What if the human body is an independent being in and of itself?
As in it is separate from us, from our consciousness.
Like a horse and rider
Our bodies are our horse.
Just more closely interwoven
And when not provided adequate necessities, our bodies, and subsequently we, experience discomforts, disease.
Because we are in control of the body, we decide how we eat, sleep, live, think, act - we can get out of balance.
And the body can fall into a constant state of discomfort, or chronic anxiety.
So then we diagnose ourselves with having anxiety, and the myriad of downstream pathologies of mind and body which we strive to comfort in vain.
When in fact it is our horse, our vehicle, which is stressed.
And by simply giving it the necessities it needs as well as reducing negative influencers on it we may calm our vessels and in turn experience a calmer state of being.
When our bodies are in a constant state of anxiety, the nervous system seems hyperactive, as if it's hyper-aware. Likely to identify further potential threats for self preservation.
Everything is too much and we(our bodies that our consciousness identifies with) become irritable.
I'm finding by being still, closing my eyes, relaxing all of me, letting my thoughts float by, and most importantly allow my natural unemployed breaths to recommence and drive my breathing while appreciating the primal ability to breathe at all, that I gradually begin to feel calmer, lighter, more relaxed, and with small bursts of enthusiasm for life and inspiration for ideas.
I will continue experimenting with this concept and with what I for simplicity's sake refer to as Ease Breathing.
My body is a sentient vehicle that I command. I calm it by relaxing and breathing naturally. And it will re-calibrate to its optimal setting.
Setting fire to my mind with joyful imagination and my heart with loving appreciation.
CASE STUDY:
A dear friend's mushroom experience:
At the peak of her trip, she went to the bathtub, laid there, looked down at her body, felt remorse and wept for taking her body for granted. For not loving her body as it is. For not appreciating it for all that it had done for her. Like she abandoned it.
Implication:
Supported by the organic experience and not predetermining the trip with any discourse about the body, thus furthering the hypothesis that the body is its own being.
