EDICOD
Almost always, a spirit (soul) will attach to a lifetime at the time of birth with a portion of their energy, then fully attach between about the age of two and four.
Until a child is able to reason and make informed choices, their spirit’s time is better spent in the spirit world in preparation for guiding that life. The also spend some time close to the child, observing the family, and perhaps advising the parent’s spirits on the needs of the child.
A spirit will not leave the body of their human self until their last breath has been taken. They are able to assist to some extent, and they learn from the experience itself and from the actions of those who are present.
My sources are two spirits who spoke to me through another person (not channeled). To learn about my experience with them, see my profile link to The Invisible Choir.
It’s not likely you will. It’s really more of being able to live with them. Resilience is one of the characteristics found in those who live longer lives.
I’m 78 with the goal of living past 100. I already have “ailments”, some of which I’ve had for years. Both knees ache from 20 years of pickup basketball and two “clean up” surgeries; I have an arthritic left-thumb that hinders my love of guitar playing; a CT scan revealed I have significant cardiovascular disease; I have an under-active thyroid that I’ve medicated for 30+ years that make weight control difficult and causes tiredness; I have atrial flutter (which is a first-cousin to atrial fib) which I take a blood thinner for. And my feet hurt about 24 1/2 hours a day.
Having said all that, I stay firm in my conviction that I can live well beyond the average lifespan for men which is 78.9 in America. If I don’t, I will have checked out around Christmas time this year. I don’t have symptoms of anything that would say that is going to happen - and I’m remaining highly sequestered to avoid any risk of COVID infection.
Here’s the point. So much of how long we live and how we live long is between the temples. You won’t avoid ailments because chances are if you are an American, that your lifestyle preceding your later years was - shall I say - less than stellar. You most likely ate badly because you are beholden, out of naivete, to the deplorable Standard American Diet (SAD). And, you are likely on the bell curve of those who exercised far too little.
It’s really pretty simple. As a culture, we don’t really know jack about how our bodies and minds work and how to treat them optimally. And then we whine when we hit 60+ and some of our parts are acting like they are ready to be sent back to the universe.
I love the golf analogy. Nearly all of us have played a pretty crappy “front nine” with our lifestyles of comfort, convenience, and conformity and find ourselves either remorsing through a dismal back-nine or trying to make up for or reverse it on the final nine holes.
I’m the poster-child for that. I smoked until age 37 and ate badly through my first 60 years. Although I have been a gym rat and avid exerciser for over 40 years, the CT scan at age 73 revealed the truth of how those first five decades+ had slowly, insidiously taken their toll.
So, resilience is part of the backbone of my existence as I march on this “pollyannish mission” to 100+. I work out aggressively - both aerobic and weight lifting - six days a week. It’s painful at every session but I’ve learned to tolerate the pain in favor of the results. I’ve also moved my diet more to a WFPB (whole-food-plant-based) program and away from the SAD C-R-A-P (calorie-rich-and-processed) diet that we Americans are captive to.
I choose to do the things that I know will maximize my chance of hitting my goal while having no illusions that I could be out of here by the end of the day. I’ve learned that all I have is today and have, with difficulty, learned the value of avoiding time travel into the future or the past.,
It’s really all about ATTITUDE (see this article) and RESILIENCE as we age. Do some research on the lives of centenarians and you will find that nearly all of them have two consistent characteristics: (1) they have endured and survived numerous health and mental challenges with their resilience and (2) they have kept a sense of purpose and meaning in their lives, with the majority of them avoiding leisure-based retirement and staying engaged in some form of work.
So, if 85 is your goal (I suggest raising the bar - the human body can last to 112 years, 164 days), be prepared for ailments but adopt a “second half” lifestyle that will help you keep those to a minimum or give you more physical and mental strengths to live with them.
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Another wonderful question my friends:)
First of all there are not enlightened persons. Only enlightened non personal existence. With no doer and no individuality making any claims for life being owned.
Does enlightened being exclude any phenomena out of itself? Is the living reality just a partial or complete with no expceptions? Nothing can be taken out of the existence. If there is a feeling that something is not the way it is and must be changed, that is not enlightenment. If there is a referee to life itself, then the one is separate and still live blocked inside his mind.
Human life and the body is the greatest miracle and enlightenment itself. Having or not having children is natural unfolding of the life, it is real - reality.
The reality is not becoming unenlightened by the fact if there are or are not children in the family. No phenomena can effect the reality as it is. It is the illusion. Nothing experienced can effect enlightened reality. Being, life itself.
As Ramana correctly pointed out: “The World is illusory, Only Brahman is real, Brahman is the world”.
Me and my wife we have a kids. We share the enlightened reality with them. Its the most beautiful state of being we can have. We do not own them, we do not try to change them. They are still innocent and a lot of conditioning they will get through their life in “society” of egoic patterns. But we will always be here to remind them their true nature and who they really are.
Vita
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I remember the first time someone offered me a beer, and I declined.
I remember this moment clearly, because I recognized in that moment that I no longer felt I must accept the beer to prove that I am an adult, all grown up, not a child. I noticed, in that moment, that I actually did feel like an adult and no longer needed to do anything in order to prove it.
Up till that moment I did not feel like an adult, therefore I had to do all the things that - according to me - adults do, so that everyone would know how very adult I was.
When I did not have the direct experience of adulthood, I had all sorts of ideas about what this experience was. I had all sorts of ideas about what adults do, what they don’t do, how they are, how they aren’t. I clung to those ideas, rigidly, because those ideas were all I had. The rules of how adults behave were all I had. If I broke any of those rules, I wouldn’t get to be an adult, I’d be a kid again.
The same mechanism can be observed in many other areas of human experience: those who don’t have the experience itself observe those who do have the experience and, based on those observations, come up with all sorts of ideas about how someone who has this experience is, behaves, acts. Those ideas become rules, and those rules are then used to judge whether someone has the experience or not.
For those who don’t have the experience itself, rules are all they have, therefore they cling to those rules much more rigidly that someone who has an actual experience.
If a young person believes that adults drink alcohol, she has to drink it to prove she is an adult. There is no freedom here, no leeway. An adult is not bound by any such rule. An adult can drink, or not drink, and remain an adult.
If a human believes that the enlightened ones always speak about oneness and never notice any separation in any way, the human has to always talk about oneness and never notice any separation in order to prove that he is enlightened. Or evolved, or awakened, or whatever. There is no freedom here, no leeway. An enlightened one is not bound by any such rule. The enlightened one can talk about whatever he wants, can notice or not notice whatever he wants, and remain what he is. Enlightened.
The first three are open, as they are fundamentally tied to the basic physical and mental attributes as they pertain to survival.
The root, sacral and solar plexus are accessed through our upbringing although they can be out of alignment with our higher nature and so can be “over energized” as a form of compensation for not evolving past their basic purpose.
Root is the “I live" so embody the basic functions like those of eating and sleeping.
Sacral is the “I feel" so embodies the sensory self, like with sex and excitation of external stimuli.
Solar Plexus is the “I will" so embodies ambition, and so derives its purpose in actions of self.
It is the heart that we cross the threshold into the higher dimensions of our existence, wherein the kundalini is consciously awakened into the “I love" of our evolution, wherein we embody unity and the activities of the lower self becomes less dominant.
So this is where we must take conscious steps that we know as spirituality, to then open and properly embody the true self, as we are letting go of the lower animalistic tendencies.
L&L
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God (guru) decides.
I bet you thought I’d say the unconscious mind is running the show.
The mind thought of separation, true.
“Maybe something could exist apart from Reality,” it thought.
This thought is illogical and should cancel itself out, but it represents a technical position.
It’s the possibility of impossibility, if you will.
The mind arises and its world arises simultaneously.
If this were a real world, we could wander aimlessly.
But we never left Reality.
What about the dream-world?
Illusion of illusion.
God/Self/Reality fixed it before it began.
The vestige you see is entirely under God (guru)’s control.
All events are designed to get you home in record time.
Since you’re already home, there are no uncertainties.
No delays are possible and nothing can go wrong.
Image source: Aging Well - HelpGuide.org
I have been serious about anti-aging since 2001. I feel that this slowed down the aging process. But I need to constantly look out for things that could go wrong. The best way how to defeat aging is probably different from person to person. But certain principles will repeat themselves. Below I am describing what I am doing for myself.
- I exercise daily to condition my lungs and heart to stay younger for longer.I eat healthy with the majority of the foods
- I mostly eat organic foods. I don’t eat beef because there is a colon cancer connection with beef consumption and my mother died of colon cancer at the age of 59, which gives me a threefold risk for colorectal cancer.
- I have colonoscopies every 3 years to plug out polyps that would otherwise morph into colon cancer.
- I take a few vitamin supplements, for instance vitamin D3 and vitamin K2 to take calcium out of the arterial walls and into the bone. This prevents osteoporosis and hardening of the arteries (avoids heart attacks and strokes). I also take CoQ-10, quercetin and molecularly distilled fish oil capsules. This strengthens my heart and prevents inflammation, which helps prevent arthritis, heart attacks, strokes and possibly cancer. I take other supplements too, but these are the most important ones.
- I keep my mind busy when I am awake. I publish two weekly blogs for https://www.askdrray. com and https://www.nethealthbook. com/news (if you copy this you need to remove the gap in front of .com). I also wrote books (four published on Amazon. com) and I blog a lot on Quora (.de and .com).
- One item I have not mentioned yet is hormone replacement with bioidentical hormones. I am older and my general practitioner found several deficiencies over the years: thyroid hormones, testosterone, melatonin and human growth hormone. With all of them having been replaced, I feel as energetic as in my 30’s. I am just thankful that all of this medical knowledge is available today. This motivates me to continue to attend the anti-aging conferences of the A4M that I visit every December in Las Vegas (except for this year because of Covid-19).
- At my age you are happy when you are cancer-free, your heart , lungs and brain function fully and you have lots of energy to get through the day.
Part of the above has been published here before: Ray Schilling's answer to How do you manage to look like you're 20 despite being aged 50?
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