人的意识，以及意识与身体的关系｜《健康之道》连载（18）--四柱八字,命理,八字命理,六爻占卜,命理百科-寅午文化

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。

Individuals who defy death time and time again are actually more frightened of it than most other people are. Trapeze performers, stunt men and women, race-car riders, and many other groups have a life-style that includes death-defying stunts on a very regular basis.

Trapeze performers may have several acts a day, for example. It seems that such individuals perform with great daring, even with a rashness that is unfamiliar to most people. Most such performers, however, are extremely regulated. They work with a carefully calculated eye, under conditions in which each detail, however minute, is of supreme importance. No matter how often certain trapeze acts may be repeated, for example, there is always the threat of instant disaster — of missed footing, a final plunge. Through testing "fate," death-defiers try each time, they perform to prove to themselves that they are indeed safe, that they can overcome life's most dire conditions.

Life, then, has the sweetest buoyancy, the greatest satisfaction, because it is contrasted with the ever-present threat of death. Many such people do not feel at all safe living under life's usual conditions. They protect themselves by setting up the conditions of such an encounter, and controlling those conditions, again down to the smallest detail.

Only when they pursue some death-defying career do such individuals feel safe enough to relax otherwise and live a fairly normal life outside of their death-defying careers.

I do not mean to pass any moral judgment upon such activities. Often they do permit an extremely keen sense of exuberance and vitality. It is also true, however, that such people may enjoy excellent health for years, not counting perhaps an assortment of broken bones and bruises — only to fall suddenly prone to some illness if they try to give up their activities.

This need not be the case, of course. Self-understanding and self-knowledge may be able to change the individuals' lives for the better, regardless of their activities or conditions of life. It is true that these individuals do choose for themselves a carefully planned and regulated style of life, in which the threat of death is encountered personally and regularly; each day becomes an odyssey, in which death and life are purposefully weighed.

Children may come down with many childhood diseases, and still be very healthy children indeed. Adults may break a bone skiing, or indulging in some other sport, and still be very healthy. People "come down" with colds, or the flu, or some other social disease that is supposed to be passed from one individual to another — yet overall these may be very healthy individuals.

The body has its own self-regulating system. This is often called the immune system.

If people become ill, it is quite fashionable to say that the immunity system has temporarily failed — yet the body itself knows that certain "dis-eases" are healthy reactions. The body does not regard diseases as diseases, in usually understood terms. It regards all activity as experience, as a momentary condition of life, as a balancing situation. But it possesses a sense of wholeness and of overall integrity, for it knows that it continues to exist, though under different conditions, and it realizes that this change is as natural and necessary as the change of seasons if each individual is to continue to exist, while the earth itself possesses the nutriments necessary to the survival of physical life.