How To Avoid Dementia When Older. Increasing Your Mental & Physical Resilience. Dear Friend,
There's a moving 4 min scene, 'I want my mommy.' from the the 2020 film, The Father, and starring the British actor, Anthony Hopkins , which shows what the struggle with dementia later on in life looks like.
Unless you personally know somebody with dementia, the illness may not be of much concern. However, the risk of dementia starts much earlier on and the personality traits we have play a role.
We know, for example, that people with type A personality traits - aggressive and hard-charging - are more likely to get heart attacks.
A dementia risk study was published in a Journal of Neurology in 2014, that shows that people who tend to distrust the motives of others ('cynical distrust') are more likely to get dementia.
This general link between personality traits and risk for certain illnesses, although being confirmed by modern medicine, actually goes back to the very beginnings of medicine with the Greeks and Egyptians.
It was known as the Four Temperament Theory where a person's personality was defined by the overload of one bodily fluid (humor) or another.
So a person could be regarded as phlegmatic (phlegm), sanguine (blood), choleric (yellow bile), melancholic (black bile).
This same idea is carried over into the ancient practice of Ayurvedic medicine, where disease and it's prevention and cure are based holistically on personality type or dosas.
Sahaja yoga goes deeper by breaking it down into whether a person tends to be 'left-sided', 'right-sided' and the state of their individual chakras.
This is why it is that your daily practice of your Kundalini meditation could be protecting you from dementia and other future illnesses. More below.
Also below: learn how to 'shoe beat' to help you solve problems; and, making more use of your garden or the park to increase wellbeing.
Best wishesP. PS. Moon Calendar (at end) this coming week: Mon. 19th Aug. - Full Moon (Completeness); Thurs 22nd - Sankashti Chaturthi (Solving problem that could not be solved); Sun. 25th - Saptami (Your 'Lucky 7th' ). |
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