Fire is the child of gas. The salient feature of gas is pressure. Increasing pressure generates heat and fire. Fire is visible but gas is not keeping with the theme of progeny being opposite of parent. We now know that pressure, gas, and thoughts are synonymous. If pressure generates heat, what do thoughts generate? The answer is perception. Perception is awareness and appreciation of something because you see it. Perception requires light. The act of perceiving and knowing is like shining a light in darkness to illuminate objects. Light reveals the underlying structure of objects, their form and shape and hence light is called plasma, a Greek word which means to mold into shape. Physically, plasma is an ionized gas particles with split electrons. Because of increasing pressure among gas particles, the electrons become split releasing tremendous amount of energy in the form of light. Our sun is a giant plasma field, a great big giant ball of fire.
Consciousness lives in the darkness of the space, thoughts are invisible energy that moves like the wind in the darkness of space, and plasma illuminates this darkness and makes thoughts visible to consciousness. In other words, plasma congeals electric and magnetic forces into electromagnetic force. Light is an electromagnetic current.
For any object to be perceptible and visible, one must know its position and velocity at the same time. The position of an object measures the weight and the velocity measures direction and speed. When gas is tagged with mass it slows down the velocity of motion and that’s how it becomes visible i.e. our sense of vision can measure both the position and velocity at the same time. We couldn’t do that with gas. We can only know the direction of gas particle’s motion but not its position. We can feel the direction of wind blowing but we can’t see it.
Fire is radiant heat energy that transforms everything it touches, a destructive force that consumes everything on its path, but it is also an agent of renewal, growth, and evolution. Fire is the oxygen element that burns food in the body, controls digestion, appetite, thirst, and sleep. Fire is hot, luminous, sharp, and flows upward.
Input of heat and warmth in the form of sunlight and vitamin D is important for health. Vitamin D deficiency causes many health problems such as bone loss (rickets, tooth decay), hair loss, headache and chronic muscle pains, slow wound healing and getting sick often due to depressed immune system. Common cold is common is winter due to lack of sunshine and warmth. Vitamin D is literally a quantum nutrient. Photons of sunlight contains quantum, a discrete packet of energy. These packets of energy are absorbed by the melatonin in skin which converts it to vitamin D. Sunlight contains infra-red energy that penetrates deep into the tissues and stimulate blood circulation, relieves pain, relaxes muscles, lowers blood pressure, boosts immune system, and helps heal chronic wound and injuries. Sunlight is therapeutic, people who have been deprived of sunlight suffer from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a type of depression commonly seen in winter when sunlight is minimal. Sunlight stimulates pineal gland to produce melatonin which is necessary for sleep, rest, and happiness. Sunlight is also antiseptic and prevents growth and proliferation of disease causing germs.
Light has color spectrum and different colors have different effects. Red light helps in wound healing and reverses skin aging. Blue light kills bacteria and reset biological clock to help people sleep better at night. UV light can sterilize air and water. Infrared light reverses blindness in animals and heals oral sores. In general, warm colors like red, orange, and yellow are stimulating and add more energy whereas cool colors like green, blue, and violet are relaxing and decreases energy.
Food and water are converted into heat energy with the help of oxygen, a quantum nutrient. Without oxygen the food stays there like a log of wood without fire. Oxygen is the fire that burns food to extract energy to drive the body’s machinery. Oxygen is acquired through breathing, therefore proper breathing is important. Proper breathing involves use of all the muscles in the trunk of the body; abdominal muscles (diaphragm), chest muscles (intercostal), and back and shoulder muscles. Proper breathing involves expansion and contraction of the whole trunk from shoulder to abdomen. Shallow chest breathing is not enough and causes deficiency of oxygen (hypoxia).
Following are symptoms of hypoxia:
- Shortness of breath and difficulty in breathing (dyspnea).
- Increased rate of breathing (tachypnea).
- Increased heart rate (tachycardia) to pump more blood to peripheral tissues.
- Dizziness and fainting (syncope).
- Fermentation of glucose takes place in absence of oxygen to extract energy which produces lactic acid leading to loss of appetite, soreness and inability to move muscles, numbness and tingling of limbs.
- Body coordination is affected, inability to walk straight.
- Nervous system dysfunctions; headache, anxiety, and depression. Inability to think straight, confusion, and euphoria.
- In severe cases lips, ear lobes, and nails becomes dark blue in color (cyanosis).
- Chronic hypoxia leads to increased levels of free radical toxicity that damages endothelial lining of the lungs and epithelial cells of skin leading wrinkling of skin and lung diseases.