Why you should NEVER cut your hair (2 articles)
(Article 1)
The Spiritual Nature Of Hair
Sunday, March 10th, 2013
Deva Kaur Khalsa, 3ho
Waking Times
“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 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.”
About the Author
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, and can be reached at www.MyYogaSource.com.
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(Article 2)
Hair Is An Extension Of The Nervous System
Why Indians Keep Their Hair Long
By C. Young
12-9-11
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 Viet Nam 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 Viet Nam.
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 Viet Nam 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 casualities 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 consistantly 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 consistantly 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 brainstem, 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://rense.com/general95/hair.htm
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Replies
Does almond oil also helps with frizz?
I'd love to have it long but it keeps getting frizzy -.-
Hi Solalrkid. Almond oil is fabulous. I have researched it, and it's very good for hair that tends to fall our or break off, very healing stuff. And I guess any kind of oil will help with frizzies. I've even grabbed olive oil from the kitchen to take care of that problem.
I don't advise a haircut man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the Government.
Hair are your Ariels, they pick up signals from the cosmos and transmute them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald headed men are uptight !
Oh well, your choice lol I actually listen very well....I can just see right through most things. I really can, it's not that hard lol
And right, I'm the one with bad listening skills. I explained to you, what makes me think long hair has an effect on intuition and sense perception...and you were just like, no you didn't explain it....even though I did. You're actually the one who won't listen to anyone but yourself, you won't even listen to a government study, proving it...because you have flawed reasoning, and say...oh it doesn't prove anything.....and oh you can't take the word of something written down. It's a tiny little box you live in. You can live for a million years, you won't experience half of what there is to experience.
Well you know, you want to go by that type of thinking, you'll limit yourself to a very tiny box. You don't know Alexander the Great lived....you don't even know Nelson Mandela lived. All we have is stories, and pictures, and videos. Who knows...Mandela might be some imposter....he might've fabricated the whole story. Maybe everybody did, Martin Luther King, John F Kennedy, Adolf Hitler, George Washington....maybe none of them existed, maybe there's no such thing as anything lol How do you know.
The faith haters out there, don't realize how much most things lend themselves to faith. You never been to NYC, I suppose....so how do you know it's real. I have been there though, so I know it's real...but you won't take my word for it, I guess.
So, the government does experiments with Indian trackers, determining long hair has an effect on intuition and extrasensory perception....but....because someone else wrote it down, it's not good enough I guess. See what a little tiny box that puts you in. There's a big wide world out there....infinitely bigger than what you'll experience first hand.
And what does it mean, for this theory, if a personn couldn't keep his/her hair ?....(thks for the compliment Devi...) i think there are good elements in this article (composition of haire, energy etc) but it's too simple to compare the tall of the personn's hair and his/her spirituality ; it's the same as karma and the cast systeme : life is more complexe
long hair is also the symbole of inocence, purity ; short hair of behavior and wisdom ? : the anciant romans cutted the boys' hair when they entered in adultwood ..
so by these informations, we can say, or make say, what we want it means, what we think...this is for the comments and the symplicity of the links made ..
The long hair concept ties in nicely with the video article on activating the pineal gland.
I remember whilst training chi giong years ago the belief that hair acts as en energetic antennae.
I've had short to no hair for a fair while,
I've let it grow now for over a year,
And my sensitivity to energy is the finest it's ever been.
Perhaps it's a result of intense meditation.
Alternatively, the intense meditation is a result of the increased sensitivity.
which more effectively guides the meditations
Dunno.
However I've been wanting to cut the hair again.
And yet, i feel a reluctance to do so.
♥ This is a good article... thanks for sharing ♥ I prefer long hair to short on myself...It took me 2 years to grow my hair fully past my tailbone, and personally i'd never cut it again ♥
I know that in the ancient days, to wear the long hair as a spiral cone on the head allows higher energies to penetrate through and aids in bettering intuition and other spiritual skills ♥
Also monks apparently shave their hair, because according to some scholars they were "slaves" and were forced too initially on spiritual selection. This is why they continue the custom according to scholars debates. ♥
Well it's pretty self explanitory...all you need to do is actually read it lol So go read it. I think the real question is...what about it makes no sense.
You don't have to trust it, doesn't bother me lol And it's a logical conclusion, to say....upon reading through the experiments they did....that, yea, long hair had something to do with it lol I mean did you even read through it. What else could it be, it all points to the long hair. Again, there's something very wrong going on here....it's not good to be unreasonably skeptical.