YOUR BODY IS AN INTENSE FIELD OF CONSCIOUSNESS🔗

When I tell you, 'You are Consciousness', I don't mean that you are a point of consciousness hiding in some corner of your body.

No!

I mean, your very body is made of consciousness. Your very cells are centers of consciousness. The body is the most visible expression of your consciousness.

Understand, your body is a powerhouse of conscious energy! See, electricity is also energy, but it is a blind energy.

Electric current does not have its own intelligence. If you fix a bulb in the socket, it will glow. If you put your hand in the socket, it will give you an electric shock, that's all!

It doesn't know where to go or how to work.

But the energy in your body is not like that. It is a conscious energy.

Your body is not a simple mechanical system as you think. It is a highly evolved system of distributed intelligence.

• Understand, every cell in your body has intelligence!

We have been taught that the center of our consciousness is in our brain. We think that we control the body through our brain; it is the brain which controls respiration, digestion, blood circulation, and all such activities.

Now there is a new field called epigenetics, which is the study of how your behaviors and environment can cause changes that affect the way your genes work.

One of the pioneers in this field, Dr. Bruce Lipton, an eminent biologist, has been doing research in the field of epigenetics for over ten years.

In his book, 'The Biology of Belief ', he states that our brain does not control our body. There is evidence of intelligence in every cell, even in the cell's membrane!

In recent research at Sandia National Laboratories, USA, scientists studied how cells responded to a harmful substance called an antigen that attacked the cells in the body. They concluded that even the cell membrane had a unique structure to fight the antigen so that it could not enter the cell!

The biggest miracle of cellular intelligence is the growth of a baby from a single cell!

The human body starts from a single cell, which replicates and becomes about 250 different types of specialized cells performing different functions in the body. Which means, the same cell knows whether to grow into a bone or a muscle or a blood cell, depending on where it is going to be used!

And just to maintain and coordinate the activities of all these cells, millions of things need to be done each second.

With all this, your body manages to function as a single organism, a harmonious whole!

Your body is the best example of distributed intelligence.

Because the body is always with you like an old friend, you simply take it for granted!

You are not even aware of the daily miracles being performed by your body. Every day, your body converts bread into blood! Do you know any machine that can do that? In fact, the whole process is so complex, that if we wanted to set up an industry that could do the same job, it would run into a few miles!

Not only that, the body beautifully regulates the body temperature, blood pressure and blood sugar and heart function without any help from you! And do you know, your brain is only about the size of about two fists?

But to date, scientists around the world have not been able to replicate tasks that the brain does so effortlessly.

I read a recent research report which said that ten linguists, working full-time for ten years, could not program a computer to learn a language as perfectly as a human baby does!

Just think, when your body can grow, digest food, pump blood, fight disease, learn new things, adapt to change and perform a thousand other complicated tasks without help, you are still worrying,

'Will my headache get better on its own, or should I see a doctor? Do you see the foolishness?

Your body has a natural self-healing power. There is an automatic intelligence which is constantly rejuvenating and even replacing the cells in your entire body. If some part of the body is damaged, your body intelligence can heal or replace the damaged cells. You can see it at work when you see a cut or a wound healing itself even without any effort on your part.

But when the ego or mind interferes, this natural process is interrupted.

Constantly, cells replace themselves and the body repairs itself.

You might ask, 'Then why does the same disease occur again and again in my body? If my body is again and again replacing itself, rejuvenating itself, then why do I carry the same disease?'

This happens only because you strongly believe that the disease is continuing! You carry the same mental setup that strongly believes that you are not well. This is what stops the self-healing process from happening in your body.

All you need to do is just trust the automatic intelligence which is in you and relax.

Energy is intelligence. Your being is intelligence.

THE FLOWERING OF BODY INTELLIGENCE Working with your body

The problem is, you never trust that your being is intelligent. You measure yourself only by your weakest link, and you are not your weakest link. Be aware, you are far more than your weakest link! The strength of a chain can be measured based on the weakest link, but the strength of your being cannot be measured this way, because you are something more than what you think you are.

Actually, your body has the capacity to heal every disease, physical or mental, however complex it might be.

THE FLOWERING OF BODY INTELLIGENCE Working with your body

Once a young man came to me and asked me to help him quit smoking.

I asked him how he picked up the habit in the first place. He said, 'One day, I had gone out with a group of friends who were all smokers. I happened to meet my father on the street that day. Seeing me with a group of boys who were all smoking, my father assumed that I had been smoking too. When I returned home, he accused me of smoking, and refused to believe me.

The next day, I smoked a whole pack of cigarettes, just to spite my father! In that way I gradually got addicted.' He asked me how to drop the habit.

I told him, 'Don't drop it! Go ahead and smoke. But don't do it to prove anything to anybody. Don't do it to spite your father. And don't imagine that you have become mature and independent by smoking!

Every time you pick up a cigarette, do it silently. Be conscious of why you are smoking. Consciously feel the smoke entering your system. Be aware of how you hold the cigarette, how you put it in your mouth. You will realize on your own.'

After just a few days the boy returned to me.

He said, 'Swamiji, I am not able to smoke anymore! Doing it consciously, I started wondering how I could send so much smoke into my system! Also I realized that smoking is not that important to me after all.'

THE FLOWERING OF BODY INTELLIGENCE Working with your body

When we become conscious of what we are doing, many things drop on their own. This is the only permanent solution.

Of course it may take a few days to awaken the body intelligence. Your body intelligence may have gone to sleep, because you haven't used it for so many years!

During that time, the important thing is, not to lose hope and fall back on the borrowed intelligence that you have picked up from society.

Have trust in the natural intelligence of your body, that's all.

Don't try to control the body, because whatever you try to control will express itself in some other way. The body will refuse to be controlled!

Just bring awareness into every action, and trust in your natural intelligence.

As I told you, you have an independent intelligence in your system which runs your life beautifully without your interference.

Whether you accept it or not, whether you believe it or not, that tremendous intelligence is operating every single moment.

Because you don't realize this, you constantly feel that life has to be different from what it is at the present moment. Trusting that intelligence and relaxing is what I call devotion.

Surrendering to that higher intelligence is true surrender. Living in harmony with our natural intelligence is living a spiritual life.