19/04/2025
Wonderful tapping point if anxious
Apapacha Your Thymus…
A few light taps on the thymus on sad mornings.
A few light taps when anxiety hits.
A few daily taps right on the sternum, to wake it up and help it relax…
THE THYMUS
Located in the center of the chest, behind the bone people touch when they say “I,” there is a small gland called the thymus.
Its name in Greek, thýmos, means “vital energy.” Need we say more?
Yes, we do need to say more, because the thymus remains a distinguished yet little-known organ. It grows when we are joyful, and it shrinks by half when we are stressed—and even more so when we get sick.
This characteristic long confused the medical field, which used to observe the thymus only during autopsies—where it was always found small and shriveled.
It was believed to atrophy and stop functioning during adolescence. In fact, for decades, American doctors bombarded perfectly healthy thymuses with high doses of X-rays, thinking their “abnormal size” might cause problems.
Later, science proved that although it shrinks after childhood, the thymus remains active. It is one of the pillars of our immune system, along with the adrenal glands and the spinal cord, and it is directly connected to our senses, consciousness, and language.
Like a telephone exchange through which all calls pass, it makes internal and external connections. If we are invaded by microbes or toxins, it reacts immediately by producing defense cells. But it is also highly sensitive to images, colors, lights, smells, tastes, gestures, touches, sounds, words, and thoughts.
Love and hatred affect it deeply. Negative thoughts have more power over it than viruses and bacteria.
Since negativity doesn’t exist in tangible form, the thymus tries to respond, but it weakens as it fights an unknown invader, creating space for low immunity symptoms like herpes.
On the other hand, positive thoughts can activate all its powers—remember, faith moves mountains.
A curious detail is that the thymus lies closely attached to the heart, which tends to get all the credit when it comes to feelings, emotions, decisions, speaking, listening, mood, etc.
“I’m heartbroken,” for example, actually describes a real state of the thymus, which by reflex involves the heart in the matter.
The heart chakra—the energetic center of union and compassion—has more to do with the thymus than the physical heart, and it is within this chakra, according to Buddhist teachings, that the passage from the animal state to the human state occurs.
