasis. The body is an electro-chemical system.
This means an electrical signal (hopefully produced under body
control by a nerve) ~ connected to the total nerve main frame ~
controls the chemicals your body produces. There are very
specialized nerve endings which cause a nerve response to
several different stimuli. It is therefore possible to alter
body chemistry with light, sound, touch, movement, atmospheric
pressure , humidity, heat or cold, acidic or alkaline substances
and tissue damage even as mild as acupuncture. The electrical
holistic control center of the body is located in the
hypothalamus, which drives the autonomic nervous system. The
famous pituitary glands are only a portion of the hypothalamus,
which is the true "master" gland. Some means of accessing this
master gland (hypothalamus) would make contact with our domestic
"Fountain of Youth". This is a worthy goal and no direct method
is available since we are also emotion response machines. The
emotional center of the brain known as the limbic system, has
many interconnections with the hypothalamus thereby making
psychological factors a potent force in altering body chemistry.
Also (and unfortunately), the suboccipital muscles, located at
the base of the skull, rest on nerves, which reflex into the
hypothalamus thereby allowing the physiological state of these
muscles to act as a potent force in rearranging the correct
formulas, and actually altering body chemistry. To find the
internal "fountain"; this is certainly a noble quest.