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Know Your Body-Mind
Adapted from Power, Freedom, and Grace by Deepak Chopra (Amber Allen, 2006).
To become familiar with the miracle of the human body-mind is to acquire awesome power. This power is magical because it allows you to experience the body-mind as more fluid, more flexible, more dynamic, and more creative than you have ever imagined. But first you have to understand your true nature; you have to know the body-mind as it really is.
The field of pure consciousness creates, controls, and constantly becomes the body-mind. Get in touch with this field, and you have a completely new reality of the mind and a completely new experience of the body. You realize that you can change your body more effortlessly, more rapidly, more efficiently than you can change your clothes.
The human body-mind is part of conscious, thinking field of intelligence. In every second of our existence, the local expression that we call the body-mind is exchanging energy and information with the nonlocal expression that we call the universe. The only thing is, we are doing it unconsciously. The average person thinks about 60,000 thoughts a day. This is not surprising. But it’s a little disconcerting that 95 percent of the thoughts we have today are the same ones we had yesterday. Every day we unconsciously create the same energy patterns that give rise to the same physical expression of the body.
Every interpretation we make in every moment has an effect on the energy patterns of our body. And we can change our interpretations because we made them in the first place.
Imagine that your nervous system is the hardware, and all the chemical changes that occur in your body are the software. The software, or program, changes according to your thoughts, feelings, interpretations, and desires. But there is a programmer. Who is the programmer? The programmer is the inner self, the silent witness, the ever-present awareness that witnesses everything. And when you get in touch with the silent witness, this gives you the ability to rewrite the program.
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add your comment »Eckhart Tolle addresses this in his books, too. He says, "...the mind is using you. You are unconsciously identified with it, so you don't even know that you are its slave. It's almost as if you were posessed without knowing it, and so you take the posessing entity to be yourself. The beginning of freedom is the realization that you are not the posessing entity--the thinker. Knowing this enables you to observe the entity. The moment you start watching the thinker, a higher level of consciousness becomes activated." Just becoming aware that The Thinker is your ego and not you (the essence that is you) allows you to make the shift in consciousness.
Mr. Chopra and Mr Tolle both articulate the same basic truths in a slightly different manner which enables a greater number of people to grasp these profound concepts more readily.
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I have re-programmed myself and have changed desperation for peace of mind. It's much easier than you think. Just kick out all negative thoughts as soon as they enter your head and replace them with positive thoughts or no thoughts at all.
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It is easily said than done.It requires what we call sadhana or perceptive involvement of the body-mind combination in the effort to identify the programmer.It involves the negation of the mind as the center and most of all of life and living.yes, Deepak has his way of putting ideas across.
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It is easily said than done.It requires what we call sadhana or perceptive involvement of the body-mind combination in the effort to identify the programmer.It involves the negation of the mind as the center and most of all of life and living.yes, Deepak has his way of putting ideas across.
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Okay, I agree. Now, how do we get in touch with our silent witness? Take me further, please, or do I have to wait for tomorrow? Will someone here tell me?
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HAIL THE SILENT WITNESS! Thank you to all our wise enlightened leaders on this planet. We are a more loving planet as conscious Beings.
Deb
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I can see why many people avoided me like the plague.... I used to spread that negative energy around exactley like a disease. So, with a little work we can break those energy patterns and turn things around for the positive, right?
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'And when you get in touch with the silent witness, this gives you the ability to rewrite the program.' ' Ask and you shall receive.'
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A good reminder. How often we get sucked into a mental loop of thought that keeps us in a rut and isn't doing anything to raise our vibration. Thanks Deepak. Blessings. Elly www.GrassdancerEssences.com - Healing Energy from Nature
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