Healing and Recovery by David R. Hawkins M.d. Ph.d

Author:David R. Hawkins, M.d., Ph.d. [David R. Hawkins, M.d., Ph.d.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Self-Help, Motivational & Inspirational
ISBN: 9781401944995
Google: 1V_6DwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
Published: 2015-07-13T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 9

Worry, Fear, and Anxiety

As discussed previously, holistic health uses the phrase “body, mind, and spirit” frequently, so it will be helpful to understand more about it. What does it really mean? Is it just a catch phrase or a slogan? Is ‘spirit’ a metaphysical abstraction or a religious dictum? Is it a fantasy of people who are not very well connected with the real world? Defining this relationship again will help us to speed up our work through greater understanding.

Again, we want to review how human experience comes about and also look within ourselves to see where this phenomenon actually occurs. In looking at the relationship of body, mind, and spirit from the viewpoint of experience, some things may sound somewhat startling, such as the fact that the body cannot experience itself. That may be a surprising thought because all of us tend to think of ourselves as being the body and to think, “I am the body.” However, this is not true because the body is unable to experience itself. For example, my left arm cannot experience its own left armness. There are sensations coming from the body, but I am not experiencing the body. Instead, I am experiencing the sensations of the body, but curiously enough, they cannot experience themselves either. The sensations coming from the arm have to be experienced somewhere, however, which is in the mind.

If we have an incision in the brain that deletes part of the operating mind, or at least the way it operates on the physical plane, we fail to experience the opposite side of the body. This is very common after a stroke where the patient is unable to experience in mind even the existence of a portion of their body. Thus, the body cannot be experienced without the sensation, and the sensation can only be experienced in mind. Interestingly, the mind cannot experience itself. A thought cannot experience its own thoughtness, a memory cannot experience its own memoryness, and a fantasy cannot experience its own fantasyness. That which goes on in mind actually has to be experienced in an energy field that is greater than mind itself, which is called ‘consciousness’.

Consciousness enables one to be aware of what goes on within mind and is the basic reason for anesthesia. With anesthesia, consciousness is deleted, which results in there being no awareness of what is going on in mind. With no consciousness, there is no awareness of mind or body; with no mind, there is no awareness of sensations or the body. Consequently, we will notice by watching ourself throughout the day that all of our experiences are being experienced in a more general way than realized and in a more general field of experience that is almost diffuse. It is almost as though it is everywhere in space, and this is within consciousness itself.

It is an interesting experiment to find out where we think we really experience a thought. Most people think it is in their heads, but that is the thought about a thought.

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