HEALTH AND WELLNESS

People are constantly changing because their environments change. They meet new people, there may be loss or there may be gain. More than three thousand years ago, the Buddha noted the impermanence of all things, and the temporary nature of all phenomena. For people in this day and age, phenomena change very rapidly, and in a rapidly changing society, people do not know how to cope. Stress is definitely on the increase, to such an extent that by the year 2015, one in three people will have experienced some form of severe depression in their lives requiring a degree of medication..

Although people differ constitutionally and genetically in their predisposition to stress, neurosis and psychosis, within all conditions there is an unknown factor, that I would call the mystical factor, which can be called upon by many people in times of extreme stress, or the dark night of the soul, or in times of severe suffering, which can often bring about miraculous change and improvement.

Hapiness is, to be creative, to be optimistic, to be full of joy, to be steadfast in the face of suffering, to have strength, vitality and spirit.

I think this kind of super quality has in it the ingredients of wholism, self-responsibility and inspiration.The purpose of antiaging is the search for life extension with quality of life and happiness.

The Evolution of the Brain and the Bio-mind
Three lifestyle factors for life extension and revitalisation.
Mastery of life, release of stress and support of the community.

Our brain and our total sensorium evolves within and with the environment as our body grows. We are physically attuned to the environment in an inextricable way which both moulds our bodies and our perceptive faculties. In this respect, the total substance of our body contains memory of all trauma and all experiences just as much as the physical structure of the brain does. Although the number of neurones do not increase, the interconnections between them increase at an exponential rate throughout life. There are more neuronal connections in the brain than the number of stars in the universe.

Attunement to the Environment
Thus we are attuned to our environment and the moving stimuli in it, particularly the electromagnetic and vibrational stimuli and patterns that impinge on our total sensorium as we grow and evolve.

The human brain undergoes two rapid bouts of re-mapping, or re-shaping. The one already mentioned is during the neo-natal period. The other occurs during puberty, around the ages of seventeen and eighteen, when 20% of the brain is remodelled, and neurons are lost and replaced, and further connections are made.