our body is the foundation of divinity

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Our body is a wonderful mechanism. It goes on functioning beautifully and

efficiently without our knowledge. We eat food and this food becomes our blood,

bones and marrow and, above all, our consciousness. We have no idea how it

happens. No scientist on earth has ever been able to fully explain this alchemy

of transformation.

 

The body seems to have a natural wisdom to perform this miracle only if we let

it function in its natural way and do not interfere with it. And what is most

important is not to deprive our body of the required amount of food, work and

sleep. What's important is not to force the body to do anything unnatural. We

need to be able to communicate with our body and respond to it. Our body is our

foundation. It is the edifice in which the divine resides.

 

It also acts as our mirror. Our mind may hide what we don't want to show to the

world but our body has its own language. It manifests our health and illness

without any fear. Any disturbance in our psyche affects our body and the

vibrations in our body create a certain colour or aura. Doctors and scientists

have now come to recognise what common sense has always told us-that there is a

deep connection between body and mind and this profoundly affects our overall

physical health and sense of wellbeing.

 

Researchers have found that nearly half our physical ailments are

stress-related. And the 'placebo effect' -where people get better just because

they believe that a certain treatment or medicine is going to help them, even if

they are only taking a sugar pill-is well documented. There are four levels of

our existence-our body, our thoughts, our feelings and our consciousness, which

transcends the former three levels. These levels can function in harmony only

when we are fully conscious. Osho has devised a wonderful method of talking to

one's body and mind and making them both listen.

 

We have to establish a relationship with them and it works. Osho developed this

revolutionary technique in 1989, just two months before he left his body. It

started as an experiment with his own body, when his shoulder was giving him a

great deal of pain. According to notes taken by his secretary at the time, Osho

told his shoulder to 'drop the pain' and it did-literally!-as the pain dropped

from the shoulder first into the arm and then the leg.

 

But he kept on experimenting and invited others to do the same. Over the next

few days and weeks, a new meditative therapy was born: 'Reminding Yourself of

the Forgotten Language of Talking to the Body and Mind'. One can do a

talking-tobody meditation by channelising one's consciousness in each part of

one's body and feeling it from within. Slowly, we are able to communicate with

it and it starts responding. Then we can go to the deeper layers of our feelings

and thoughts and realise inner harmony between body, mind and soul. The first

step to total wellness and self-realisation begins with our body. In Zen

Buddism, they say: " This Very Body, the Buddha! "

 

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