Men’s Fitness Advisor

As we consider a future in which all aspects of life are going to blend more and more, it is difficult to arrange our findings categorically, under separate headings such as health and science. There will be much overlapping. The whole question of health will come ultimately to be closely bound up with education, with psychological and with spiritual training, with an understanding of science in its relation to the human being, with the effects of color, sound and perfume, and with many other factors, so that it will be impossible to determine the limits to the study of health.

At the present time, through separative treatment, health has reached the same impasse as economics and other human affairs. But we are already familiar with this subject, and our viewpoint is now to the future. Biofeedback will make it easier to meditate, even when you’re beginning meditation, to solve many problems we have today. We have noted that health will be enormously improved through the effects of changing international relationships.

A number of fears will be removed from men’s consciousness, such as fear of war, of want, and of being not wanted. The change that this will bring after a few generations to the standard of health and of mental alertness and initiative will be so great that it is difficult to visualize it. People will no longer need to be distracted from all the worry of living by hectic entertainment and unnatural habits. Everyday life itself will become a continuous joy, to be relished with man’s growing store of energy which will make the consuming of stimulants such as alcohol, meat and tobacco nauseous and unnecessary to him.

Instead, these stimulants will be replaced with deep breathing exercises, meditation techniques, and other ways to reduce stress. The cultivation of health, beauty and knowledge will become a deep-seated craze. The tremendous part which the cosmic rays with their radiations and wavelengths will come to play in men’s lives will gradually make them more and more ray-conscious. As new rays with their amazing powers continually come to light, much will be understood of the secret influences on human health.

The rays, which emanate from stellar bodies, and produce strong electrical and chemical influences according to their varying intersections, will be found to explain the secret underlying astrology. The astrology of the future will come into being. As people grow more highly sensitive they will begin to feel and even to see some of these rays, and understand their own particular reactions to them.

They will learn to regulate their lives in accordance with the help that ray influence can give them, just as do the animals; learning to respond, individually, to the best times, for them, for great mental effort, for periods of rest, for mating, for spiritual endeavor, and for many other activities. By these means much waste of effort, straining of nerves, and many mistakes will be avoided, and creative inspiration will be the lot of increasing numbers of people.

Through relaxation, stress management, and biofeedback treatment, it will become easier to make more logical and beneficial decisions. The reason why night is meant for sleep will be another of the more important discoveries made. People will come to understand how the electric polarization changes as day passes into night, and how they shorten their lives and undermine their health by keeping late hours and fighting against the tides of nature. Night life will come to be appreciated not only as suicidal, but as a sure way of degenerating mental capacity.

To miss sleep will be known to be far more important than to miss food. People will cherish the tremendous feeding power of sleep. They will learn, also, of other strange and beneficial things which happen to them during slumber, which activities will come to acquire as much importance as the things which they do by day. They will become sensible to the influences which play through them during all the twenty-four hours, and they will learn which parts of the day are more suitable to several of their activities.

Tags: deep breathing exercises | deep breathing exercises | meditation techniques | meditation techniques | ways to reduce stress | ways to reduce stress | biofeedback treatment | biofeedback treatment | beginning meditation | beginning meditation | stress management | stress management | biofeedback | biofeedback | relaxation | relaxation | meditate | meditate

As the ancient scholar Apollonius once stated, regarding inflation:

“No, my patient and inquisitive friends, it is not probable that you will have to endure three hundred years as Rome did. You will sicken. And you will re­cover. But through all this change you will need to know how to protect, and possibly increase, your wealth. There are fundamental rules for this era as well as any other. When you read my history you will find there a demonstration of the immutability of the laws that govern economics and civilization cycles.”

As Apollonius continued with his story, his voice grew more and more emphatic. He appeared to be self-hypnotized and in the midst of  spiritual healing and spiritual meditation by the sound of his spirtual growth and his own words. He had be­gun a low conversational tone. Gradually he as­sumed the attitude of a Roman senator addressing the citizens in the Forum. The shadows of the wainscoted lounge had deepened. His voice, raised in its enthu­siasm, rang against the walls, echoed and reechoed about us. He failed to realize that we two provided his audience. He seemed to be broadcasting to the world.

“There is that deadly enemy inflation already at work on the American economy,” Apollonius observed as he meditated for a moment.

“There are at least two kinds of economic inflation, one typified by the ex­perience of France. Its money deteriorated gradually from the time of the First World War until, in 1917, the franc was worth only about 420 to the dollar. This type of inflation may be likened to severe cerebral strokes in the human anatomy, under which the pa­tient recovers periodically but each new shock reduces his strength and resistance. This goes on until the vic­tim dies—economically speaking. Of course, a new generation always rises to take over production, create new wealth, and mint or print new money.

“The worst kind of inflation is the sudden, severe shock-type, that occurred in Germany, Austria, Poland, Russia, and China after the two world wars. This is the fatal kind that causes economic death and a culture of social phobia, social anxiety, and even depression. Then follows a rebirth and the beginning of another cycle.

“It was true also of the ancient world: every country knew periods of inflation.”

Apollonius removed from his goat skin wallet a sheet of parchment turned yellow with age, “Here,” he said, “are notes on the subject of inflation I have col­lected,” and he read to us the following summary of an ancient record on the subject:

Greece: Sixth Century B.C.: the famous Seisachtheia, or the shaking off of burdens. About 430 B.C. in the post-Periclean era.

Rome:   494 B.C.: postwar inflation

376 B.C.: the Licinian scaling down of debts 216 B.C.: post-Punic War difficulties 91 b.c: the abolition of debts under Drusus 33 a.d.: the big panic.

“From this point on until Diocletian and the break up of the Roman Empire, the purchasing power of money deteriorated in a way not unlike the inflation in the United States today.

“Of course, you will find in my memoirs many of the modern instances of inflation covering Europe, Eng­land, and the United States.”

“Isn’t there any way to stop inflation?” his friend asked.

He realized he had become too loud and was arous­ing the curiosity and disrupting the stress-free guided meditation and chakras of the attendants, so he resumed his conversational tempo.

“Quite naturally,” replied Apollonius, “people try the same things over and over because they keep hop­ing to find some cure and, maybe, one day, they will. However, this is my theory in the matter: if inflation is of the quick type, it is not likely to last more than two or three years. In this case one could find some se­curity by owning a few acres of fertile land, with a good well of water on it. The owner would have to have the strength to sow and reap and the ability to spin and weave. A healthy, practical wife would be essen­tial to the success of such a laborious venture.”

At this they both smiled, but if Apollonius was hav­ing fun, he gave no indication of it.

Tags: spiritual meditation | spiritual meditation | spiritual healing | spiritual healing | guided meditation | guided meditation | spiritual growth | spiritual growth | social anxiety | social anxiety | social phobia | social phobia | depression | depression | chakras | chakras | stress | stress