在体内深处扎根

内在身体的感知艺术，将会发展成一套全新的生活方式，一种与存在永远联结的状态，并且这还会为你的生命增加一定的深度，这是你之前从未感受到的。

当你深深地扎根于你的体内时，成为你思维的观察者，你会很容易地进入当下时刻。不管外界发生了什么事情，任何事情都不会动摇你。

除非你保持临在——扎根于内在身体通常是其关键部分，否则你将会被你的思维所控制。你很久以前脑袋里学会的内容和习惯性思考将会垄断你的思维和行为。你可能会短暂地从它们身上解放出来，但是绝对不会长久。当你遇到麻烦、失落或生气时，这种情况就更为明显了。这时，你那些被制约的反应就会不自觉地、自然地被恐惧——隐藏在你意识地思维认同下地情绪——所激起。

所以当你遇到这些挑战时——这是常见的，你要养成习惯，将你的注意力集中在你身体的内在能量场上。这不需要花费太长的时间，几秒钟就够了。但是当挑战来临的那一刻，你就必须立即采取行动。任何延误都会让心理—情绪条件反射出现，并将你控制。当你将注意力集中在体内并感受它时，你就将意识从思维中撤离，你会立即变得宁静并进入当下时刻。如果在当时需要你做出反应的话，那个反应会从一个更深的层次出现——就像太阳永远比烛光明亮一样，存在中的智慧远比你大脑来得丰富。

只要你有意识地与你的内在身体相联结，你就像一棵深植于土地上的大树，或者像一栋有着坚固的建筑物一样。后面的这个比喻被耶稣用在关于两个男人盖房子的寓言中。其中一个人在沙地上建了一座房子，后来暴风洪水把这座房子夷为平地。另外一个人则把地基挖得很深，直到见到岩石为止，因此这座房子可以经受洪水的冲袭而依然屹立。

Whenever you are waiting, wherever it may be, use that time to feel the inner body. In this way, traffic jams and line-ups become very enjoyable. Instead of mentally projecting yourself away from the Now, go more deeply into the Now by going more deeply into the body.

The art of inner-body awareness will develop into a completely new way of living, a state of permanent connectedness with Being, and will add a depth to your life that you have never known before.

It is easy to stay present as the observer of your mind when you are deeply rooted within your body. No matter what happens on the outside, nothing can shake you anymore.

Unless you stay present — and inhabiting your body is always an essential aspect of it — you will continue to be run by your mind. The script in your head that you learned a long time ago, the conditioning of your mind, will dictate your thinking and your behavior. You may be free of it for brief intervals, but rarely for long. This is especially true when something 'goes wrong' or there is some loss or upset. Your conditioned reaction will then be involuntary, automatic, and predictable, fueled by the one basic emotion that underlies the mind-identified state of consciousness: fear.

So when such challenges come, as they always do, make it a habit to go within at once and focus as much as you can on the inner energy field of your body. This need not take long, just a few seconds. But you need to do it the moment that the challenge presents itself. Any delay will allow a conditioned mental-emotional reaction to arise and take you over. When you focus within and feel the inner body, you immediately become still and present as you are withdrawing consciousness from the mind. If a response is required in that situation, it will come up from this deeper level. Just as the sun is infinitely brighter than a candle flame, there is infinitely more intelligence in Being than in your mind.

As long as you are in conscious contact with your inner body, you are like a tree that is deeply rooted in the earth, or a building with a deep and solid foundation. The latter analogy is used by Jesus in the generally misunderstood parable of the two men who build a house. One man builds it on the sand, without a foundation, and when the storms and floods come, the house is swept away. The other man digs deep until he reaches the rock, then builds his house, which is not swept away by the floods.