Rejuvenation – The Biblical Way

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Based on Reading 681-2

When most people hear the word rejuvenation, they think about looking younger, removing wrinkles, coloring gray hair, or finding a way to stop aging. However, Reading 681-2 teaches something much deeper. True rejuvenation is not simply making the body look young again. It is restoring the whole person—body, mind, and spirit—so that God's life can flow through every part of us. Real rejuvenation begins inside and gradually shows itself on the outside.

The reading immediately changes our understanding by saying, "The better manner, to be sure, is the PRESERVATION... which is not only as a first law but is the more comely in its application." Instead of trying to reverse aging, we should first learn how to preserve the health God has already given us. God created our bodies with the ability to repair, heal, and renew themselves when we live according to His natural laws. The Bible teaches the same truth. "Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?" (1 Corinthians 6:19). A temple is not abused or neglected. It is carefully cared for because it belongs to God.

The reading continues by saying, "There is that within the physical forces of the body... which may be revivified or rejuvenated and kept in a constructive way and manner." God has placed amazing healing and renewing powers inside the human body. Every day our skin replaces old cells, wounds heal, blood is renewed, muscles grow stronger after exercise, and bones repair themselves after injury. These are all examples of God's creative power working within us. The Bible reminds us of this promise: "Who satisfieth thy mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the eagle's" (Psalm 103:5). God first renews our strength, and then that renewed life can be seen in our whole body.

One of the most important lessons in this reading is that rejuvenation begins with the mind. Edgar Cayce says, "This requires, necessarily, the proper thinking, the proper living, the proper application." Our thoughts affect every part of our body. Fear, anger, worry, and bitterness place stress on the nervous system and weaken the body. Faith, peace, hope, love, and joy help the body function as God intended. The Bible says, "Be transformed by the renewing of your mind" (Romans 12:2). Before God changes our body, He begins by renewing our thinking.

The reading also teaches that healthy living is necessary if we want true rejuvenation. It speaks about proper diet, regular exercise, good circulation, proper elimination, stretching, and building the body in a balanced way. None of these things are presented as magical cures. They simply help the body work the way God designed it to work. Paul writes, "Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Corinthians 10:31). Even the simple choices we make each day can become acts of worship when we care for the body God has given us.

One of the greatest ideas in the reading is that every part of the body must work together. It says, "The body must see, to be rejuvenated, the body must be kept in a condition of construction... the heart, the digestive organs... the hair, the scalp, the nasal, the eye, the ear, the throat, the bronchi, the lungs... work as a UNIT—or as ONE!" True health is not about fixing one problem while ignoring everything else. The heart affects the brain, digestion affects the immune system, breathing affects circulation, and the nervous system influences every organ. When the whole body works together in harmony, the body naturally becomes stronger. This reminds us of Paul's description of the body of Christ: "From whom the whole body fitly joined together" (Ephesians 4:16). God's design is always unity and balance.

The reading warns us not to depend on anything that only stimulates the body for a short time. Speaking about treatments, it says, "When it begins to become the IMPELLING rather than the constructive force, it loses its efficacy." In other words, anything that only gives temporary excitement without actually building health will eventually lose its value. True rejuvenation is built slowly through healthy habits, not through quick fixes. Jesus taught the same principle when He spoke of the wise man who built his house on the rock (Luke 6:48). Strong things are built patiently over time.

Balance is another important theme throughout the reading. Exercise should be balanced. Diet should be balanced. Circulation should be balanced. Even the body's chemistry should remain balanced. The reading explains that too much of even a good thing can become harmful. God designed our bodies to function best when everything works together in harmony. Ecclesiastes reminds us, "Be not righteous over much" (Ecclesiastes 7:16), teaching that wisdom often lies in balance rather than in extremes.

The reading recommends simple daily habits that anyone can practice. It encourages stretching, flexibility exercises, strengthening the muscles, improving posture, breathing deeply, and exercising morning and evening. It says we should be "persistent morning and evening... not letting it become rote, but purposeful." This means we should make healthy living part of our daily life while remembering why we are doing it. Paul also encourages discipline, writing, "Exercise thyself rather unto godliness" (1 Timothy 4:7). Both physical exercise and spiritual discipline require regular practice.

One of the most practical lessons comes when the woman asks if she should teach rejuvenation to others. The answer is simple: "Work it in self first." Later the reading says, "Unless this is able to be demonstrated in self, not a very good teacher... can anyone become!" Before teaching others, we should first allow God's principles to change our own lives. Jesus first lived His message before He preached it. Paul could confidently say, "Be ye followers of me" (1 Corinthians 11:1), because his life matched his teaching.

Finally, the reading explains why rejuvenation is important. It is not simply to make us look younger or more attractive. It is so we can become more useful in serving God and helping other people. It speaks about becoming "physically fit not only for beauty but physically fit for the beauties of self-soul-development... helpful, hopeful things... brought into the experience of others." This is the true purpose of health. God renews us so we can bless others. Jesus said, "I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly" (John 10:10). The abundant life He gives is not meant to be kept for ourselves. It is meant to overflow into the lives of everyone around us.

Reading 681-2 teaches that true rejuvenation begins with God. He has placed healing and renewing power within the body, but we must cooperate with Him through right thinking, healthy living, balanced exercise, proper food, good rest, and a life dedicated to serving others. As we care for both body and soul, God's life strengthens us from within. Although our physical bodies will naturally grow older, the inner person can become stronger every day. As Paul writes, "Though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day" (2 Corinthians 4:16). This is the deepest meaning of rejuvenation—a life continually renewed by the Spirit of God.

EDGAR CAYCE READING 681-2

(Body and enquiring mind. Questions regarding her health, her mental and material affairs, and other phases.)

EC: We have the body, the enquiring mind, [681], and those conditions physical, mental and material that are in associations with the experiences of this entity in the present.

Ready for questions.

(Q) Is it wise for me to attempt rejuvenation of this body, thereby fitting myself to teach rejuvenation to others?

(A) Much might be given as respecting the varied ideas that have been and are presented by many as to rejuvenation in the material body. The better manner, to be sure, is the PRESERVATION - which is not only as a first law but is the more comely in its application. To be sure, as it has been indicated again and again, there is that within the physical forces of the body - if it is kept in a constructive way and manner - which may be revivified or rejuvenated and kept in a constructive way and manner. This requires, necessarily, the proper thinking, the proper living, the proper application of those influences in the experience of an ENTITY in its associations with everything about a body.

So, body-building may be applied in this body, as it may in any; that there are those influences in the experience of all which would be applicable to the life - or experience of a life - in the material plane, and that which applies individually from what has BEEN the experience in all of any given entity's development.

Then, it would be well for the entity to so live and so present the body as a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto Him, the Giver of all good and perfect gifts; it is but a reasonable service. But we would not set metes or bounds for others as to what they are to do, or are to become; these may only be reasoned with or counseled with, and each must choose for itself. For one that sets self up as an example becomes duty bound, becomes responsible for that which is taught in one's own experience.

(Q) Is the [J. Howard Lawlor] blood radiation treatment I am now using beneficial to me?

(A) In so far as that which is taken as elements is for body and blood building, for it to combine with, very good. But this, too, may be overdone. Better to use the lower vibrations in which life itself finds or takes up urges as of emotion, as of life energy expending itself and the like.

It is very good in the present.

(Q) Will the [J. Howard Lawlor] radiation treatment rejuvenate facial and general condition, eliminate lines, restore the color to gray hair, etc?

(A) In individual conditions, yes. In specifics, no. For this particular body, if this is kept for the time being - until the radial activity of many of those portions of the body have adjusted themselves to the activity of blood and nerve reactions in the system, it would be well. But when it begins to become the IMPELLING rather than the constructive force, it loses its efficacy.

(Q) What other vibrations in the low form do you refer to?

(A) It has been given again and again; those that are the lowest form of electrical forces that move as energies from the etheronic forces - or of the lowest form of static, or the electrical creative forces. The Radio-Active Appliance, to the extremities.

(Q) What other measures may be taken with it to improve my present physical condition?

(A) The diet. And naturally, of course, the regular exercises; exercises that bring ALL the muscular and physical reactions into play, that are to be kept with same.

(Q) What diet should be taken?

(A) There might be one diet given today and then next week you would have another! That which keeps the spittle or salivary reaction alkaline. That which keeps the blood reaction, by test, negative. That which keeps the urine eliminations as a balance at twenty-four (24) without albumin, without sediment, and with an alkaline tendency; but not too great a tendency. That which makes for the proper eliminations and body-building without becoming superfluous flesh, or drainage to same - see? Hence these are to be kept by CONSTRUCTIVE measures and forces, see?

(Q) What can I do for improvement of my eyesight, hearing, catarrhal condition, nervousness?

(A) Just as explained, so that there are the normal reactions in the physical body. Keep body-building forces for each of the axle centers for the varied organisms; as for the head and the body-building forces from the 3rd and 4th dorsal to the head itself. There must be in each center the proper impulses for the circulation that is revivified to pass through all of those centers that make for the relief or the building to the auditory forces. Much of this can be accomplished by the stretching of the head and neck, the activities in exercise that would make for - in this particular body - the correcting of the flow of nerve and blood energies to the optic nerves, the auditory forces or ears, the feelings that may emanate from the activities to that which is being trained or developed in the activity of the voice - that may be controlled by not only the deeper nerve or body-building nerves from the diaphragm through the lung area to the larynx and vocal box and to the throat itself, but by keeping these in balance and so revivifying as to overcome those tendencies for the lack of the lymph circulation which is the basis - or the catarrhal condition is the lymph becoming so overcoated with the air in such measures or manners, not being properly balanced to produce the correct circulation, see? Hence the catarrhal condition. So, to say as to what may be the necessary measures for correction and revivifying, we are repeating much that may appear to be contradictory - from specifics, or from the specific condition of the individual; but they are in their own phase of the body-mind development in this body, [681], we are speaking of.

As to the character of the exercise, those are given for the development of the muscular forces of the diaphragm, the lower portion of the lungs or across the sternum to the throat portions; yet if these are developed without regards to the flow from the upper dorsals, through the cervicals to the sensory forces, it is to the detriment of the other portions. There must be kept a body-balance, then. Hence, ionizing of the energies from all the radial forces about the superficial circulation - as may be taken by the activities that come from electrical emanations about self - is helpful. But if these are passed as the equalizing from one extremity to another, and then the exercises, so much the better!

The body must see, to be rejuvenated, the body must be kept in a condition of construction; to ever find that the heart, the digestive organs' combination, the elimination and assimilation, the hair, the scalp, the nasal, the eye, the ear, the throat, the bronchi, the lungs, the structural forces of the body work as a UNIT - or as ONE! And then we may find, and do find, the body BUILDING, ever.

(Q) What can I do for varicose veins, low blood pressure, fallen arches?

(A) Just the same as given. No better exercises may be taken than the stretching exercise; as rising on toes - and this doesn't mean with shoes on! - on heels, rocking back and forth; stretching the arms upward, the bending exercises, what may be literally termed - and is termed by some - the cat-stretching exercises, which includes, of course, being able - (put very coarsely) - to do the split, be able to put the head on the feet, to put the feet behind the head, to make the head and neck exercises and all of those activities that may be said to be of the feline or cat exercise. To be sure, in the present period, present development, present conditions that exist, must be gone at gently; but be persistent morning and evening, working at it, still not letting it become rote, but purposeful.

(Q) Any indication of ulcers of the stomach?

(A) There have been periods when indiscretions in eating, the overtoxic forces, have made for a roughing, and a thinning or smoothing of the walls of the stomach itself; but more disturbance in the duodenum, as we find, has been indicated, than what might be termed ulcers, or even lacerations, in the stomach. More of an acid or a gastric regurgitation is indicated.

(Q) Shall I plan to teach others how to rejuvenate themselves, combining Mr. Edgar Cayce's readings, Mr. J. Howard Lawlor's blood radiation treatment, and the Ballard [See RELIGION:ISMS:I AM] principles as well?

(A) Work it in self first and then may directions be made practical! Much might be said as respecting any of these, as might be had as directions individually. Much might be said as to those as corrective agencies in assisting others to become instructors and teachers in the direction of rejuvenation in the activities of others; but unless this is able to be demonstrated in self, not a very good teacher or instructor can anyone become! Apply it in self! Maintain or see the results or the effects that may be gained by same. Then may more explicit, or THE explicit directions be given!

(Q) What was meant in my Life Reading where it was said there would be an increase of the material material in 1935?

(A) It meant material material in 1935! Meaning the opportunities for monetary returns for the activities of the entity in its associations and relationships with others. From its own efforts, yes. From its own efforts and in the combination of those influences that have become, or do become, a part of the entity's activity.

(Q) Is it wise for me to obtain a divorce?

(A) Be very well.

(Q) Shall I marry again? If so, when and where shall I meet him?

(A) As ever is the experience of each entity, this should be a choice. And as ever, if the impelling influences in making a choice arise from those things that are material, or the gratifying of any material desires, earthly desires, physical desires, it becomes oft a stumblingblock.

(Q) Is it wise for me to continue voice training?

(A) Wise if this is to be used with the instructive forces as may be made, or may be gained by the body in giving to others those that make for constructive influences in their own rejuvenations or their own activities. As to giving of self WHOLLY in this direction, we do not find it the most. But for those abilities to make for the understandings of others, make for the proper development along every line; which is as the keeping of the body physically fit, not only physically fit for beauty but physically fit for the beauties of self-soul-development as it may apply to helpful, hopeful things, conditions, experiences that may be brought into the experience of others. This is a portion, as has been indicated, of the necessary exercises that would be for EVERY individual.

(Q) Shall I fit myself for an operatic career?

(A) Just given.

(Q) Please give more detail as to Phoebe of the Syro-Phoenician race at the time of Christ.

(A) This would be taken directly from an individual application, or an individual interpretation of the experience of the entity during that sojourn. This necessitates, then, turning back to those. We are dealing with the present here, as is sought - or as is before us.

(Q) Any other advice that may be given at this time?

(A) Much may be given if sought in those activities for which the body prepares, fits, or makes itself most as a channel to give expression of the beauties of constructive spiritual forces in the lives and experiences of others.

We are through for the present.