Effects of Awareness

There is more self-control in letting go than in trying to control one’s body by force. Your condition depends on the state of your awareness. Your mind is deeply influencing your body.

Imagine that your awareness is like a violin string. The string can play any kind of note, high or low, depending on where you place your finger. In conventional medicine, only the notes count–a huge amount of time is spent just killing the abnormal white cells. But you could just change your position on the string. Then you wouldn’t be destroying anything; you would be creating a new reality, complete with new notes.

“Are you saying that feeling good makes my illness regress?” If feeling good is part of healing, then yes, that is what I am saying. It’s not really a matter of your moods. Naturally your moods swing during the course of a serious illness–you can feel happy or despondent, hopeful or hopeless without warning.

Underlying these unpredictable mood swings is your quantum level of awareness, which has become disturbed. Changes in this level of awareness are what bring about changes in mood; if your deep awareness shifts, your moods will follow like a weather vane. We should also expect to see similar indications in your body.

Adapted from Perfect Health: The Complete Mind/Body Guide, by Deepak Chopra, M.D. (Harmony Books, 1990)

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Michele W.

2:43AM PST on Nov 8, 2011

Thank you

send a green star

janine k.

5:11PM PDT on Sep 10, 2011

Being in a sticky family situation is dreadful. I was turning up the volume on the radio to not hear the abuse. Now I put on the relaxation tape and the dog is much more relaxed. It's the banging on our door that makes her so nervous. Right now she is in repose next to the radio. Let's hope the banging stops. Did I mention alcoholism is the worst thing for dogs?

Janine K.

10:00AM PDT on Aug 10, 2011

What also comes to mind is the following: What do prisoners do to maintain health, whether prisoner of vision or oppressors? Veganism, meditation, song, play and exercise as well as loving pets and gardening. There ya have it. That's what I do. I'd mention sailing but you "can't sail in jail." What does it take to have a small piece of land to steward so that the "unaware ones" don't kill all the bees, butterflies, etc?

6:28AM PDT on Aug 10, 2011

I came across "letting go" when I felt uncomfortable in my body in 1982/3. I observed a room of people with a problem they could not control. The facilitator said "Let go, Let God."
I'd never heard that. I realized the problem was not mine. It was a problem people had around me. I was always surrounded by it. Today, I still have the same scenario but with a different stimuli.

Norma V.

4:59AM PDT on Aug 9, 2011

Letting go, or even acknowledging the unwillingness to let go, ir a start.

Uma C.

11:36PM PDT on Aug 2, 2011

In moments of catastrophic danger through illness, violence or accident, at the last moment on the edge of timelessness, I go absolutely limp.Preparing to die in battle, falling off cliffs, this has been my consistent response.When in the jaws of The Destroyer I am like my cat's prey,death already has me. When falling from the cliffs I felt the land hold me;peace making my body so limp I stayed where I had fallen. If I was tensed I surely would have been killed rolling, bouncing, and falling from great height. Facing my end fighting, looking at the other side, the name of God I trust came out of me in a great shout and my attackers fled.Again the fruit of my surrender. Last march I fell very ill and died, only returning in the last moment before life support was to terminate.Deepest surrender was my only possible response and the outcome of each event was the result of it. In India the destroying aspect of the Great Mother who is everything that moves, time itself, is Kali destroyer of demons.Only SHE, most powerful, can end them. She is the protector of our true self.Around her neck she wears a garland of heads. Each head is a false ego, as all that can be named is temporal.She lops off those heads till the only surviving identity is the divine. My faith is knowing that SHE will never leave me possessed by temporal illusion, believing, fearing, I am or could be this or that.My trust evokes the surrender, the peace making all possible.It's an instinctive unplanned response.

Carolyn D.

6:29PM PDT on Jul 31, 2011

Try to focus on other things and better thoughts and actions/events will automatically follow. Its hard when your sore or sick and tired but it helps if you can take just a little bit of this advice. Baby steps.

Judy B.

4:23AM PDT on Jul 30, 2011

Food for Thought

Kirsten B.

10:45PM PDT on Jul 29, 2011

Yes, very true.

Letting go may seem incredibly daunting and hard, but is really deceptively easy if you really want it. In fact, I just wrote a blog about this and posted it on my homepage this morning for anyone who is interested:

http://kirstenbergen.jimdo.com/blog-spot/july-2011/a-matter-of-perspective/

Shelly P.

3:05PM PDT on Jul 29, 2011

Thankyou!