CONFIDENCE IN COMMUNICATION - Part XII

Disuse of parts and functions of your body is the root of disorder and the parent of aging. Find use for your body and its brain, and do not be content to let them lie idle, doing the minimum required to maintain yourself as a respectable, average specimen of humanity, predetermined to retire at fifty and die shortly thereafter.

A Japa mala - GourangaUK, CC BY-SA 2.5

If Japa is good, the Bhavajapa is the best. When you utter a mantram and call on a God-head, you are supposed to, but you often forget to let your body express the corresponding emotion of joy, etc., in your eagerness to complete the set number of utterances. It is more direct to remember to express the joy or peace denoted by the Mantra as often as one can.

 Bhavasamhita, Trivandrum - Harikrishnanuk, Wikimedia Commons

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YOU ARE NOT A RIGID BODY

(1) A thing you see- e.g. a tree-is split into different wave lengths and enters you-eyes, ears, skin, tongue, etc.
(2) Then, entering the brain it is further splitting- the visual impulses go to the back of the head & the hearing to the side of the head, touch to the top of the head, smell to the base of the head and so on.
So what is so solid about the tree? A dog sees differently.
(3) Then the way they combine in the brain is dominated by the glue of habit.
Otherwise there is no connection between different parts of your own body let alone the tree.
In disease or injury or influence of drugs you may be convinced your arm is in another room or you have limbs when you have none.
E.g. phantom limb.
IMAGINATION IS THE BASIS OF ALL PERCEPTION & ACTION