18 Sep - Living A Long Life, Currently Residing In The Desert Of Kuwait

I have not written much since I left Afghanistan and moved to Kuwait.  The pay is much less in Kuwait but the life style is like living in America.  I live in the desert by the beach on the 11th floor overlooking the sea just across the street.  I have a very nice view.  The sun comes bright and hot shining into my bedroom. I am up by 5AM every morning and on my way to work by 6:15AM.  The commute is 1 ½ hours roundtrip and we work at least 12 hours on the base every day. 

I am living a long healthy life.  The keys to long life are the 3 Hs >> healthy, happy, holy.  Living longer and good health is accomplished by movement, medication, mental thinking, healthy eating and Telomeres.

Telomeres are a recent discovery.  As written on Wikepedia, “A telomere is a region of repetitive DNA sequences at the end of a chromosome, which protects the end of the chromosome from deterioration or from fusion with neighboring chromosomes.”  Telomeres have been compared with the plastic tips on shoelaces because they prevent chromosome ends from fraying and sticking to each other, which would scramble an organism's genetic information to cause cancer, other diseases or death.

Taking good care of your genes and DNA is vital to good health. Your DNA strands can wear out if you do not take good care of them. The Telomere is a key indicator of aging. If you have a lot of stress, or inflammation in your body or age too fast, they shorten. And if they shorten up on you, as emerging medical research has revealed, you age and/ or develop an illness.

So how do you take care of your telomeres?  I follow the advice of Dharma Singh Khalsa, M.D.  He has more than 25 years experience researching and writing about health, brain health and anti-aging. He is also a Yogi.  He has combined his Yoga training with the medical training.  

He keeps up on the research and his method is simple and easy.  Some of his books are, “Food As Medicine”; “Meditation of Medicine”; The Pain Cure”, Brain Longevity. Check his web site at http://www.drdharma.com/Public/Bio/index.cfm

More at:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dharma-singh-khalsa-md/looks-lifespan_b_951388.html

Read about the 12 minutes meditation kriya at:

http://healing.about.com/od/chanting/ht/kirtan_kriya.htm

The kiran kriya is very simple meditation technique and only 12 minutes per day.