人的意识，以及意识与身体的关系｜《健康之道》连载（18）

摘译自《健康之道》1984年3月16日

在我们能够真正研究健康或疾病的本质之前，我们必须首先了解人类的意识及其与身体的关系。当然，你知道你有一个有意识的头脑。你还拥有通常被称为潜意识的东西，潜意识只包含了与你的显意识相连的感觉、想法或经验，但如果你必须始终意识到它们，它们就会被认为是多余的包袱。否则它们会争相引起你的注意，对如此重要的当前决定形成干扰。

如果你试图将所有那些潜意识的记忆一直保持在头脑中最重要的地方，那么你就根本无法在当下这一刻思考或行动。不过，你确实或多或少能接触到自己的潜意识。也许，想象一个意识的连续体要更容易些，因为你还有一个身体意识，而身体意识本身是由构成身体所有部分的每个分子的个体意识组成的。

有时候，说人们有意识、潜意识和无意识是很时髦的——但是根本没有无意识这种东西。身体意识是高度有意识的。只不过你通常没有意识到它。推理是需要时间的。它涉及解决问题的方法——它形成一个假设，然后力图通过反复试验来证明它。

当然，如果你不得不在牵动一块肌肉之前使用这个方法，你就哪儿也去不了。那么，你意识的其它部分处理的是一种自动思维，并且用一种从你们的角度说不占时间的知识来运作。

你可以说，你自己意识的不同部分以不同的速度运作。意识的一个部分与另一个部分之间的转译不断地进行，因此信息从一种“速度”转译到另一种速度。那么，也许你能够开始理解，健康或疾病的整体画面，必须从比你先前想象的更多的角度来考虑。关于健康与疾病，你们中的许多人已经被传统、扭曲的总体观念所浸透。举例来说，你可能认为身体受到了病毒的侵袭，或者被某种疾病攻击，于是，这些概念可能会让你产生疑问。你很可能会想，为何身体意识不奋起摆脱任何威胁性的疾病：为何身体会允许某些细胞发了疯，或让自己过度生长？免疫系统的概念本身，至少暗示了疾病入侵者的存在——身体的免疫系统必须或肯定应该抵抗的入侵者。

Before we can really study the nature of health or illness, we must first understand human consciousness and its relationship with the body. You know that you have a conscious mind, of course. You also possess what is often called the subconscious, and this merely consists of feelings, thoughts or experiences that are connected to your conscious mind, but would be considered excess baggage if you had to be aware of them all of the time. Otherwise they would vie for your attention, and interfere with the present decisions that are so important.

If you tried to hold all of those subconscious memories uppermost in your mind all of the time, then you would literally be unable to think or act in the present moment at all. You do more or less have a certain access to your own subconscious mind, however. It is perhaps easier to imagine a continuum of consciousness, for you have a body consciousness also, and that body consciousness is itself made up of the individual consciousness of each molecule that forms all parts of the body itself.

It is sometimes fashionable to say that men and women have conscious minds, subconscious minds, and unconscious minds — but there is no such thing as an unconscious mind. The body consciousness is highly conscious. You are simply not usually conscious of it. Reasoning takes time. It deals with problem-solving — it forms an hypothesis, and then seeks to prove it by trial and error.

If you had to use that kind of process before you could move a muscle, you would get nowhere at all, of course. The other portions of your consciousness, then, deal with a kind of automatic thinking, and operate with a kind of knowledge that takes no time in your terms.

You might say that the varying portions of your own consciousness operate at several different speeds. Translations between one portion of consciousness and another goes on constantly, so that information is translated from one "speed" to another. Perhaps you can begin to understand, then, that the whole picture of health or illness must be considered from many more viewpoints than you might earlier have supposed. Many of you have been saturated by conventional, distorted ideas concerning health and illness in general. You might think, for example, of the body being invaded by viruses, or attacked by a particular disease, and these ideas, then, may make you question. You might well wonder why the body consciousness does not simply rise up and cast off any threatening diseases: why would the body allow certain cells to go berserk, or outgrow themselves? The very concept of the immunity system suggests, at least, the disease invader against which the body's immunity system must or should surely defend itself.

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