Love the Elixir of Life
Is love the elixir of life? In this episode of Spiritual Ecstasy, host Gabriel Cousens M.D talks about how long-term healthy relationships lead to longevity and better quality of health. Gabriel says happy relationships decrease mortality rates by 49% and help prevent all chronic diseases and depression, and anxiety. It is a bit intriguing how more people over 65 are getting married because of this! Tune in to know more about love, the elixir of life.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens:
Welcome to my program, Spiritual Ecstasy on the Super Power Experts Channel. My name is Gabriel Cousens and our topic today is love. And I’ve been talking about relationships for a while, and love Is the secret to health. People know me, as I mentioned, Dr. Gabriel Cousins, is the physician of the soul. I’m a spiritual teacher, acknowledged yogi, seminar leader worldwide, a rabbi, a Native American sun dancer, and humanitarian doing projects in over 26 countries for 48 years as a holistic physician, spiritual teacher, psychiatrist, and family therapist, which is more the emphasis today, a father of two children and grandfather of three. I’m also the author of 13 books. My latest book is Into the Nothing. My life focus is helping people wake up to the ecstatic truth of who they are.
And one of the biggest issues people face today is not exactly knowing who they are or the truth of who they are. And it’s very hard to be in a healthy relationship if you don’t know this if you aren’t really aware of this. That becomes rather important. And that’s what I want to focus on. And this leads us into, when we understand the importance of sacred relationship, understand the points of love in a relationship, which also leads us into my next series, which is going to be on enduring radiant health.
Just some key understandings here. One is that people, who are in a happy relationship, literally live 49% longer. That’s pretty impressive. That’s the fountain of youth. And that’s more important, not that diet and exercise and meditating aren’t important. But 49% longer less mortality is a very, very important statement. And if you’re in a network of relationships, like you have one or two special friends and five more intimate friends, the research shows you have a 45% less mortality rate. And that’s actually pretty important. And the third thing about longevity is if you’re a conscientious personality like you pay attention to the details, you pay attention to how you’re living your life. And that’s going to give you a lower mortality risk of 44%. So what’s going on?
And what we’re looking at is social interaction in some way, which we’ll get into, activates a primary social hormone, which I call the elixir of youth, which is technically known as oxytocin. Oxytocin. And oxytocin has amazing rejuvenating qualities. It’s anti-inflammatory. It promotes the formation of literally new neurons in the brain. In other words, it rebuilds the brain. It reduces pain, helps bone growth, and protects against osteoporosis. And maybe the most important thing Is it helps people become happy. It’s like the happiness hormone. As Shakespeare said in Taming of the Shrew, “Frame your mind to mirth and merriment, Which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life.”
Now we’re going to go into the break in just a moment, and I want you, again, to remember that this is Spiritual Ecstasy and our topic today is love is the elixir of life. It’s the key to longevity. So we’re taking a 10-second break.
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