All wisdom traditions refer to the Human experience in terms of a composite made up of five bodies. Modern science also speaks of the existence of all matter by virtue of its vibratory nature. A change in one body is understood to affect all others. Healing must occur in all parts of the body for it to last.
These 5 bodies include:
- The food we eat supports the physical body.
- The etheric or energy body is about 6 cm from the physical and is attached to the body through a multitude of meridians. It also has acupuncture points. Many people now refer to their energy body as the etheric body. This etheric body is the vehicle through which an emotion or thought can affect our physicality.
- The astral body is another name for the emotional body. Changes in our emotions affect the hormonal glands, which then cause changes in the physical body. No emotion can occur without a change in the physical body, and most physical changes are also emotional changes.
- The mental body or causal body is where thoughts are born and die. The ego is located at the outermost part of the mental or causal body. It identifies the individual mind-body as a separate entity. All thoughts and feelings revolve around the idea of me, mine, and I.
- The Spirit realm contains information about the perfect functioning of the physical, etheric, and emotional bodies. This Spirit realm is the reason we can perform a million different bodily functions to a high degree of perfection. In a way, Spirit is the software that runs the hardware of the body.
Why are we telling you about this, as a firm that appears to be “scientific”, and dedicated to evidence-based medicine? We tell you this because we know from both our wisdom traditions as well as modern scientific data, that healing must take place on all of these planes in order to be permanent. Often, a small change in the emotional or mental body is enough. This could be the change in forgiveness or acceptance which brings peace to our emotional and mental realms and resolves an issue that has been lingering for years.
These bodies are all part of our daily experience, and they can be seen in meditation. Visit today to meditate.
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