{"id":210,"date":"2013-02-04T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2013-02-04T14:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/?p=210"},"modified":"2020-04-22T02:13:57","modified_gmt":"2020-04-22T07:13:57","slug":"ageless-body-timeless-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidtao.com\/?p=210","title":{"rendered":"Ageless Body, Timeless Mind by Deepak Chopra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u00fc\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Your body is aging beyond control because it has been programmed
\n to live out the rules of that collective conditioning.<\/p>\n

10 Inherited Assumptions about Who You Are & What the True Nature of the
\n Mind & Body Is<\/h3>\n
    \n
  1. There is an objective world independent of the observer,
    \n and our bodies are aspect of this objective world<\/li>\n
  2. The body is composed of atoms (?) of matter, separated
    \n from each other in timely space<\/li>\n
  3. Mind & body are separate, and independent of each
    \n other.<\/li>\n
  4. Materialism is primary; consciousness is secondary. In
    \n other words, we are physical machines to have learned to think.<\/li>\n
  5. Human awareness can be completely expanded product of
    \n biochemistry.<\/li>\n
  6. As individuals, we are all disconnect, self-contained
    \n entities.<\/li>\n
  7. Our perception of the world is automatic, can give us an
    \n accurate picture of how things really are.<\/li>\n
  8. Our true nature is totally defined by the body, ego and
    \n personality. We are wisps of memories and desires enclosed in packages of
    \n flesh and bones.<\/li>\n
  9. Time exists as an absolute. We are captives of that
    \n absolute. No one escapes that ravages of time.<\/li>\n
  10. Suffering is necessary. It is a part of our reality. We
    \n are inevitable victims of sickness, aging and death.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    \u00fc\u00a0 <\/span><\/span>Human aging is critically different from animal aging.<\/p>\n

    10 New Assumptions<\/h2>\n
      \n
    1. The physical world including our bodies is a response of
      \n the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our
      \n world.\n
        \n
      • Cf. chair<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
      • In their essential state, our bodies are composed of
        \n energy and information, not solid matter. This energy & information is
        \n an outcropping of infinite fields of energy & information spanning the
        \n Universe.\n
          \n
        • Entropy doesn\u2019t apply to intelligence<\/li>\n
        • Prana: flow of intelligence (life force)<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
        • The mind and the body are inseparably one. The unity that
          \n is me, separates into two streams of experience, thoughts & desires,
          \n & the experience of the body. It\u2019s in the union of the two that we are
          \n all meant to live.\n
            \n
          • The decline of vigor in old age is largely the result of
            \n the people expecting to decline.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
          • The biochemistry of the body is a product of awareness.
            \n Beliefs, thoughts, and emotions create the chemical reactions upholding
            \n life in every cell, and aging cell is the end product of awareness that has
            \n forgotten how to remain you.\n
              \n
            • You\u2019re only as old as you think you are.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
            • Perception appears to be automatic, but in fact, it\u2019s a
              \n learned phenomenon. If you change your perception, you change the
              \n experience of your body & of your world.\n
                \n
              • Aging process has to be countered everyday.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
              • Impulses of intelligence constantly create your body in
                \n new forms every second. What you are is the sum total of theses impulses,
                \n and by changing the patterns, you\u2019ll change.<\/li>\n
              • Although each person seems separate and independent, all
                \n of us are connected with patterns of intelligence that govern the whole cosmos.
                \n Our bodies are a part of universe body; our minds and aspect of a universal
                \n mind.\n
                  \n
                • What makes us old isn\u2019t stress so much as the perception
                  \n of stress. Someone who doesn\u2019t see the world out there as a threat can
                  \n co-exist with the environment free of the damage created by the stress response.<\/li>\n
                • The most important thing to experience the world without
                  \n aging is to nurture the knowledge that the world is you.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
                • Time does not exist as an absolute, only eternity. What we
                  \n call linear time is a reflection of how we perceive change. If you could
                  \n perceive the changeless, time would cease to exist as we know it. We can
                  \n learn to start metabolizing non-change, eternity, the absolute. By doing
                  \n that, we\u2019ll be ready to create the physiology of immortality.\n
                    \n
                  • Choose time of day when you
                    \n feel relaxed and unpressured. Sit quietly and place your watch nearby.
                    \n Close your eyes. Be aware of your breathing. Imagine your whole body
                    \n rising and falling with the flow of each breath. After a minute or two,
                    \n when you feel settled and quite inside, peek at the second of your watch.<\/span> \u2192 Time is a product of perception. Only time there is the one you\u2019re
                    \n aware of.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n
                  • Each of us inhabits reality lying beyond all change. Deep
                    \n inside us, unknown to the 5 senses, is an innermost core of being, a field
                    \n of non-change that creates personality, ego and body. This being is our
                    \n essential state. It is who we really are.<\/li>\n
                  • We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are
                    \n a part of the scenery, not the seer who is immune to any form of change.
                    \n This seer is spirit, the expression of eternal being.\n
                      \n
                    • If you want to change your body, change your awareness
                      \n first.<\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                      Exercise 1 \u2013 Seeing Through the Mask of Matter<\/h2>\n
                        \n
                      1. Look at your hand and examine it closely.<\/li>\n
                      2. Holing the image of your hand in your mind\u2019s eye, imagine
                        \n that you\u2019re examining it through a high-powered microscope.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                        Lessons<\/h3>\n
                          \n
                        1. 3-D body, reported by the 5 senses, is a mirage.<\/li>\n
                        2. Every solid particle of matter is composed of more than
                          \n 99.999% empty space.<\/li>\n
                        3. The void between 2 electrons is proportionally as large
                          \n and empty as the space between two galaxies.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                          Exercise 2 \u2013 Closing the Gap<\/h2>\n
                            \n
                          1. Imagine two candles on a table in front of you.<\/li>\n
                          2. Carry one candle outside at night, and hold it up against
                            \n back against the background of stars.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

                            Lessons<\/h3>\n

                            1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>No
                            \n matter how separate anything appears to the senses, nothing is separate at the
                            \n quantum level.<\/p>\n

                            2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The
                            \n quantum field exists in, around, & through you. The field is your extended
                            \n body.<\/p>\n

                            3)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Each
                            \n of your cells is a local concentration of information and energy inside the
                            \n wholeness of information and energy of your body. Likewise, you are a local
                            \n concentration of information and energy in the wholeness which is the body of
                            \n the Universe.<\/p>\n

                            Exercise 3 \u2013 Breathing the Field<\/h2>\n

                            Sit comfortably in a chair with your eyes closed. Gently and
                            \n slowly, inhale through your nostrils, imaging that you\u2019re drawing the air from
                            \n a point infinitely far away. Now, slowly and easily exhale, sending every atom
                            \n of air back to its source infinitely far away. Feel each breath coming to you from
                            \n quantum field.<\/p>\n

                            Exercise 4 \u2013 Redefining<\/h2>\n

                            Repeat the following statements silently to yourself: \u201cI can use the power of my awareness to experience
                            \n the body that is flowing instead of solid, flexible instead of rigid, quantum
                            \n instead of material, dynamic instead of static, composed of energy and
                            \n information instead of random chemical reactions, in network of intelligence
                            \n instead of the mindless machine, fresh and ever-renewing instead of entropic
                            \n and aging, and timeless instead of time-bound.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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