There are 60 trillion cells on an average in a human body which makes bones, blood, skin, hair, eyes, ears, hands and feet. These cells require constant energy which is supplied from blood running through 112000 km of veins, arteries and capillaries.
In average young male adult, 18 % of body weight is proteins and related substance, 7% is minerals, and 15 % is fat. The remaining 60% is water.
Body temperature : 98.6 Deg. F
Heart Beats : 72 per minute
Blood Pressure : 120/80
When we feel hot and the temperature of the body goes above 98.6 degree F the thermostat of the body registers the same and information is passed on to the sweat glands. The sweat evaporates and cools the body. In the same way when we feel colder than 98.6 degree F the body’s thermostat registers this information and the cells of the body start to shiver producing heat thus bringing back the temperature to normal.
This is the most rudimentary but complicated function of creating a balance. The human nervous system is a chemical factory breaking, synthesizing and redistributing thousands of enzymes, hormones, proteins and chemical compounds.
All minerals, water, body temperature and blood pressure are kept in balanced quantities for efficient working of the body. Any increase and decrease in the quantities of these triggers an automatic production or reduction of the required substances.
This is known as homeostasis. Without we knowing trillions of operations are performed by the cells to keep the balance.
Numerous chemicals are manufactured by our body to regulate life every second. To top it all in just the right quantities at the precise moment of need. If factories are built to produce the same then it would take several hundred square miles of space.
The brain has 30 billion neurons and about five to ten times the glail cells. The neurons fire through a complicated but magical process of communication with each of the 60 trillion cells of the body at more than lighting speed. Thus both mind and body are constantly communicating with each other.
The basic building blocks, the cells, the neurons, the glail cells, the bones, the blood, the skin are all material in nature. The enzymes or hormones or proteins or starch or the minerals have physical parameters. The brain containing all its parts like the pineal gland or pituitary gland or the hypothalamus or the cortex with its neurons can be measured in terms of weight, size or dimensions but the Mind is a non- material entity. It is dimension less. It has no seat of its existence. It is the wholeness of the collective components of the body.
Mantra Meditation is simple technique that allows the mind to experience finer and finer levels of sound until the finest vibrations are transcended and the mind experiences silence. This domain has only one, the silence, the seat of infinite mind.
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