The Fountain Of Youth That Ponce de Leon Didn’t Know About
In 1513, Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon was searching for the legendary Fountain of Youth, when he ended up in what is present-day Florida. The Fountain’s magical waters were rumored to restore the youth of anyone who drank or bathed in it.
Unfortunately, Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of Youth was never discovered, but the legend captured the public imagination and to this day, spas, hot springs, and even plastic surgeons claim they hold the key to eternal youth.
In 1939, another Fountain of Youth was discovered, but this time it wasn’t a magical fountain. In his booklet, THE EYE OF REVELATION: The Ancient Tibetan Rites of Rejuvenation, Peter Kelder wrote about the ancient anti-aging exercise program, known as the Five Tibetan Rites that monks had created more than 2500 years ago.
Kelder wrote of a retired British Colonel who while traveling through India encountered a group of lamas who taught him five rejuvenating exercises, called the 5 Tibetan Rites. The Colonel claimed that by practicing the Five Rites daily, he was transformed from a stooped, balding old gentleman with a cane into a tall and straight young man with a full head of hair.
In 1994, the Rites’ popularity was sparked by Chris Kilham, author of The Five Tibetans: Five Dynamic Exercises for Health, Energy, and Personal Power
Kilham argued that the Five Rites “predate yoga as we know it today as much as seven hundred years or more and therefore, could not have derived from either Tibetan or Indian forms of yoga.”
Kilham suggests that if you practice the 5 Tibetan Rites five minutes a day, you can add ten years to your life!
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Source: M.K. Projects International, Wikipedia (Fountain of Youth), Dodhisattva’s Sacred Back Yard blog
