SENILITY IS DUE TO THYROID DEGENERATION

Articles In This Section:

· SECOND CHANCE AT YOUTH

· ENDOCRINE GLANDS

· APPRECIATING THE YOGI'S PHILOSOPHICAL AND SPIRITUAL ORIENTATION

· THE THYROID

· GONADS THE ENDOCRINES

· FINAL INGREDIENT WITH ASANAS

· SENILITY IS DUE TO THYROID DEGENERATION

Since it is generally agreed that senility is due to thyroid degeneration, inasmuch as in old age the thyroid normally shrinks bringing about retrogressive changes in the epithelial cells, you already know how you may avoid this process. For the rest, treat old age as a challenge. Resist it by resisting monotony, which first stultifies and finally destroys.

Very shortly after you begin your daily practice of Yoga you will find changes taking place in all your attitudes. First you will experience the physical differences: that habitual feeling of fatigue so common among us high-tension Western people will vanish. So will a score of nameless fears that bear the psychoanalytical label of anxieties. Your adrenals will no longer work overtime to tear your body apart with conflicting sub-surface primitive impulses that have nowhere to go. You will see the world, and yourself in relation to it, in proper perspective.

Next your sense of values will change and you will no longer be willing to knock yourself out for unimportant rewards—no longer "will you be trading your birthright for a mess of pottage. So your mind and your body, no longer at loggerheads, will stop that senseless war of attrition which can only end in the stalemate of destruction—an early grave. It takes a lifetime to learn the true art of living. But having learned it, you will give yourself a chance to enjoy the lasting fruits of this long and complex process.