my name is gregg braden i'd like to

welcome you to this very special

presentation of missing links the deep

truth of our origin history destiny and

fate in the last episode we only began

to scratch the surface of the

extraordinary potential that's available

to us through harmonizing our heart and

our brain marrying these two organs

together in this episode we're going to

apply what we learn to life itself and

the secret of an extended lifespan we'll

also discover how our advanced nervous

system triggers and actually

supercharges our anti-aging mechanism so

that we can have long healthy and vital

lives we've often heard it said that

from the moment were born we begin to

die no I know what the intention is

around that and I know where people's

thinking comes from because they're

referencing the aging process but I want

to tell you there's a consequence to

thinking that way and it's a consequence

that we probably would never consciously

inflict upon ourselves because our

bodies respond to those kinds of

thoughts the new science is showing us

something very very different it's

actually more accurate to say that from

the moment we're born we begin to heal

here's where that thinking is going

there is a huge difference between

thinking of life when we come into this

world as a finite amount of experience

that we use up gradually over time okay

there's a big difference between that

and thinking of life as a living entity

that is always constantly replenishing

rejuvenating and healing itself if you

think about it this is a huge huge

difference because when we think about

life is a finite quantity we have set

into motion an expectation maybe a

subconscious X

tation that every day every year every

decade we're using a little bit more a

little bit more a little bit more and

I'm not saying it's right wrong good or

bad I'm saying it's all about how you

choose to live your life if you choose

to live a healthy and vital in the

productive life well beyond what is

typically accepted that the years that

we see today the 70 to 100 years that is

the average in the Western world today

and that thinking has to change this

explains why when we see people that are

typically of advanced age they look like

they are of advanced age you ever

thought about this if you ever thought

about why is it that someone when they

are a hundred or a hundred and ten or a

hundred and fourteen years old which is

right now the oldest living person is

recorded in the Guinness Book of Records

114 years old when we see someone that

is 114 and that their eyes appear dull

they don't have that sparkle anymore

their physical coronation has begun to

wane their skin has lost that elasticity

and we look at them and they look like

her 114 years old if we allow the

mechanisms in our bodies to do what

they're designed to do there is as I

mentioned this huge difference between

thinking that we're using up life as

we're going through life and embracing

the fact that we are constantly

replenishing the cells of our bodies

we know that the organs of our bodies

heal and replenish the cells different

rates the stomach lining happens every

day the heart tissue for example happens

less frequently but we know that this is

happening what I want to talk to you

about today is the mechanism that allows

this replenishing to happen what we know

about it what it means to us what it is

meant in ages past and what it could

mean in your life in the future and to

do this I'm going to begin this

conversation in Tibet I've had the

opportunity I was blessed with about a

decade

of travel throughout Tibet in the time

when it was very accessible and was very

easy to go into the Tibetan Plateau and

into the monasteries and nunneries that

have the the wisdom the records the

texts that record the wisdom and also to

be with the people he lived the wisdom

is recorded in those texts so there are

twelve monasteries and two nunneries

between the capital of Tibet Lhasa and

the highest portions of the mountain

ranges where I would routinely go and I

had the opportunity to lead small groups

of people into these places and we would

go into monastery after monastery after

monastery and nunnery after nunnery I'm

be with the people through the

translators we could sit with them in

the chanting halls when they were doing

the prayers and when they were doing

their chants and for me this is the

value once again of being with our

indigenous family something that we

simply cannot get from the hieroglyphs

on a temple wall or from the words and

an old crumbling page because it's only

through human interaction heart-to-heart

mind mind eye to eye God to God human to

human that we can have the kinds of

conversations where I can witness in

them something that I may not understand

their ability to create a miraculous

healing in their physical body

instantaneously or to regulate their

body temperature to raise and lower that

temperature instantaneously when it's 15

degrees Fahrenheit outside they can go

and sit outside and consciously raise

their body temperature to a point where

that coal doesn't affect them I wasn't

talking about that in my life and my

culture and so I can say to these people

how did you do that how did you do what

is that you were doing and they will

answer me through the translator in

Tibetan and if I don't understand what

they just said through that translator I

can go back and ask them again and again

and again until I understand what's

happening and that's something I cannot

do from the hieroglyphs of a Mayan wall

or an Egyptian temple wall that's why

it's important to be with our family

our global family and to preserve the

wisdom in our time is disappearing so

very quickly but they preserved 400 some

cases thousands of years so it was in

Tibet and it was in mm in this case in

2008 where I had the opportunity to go

to one of the most remote monasteries it

took six days out of Lhasa just to get

to the monastery and once we were there

the only way to get to the monastery was

through the local mode of transportation

a yak which is a amazing way to travel

if you've never traveled by yak

up the mountain trail to the monastery

and it was in this place where I first

encountered some of the nuns who I

sensed or of advanced age but I didn't

know for sure because on the one hand

they looked like they might be but on

the other hand they didn't look like

elderly people that I had encountered in

the West their skin was taught it wasn't

baggy and saggy their eyes were bright

and clear they had teeth they had hair

sometimes they shave their hair

especially the women shave their hair

for convenience for hygiene but it's

still growing and so it was in this

particular monastery where I asked one

particular woman how old are you and I

asked because the Mother Superior was

able to provide the papers now this is

one of those places in this program I

cannot show you her face for security

and to honor and respect her privacy and

her safety okay then let me tell you

about her and then we are going to look

at a couple of other examples where I

can show you their faces and you're

gonna see the same thing but it was in

this particular woman it was the first

time this is my tip off my clue that

longevity is possible in ways that we

simply don't embrace in the West we

discount it we call it a hoax or we call

it a fake but it's like those out of

place artifacts so many examples of

advanced age are cropping up in so many

places of the world the anomalies are

now beginning to tell a story and the

story is very different from the story

that you and I probably have been led to

believe in the past the tibetan nun that

i'm talking about right now when we saw

her

papers what we saw is the confirmed date

of her birth was 1885 alright and the

year that I was with her was the year

2005 we went back again in 2008 my first

contact with her was in 2005 1885 to

2005 that means I was looking into the

eyes of a woman who's a hundred and

twenty years old she did not look like a

hundred and twenty years old she lived

in a single room she walked to the river

every morning down the hillside to bring

up the water she grew a lot of her own

food in the vessels and the vases that

were available to her basel tomatoes

herbs that she would eat every day in a

very very minimal diet she was good

healthy strong and vital and that told

me that something is happening with her

that maybe is happening with other

people well interestingly I asked her

what was her secret and she looked at me

through the translator and she said one

word compassion she said that's what we

learn in these monasteries that is the

essence of our Buddhist teachings it's

all about compassion well see in a

moment why compassion we have an effect

of longevity before we do that I want to

show you a couple of their cases because

because I want you to see this isn't an

anomaly was it long after I met this

Tibetan woman that the national media

ran a story about a woman in the

Palestinian territories and you're

seeing her face on the screen right now

because she made national news this is

on the Associated Press this woman when

you look at her ask yourself how old do

you think she is

because here's her story she went

shopping one day she hadn't been out for

a while she had to go through a military

checkpoint that she didn't have to go

through before it didn't exist before

they looked at her papers they said your

papers are expired you have to go to the

authorities and get some new papers and

that's when she made headlines because

when they check back through her records

they found that her date of birth was 18

eight and the woman you're looking at in

the year 2008 she is a hundred and

twenty years old

yeah I'm not saying that she looks like

she's in her 20s but I think she looks

really good for a hundred and twenty

years old her eyes are bright her skin

color is good her teeth are good she

still has her hair and I want to know

what is her secret she said the secret

for her was the love that she had for

her family her children her

grandchildren great-grandchildren

great-great-grandchildren she said they

need me every day what would they do

without me she says I fixed their meals

I help them with their schoolwork I help

them everything they're doing in their

lives I work in the garden so that I can

prepare the food for them she feels

needed and she loves her family and she

feels loved as a heart based experience

all right so that's two and these are

women and I wanted to find an example

that was of a male and it was only

through the research I was able to find

what I'm about to share with you and I'm

sharing it with you and I believe this

is factual because it was documented by

the military and it was also document by

documented in an article in Time

magazine early in the 20th century the

man that you're looking at right now has

a very interesting history his name is

li ching-yuen the image that you're

seeing is a photograph that was taken of

him in 1927 by the Chinese military he

was at the residence having a meal with

an Army General at the time he was born

in Sichuan China

he spent the early part of his life as

an herbalist he was a high altitude

herbalist and he was also a martial

artist so he lived in high elevation

thin air a minimal diet of very specific

kinds of herbs and he learned about the

energy of the human body through martial

arts he enlisted in the Chinese military

at a relatively late age he was 72 years

old when he enlisted as a cartographer

and he is documented as enlisting in the

military in the year 17:49 Chinese keep

meticulous records and that's why I

trust these records 17:49 he he left the

military and he went back to his home in

the mountains after he served as a

cartographer at the age of 97 and three

years later the military records sent

him a congratulations on his 100th

birthday that was the year 1777 they

sent him another congratulations on his

150th birthday and the records show this

very clearly in the year 1827 this is

where it gets really really interesting

they sent him another congratulations

for his 200th birthday in the year 1877

he died May 6th 1933 his birthdate now

the two different dates he said that his

birthdate was later he said he was only

born in 1736 the military records

however showed that he was born in 1677

so either one of these is showing a man

of tremendously advanced age his death

his age at death was either 197 or 256

and this mortars of what are called

biblical ages when he died he was seven

feet tall he had accomplished 14

marriages over 11 generations and by

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some estimates as many as a hundred and

eighty children that were attributed to

his marriages Time magazine wrote an

article on him oddly and actually did an

obituary May 15 1933 they acknowledged