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Body-Being and Mind

I'm noticing something in the domain of the qualities that arise as a result of aligning with the principle or quality of Cheng Hsin when it comes to being a body.

And that is that the quality or misalignment of our bodies can be traced to the "qualities" that influence or shape our "holding" of it day to day.

Simply engaging in activities that "stress" or challenge this body-mind, such as free-flowing, or intense activities, "bring it out" or to the fore, but they are not simply and only brought about by such activities in many cases.

Only revealed.

Yet when we pay close attention, it seems in regular, non-challenging activities such as walking or sitting, the SAME predicament arises.

We are tense.

In some areas more than others.

Why is this?

Body appears not only as a "purely physical" event. It appears as "psycho-physical," as in our MINDS are responsible for much of (if not all of) this physical tension.

That's useful to look at.

I want to drop a quote from The Principles of Effortless Power under the section detailing Calm

"What we do with our minds is very important, so we must study this activity. Being, or Consciousness, controls the body. It also controls thoughts, emotions, and the energy of the body. However, most of us are controlled by and identified with mind, and so mind influences and appears to control everything we do."

Another quote, a bit deeper in says

"Every other principle and all that you do starts here. If you want to relax, this is how you do it. Do you want to move this, turn from here, sink that, feel this? You must direct these things. This is the beginning of “mind-power.” Every single thing that you do arises from Consciousness and is done via the “force of being alive” — what we might call "life force" — and so it is with mind."

Anyway, just wanted to share that.

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