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People do not grow old no matter how long we live. We never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.

Albert Einstein

Most people who love their lives want to tap into the fountain of youth and live longer. Each year men and women, especially, spend thousands of their hard-earned dollars, trying to extend their lives and recapture their youthful face and body. Some people give up their search for a wrinkle-free face; they accept their fate and try to grow old gracefully. They cannot afford the expense of new beauty gimmicks, and they would rather stay safe than die under a plastic surgeon’s knife. But others are determined to continue waging a war against old age. They are consumed with their appearance and refuse to go down without a fight. In the process their looks become unnatural, and their lives become unbalanced. They dabble with dangerous life-threatening procedures and turn their God-given looks into something abnormal. They change into someone unrecognizable, wearing the same massproduced face that the plastic surgeon has decided is the definition of beautiful.

So why, after all these centuries of inventions, potions, and sending men to the moon, have we not yet discovered how to tap naturally into that fountain of youth and stop ourselves from aging? Why are our bodies still deteriorating and decaying?

This is the age-old question that has yet to be answered. But there are those who believe they have discovered how to reverse the aging process. These people are highly enlightened spiritual masters who say the secret of eternal youth does not come from a bottle or a quick-fix tummy tuck but through learning the real secret of life itself, thereby changing our perception about the body and fully awakening to who we are.

Spiritual masters look at their bodies in a totally different way from most other people. They see them simply as materialized energy whose purpose is to house and support the soul. They believe that both body and soul can return to a pure state of being and become eternal.

Many scientists are now joining forces with the spiritual community and beginning to back up these age-old spiritual theories. Ever since Einstein proved that E=mc2, we have known that matter and energy are really different forms of the same thing. Matter is trapped energy. Now scientists are expanding Einstein’s theories and confirming that everything in the universe is made up of energy—and that includes our physical body. They have concluded that our physical universe is not really composed of matter at all. Its basic component is a force or essence that we call energy, and this energy cannot die or be destroyed; it can only change form.

In the Hindu tradition energy is known as prana. It is believed to be the life-sustaining force which pervades all living organisms and the universe. The Chinese also believe that we are made up of energy—they call it Qi (pronounced Chi). Qi has been written about and studied for over ten thousand years from China and Japan to India, the Hawaiian Islands, and South America. The Chinese refer to Qi as the vital life force energy of the universe present within every living thing. It describes the relationship among matter, energy, and spirit. Chinese acupuncture is dedicated to ensuring the flow and balance of Qi through the body while Eastern martial art forms, such as Tai Chi or Qi Gong, base their practices on focusing and directing the flow of Qi.

It is important to know that you are not a solid physical being. You need to look at your body holistically with new eyes. When you look into the mirror, it gives out the appearance of something being solid, but in reality it is just pure energy. This may seem hard to grasp at first. As you touch your arm, it appears solid and made up of blood, bone, and tissue, but if you take a closer look, beyond your human everyday perception, you will discover that your body is not solid—it is, in fact, energy condensed into matter. If you still do not believe me, look through a microscope at the cells that make up your body; see how they break down into molecules and atoms. If you break down each atom further still, you will see that the atoms are made of ever smaller and smaller particles within particles. At their core these particles are made of pure energy.