Understanding bathing
I take a
water bath to clean my body. In other words I immerse myself in a random
collection of (clean) water molecules. I give my brain
(i.e. my Biological Navigation System, short Bio-Nav)
a wash and temporarily clean it by flooding it with distress neutral, hence
clean information. Whilst my BIO-Nav (i.e. brain) is clean of stressful, i.e.
distressing data, therefore fully relaxed (i.e. in homeostasis), my mental
and physical repair and reconstruction functions, impeded by the affects of
distressing data, can resume full operation.
Flooding my brain with any distress neutral datum will put my brain
(and body) into ‘waiting time’ (meaning ‘on standby’), as it were into a
self-healing state. Whatever
floods my brain (i.e. my Bio-Nav) to the
exclusion of all else, hence as a virtual (meaning ‘pretend’) ‘fact’,
determines the state of my brain and, consequently, of my body (+ emotions).
In other words, any thought or idea, hence any virtual (meaning ‘pretend’)
reality that floods (i.e. takes over fully) my brain wholly decides its
state, that state then serving as immediate outcome to be made real, i.e.
realty tested. This insight
was fully developed in the 19th century by Emile Coué amongst
others into an extremely successful holistic self-healing psychotherapy. He
realised that “As I think (i.e. believe wholeheartedly), so I become!” When I spend
time in a forest I bathe/wash my brain with green data (i.e. stimuli = acute
stressors). The flood of green stressors patches over (temporarily excludes)
all other stressors, both positive and negative, that strive to take
over/flood my Bio-Nav. Whichever stressor takes over my brain determines the
(new) initial state (and destination) of my body (+ emotions). So when I
bathe (my body and brain) in a forest (to wit: in green data) I completely
flood my navigation system with (a tsunami of) green, hence distress neutral
stressors which, as it were, direct it and me into a ‘rest and recuperation’
lay-by. Likewise,
when I listen to my singing bowl I flood my Bio-Nav either with a neutral or
a pleasing sound = vibration and which results in mental and physical
self-cleaning. Or I can take a water sound bath by relaxing beside a
waterfall (a special free treat at Victoria’s
Way ) or, if I’m |a Hindu, I can take a soul bath by bathing in the
Ganges. Or I can take a speech sound bath by listening to a Buddhist or
Christian monk rattling on and on. I can also flood and wash my brain with
any aroma or sensation with like affect. Therapeutic awareness
Chasing the green herring
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