how is your self connected to your body?
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You are certainly connected to your body through a mind, heart, spirit, emotions, and other connecting ligaments. These body components are connected with each in order to function well. Every feeling that you have inside translates and reflects in your actions.
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You are certainly connected to your body through a mind, heart, spirit, emotions, and other connecting ligaments. These body components are connected with each in order to function well. Every feeling that you have inside translates and reflects in your actions.
All mental events take place in the brain and the brain is very much a part of the body. However, cognitively, the mental operation known as the self has very little sense of the body it operates in, unless of course there is some sensation that is strong enough to attract the attention, such as pain or discomfort. And then, the relationship is usually one with a bit of resentment at the body for causing the attention to be attracted out of the cozy thought stream and into the body part where the pain is.
There is another way for the attention to be attracted to the body other than pain or sensual pleasures. It entails the deliberate act of focusing the attention on the sensation of the entire mass and energy content of the physical body. It’s an extraordinary experience. Perhaps not everyone will want to experience it but the possibility for that experience is always there which provides a tenuous and sporadic relationship between the attention and the body.
Regarding the mental operation broadly referred to as the self, it is a multiplicity. There are two fundamental “selves” or navigators. There is the navigator of the physical terrain and the navigator of the social terrain. The social navigator is composed of a surprising number of mini-selves, each one adapted to every social situation. We have a self for our bosses, our colleagues, our underlings, our spouses, children, other peoples’ children, friends, acquaintances, strangers, neighbors, pets, the list is quite long and we all have a self for each one of those situations. These selves do not know each other and do not need to know each other; in fact they would interfere with each other so they are kept apart, unless one or another self acts badly and makes a mess that other selves then have to clean up. Normally, they are best off in ignorance of each other. You can regard your many selves like the horses on a merry-go-round, and with some practice, watch them go around and around and around.
There is only one attention, and each self takes turns at the helm, commanding the attention for its particular needs. None of those social navigator selves have a very good relation with the body. For that to develop, it is necessary to create a self for that very purpose, a self interested in directing your body’s attention.