For many of us the body is nothing more than a necessary
burden to haul around as we go about our daily activities. Being the adaptable
tool that it is, it normally goes along with our demands. And when it proves to
be resistant, we drug it into submission. To this end, a whole industry has
been created- the pharmaceutical industry. We see the body as an ignorant slave
we have to force to do our bidding forgetting the vital processes that go on
within the body without our conscious participation in them. Obvious examples
are respiration and digestion. Someone once said the body is the one thing we
live the least. Why’s that? I think it’s more of a conditioning, a habit we
pick up as we grow. No one told us the importance of consciously inhabiting the
body because we are in a civilisation that someone defined simply as “lost in
the mind.” This state makes us restless and unable to be with ourselves without
any distraction, be it television, music, the company of other people, or some
activity to keep us ‘occupied.’ Escapism is one way we avoid consciously
inhabiting the body. Being fully present in the here and now is no fun for our
incessantly active, conditioned mind. We are drawn out of the body on the wings
of our thoughts and hurled back into the past or fast forwarded into the non-existent
future. But this need to escape our own being has a similar effect that a house
without its owner has: it exposes the body to external intruders.
But what do I mean by ‘inhabiting the body?’ In simple terms
it’s feeling the aliveness of the body. This may seem obvious at first but to
test if you’re really in the body, try this exercise. Closing the eyes may
help: Can you feel your arms without looking at them? How about your legs? Some
of us are so out of touch with our body that we need to be pinched to feel our
legs or arms. Inhabiting the body is feeling the life force in the body. You
feel it as a tingling sensation with your attention. But why do we even need to
inhabit the body anyway? What’s wrong with losing our attention in the head?
Why is there a need to create time and space to become better acquainted with
the body- this creative force that we have been conditioned to loathe, despise,
belittle and bemoan.
In 1923, a Russian medical scientist called Professor
Alexander G. Gurvich discovered that there’s a light emitted by the human body.
He called it ‘mitogenetic rays’ but it was later called biophotons. More
evidence of this photon field emitted by the body was given in 1974 by German
biophysicist Fritz-Albert Popp. Over the years more scientists have researched
on the application of this light in fields like cancer research, early disease
diagnosis, testing the quality of food and water. But what I found most
intriguing about this finding was that we can affect this light with our
thought or intention. A study was carried out where a number of people were put
in a darkened room and were asked to simply envision bright light. According to
the study this significantly increased their biophoton emissions. This
supposedly proved that we can affect the light with our intention. (See
references)
So what’s so special about this light given off by the body?
EVERYTHING! It proves that there’s something to the body beyond what the we can
see with our eyes. When I discovered this about my body I was so excited I
spent days on end working with this light. The results? Whenever I would spend
an extended period of time intensifying this light, I would get comments from
people about how bright I looked. In particular there is someone who told me
there was a light that radiated from my body without them knowing anything
about what I was doing. To act as a control experiment, there were some days I
relaxed this practice and surprisingly (or not) this same person told me the
light had diminished. Now this may sound outlandish but like I mentioned in the
first post, this blog is about my own experiences with my body coupled with
research based on scientific findings and ancient spiritual teachings. But
please don’t take my word for it. You can prove this through your own practice.
Far from being a machine made up of atoms and electrons, the
body is a conscious being responsive to our conscious intention. It will be
whatever we intend it to be because its role is to reflect back to us our inner
state of being. If we see it as a machine that’s here to manufacture offspring
and toil for its survival, it will be that and nothing more. This brings the
mind-body connection that I’ll talk about in a later post.
With the awareness of the light emitted by the body, let’s
explore the physical benefits of inhabiting the body. From experience and
supported by Eckhart Tolle in The Power of Now, inhabiting the body strengthens
the immune system to an exceptional degree. Tolle says, “The more consciousness
you bring into the body, the stronger the immune system becomes. It is as if
every cell awakens and rejoices. The body loves your attention. It is also a
potent form of self-healing.” He adds that, “Most illnesses creep in when you are
not present in the body. If the master is not present in the house, all kinds
of shady characters will take up residence there. When you inhabit the body, it
will be hard for unwanted guests to enter.” He further says that when we
inhabit the body, it’s not just our physical immune system that’s strengthened,
but also our psychic immune system is significantly improved. Psychic immunity
protects us from mental and emotional attack from other people or external
forces. Case in point: I’ve been researching on the numerous mind control techniques
applied on the masses and my oh my, the scale of mind manipulation that is
happening among the population is positively astounding. (More on this in a
later post.) Inhabiting the body anchors our consciousness and protects us from
mental and emotional manipulation by any external forces.
Now if you’re one of those who would rather not go through the
debilitating experience of ageing, you’ll want to be more in your body. This
again is something I have first hand experience in. You see, the body’s cells
rejuvenate regularly using what science has called stem cells. I’ll discuss
more about this extremely interesting discovery in a later post. Suffice it to
say for now that these new cells the body produces have the ability of renewing
the body on a regular basis to the extent that the body is kept youthful even
with the passing years. What stops this rejuvenation process is our conditioned
habit of being more in the mind than we are in the body. Here’s what Tolle says
about this: “As soon as your habitual state changes from being out-of-the-body
and trapped in your mind to being in-the-body and present in the Now, your
physical body will feel lighter, clearer, and more alive. As there is more
consciousness in the body, its molecular structure actually becomes less dense.
More consciousness means a lessening of the illusion of materiality.” He
continues to explain that when you inhabit the body you are not lost in the
past or the future so you don’t burden the cells with the baggage from the past
and the fears about the future. To quote Tolle: “The accumulation of time as
the psychological burden of past and future greatly impairs the cells’ capacity
for self-renewal.”
Now you may say it’s all nice and dandy what inhabiting the
body does but how on earth do you go about inhabiting the body in the first
place? It doesn’t help matters that we’re plagued with a civilisation that is
slave to the mind and its incessant thinking. Eckhart Tolle gives a simple but
very effective exercise in the book The Power of Now. I’ll summarise it for
you. It should take only a few minutes. The best times for this are just before
you go to sleep at night and just after you wake up in the morning but before
you leave your bed.
The process is: “Flood” your body with consciousness. Close
your eyes. Lie flat on your back. Concentrate your attention for about fifteen
seconds on different parts of the body one at a time: you could start from the
feet, legs, thighs, abdomen, chest, head etc. As you focus on each part FEEL
the aliveness of each part as much as you can. After concentrating on different
parts, focus the attention on the body as a whole and feel the aliveness
running through the body from the feet to the head and back. This can take just
a minute or so. During the practice you should feel your cells coming to life.
The trick here is to FEEL instead of think. Not an easy one initially but it’s
very rewarding if you try it even once.
To recap, in this post I have attempted to show that the
body is more than just a survival machine. I have talked about the need to get
more acquainted with the body and learn to inhabit it rather than lose
ourselves in the mind. In the next post I’ll talk more about the mind-body
connection.
References:
- Biophotons, The Light in our Cells, Marco Bischof, 1995
- www.thespiritscience.net
- www.greenmedinfo.com: Biophotons: The Human Body Emits, Communicates with and is made from light.
- The Power of Now, Eckhart Tolle
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov: National Centre for Biotechnology Information
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