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Exploring the Subtle Body

According to Adi Shankara 9th century’s sage known as one of the most influential teachers in Yoga and Vedanta, we are multidimensional beings and our experience as humans takes place in three interconnected fields that he called Physical body, Subtle body and Causal Body. Each of these three primary divisions have also three secondary levels that he called Koshas, word in Sanskrit that means layers. So life is a multilayered spectrum from the most abstract to the grossest expression according to Vedanta Philosophy. We can called these three primary divisions as Body, Mind and Soul and in today’s meditation we are going to focus our attention in our mind or Subtle Body. Shankara called the three layers that conform our Subtle Body as Mind, Intellect and Ego or in Sanskrit Manomaya Kosha, Budimaya Kosha and Ahankara. MIND, INTELLECT and EGO. The mind is the repository field in which we stored all what we have sensed, the intellect is the area of our subtle body that takes decisions upon our education and beliefs and the ego is this self-image that we want to show to the world and to ourselves. Then is very easy to get lost in our Subtle Body as our mind is having different perceptions and our Intellect is taking decisions while our ego has to convey during the entire experiencing process. One of the Myths of Meditation is that it should shut down our thoughts. Actually understanding the movement of our mind is one of the greatest experiences you can have while meditating. It is not shutting down our thoughts but to observe this back and forth movement from activity to stillness. The primary benefit that this bring into our life is to get light to the intricate passages of our mind while understanding our inner self. We have very repetitive thoughts. In any of our days we go into the same thoughts over and over developing this behavior that overtime becomes overwhelming. Can we change the way we think? Yes we can if we become aware of our thinking process. This is not familiar for us mainly because we do not talk neither share our thoughts, and the processes of our mind. Somehow it became taboo in our families and culture as we deeply fear our mind. The great Meditation teacher David Simon, have described meditation as a bath for your mind. I found this the perfect meditation picture. As we deep into the practice, our constrictions slow down, the amount of thoughts decrease and our mind moves into a calming soothing place.

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