By invoking newness in you and having healthy ageing you can grow younger and enjoy longevity. It is a matter of choice not chance

For a very long time, there has been a quest in the human mind, that is, the search for the fountain of eternal youth or ‘Newness’ or the miracle antidote for ageing.

What is Ageing and Newness?

Each and every cell in our body has the capability and memory of renewal or wholeness. Ageing is defined as a process in which the cell loses the memory of renewal or wholeness and thus becomes old. Newness, when every cell of our body retains this capability and memory of renewal by maintaining the integrity and infinite intelligence of a cell, is what we call as Newness. This Newness has healing potential. Each cell has invisible, infinite and immortal intelligence.

Health, according to the World Health Organization, is defined as a state of physical, mental, social and spiritual well-being and not just merely the absence of disease. Health From the mind-body perspective, is an optimal integration of body, mind, spirit, soul and environment. Charaka Samhita described Health as the foundation of well-being, virtue, prosperity, wealth, happiness and salvation. The environment is our extended body.

There is also a nice Vedic expression, which says,

“As is the atom,

so is the universe,

As is the microcosm,

so is the macrocosm,

As is the universal body,

so is the cosmic body,

As is the universal mind,

so is the cosmic mind”.

We may add: as is the duration of your Newness, so is the duration of your senescence and longevity.

We are the expressions or the manifestations or the products of interaction between the microcosm, orinternal environment, and the macrocosm, or external environment.

Thus, this whole universe or the cosmos is like a cosmic computer and our sixty trillion cells in our body are like the terminal of the cosmic computer where six trillion chemical reactions occur every second in accordance with the laws of nature in harmony, we are not even aware of it, then who is the programmer? The programmer is our mind. Our mind is an expression of the cosmic mind and our energy is an expression of cosmic energy. Our mental universe has a tremendous impact on the physical universe. Every bit of the universe is in us and every bit of us is in the universe: Thus, the Newness is a product of optimum interaction between the microcosm and macrocosm within us and outside us. There is a saying “If you want to know what your thoughts were in the past, look at your physical, biological and psychological Newness today. And if you want to know what your physical, biological and psychological Newness will be in future, look at your thoughts today”.

Newness is thus an expression of our own perceptions, our own thoughts, our own interpretations, our own experiences and our own choices. Our perfect mindset and perfect choices, will bring Newness and allow us to grow gracefully with healthy ageing. Thus, Newness is not a matter of chance, but it is a matter of choice. Newness is, thus an optimum networking and integration of energy,  information, intelligence and transformation of various actions and interactions with the world within you and the world around you to grow to full potential.

We must maintain our equilibrium in all the opposites to preserve Newness within us. These opposites may be love and hate, day and night, use and abuse, action and inaction, positive and negative thoughts etc.

We can’t step into the same river twice, as the water is constantly flowing and if you take any sample of water at any point in time, it is different and New. Similarly, we can’t step into the same flesh and bone again, because everything is changing and becoming New. Change is the essence of life”.

“We are not only packages of flesh and bone with the wisps of memory and desire We are all web information and energy interwoven with emotions and intelligence from the eye of consciousness”

Our stomach lining changes every five days, our liver changes every eight weeks, our whole skin changes every six weeks, our whole body skeleton changes every twelve weeks, and our DNA changes every five weeks. We are different in different years with Newness potential which is variable. Albert Einstein, once said, “Every solid particle in this universe is a bundle of information and energy and every cell in our body is a miniature terminal connected to the cosmic computer”. The Newness, sickness and death are all the parts of scenery and not the seer. The seer is the soul and spirit and they are immortal and are immune to change and remain ever New. Ninety-eight percent of our atoms change every year and Ninety-nine percent of our information and energy within us is renewed everywhere.

(The writer is Chief Cardiologist, at Medanta Moolchand Heart Institute) Views are personal)

This is the first part of two-part series on ageing and longevity.

To be continued...