POST 239 THEORY OR NOT

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This that follows is but a notion and theory and I trust it will not offend, I have felt touches of this myself and so theorize it might have some value.

I have had lapses of memory and difficulty remembering and finding words occasionally lately (date as to article 21st May 2017 and age 78 and half) my neighbours and friends say it comes with age and there is nothing one can do about it, some say exercise, take supplements, have sex and a relationship, get a hobby have a life, do jig saw puzzles and cross words and similar things, all maybe useful and I am sure it helps. Then there are those that say diet and preservatives, bad drinking water, chemicals in the air, fearful world, huge technological changes, internet and just about any other reason.  These I feel are all contributory factors.

I studied Psychoneuroimmunology (PNI), also referred to as psychoendoneuroimmunology (PENI) or psychoneuroendocrinoimmunology (PNEI), is the study of the interaction between psychological processes and the nervous and immune systems of the human body.^[1] PNI takes an interdisciplinary approach, incorporating psychology, neuroscience, immunology, physiology, genetics, pharmacology, molecular biology, psychiatry, behavioral medicine, infectious diseases, endocrinology, and rheumatology.(Courtesy WIKIPEDIA)

The particular interest I had was in the relationship with the neuro peptide cascades. Briefly the way thought produces a chemical reaction in the body.  The brain becomes a chemical factory and as certain thoughts fire off the neurone connections they send a cascade of chemicals to the cells and the receptors like a lock awaiting the chemicals which are the key so to speak (there is or was a film made of this ‘What the Bleep Do We Know'). So what we habitually think and experience conditions the cells to these nutrients, changes in our life at a deep level then changes the whole chemical balance and the cells go through an adjustment and some cases withdrawal symptoms.

Be that as it may I felt we could see if senility, dementia and Alzheimer could be explained in some way as to one’s thoughts.  Supposing one was anxious at deep levels producing a background of fear, a sort of anxiety about which the conscious mind was not aware of and say one was picking up the collective unconscious and so a backcloth of nervous tension was felt, or maybe frustrated about the loss of the ‘good old days’ lamenting the loss of the job, bored in retirement, what might have been, what a terrible world we live in, bored what can I do, abuse as a child, trauma never resolved, financial and relationship difficulties that have never surfaced or do and are pushed down, depression and what’s the use I've done it all, regrets and umpteen other bits and pieces.

Let me take the view based on the above that the ‘chemicals’ produced by these underlying or conscious anxieties put the body and mind in tension, the fight /flight is being signalled and the body in subtle or gross tension produces the chemicals and hormone imbalances and one may take medication to help the condition and the side effects with the brain produced chemicals may signal to the nervous system and the endocrine functions and so produce as a result of this not only mental withdrawal its too difficult to motivate myself or brain fog caused by the numbing effects of medication side effects, brain chemicals through unresolved issues, longing for the past where it was safe, going into a world of fantasy maybe to escape boredom and not able to cope with a changing world, information and political oppression, media fear and hype and the fear of nuclear or chemical world war and so many other pressures assailing one today.

So many may choose distraction in drugs, sex, violence, alcohol and ignoring the issues with videos, computer browsing, watching sports and pornography and so on whilst some may choose to slide into a misty fog and go elsewhere.

The effect of the chemical alterations maybe the cells reject foreign chemicals by constant adrenal flight / fight past and seek to deaden the responses by rejection to these new chemical messages and so deposit them in the neural pathways as deadening effect to block electrical impulses and bring relief this then going back to safe pathways, indeed senility maybe a protective device to save suffering to those that cannot cope with deep radical change and not even be aware of it. That is why it s often called the silent assassin.

Is there a cure; I don’t rightly know for me when I felt myself sliding I feel that my meditation and so called spiritual pursuits not through religion, politics or chosen cultural life style, but by diet just being into natural food as much raw as possible, juicing vegetables, smoothies as green as possible, now Qi Gong and Meditation and seeing that life is based on habit, routine and past stored memories and not for me reality, reality to me is the awareness that is behind thought and the past and the future, and is the life saver from getting hooked into the past or future aspirations. So one becomes the witness and has a chance to escape the ravages of sliding into a fantasy world or a chosen path of life such as religion, politics,  a cultural predilection or  oblivion.

Then again am I making excuses for what is not as above and it is the fate for all humans to become decrepit, senile and a useless hunk of flesh in a wheelchair or can one be in a wheelchair in an old age home and be alert, bright and attentive no matter what the physical condition and be here now? 

SHACK