Hair today gone tomorrow.................

[Serpo]

The Spiritual Nature of Hair Posted on August 18, 2013 (http://zen-haven.com/the-spiritual-nature-of-hair/) by Soren Dreier (http://zen-haven.com/author/soren-dreier/)Author: Deva Kaur Khalsa

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“Our hair fashions might be just a trend, but if we investigate, we may find that we have been depriving ourselves of one of the most valuable sources of energy for human vitality.” -Yogi Bhajan
Consider the possibility that the hair on your head is there to do more than just look good. Man is the only creature who grows longer hair on his head as he grows into adulthood. Left uncut, your hair will grow to a particular length and then stop all by itself at the correct length for you. From a yogic perspective, hair is an amazing gift of nature that can actually help raise the Kundalini energy (creative life force), which increases vitality, intuition, and tranquility.
Cut Hair
Long ago people in many cultures didn’t cut their hair, because it was a part of who they were. There were no salons. Often, when people were conquered or enslaved, their hair was cut as a recognized sign of slavery. It was also understood that this would serve as punishment and decrease the power of those enslaved.
The bones in the forehead are porous and function to transmit light to the pineal gland, which affects brain activity, as well as thyroid and sexual hormones. Cutting bangs which cover the forehead impedes this process.
When Genghis Khan conquered China, he considered the Chinese to be a very wise, intelligent people who would not allow themselves to be subjugated. He therefore required all women in the country to cut their hair and wear bangs, because he knew this would serve to keep them timid and more easily controlled.
As whole tribes or societies were conquered, cut hair became so prevalent that the importance of hair was lost after a few generations, and hairstyles and fashion grew to be the focus.
The science of hair was one of the first technologies given by Yogi Bhajan when he came to America.
“When the hair on your head is allowed to attain its full, mature length, then phosphorous, calcium, and vitamin D are all produced, and enter the lymphatic fluid, and eventually the spinal fluid through the two ducts on the top of the brain. This ionic change creates more efficient memory and leads to greater physical energy, improved stamina, and patience.”
Yogi Bhajan explained that if you choose to cut your hair, you not only lose this extra energy and nourishment, but your body must then provide a great amount of vital energy and nutrients to continually re-grow the missing hair.
In addition, hairs are the antennas that gather and channel the sun energy or prana to the frontal lobes, the part of the brain you use for meditation and visualization. These antennas act as conduits to bring you greater quantities of subtle, cosmic energy. It takes approximately three years from the last time your hair was cut for new antennas to form at the tips of the hair.

Kundalini Hair Care
In India, a Rishi is known as a wise one who coils his or her hair up on the crown of the head during the day to energize the brain cells, and then combs it down at night. A ‘rishi knot’ energizes your magnetic field (aura) and stimulates the pineal gland in the center of your brain.
“This activation of your pineal results in a secretion that is central to the development of higher intellectual functioning, as well as higher spiritual perception.” -Yogi Bhajan
During the day, the hair absorbs solar energy, but at night it absorbs lunar energy. Keeping the hair up during the day and down at night aids in this process. Braiding your hair at night will help your electromagnetic field balance out from the day.
Split Ends
Loose scattered hair can develop split ends. Instead of trimming them and losing your antennas, Yogi Bhajan recommends applying a small amount of almond oil to your hair overnight so that it can be absorbed before you wash it the next morning. Keeping your hair coiled on your crown and protected with a head covering during the day will help your antennas heal. If you have long hair, see if your experience is different when it is clean and coiled at your crown, or down and loose.
Wet Hair
One year after Winter Solstice, when Yogi Bhajan was sitting in our living room with wet hair, he explained that he was drying it before putting it up in order to avoid a headache. When you put your hair up wet, it will tend to shrink and tighten a bit and even break as it dries. A better idea is to occasionally take the time to sit in the sun and allow your clean, wet hair to dry naturally and absorb some extra vitamin D.
Yogis recommend shampooing the hair every 72 hours (or more frequently if the scalp sweats a great deal). It can also be beneficial to wash your hair after being upset to help process emotions.
Yogis also recommend using a wooden comb or brush for combing your hair as it gives a lot of circulation and stimulation to the scalp, and the wood does not create static electricity, which causes a loss of the hair’s energy to the brain. You will find that, if you comb your hair and scalp front to back, back to front, and then to the right and left several times, it will refresh you, no matter how long your hair is.
All the tiredness of your day will be gone. For women, it is said that using this technique to comb your hair twice a day can help maintain youth, a healthy menstrual cycle, and good eyesight.
If you are bald or balding, the lack of hair energy can be counteracted with more meditation. If you are finding some silver strands in your hair, be aware that the silver or white color increases the vitamins and energy flow to compensate for aging. For better brain health as you age, try to keep your hair as natural and healthy as you can.
Tagore’s Hair
Yogi Bhajan told us this story about hair many years ago at Women’s Camp in New Mexico: Recognize how beautiful and powerful your hair is—when you keep it, you live a life of fulfillment in this world. When Rabindranath Tagore, the great poet who found God within himself, tried to meet a friend on a steamer ship, the friend didn’t recognize him and so wrote him a letter.
“We were on the same steamer, but I didn’t find you.” Tagore said, “I was there.” His friend said, “I understand you are now a God-realized man, and I would like to know what your first action was when you became aware of the Oneness in all.” Tagore said, “When I realized the Oneness of all, I threw my shaving kit into the ocean. I gave up my ego and surrendered to nature. I wanted to live in the form that my Creator has given me.”
When humans allow their hair to grow, they are welcoming the maturity, the responsibility of being fully-grown, and fully powerful. That is why you will find grace and calmness in a person with uncut hair from birth, if it is kept well. The Creator has a definite reason for giving you hair.
It is said that when you allow your hair to grow to its full length and coil it on the crown of the head, the sun energy, pranic life force, is drawn down the spine. To counteract that downward movement, the Kundalini life energy rises to create balance. In Yogi Bhajan’s words, “Your hair is not there by mistake. It has a definite purpose, which saints will discover and other men will laugh at.”
Deva Kaur Khalsa trains Kundalini Yoga Teachers and teaches Kundalini Yoga in South Florida. She was a student of Yogi Bhajan for over 39 years. She is co-owner of Yoga Source in Coral Springs, Florida


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[aeondaze]

Hair is made of DEAD cells, says it all really...:D

[chad]

my hair is down to my shoulders now (20+ years), has been almost to my waist in the past, can't ever report anything resembling any of this. i guess my hair is broken.

[Ares]

Mine is falling out (Male Pattern Hairloss) guess I'm just screwed. lol

[Santa]

What about fingernails and toenails? Should they be allowed to curl up around the crowns of our heads too? :D

[Ponce]

Was made the American Indians worderfull scouts and trackers was their hair.....amy of them were taken into the modern army and to VietNam just becuse of that.....but.....the first thing that the army did was to give them an army hair cut, hence they lost their power to be good trackers......not known by everyone.

V

[Serpo]

The Truth About Hair and Why Indians Would Keep Their Hair Long (http://unitedtruthseekers.ning.com/forum/topics/the-truth-about-hair-and-why-indians-would-keep-their-hair-long-b?xg_source=activity)


United Truth Seekers
Thu, 08 Sep 2011 14:32 CDT


© Black Elk

This information about hair has been hidden from the public since the Viet Nam War .

Our culture leads people to believe that hair style is a matter of personal preference, that hair style is a matter of fashion and/or convenience, and that how people wear their hair is simply a cosmetic issue. Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Vietnam.

Sally said, "I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor's Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example.

As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Vietnam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

With the usual enticements, the well proven smooth phrases used to enroll new recruits, some of these Indian trackers were then enlisted. Once enlisted, an amazing thing happened. Whatever talents and skills they had possessed on the reservation seemed to mysteriously disappear, as recruit after recruit failed to perform as expected in the field.

Serious causalities and failures of performance led the government to contract expensive testing of these recruits, and this is what was found.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer 'sense' the enemy, they could no longer access a 'sixth sense', their 'intuition' no longer was reliable, they couldn't 'read' subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

Here is a Typical Test:

The recruit is sleeping out in the woods. An armed 'enemy' approaches the sleeping man. The long haired man is awakened out of his sleep by a strong sense of danger and gets away long before the enemy is close, long before any sounds from the approaching enemy are audible.

In another version of this test the long haired man senses an approach and somehow intuits that the enemy will perform a physical attack. He follows his 'sixth sense' and stays still, pretending to be sleeping, but quickly grabs the attacker and 'kills' him as the attacker reaches down to strangle him.

This same man, after having passed these and other tests, then received a military haircut and consistently failed these tests, and many other tests that he had previously passed.

So the document recommended that all Indian trackers be exempt from military haircuts. In fact, it required that trackers keep their hair long."

Comment:

The mammalian body has evolved over millions of years. Survival skills of human and animal at times seem almost supernatural. Science is constantly coming up with more discoveries about the amazing abilities of man and animal to survive. Each part of the body has highly sensitive work to perform for the survival and well being of the body as a whole.The body has a reason for every part of itself.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in numbing-out .

Cutting of hair is a contributing factor to unawareness of environmental distress in local ecosystems. It is also a contributing factor to insensitivity in relationships of all kinds. It contributes to sexual frustration.

Conclusion:

In searching for solutions for the distress in our world, it may be time for us to consider that many of our most basic assumptions about reality are in error. It may be that a major part of the solution is looking at us in the face each morning when we see ourselves in the mirror.

The story of Sampson and Delilah in the Bible has a lot of encoded truth to tell us. When Delilah cut Sampson's hair, the once undefeatable Sampson was defeated.


http://www.sott.net/article/234783-The-Truth-About-Hair-and-Why-Indians-Would-Keep-Their-Hair-Long

[Serpo]

What about fingernails and toenails? Should they be allowed to curl up around the crowns of our heads too? :D


Thats really up to you.................

[Serpo]

"Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex." As we can see, hair is fundamentally essential to our very structure. If we are born with it, then there is no doubt it has a purpose to serve in our life.


Other Interesting Facts about Your Hair


In keeping with our discussion on hair, we thought it would be fun to list a few fun facts about this amazing component of our body:


Life of every strand of hair is approximately 7 years
During summers and while we sleep hair growth is faster
Women's hair grows slower than men's hair
Hair is made from keratin; the same substance that is responsible for the making of fingernails
If the hair were allowed to grow for a lifetime it would grow to a length of 107cm/42in before its time for it to fall out
Cutting hair does not influence its growth
Researchers have proved that hair becomes drier with age
An inch of hair is much stronger and an inch of copper
The amount of hair on the average human head is capable of supporting a weight equivalent of that of 99 people
Darker hair contains higher levels of carbon than blonde hair
The average life span of a strand of hair is between 4 and 7 years
Normally, dry hair can be stretched one-fifth of its length before breaking. Wet hair can stretch between 40-50% of its length.
The fine, downy hair that covers the cheeks and other parts of the face is called lanugo hair.
Canities is the technical term for gray hair. Trichoptilosis is the technical term for split ends. So next time you go to the salon, ask your stylist to color your canities and trim off your trichoptilosis.

Hair is an essential part of our existence like any other organ or bodily part that we have been told is not important (i.e. appendix, gall bladder, tonsils, etc). In considering are basic understanding of the human body, we must use our instinct to determine whether or not something has value. Never put your full belief into something that is constructed outside your own perceptions; much of the truth (you will see) resides within - always seek within.



http://www.guidinginstincts.com/2011/12/amazing-facts-about-your-hair.html

[Neuro]

I don't think there is any evidence having longer hair would stimulate the pineal gland, as I understand it daylight through the eyes is stimulating its secretions, long hair would tend to stop that then (marginally), but who knows maybe hairs works as fiber optic cables charging the pineal gland... But I am sceptical...

[Libertytree]

I don't know what to think but I never had any anxiety issues until I cut my hair, it was halfway down my back but since then I've had nothing but problems in that regard. I never put the 1+1 on that note but if that is what it takes I'll never get it cut again. I posted about this in the Lounge under Vibrations.

[osoab]

I thought this thread would be about Rick Perry.

[Santa]

What about fingernails and toenails? Should they be allowed to curl up around the crowns of our heads too?


Thats really up to you.................

Well, what I mean is if long hair is a natural God given organ, of sorts, intended to be left long for optimal health, then why wouldn't long fingernails have some natural God given purpose as well?
Maybe fingernails are intended to grow extremely long to prevent humans from picking their noses, which may have some adverse effect on the pineal gland. :)
Or maybe toenails are supposed to be left long so that we can't wear shoes in order for our feet to absorb healthy vibrations and nutrients from by soil.

While I'm being rather tongue in cheek here, I"m of the opinion, generally, that we should be obtaining our knowledge from observing nature directly rather than parroting concepts
told to us by pseudo officials, whether they be priests, scientists, bureaucrats, lords or even yogi's.

It has been my personal observation that long hair blows into my face and eyes, potentially causing stupid accidents more than it has ever benefited me in any discernible way,
and long fingernails are more prone to crack and break and cause inflammation and infection far more than trimmed nails are likely to do.
Even though, it can be conceptually argued that our fingernails that grow continuously have been given to us by God to grow for health reasons, just like long hair.

[Cebu_4_2]

It has been my personal observation that long hair blows into my face and eyes, potentially causing stupid accidents more than it has ever benefited me in any discernible way,

My hair only blows into my face and eyes when I'm driving. In normal situations there is rarely any issue. Besides it could be God never intended cars.

[govcheetos]

When Metallica cut their hair they started to SUCK!

So did Sampson.

http://youtu.be/Z6j63ImEKyo

[Ares]

When Metallica cut their hair they started to SUCK!

So did Sampson.

I think you're on to something

Metallica PRE-hair cuts


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD-E-LDc384

Metallica After hair cuts


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dwZuFexTy0k

[govcheetos]

;D No offense Ares, but the Black album was when they started to SUCK!

[Ares]

;D No offense Ares, but the Black album was when they started to SUCK!

The black album was a mixed bag. I used enter sandman for an example. I preferred master of puppets. :)