intelligent
body


Our body is constantly changing, it is constantly exchanging energy and information with the universe. The body makes a new stomach lining every 5 days, a new skin once every month, a new liver every 6 weeks and a new skeleton every 3 months. The body replaces 98% of all its atoms in less than 1 year. Even our DNA wasn’t the same 6 weeks ago.

Our thoughts, feelings and emotions become the molecules of the body. I know that how I speak to myself actually causes things to change in my physiology, in my world.

Stomach cells, heart cells, and other cells generate the same chemicals that the brain makes when it thinks. So we have a thinking body.

When we’re feeling tranquil, our body is making a tranquiliser. When we’re feeling anxious, our body is making jittery molecules, and they’re not just made in the adrenals; they’re made everywhere in the body. When we’re feeling exhilarated, our body is making immunomodulators that act as powerful anti-cancer drugs.

The immune system is a circulating nervous system; it’s intelligent and it’s moving around the body. It knows our every thought, feeling or desire, it’s actually eavesdropping on our internal dialogue. When we’re thinking, dreaming or just having the vaguest impulse of intelligence in our awareness, the immune cells are listening and making the same chemicals the brain makes when it thinks. The immune cells are conscious little beings with their own notions, their own intelligence, their own emotions.

Anything that happens in the body is a faint desire, and the less you worry about the mechanics of it, the more efficient it is. The body knows what to do, all that is required is attention and non-interference. The moment you start worrying about the mechanics of it, it loses its efficiency and interferes with the flow of innate intelligence.

No matter what the desire, we don’t want to interfere with it. To interfere means to produce an unwanted result, and the way we interfere with the manifestation of desire is by trying too hard, by using too much effort. We interfere when we doubt, when we listen to others’ opinions, when we get lost in our own attachment to the result, instead of just being and having the notion, the desire.

To use the power of our desires effectively, we have to relinquish our attachment to the outcome. Attachment is a form of fear, doubt, and worry, and this constricts the flow of nature’s intelligence. When we have desire, we know what our intention is, and we just let go, trusting. There’s no concern about the outcome; we just release our desire from our heart, and let it flow through us.

Excerpt from Dr. Deepak Chopra's book
POWER, FREEDOM and GRACE




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