It is what it is….

So much of what we think is packaged.  Free running thought is sometimes enjoyable, sometimes frustrating; all in all, it is what it is: “unbridled”. 

While the rippling enthusiasm of a young colt bounding and kicking, sprinting and zig zagging in a summer-lush field is sport to watch, it is only what it is… unbridled.  The colt’s purpose, though it has no knowledge of this, is to develop muscle and reactions that will serve in a contest for a mate or in a flight for survival.  The colt’s joyful actions are taken in service of an — though unconscious — anticipated need for reaction.

We are like that.  We have body, mind, and spirit too.  All of which from time to time have enthusiastic flexing, movement, and joy.  No real reason at the time, but reason enough in design.  The mind needs to be quick, as well the body in times of need.  In times of reaction.  The spirit is sometimes assuaged as well.  It has to have depth and stolid consistency to deal with times of hardship, and to have the resiliancy to withstand the tests then flourish once again in times of joy. 

Packaged thought is disconnected yet necessary.  I have to do this NOW. Whatever that is — groceries, pick up the kids, go skating… whatever it is, that is what it is at the time.  The art of living comes in drawing connections, or is it in managing connections, between one time an the next.  The art of living is in connecting, relating, pulling the experience of the past into the fore when needed, laterally drawing like experiences together when needed…. connecting the packages.  Bridling the unbridled for the purpose of being free.

The discipline of living free.  A paradox.  An oxymoron.  Discipline — free.  Juxtaposed… or not.  Freedom does have a ‘price’ we might have heard.  It does have a cost in action, for sure.  But energy is abounding, so where to put our energy except into actions that free us?  There’s no other reasonable answer.  Put energy into bondage?! Not a good answer.  The packages of thought, the boundaries of the moment are put to service in the well led life.  They are moments to be consumed, as they are because they are what they are.  There is not another moment to supplant the one you are in, so live it and be it and do what it is that moment demands, or wants, or requests, or needs.  That package is the present.  The one you open only now, and now, and now again.  The precious ‘present’ that we are given to live and connect and to find freedom within.

Unbridled, bridled.  It is what it is.

When GOOD turns to Dissapointment

“How We Too Often Make Our Good Feelings Turn Into Dissapointment”

It is really easy to do and we so often do it without even noticing.  Follow this and see if you are one of these people, even some of the time.

So, you get a good feeling, maybe a gut instinct and you feel like something good is around you or going to happen to you.  That’s a nice feeling! 

What do you — we — often do?!  We LOOK for confirmation.  We buy a lottery ticket, start dreaming of what would happen if….  We imagine that NOW is the time our ship will come in etc. etc.  Guess what?  When those things don’t happen, we get dissapointed, we even get depressd: “how come other people have this or that and I don’t…?”  “How come I didn’t win this or gain that?” 

Of course, the next thing that happens is… well, the good feelings are gone and we have served only to prove the good feelings false.  Not a great reinforcing cycle.

WHAT TO DO?!

As the Beatles said, “let it be”.  If you feel good or feel the presence of good, let it be!  If you do that, and DON’T look for anything the feeling lasts a long long time. 

My oldest daughter said to me at dinner tonight, after I was informing her about some writing I have been doing lately, “Dad, sometimes we weren’t meant to look too hard for things; sometimes we just have to let go and let things happen.”  She is right.  We then had a good talk about what I have just written for you to read.  We had a laugh and then agreed: “Let it be, and good things last so much longer… maybe your whole life long…”

Namaste

A daily task and a simple list

A Daily Task

In the paradigm of Inner Management, after beliefs are formed thought and feeling are the dynamic duo.  This is why the action of building images with deeply associated feelings is so important.  Using this knowledge you have a small task to complete daily: from now on, if you feel bad, notice.  Check your thoughts.  Let negative go, detach from it, and let good flourish.  If you feel good, notice.  Check your thoughts or your deep state of awareness.  Let feeling good prosper as your natural expression, as the good states of being provide nourishment to the body, the minds and to life-force.  Feel the power of the minds, as every thought has a response in the body, and every feeling has an associated thought.  Align and reinforce good thought with good feeling.  Remember this too: the higher the vibrating frequency of any given thing in our universe, the closer it is to the vibration of light.  Light vanquishes all darkness, as you know.  The thoughts and feelings you want, the one’s that feel best, are of the best quality and are also closer in vibration to light.  Love and gratitude are the strongest and most positive of feelings and thought.  Feel them often as they never wear or fade – except through lack of use.

A Simple List

It is time now to make a short list of the positive emotions and feelings you enjoy most as well as the simplest, most natural and direct routes you have of achieving them through choice and action.  This is a simple list, not an elaborate one.  Using Action Tool #4, list and develop ways of tuning in to positive emotions and feeling – as much as possible without the use of ego.  List simple activities you have done in the past and can do now that bring you towards the expression of light and towards harmony.  Make this list uncomplicated, short and sweet.  Ask, what are the simplest activities you can enjoy that bring forth positive emotions?  How about talking to a positive friend, enjoying a sit in the sun, gardening, writing, a silent cup of tea, running, cooking a healthy meal…; do any of these resonate with you? Write out a short list of simple and wholesome activities that bring forth in you the natural positive emotions and feelings you enjoy most.  Undertake one or more of these activities every day, if only for a few moments.  Bring this quality of being to your life, as you deserve and were intended for the full and natural expression of life – and a quality life has an authentic simplicity at the core.  There is so much joy around us when we are able to find it.  Find yours in the simple things on your simple list; then share your joy with others.

Natural Being

Natural Being

Consciously directed thought is important to this system, because what you put forward into the universe in thought and action will develop and find resonance.  Consciously directed thought is a tool that you are learning to harness and benefit from, but it is not all there is to our state.  There is a deeper state that is not part of conscious thought, and it is most certainly not part of ego.  It is your state of Natural Being that has been alluded to throughout this system.   This state is our natural and most restful and regenerative state and it is in natural resonance with affluence as it is of the generative life-force of the universe.  It is powerful and enjoyable, and you are ready to find this state in your life more often.

If you have ever worked out too hard, you know the debilitating feeling of having sore muscles.  If you have ever watched a marathon race, you have likely seen those terribly fatigued souls who have pushed so very hard for so very long that they are near exhaustion, their legs wobbling beneath them as they cross the finish line.  Everyone knows that they are going to be so sore the next day!  Muscles are made to be flexed and built, but they need rest to do so healthily.  There is a cycle of stressing work then appropriate rest and nutrition before doing it again when building muscle.  This is the cycle athletes use to train and build their bodies.  The amazing thing is that it is no different for our brains, yet in most people the consciousness and particularly the ego part of consciousness is turned up full blast, rallying at full tilt, all the time.  There really is little quality rest for the brain in the lives of many.  Without quality rest in our muscles, there is breakdown.  Is it any different for our brains?  Why do so many not know the simplest ways to rest?  How has the great collective of humanity seemed to lose these important skills?  I honestly don’t know, but I do know that there are simple ways to take appropriate rest that will allow the brain to gain a nourishing respite and thereby grow in a healthy and balanced manner. 

The healthy and balanced way to establish a rested brain is found in the state of Natural Being.  In this state the conscious mind is stilled, and the brain and the Whole Self are able to get true and vitalizing rest.  It takes only moments spent in this precious state to gain potent benefits.

Natural Being is that state where there is no thought.  No thought at all.  It is the presence of simply being and it peaks ever so slightly and ever so gently over the edge of consciousness but goes no further.  This is what is represented by the circle and small ellipse rising from the top of the circle in the Whole Self diagram at the end of chapter four.  The state of simply ‘being’ can happen for a brief moment or for an enjoyable length of time, and the conditions of health and happiness are most affected by this state, as at our source in our natural state of being we are healthy and we are abundantly happy.  The wonderful thing is that everyone can achieve this state enough daily to improve the condition of life; obviously, it is worth learning how. 

Here are a few exercises to help you find this state, and when you get to know how it feels you will find it more often, through your own means.  You will discover that it is amazingly liberating to engage these simple tasks with some frequency; they will help you to immediately and naturally increase health and happiness in your life.  This collection of activities constitutes Action Tool #3: (i) now and then focus on your breath.  Breathe deeply and focus on inhalation and exhalation for only a moment or two when you are waiting for something or someone, or have a spare minute.  That is all.  Focus on breath and let all thought go away.  You will gain precious moments of being; (ii) watch thoughts as an observer.  Let them go.  Find them interesting but do not attach to them.  Remove your ‘attach to’ side of the Velcro equation and let thoughts float in and out of your consciousness; (iii) lean back and look up.  Don’t do this when driving. J  When you have an appropriate moment and you are sitting down, lean slightly back in your chair, pull your shoulders back, breath easily, close your eyes, and look up into your forehead.  You won’t see anything, but you will momentarily stop conscious thought and achieve a positive state.  Do so for a moment or two.  These techniques take only moments, but they are precious moments; (iv) still yourself and feel the energy in your body.  This is an extremely invigorating exercise.   Slow everything down and focus thought first on your hands, then your legs, then your arms, and the core of your body.  Each time you focus, feel the vibration of energy in your being.  When you get this right, you will be amazed by the resonant power flowing through your body; (v) react to and peacefully engage anything at all that you find positive in your present moment.  If someone looks pleasant, pleasantly say hello with a positive intention – if they do not say hello back or notice your efforts it is of no matter as your intention is purely resonant and purely directed.  If you see a beautiful scene before you, notice it and bring it fully into your minds and your state of being.  Take the time to notice, engage, and foster positive in your life; (vi) when negativity comes your way, say “really?” or “is that so?” inside your head.  Do not attach, simply observe.  Be the contented bubble of you in a sea of bubbles. You can act and do what you need to do in all moments, but you do not need to attach to the thoughts and conditions and experiences of those moments. They just are what they are and nothing else.  Learn to see that all experience is only what it is and nothing else – there is nothing additional to anything except what you add to it in reactive thought.  So, don’t react in any way except those ways that benefit your survival and ultimately your affluent state of being; (vii) do not play shave and a haircut with anyone.  Do you know this?  Tum tum ta tum tum… tum tum.  The old shave and a hair cut rhythm is one where the “tum tum ta tum tum” stimulus is put forth by one person, a space of time is achieved, and the other person answers with “tum tum.”  People do this all day with actions and reactions, guarding and maintaining ego.  Have you ever been baited or had your buttons pushed?  Don’t play anymore.  When you are simply being, you won’t want to play and you will be so contented that you will become able to notice the stimulus and then just be.  Very liberating; (viii) notice your thoughts, and if it they are not directed to positive and generative purposes, cease them.  Allow only constructive, positive and generative thought.  Allow the kind of thinking you use to plan and build and realize your desires, and when these thoughts have served their purpose, again cease thinking. 

Lean back in your chair, concentrate on breath….  Enjoy.

Anchor Your Own Abundance

Recall the tuning forks we looked at earlier.  We know that if one is struck and placed near another that has the same frequency, the second will begin to resonate with the first.  Stop the first, and the second will go on resonating.  Through the application of energy, the first tuning fork puts forth a vibration at a particular frequency.  The second fork, in its creation, was built to put forth or receive the same frequency as the first.  We see that the net effect the application of energy has is resonation, and as it is for the tuning forks it is for us.   We resonate with, give energy to, and get energy from the thoughts, conditions, and experiences that share the frequency of our own vibration.  

You get what you focus upon; you get what you are.  You have likely heard the great truth from Proverbs 23:7: “As a man thinks in his heart, so is he.”   It is of primary importance that we think deliberately in our hearts in order to deliberately achieve that which we desire. The work of deliberately seeking material for and creating specific and detailed thoughts and images that will become central to your state of resonance is step six of this system.  This step is concerned with action and will be accomplished through the second action tool as explained below.

You get what you focus upon; you get what you are.  It is now time to refine and strengthen your resonation with affluence.  Think of affluence as a set of goal posts in a great game of life.  Though the game of life and goal posts as goals, are overused metaphors, they have a brief purpose in this system because the metaphor demonstrates that you have to know where the goal posts are in order to play the game properly and to score the winning goal.  Though life is not a game and affluence is not a shot at the net, the metaphor has merit in the image it creates: you have to determine what affluence is to you and what it looks like in order to reach your goals and realize your desires.  You have put effort into this area already, and it is now time to refine and strengthen the work you have done. 

Ready?  Look at this series of questions and feel the quality answers that resonate with you; find the answers that make practical sense and bring a quality feeling to you.   The questions follow.  What is your vision of health?  What does your vision of wealth look like?  What makes you deeply happy?  These are broad, guiding questions you will use to form your focused resonance images.  The point here is that you are looking for images that resonate within you.  When I see my image of health for instance, I am just finishing a tough hike in the coastal forest and I am smiling, full of energy, and ready to vibrantly take on some quality work later in my day.  It’s a nice image and it feels good to go to that image when I think of health; there is a lot of meaning and feeling associated with a quality image, so let’s get you working on your special images that you will carry with you always.

You understand and believe in the power of resonant energy, and you know why it is important to become resonant and you have chosen to do so.  You have an understanding of consciousness and of the connection between the parts and of the Whole Self.  You are now ready for Action Tool #2: create definite and detailed, consciously directed and intensely focused images of your desired state of affluence and commit them to deep and feeling memory.  The images you are about to create have to be of the deepest and most feeling sort because saying you want affluence and providing a general idea is not enough; it’s too vague and you can only obtain a vague realization from a vague image.  The work is upon you now.  It is time to take up some paper and a pen and write at the top of three blank pages a heading on each: on the first, health; on the second, wealth; and on the third, happiness.  You are about to fill those pages.  Please don’t concentrate on being neat and tidy during this exercise; you are meant to gracefully enjoy the flow of creativity.  You can always do a good copy later if you need to!  J

When you begin, it will be important to create your images in the positive.  That is to say that if you want an image that is concerned with eradicating fear in your life, don’t focus on ‘no fear’ focus upon confidence and well-being or strength.  If you want to eradicate lack, don’t focus on ‘no lack,’ focus instead upon abundance.  The reason for this is that you must focus upon and resonate with what you want, not what you don’t want.  When you begin in a moment, you will be committing three types of information to the page: (i) drawings or doodling, or cuttings of pictures; (ii) writing in the form of image phrases and sentences; and, (iii) splashing and smatterings of single words related to the heading.  Each of these three categories is of course related to your presently desired, optimal state of health, then wealth, then happiness.  Again, the reason for doing this is to create focused, believable mental images with strongly associated feelings that you will carry about and focus upon in your daily internal environment.  These images will help you to create your state of resonance in every moment, and quickly right your state when you stray.  They will help you to liberate and generate energy from the alignment of the Whole Self. They will become the quality images you immediately associate with health and wealth and happiness each time you hear or utter these words.  So, this is pretty important.

Before you begin filling those pages, let us take a moment to look one more time at belief.  This is so critical.  You have to believe your images or you will create false and weak resonance, and your ensuing actions will not be of the necessary quality to attain your desires.  You must believe your images, but what does that mean to this exercise?  Well, in a practical sense it will not do to create an image of your health wherein you are the fastest person on earth as well as a professional power-lifter and champion jockey all in one; it will not do to imagine that next week you will be the richest person on earth; and it will not do to imagine that you will laugh and giggle and live in a constant state of hysterical delirium.  No, your images must be first and foremost believable.  Stretch to the outer edge of your current state of belief, but go no further.  As you begin to feel the power of this system, as likely you have already, you will be able to grow your images as it feels appropriate; you will be able to expand your definitions of health, wealth, and happiness as you develop greater belief in your abilities and your growth.  Take on that growth when you feel it authentically coming from within you, but for now ask yourself and answer: “What does my really wonderful state of increasing affluence look, sound, feel, taste, and smell like in the next six months?”  You will absolutely be able to come back to this exercise, and you will do so fluidly and frequently well before six months is over.  You can see, though, that a solid start with believable material is vital.  Success begets success, so start with a believable stretch.  You need not wonder how you will accomplish and obtain the conditions and experiences you image, but the answers are in the fact that (i) you will deeply resonate with your images thus creating the immediate benefits associated with powerful resonation, as outlined previously; (ii) in the next chapters you will establish important direction and learn to take effective action daily thus choreographing events that will open doors and smooth paths for you to realize these images; (iii) you will learn and engage further action tools to complement and develop what you have already learned; and, (iv) you will come upon serendipitous happenings, excellent intuition, energy to make change, positive states of motion, and much more that is excellent and well.  This is just the way it is!

There is no time like the present… in fact there is no other time than the present… so, please begin.  Find a quiet place, put on some soothing music, pour a cup of tea, calm down and cool out into those powerful Alpha waves… enjoy doodling, phrasing, and splashing words upon your pages.  When you are done in an hour or in a few days, use the pictures, images, and words you have laid down to create a solid, grounded image or series of images in your mind.  You will know that you have completed this action well when you are able to hear or say each of the words health, wealth, and happiness and have an immediately associated image or image set occur strongly in your mind – one that simultaneously initiates deeply resonant feelings of satisfaction, and rightness.   Spend the time you need to fully complete this action step.  Focus on affluence, as you get what you focus upon; you get what you are.  Your belief in and work with these understandings is directly related to the success you will have positively influencing affluence in your life….

Alignment… That’s what Synergy is all about!

Aligning the Whole Self – Liberating Life-force

A lively spirit, a playful spirit, an old soul, a spritely spirit, a spark in his eyes, her powerful presence, a force to be reckoned with….  We have many ways of recognizing the life-force in us and others.  A playful puppy, a happy child, and a wonderfully meaningful experience each teach us of the generative and connective life-force we have within.  Our life-force is our aliveness.  Life-force is the twinkle of energy behind the eyes, the spark that we see in some and not so much in others.  This most primary form of energy that is the breath of life in all things living is within us, connects us to one another, and connects us to the Universal Consciousness.

Developing and allowing our life-force to flow fully and naturally is supremely wonderful and brings richness and power to our lives.  The process of allowing it to grow and flow within us to maximum capacity is purely a positive one.  Our life-force will grow and flow more freely the more we are either quiet in our conscious mind or are directing thought to positive growth.  Life-force is allowed to flow unobstructed in a vessel that is resonating with positive vibration.  This unrestrictive flow is also related to our state of Natural Being that will be discussed later, where consciousness is given the back seat and Being is given primary focus.  Consider for the sake of increasing this wonderful force, that of thought and emotion, love is the greatest feeling you can generate for increasing life-force followed by gratitude and kindness.  Happy thoughts and feelings, a purposeful life, right action and a healthy body all contribute to the creative development of life-force, and once again the power of conscious thought is inextricably linked to this critical component of our Whole Self.

Helping the Body be all it can Be

You may have heard the saying that disease is really “dis-ease”.  Our bodies sure have to put up with a lot… if our conscious and subconscious are not directed properly.

  Have a read and learn about helping the body through aligning your WHOLE SELF. Read the rest of this entry »

The control of conscious thought

It just makes sense… if you have four horses you want to pull your wagon, they have to run in the SAME direction to be effective.  So why is it that so many of us have our conscious and unconscious minds, our bodies, and our life force bridled into an an antagonistic dance!?  THAT just doesn’t make sense.  Learn how to get synergy from your systems, right here! Read the rest of this entry »

The FLOW of life-force

Section 29 of The Synergy in Life System.

The Flow of Life-Force

You have another massive power available to you in a healthy flow of life-force; yet, it is a power that is too often dampened by a consuming and controlling Ego consciousness.  What is often metaphorically referred to as our heart, life-force is the spring and frolic of a young colt bounding through a meadow; it is the spontaneous laugh of a contented child, and it is the warm connection between two lovers that needs no words.  The life-force in each of us is the generative spirit of the universe given individual expression.  It is the force of life itself generating and expressing through us while connecting us with others through love and compassion; moreover, it allies with the subconscious to draw inspiration and thought from the cosmic ether, the Universal Consciousness, from where inspiration and great ideas often come if we are prepared to receive.  On this point Edison said, “Ideas are in the air,” and Emerson said “There is one mind common to all individual men.”  And many more have spoken of this omnipresent universal source, and it is likely that you have experienced inspiration and ideas from this source as well.  Have you ever put forward the intention to do something or a prayer to solve a difficulty and later had an inspired idea pop into your head seemingly without any conscious thought?  If you call the source of these ideas and feelings God or if you call it Universal Consciousness, there is a source and however you name it, it is powerful and beautiful.  Our individual life-force is of this generative source and is able to connect to it and bring vital force and knowing to the Whole Self.

Our powerful bodies

Section #28

I have said for many years that the human body has proven to be BOTH the most frail and the strongest of things on this earth.  Its terribly amazing how diseases can ravage, yet wonderfully amazing how resilient, versatile, and stoic our bodies can be.  They need help, however, from the minds and our life force. That’s what this section is about…. Read the rest of this entry »

The Subconscious

Section #27 of The Synergy in Life System

The Subconscious

Our Ego laden conscious mind spends a great deal of time navigating, assessing, reacting to, and logically engaging our perceived outward reality.  Our other mind, the subconscious mind, is largely internal and relatively unconscious.  The subconscious mind is that mechanism which is involved in reflexively moving your hand to turn the page; it beats your heart, and fires the muscles that draw in and express breath.  These are examples of action that exist in the realm of the unconscious that I will call the subconscious mind.  It is a powerhouse.  If you spend a moment to think about how our bodies naturally heal a cut, defeat a cold virus, spontaneously avoid danger, and oxygenate cells one should be greatly awed.  Think of the infinite number of actions that are performed by this consciousness with grace and ease.

The subconscious is the storehouse of memory, it is central to creativity, it plays a crucial role in learning and language, is the master of habituated action, and does more than we can possibly imagine.  Of extreme importance to our study of this powerful mind is this stunning fact: it listens closely to and acts upon input from the conscious mind, without judgment.  Having just looked at the unbridled Ego and the sway it holds with conscious thought, this should cause a cold shudder of realization.   The subconscious’s dutiful subservience to conscious thought accentuates the point that utilizing and directing conscious thoughts is necessary; directed thought is an influential mechanism for deliberately developing and unleashing the natural power of the subconscious; good input is imperative!

You likely know that scientists have proven beyond a doubt that the human nervous system cannot tell the difference between a real experience and an experience imagined vividly in detail.  That is why you salivated when eating the imaginary lemon.  In a sport psychology class I once took, we studied the results of an interesting experiment that demonstrated the power of directed thought fed to the subconscious mind.  University basketball players were randomly selected and placed in three separate groups.  Each group and each player was measured at the start of the experiment to determine their success rates in shooting free-throws.  This information was used as a base-line from which improvement or lack thereof would be measured at the end of the study.  Next, each group was given a task to undertake each day for a month.  The first group would spend 20 minutes a day, outside of regular practice time, on the court practicing free-throws.  The second group would spend 20 minutes a day, outside of regular practice time, sitting relaxed in a class-room visualizing successful free-throws.  The third group did not practice free-throws physically or mentally outside of regular practice time.  The results were astounding.  When measured again after one month, the control group who did nothing beyond regular practice demonstrated little or no improvement in free throw abilities.  That makes sense, and as you would expect the group that spent twenty minutes a day on the court physically shooting for twenty minutes after each practice session demonstrated a marked improvement in their free-throw accuracy and skill.  Astonishingly, the group that sat in the classroom visualizing had the same level of improvement in accuracy and skill as the group that stayed on the court an extra twenty minutes a day!  This improvement was completely the result of high quality input being fed from the conscious to the subconscious and then to the body’s nervous system.  Astounding and powerful information for your use! 

This study proves that the conscious mind has an important role when working in a positive and directed manner with the subconscious.  That is why belief is so important to this system.  The conscious mind provides input to the subconscious in the form of both structured and unstructured thought, and the subconscious will accept the beliefs and conclusions of the conscious mind without judgment, act upon them and feed that information to the body and to our life-force mechanism; therefore, good input must be deliberate and purposeful because the Whole Self will react to and resonate with what we think about most.  It just makes good sense.

The subconscious has an important role in working both with the conscious mind, the body and our life-force.  The subconscious will work feverishly to look for and find the name that is resting on the tip of your tongue; it will bring forth information and memory to the application of a task at hand; it can become a source of creative energy and inspiration; it will regulate the body’s functioning and guide habituated action; and, it will react to thoughts and emotions created in the conscious.  The final point is the most important, and is worth stating in the positive: when it is given the right guidance and is motivated by healthy inputs from the conscious, the subconscious will avail its own massive power to provide insight, intuition, inspiring and creative thoughts, and it will work towards the realization of the input provided; further, it will gather with and through life-force and Universal Consciousness everything needed to realize your desires; it will pass along healthy inputs and help to nourish and develop the body, and it will do so with grace, ease, and power.  It simply craves the thought structures provided by the conscious mind and will act on them immediately and completely. The subconscious is the primary bridge to body and individual life-force and thereby indirectly to the powerful generative energy of life-force reverberating throughout the entire universe.  The installation of consciously generated healthy input will have profound effects upon the Whole Self, and it will be due largely to the work the powerful subconscious does with what it is given.  Let’s look at the relation that the body has to the whole.