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Discover
the Missing Link Between
the Body and the Mind
From Awaken
to Superconsciousness, by Swami Kriyananda
The "missing
link" between mind and body, between an idea and it fulfillment,
and between aspiration and success is in every case the same thing:
energy.
Try this
simple experiment:
Raise
your right arm. See? All you need do is mentally tell it to rise,
and it rises.
Now then, try something else. Tell your arm to rise, but don't send
any energy to make it do so. What happens? It hasn't moved, has
it?
Try something else: Send energy to the arm, but don't tell the arm
to rise. Again, you see? No movement.
We all know
that the mind acts upon the body. Medical science accepts that it
can sometimes heal the body, too. Happiness has been known to cure.
Depression has been known to make people ill.
What is not
generally known is the way the mind acts on the body. Moving a limb
is so commonplace an act that people take it for granted. What makes
it obey our commands? We don't even bother to ask.
Yet nothing
purposeful occurs on its own. There is a missing link here. Why
can I tell my arm to rise, and expect it to obey, whereas if I tell
a cup on my kitchen table to rise, it won't? It isn't only that
my nervous system connects the brain to the arm. It's that I can
send energy through the nerves to the arm with my command that it
rise.
The mind cannot act directly upon the body. It must act through
the medium of energy. The will first acts upon the energy. The energy
then acts upon the body.
Next: Become
Aware of the Energy
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