Tai Chi & Thymus Gland
Thymus, a gland in the chest, is active in young child up to puberty. After that it starts to atrophy dramatically. It diminishes in size and degenerates into fat tissues until it become almost unnoticeable, dormant in adult.
The thymus was known to the Ancient Greeks, and its name comes from the Greek word θυμός (thumos), meaning heart, soul, desire, life — possibly because of its location in the chest, near where emotions are subjectively felt [Wikipedia]. Perhaps due to its approximation to the heart, all cultures have located the feeling of joy as coming from the heart itself. Could atrophy of the thymus be the reason why adults can never revive that feeling of simple joy and aliveness no matter how hard they try, what external stimulus they resort to or what manner of fantasy they construct out of their mind? Living (I'm talking about the pure simple fact of being alive rather than any 'styles' of life) itself stops being joyful and becomes rather wearisome, even painful after certain age.
Joy is not to be mixed up with pleasure. An adult may be able to feel a lot of pleasures through sensual activities such as sex, eating, a soak in hot-tub, drinking and use of drugs etc.; but he has lost the ability to feel pure simple joy which does not depend on any external stimulus. He can no longer feel joyful through simply being alive.
For a person to be rejuvenated, to become fully alive again on all levels, this thymus gland has to be re-activated. How? Not through any medical treatment, therapy, pills or drugs. Not through any external means. If you have to rely on artificial means or products provided by doctors, fine that's your choice. A bottle of thymus extract costs $600 on the market (there are websites specializing in selling expensive health products like this). However, there's a less costly and more complete alternative: you can re-activate this mysterious gland through yoga, tai-chi and energy work. In fact, thymus gland corresponds to the anahata, the heart chakra in the yogic energy system of chakras. When the serpent of life force (kundalini) awakens, it travels up the central energy pathway (sushumna in sanskrit) activating all the seven chakras along the way until it reaches the crown of the head. So the awakening happens simultaneously once and for all, not one today and another tomorrow. So, once the kundalini awakens, everything else awakens along with it. This of course involves the awakening of the pineal gland (corresponding to the ajna chakra the so-called 'third eye') which I talked about in an earlier blog entry.But again, I'm not saying if you do all these things, yoga, Tai Chi or Chi Kung or anything else you can think of, you're guaranteed to get the desired results.
Again I'm talking through my personal experiences, though I had to borrow some facts based on second-hand knowledge from scientific sources on the Internet.
But where do the scientists get their information from? From laboratory tests of cutting up dead body or animal tests. So their knowledge is always going to be limited. You can't find out about true functioning and mechanisms of living organism by cutting up dead bodies; and neither can you draw conclusions through making inference through conducting tests on animals. In fact, scientists themselves admit that their knowledge of the function of the thymus gland is limited. If any scientific-minded person wants to challenge me to come up with scientific proof, the answer is there isn't any and there never will be; not to any direct personal experience. By the time you took that experience to be examined by doctors, scientists in a laboratory, it is already dead. One can never find out what's going on inside himself by examining what happens out there, laboratory or no laboratory.
So, the whole chemistry of the body has to change: it has to undergo a sort of alchemy, if I may put it that way. Luckily, fortunately, there are certain areas in the human organism which are outside the control of thought. ...They are the glands, what you call the 'ductless glands'....
These glands are outside the control of thought. ...Unless they are activated, any chance of human beings flowering into themselves is lost. ...Man remains incomplete, unless the whole of this human organism blooms into something, like a flower.
-------- U. G. Krishnamurti [not to be mixed with J. Krishnamurti], a modern-day anti-guru
The thymus was known to the Ancient Greeks, and its name comes from the Greek word θυμός (thumos), meaning heart, soul, desire, life — possibly because of its location in the chest, near where emotions are subjectively felt [Wikipedia]. Perhaps due to its approximation to the heart, all cultures have located the feeling of joy as coming from the heart itself. Could atrophy of the thymus be the reason why adults can never revive that feeling of simple joy and aliveness no matter how hard they try, what external stimulus they resort to or what manner of fantasy they construct out of their mind? Living (I'm talking about the pure simple fact of being alive rather than any 'styles' of life) itself stops being joyful and becomes rather wearisome, even painful after certain age.
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For a person to be rejuvenated, to become fully alive again on all levels, this thymus gland has to be re-activated. How? Not through any medical treatment, therapy, pills or drugs. Not through any external means. If you have to rely on artificial means or products provided by doctors, fine that's your choice. A bottle of thymus extract costs $600 on the market (there are websites specializing in selling expensive health products like this). However, there's a less costly and more complete alternative: you can re-activate this mysterious gland through yoga, tai-chi and energy work. In fact, thymus gland corresponds to the anahata, the heart chakra in the yogic energy system of chakras. When the serpent of life force (kundalini) awakens, it travels up the central energy pathway (sushumna in sanskrit) activating all the seven chakras along the way until it reaches the crown of the head. So the awakening happens simultaneously once and for all, not one today and another tomorrow. So, once the kundalini awakens, everything else awakens along with it. This of course involves the awakening of the pineal gland (corresponding to the ajna chakra the so-called 'third eye') which I talked about in an earlier blog entry.But again, I'm not saying if you do all these things, yoga, Tai Chi or Chi Kung or anything else you can think of, you're guaranteed to get the desired results.
Again I'm talking through my personal experiences, though I had to borrow some facts based on second-hand knowledge from scientific sources on the Internet.
But where do the scientists get their information from? From laboratory tests of cutting up dead body or animal tests. So their knowledge is always going to be limited. You can't find out about true functioning and mechanisms of living organism by cutting up dead bodies; and neither can you draw conclusions through making inference through conducting tests on animals. In fact, scientists themselves admit that their knowledge of the function of the thymus gland is limited. If any scientific-minded person wants to challenge me to come up with scientific proof, the answer is there isn't any and there never will be; not to any direct personal experience. By the time you took that experience to be examined by doctors, scientists in a laboratory, it is already dead. One can never find out what's going on inside himself by examining what happens out there, laboratory or no laboratory.
So, the whole chemistry of the body has to change: it has to undergo a sort of alchemy, if I may put it that way. Luckily, fortunately, there are certain areas in the human organism which are outside the control of thought. ...They are the glands, what you call the 'ductless glands'....
These glands are outside the control of thought. ...Unless they are activated, any chance of human beings flowering into themselves is lost. ...Man remains incomplete, unless the whole of this human organism blooms into something, like a flower.
-------- U. G. Krishnamurti [not to be mixed with J. Krishnamurti], a modern-day anti-guru
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