Health and Aging. In Traditional Chinese Medicine our bodies and our selves reflect the natural world we live in. Being in harmony with the seasons for example increases health and well being. What you do with or to your body affect the way you think and influence you mentally and spiritually.

Stay young, stay healthy, but how old can people really get?   Peoplewho are born healthy can grow very old and still remain in good health. Most of them will, however "die" long before their potential Biological Old Age is reached. Why should that be?Perhaps the past can help to explain, let’s take a look into some aspects of our history and then you can make up your own mind!

One of the oldest books we can use is the Bible. If you look at the Old Testament you will find that Adam and his six children lived for more than nine hundred years. Methuselah is documented as a nine hundred and ninety-six year old while Lamech was seven hundred and seventy-seven years old and his first son reached the age of one hundred and seventy-eight years old. Noah lived for over nine hundred years, he was six hundred years living on the Ark. Moses died at the age of one hundred and twenty years.4>

Most scientists dispute these claims, although one of them, C. Edward Burtis, had to admit, after a life-long study, that the age mentioned for Moses was correct. These great ages were partly made possible because of their life style and a special diet which had to be enforced rigidly. The Sumerians, living in the same area, are another society who left us with a lot of records, this time in the form of baked clay documents. They recorded most of the reigns of the different Kings in the area and when we look at them we find:Dynasty Name No. of Kings Reign Average Rule

Dynasty Name No. of Kings Reign Average Rule First Kisj 23 24510 years 1065 years Second Kisj Kisj 8 3195 years 399 years Third Kisj Kisj 1 100 years 100 years Fourth Kisj Kisj 7 97 years 14 years * First Uruk 12 2310 years 192 years Second Uruk Uruk 3 480 years 160 years First Ur 4 171 years 42 years Second Ur Ur 4 108 years 27 years Adab 1 90 years 90 years Mari 6 136 years 23 years         *The rule by kings stops at this point and power is transferred to the temple of Eanna at Uruk where the son of the high priest ruled for 324 years! Ancient people explained the decrease and increase of the life span in the following terms: Time and space are aspects of the material world and therefore human existence is limited. When you look at the stars you can see what is happening. New worlds get born every day and others die out. Our Earth and our Sun have only a limited period of existence! This is one of the reasons why Buddha called the material world an illusion. Despite its powerful manifestation, its glamour and its glitter, it is all in vain. The material world has no inside, it has no soul. The problem, materialisme can corrupt a soul, the soul will shrink. (knowledge of good and bad and stimulation of the primary instincts)    The spiritual and mental world does not contain matter/weight and is therefore not subject to Time and can  exist indefinitely - forever. The more cynical ones of the ancients associated Time with what they would call corruption and as the Destroyer! Materialisme (money and greed) seen as a destructive philosophy. Expansion of consciousness and awareness could reduce the effects of Time.  Okinawa Ireland  Centenarians Eire Aging  Green investments

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