As we grow older our thymus starts to slow down is it the fact we know we are aging that causes the Thymus to die off? Or is it that as we have grown old we have killed off our ability to stay youthful... aka Peter Pan let’s never grow up
As someone who practices Reiki, and teaches it globally through my online courses. This is one organ that takes a pounding throughout life.Having experienced trauma at a young age, and throughout my adult life. I had to parent my self and learn how to love myself fully to heal this chakra and build immunity in my body. When we carry the pain from our past it stops us from receiving all that life has to offer.
The Physical Thymus
On a physical level, the higher Heart Chakra, also called the ascended heart chakra, is connected with an intriguing organ: the thymus gland. The latter forms part of our lymphatic system and sits wedged between the heart and the sternum. Its prominent job is to support our immune response by producing T-leukocytes.These white blood cells perform two major tasks. Firstly, they distinguish inoffensive body cells from intruding pathogens.
After Heartache + Financial loss, I was blaming myself and got frustrated with life. I had to learn to love myself again after heartache, after suffering loss, I was angry, confused, carrying grief. Holding it all together and still trying to help others heal too. I didn’t embrace the divine feminine, I stopped loving myself. Hoping for more but yet stagnant, paralysed even by the torment of thoughts, crippled to move forward I felt what is the point.
The journey to self love is just that, and I knew in my heart of hearts I had the power to heal so I set to work. The Thymus is responsible for fending of Pathogens and that’s exactly what had happened. Combined with healing my Sacral Chakra (I needed gut healing protocol) my body wasn’t absorbing nutrients, in fact I wasn’t in receiving mode. I also had to work on my Solar Plexus. Full alignment is necessary for healing, we need to come back to our true selves to facilitate.
The thymus is most active during childhood and adolescence, which is when it had supplies the young organism with the full repertoire of T-leukocytes it will need in life. The T-cells are then distributed throughout the lymphatic system, where they await their future use. Towards the end of puberty, the thymus reaches its maximum size and weight.
Typically during adulthood, it pares back its production of T-cells and goes into atrophy. After it stops working, usually around the age of fifty, we have to make do with whatever T-cells are still surviving in our body to combat illness. By the time we reach old age, the thymus gland has virtually disintegrated into the surrounding tissues. But there are many things we can do to keep this important organ active, we must continue to show up to our lives and love it all.
A balanced Heart Chakra is Heaven on Earth. It’s doing what you love, it’s choosing your life and not settling. It’s loving yourself holistically and it’s possible. You are possible!
External stressors such as malnutrition, psychological crises or sudden trauma can precipitate thymic involution, probably through the hormonal turmoil these situations provoke. I happened to have had a very stressful year before conceiving my daughter. I hadn’t been expressing myself, I had removed a coil I had in for several years. I wasn’t get the right nutrition and wasn’t sleeping well. My body was fighting to stay alive and I wasn’t living with an open heart.
Can we thrive by maintaining our Thymus?
The Energetic Thymus
Of course everything is energy and if we look at this organ from an holistic perspective, addressing who we are as mind, body and soul then we can take on board the biological interactions but understand that we must embody who we are fully for healing
The Heart Chakra has been referred as the seat of the soul. The Heart Chakra represents unconditional Divine Love. Unconditional love is free of ego, therefore a healthy higher heart facilitates spiritual growth and deep inner transformation.
Opening our thymus chakra enhances our willingness to forgive and to show compassion. Unlocking it corresponds to flinging open a window for your soul to work through in the material world. Often, people who get in touch with their ascended heart will desire to hand its gifts on to others because, as receptacles of divine love, they also feel it flowing from them like water from a spring.
In fact, the act of giving always originates in the heart. Our language demonstrates we know this intuitively, as phrases such as “I give this to you with all my heart” indicate. My healing has come leaps and bounds with having my second child. Because I have to give my love to her with no conditions and she only knows to receive it. Often we can close off our hearts to receive love because of past pain. We stay stuck in place of suffering from past wounds, we can give too much without filling up our own hearts.
Thus, healing work and other means of giving love are naturally pursued by those with an open ascended heart. Materially, we give with our hands, which are energetically associated with the heart. We use our hands to provide for our loved ones, craft presents for them, feed them, comfort and caress them.
Across different times and cultures, numerous methods of laying on of hands have been devised for healing, and the hand has been considered a symbol of divine protection and blessing. Our hands are our most used tool for spreading the many expressions of love coming through our hearts from the Source. Some say the thymus chakra responds especially well to sound therapy, given its proximity to the sternum, which acts as a sound board and amplifier of acoustic vibrations.
In our everyday lives we can connect to our heart, through sound through music, it reminds us of past love, events, memories and moments that have captured our soul.
Who has not noticed a certain piece of music touch their heart or influence their mood?
Both listening to and making music are cathartic to our emotional state. It awakens dormant feelings from hibernation, helping to process, to externalize and to clear them. Worldwide, medical facilities offer music therapy to make their patients get back in touch with themselves and open up to their surroundings through playful acoustic interaction.
So, for a thriving thymus chakra, listen to music, sing like nobody is hearing, dance like nobody is watching or play a musical instrument.
In Reiki treatments I hold space for healing, I use my life energy to restore depleted energy in my clients and restore vitality to each Chakra. It’s possible to dissolve blockages and become aligned once again with your true self.
The Physio-Energetic link
How do energy healing practices relate to the physical thymus?
Will any of them preserve it from declining with age?
Are we clinging and holding onto our youth, or willing to embrace aging as a gift. As I have gotten older I have welcomed the aging process rather than denied it. Often we can be in such conflict with self. We can keep all our organs in good health but practicing mindfulness, meditation, adequate exercise, enough sleep and oh course laugher darlings. It’s good for soul. It is important to remember that humanity´s longing for eternal life on earth is not always constructive, but can deviate into a desperate ego rampage.
Can exercises stop the thymus from aging?
The soul has other values and a broader perception than our incarnated self, so remaining eternally earthbound might not be what it needs or desires. I definitely feel I have learnt so much from my experience here on Earth, if one thing we can realise it’s all very temporary but we are eternal and infinite.
Our biology is constantly taking us closer to source, we will eventually fade away back to dust from which we came. The aging process is doing just that, but this doesn’t mean we have to stop working along the journey. Wear and tear is expected but the things that are built well, with strong foundations will last. This is how the Root Chakra and the Heart Chakra are connected. We get to live and love this life when we are taking care of ourselves, let source figure out the rest.
When we go within to heal ourselves we can accomplish inner peace this is more powerful than any chemical or surgical intervention ever could. Metaphorically, our thymus is teaching us that embracing impermanence is a vital part of growing and progressing through the cycles of our existence.
We grow with change, we must let go of the old and embrace the “new” every version of us is beautiful. The highest service we can render to ourselves is to take responsibility for our health on all levels. We can nourish and protect our physical bodies, we can have awareness of our emotional states, we can be the observer of our thoughts, we can be guided by our intuition.
We can’t live as if we were teenagers into our old age but we can gain wisdom and insight, we can be present and choose joy as a tool to powerfully create.
Heart Chakra Blockages and illnesses
Congestive Heart Failure, Heart attackMitral valve prolapse , Chest pain , Arteriosclerosis, Peripheral Vascular insufficiency, Asthma, Shortness of breathe. Allergies, Lung Cancer, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Emphysema, Breast Cancer and breast disorders such as mastitis or cysts.Immune system deficiencies including HIV. Circulation problems, tension or pain between the shoulder blades. Shoulders,arms and hand issues. Such as carpal tunnel. Apnea, Thymus issues and anti social behaviour.
Emotional imbalances include issues of the heart; over-loving to the point of suffocation, jealousy, abandonment, anger, bitterness. Fear of loneliness.When this chakra is balanced we feel joy, gratitude, love and compassion, forgiveness flows freely, trust is gained.
The lesson of this chakra is I Love.
