Why and How Your Body Helps You to Free Yourself from Your Programs
Your body is your best buddy
In my article “Why and How You Have Much More Influence on Your Body Than You Think,” I describe why and how you are the supreme commander of your 35 trillion body cells. You command them with your mindset. This comprises more than just thoughts and feelings. Below, I'll explain an aspect that, while challenging, makes your body your best buddy.
You command your cells with your mindset ... that is with what you know. For details, see my article “How Your Thoughts Affect Matter.”
This begs the question: What do you know? You know what you think and what you feel … and you know your life history. Your life history is all you have ever experienced or known in your life. You can willfully recall some of it at will. But most of it you cannot willfully recall. The former is your conscious knowledge, the latter is your unconscious knowledge.
Your cells do not differentiate between these two types of knowledge. They execute both as commands. Therefore, you are both a conscious and an unconscious commander. Another word for the latter is autopilot. The unconscious commander in you gives orders you are not aware of. And that’s the crux of the matter.
Imagine you are sitting in a car driving along a road. The conscious pilot steps on the gas while the unconscious pilot stands on the brakes. The conscious pilot wonders why the car doesn’t speed up properly and steps on the gas even more. After a while, smoke develops, and a pungent stench spreads. Soon after, a fire breaks out. You stop the car, put out the fire, and call roadside assistance. They take you and your car to the nearest garage. The mechanic says that something was wrong with the brake system and you need a new one.
Somethint like this can happen to your body, because you are both a conscious and an unconscious commander of your cells.
How big is the unconscious part? It is huge. 2,300 years ago, the Greek philosopher Aristotle said:
“95% of everything you do is the result of habit.”
(Aristotle)
Habits are programs. Aristotle realized people are 95% controlled by their programs. So the ancient Greeks were 95% on autopilot. But back then there was no television and no internet, no cell phones, newspapers, or books. Today, these media program us almost permanently. That’s why we modern people are much more on autopilot than the ancient Greeks were. To give you a number: For most people, it’s 99.99%; for a few, perhaps only 99%. I justify these numbers in my article “Why the Question ‘What Am I' is Important and Magical?”
This insight puts in perspective that you are the commander of your 35 trillion body cells. You are the commander, but you are a conscious commander only to a tiny extent.
There is only one sensible solution: you must become a fully conscious commander. To do this, you must transform your unconscious knowlegde, ie your programs, into conscious knowledge. You do this by becoming the master of your programs.
How do you do that? Listen to your cells. They know your programs because they know all you know, both your conscious and unconscious knowledge. And they actually talk to you about it all the time. They do what good employees in a company do: they listen to your commands, carry them out, and report back the results. It’s the same with your body: your cells listen to your knowing; they execute it as a command, even overwriting biological programs. This creates your body state. So you hear from your cells by experiencing the state of your body. It’s as simple as that!
Unfortunately, however, we have become experts at not listening to our bodies – and therefore our cells. This happens when we try not to feel or eliminate unpleasant body conditions. We have created industries for this, from personal care to medicine to entertainment. Many personal care products mask external symptoms such as blemished skin and unpleasant odors. Many medical products suppress symptoms. The entertainment industry distracts us.
To become a fully conscious commander of your cells, you must listen to your body, learn its language, take what it says seriously, and then act accordingly.
I’ve been doing this full time since 2014. I’m not finished yet, but I am now a much more conscious commander of my body cells than I was ten years ago. In my experience, this is a very rewarding mental work. In my article “How to Become What You Truly Are in 7 Steps” and in my book “Being Free – Get Out of the Box” I describe how I did it, summarized as a method.
Do you now understand why your body is your best buddy? It talks to you all the time and gives you the most valuable feedback you could ever wish for. More valuable than anything any person, even the greatest guru, could do for you.
Further reading:
Article “How Your Thoughts Affect Matter”
Article “Why and How You Have Much More Influence on Your Body Than You Think”
Article “Why the Question ‘What Am I' is Important and Magical?”
Article “How to Become What You Truly Are in 7 Steps”
Book “Being Free – Get Out of the Box”