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“All of the body is in the mind, but all of the mind is not in the body.” Swami Rama
There are several ways in which the sensitive biofield can be altered. These include: I. Inherent: samskaras, negative thought patterns, emotional disturbances; II. Inherited: intrinsic (constitution, susceptibility, developmental defects); extrinsic: fetal infection, genetic transmission; III. Acquired: infection, suppression, environmental stress, drugs and chemical toxicity.
The miasms may be inherently present due to one’s samskaras or deep habits that are carried from lifetime to lifetime. One’s behavior (thoughts, action, speech) is largely determined by the patterns of samskaras, the deep impressions in the faculty of mind called chitta. The mind-prana-body hierarchy through which the miasms are expressed can be summarized as follows:
The ultimate source of each human being is consciousness; from pure consciousness are derived individual consciousness and the causal body. It is at this subtlest level of human existence that the deepest miasmatic affections persist as habitual distortions of energy. As the causal body generates the subtle body and the faculties of the mind, these distortions will be reflected in one’s mental attitudes and behavior. From the mind, the next level is the pranic body, which includes the chakras and nadis or energy channels. The energy of consciousness thus flows through and expresses itself through the faculties of the mind, the chakras, and the nadis. According to the habitual patterns of the subtler levels of existence, energy is concentrated at and distributed through the various chakras to determine the structure of the physical body via genetic code. Likewise physiochemical functioning is determined by the various degrees of concentration of energy that radiate from the chakras, through the nadis, to the endocrine glands and nerve plexuses.
According to yoga the mind is fundamental in qualifying the energy that underlies the physiochemical activities of the body. Thus the miasms can be considered to be habits of the mind, which then manifest through the pranic field into the gross body as unnatural tendencies, perverted functions or distorted structures. Similar ideas can be found in homeopathic literature. For example, Banerjee writes: “What lies in the mind as ‘thought,’ is expressed in matter as the physical body. In other words, the body is the creation of the mind. So the thoughts, feelings and will determine the body and the different body parts, predisposing them to certain disease conditions.” Energy fields similar to miasmatic fields may also be created by negative thought patterns of the mind since thoughts are likewise a form of energy, and are therefore capable of simulating conditions of ill health or disease identical to those imposed on the biofield by an interaction with an extrinsic miasmatic field. Banerjee also writes: “These miasms are not material substances, but on the contrary they are extremely subtle. In fact they are as subtle as the mind, or in other words they are only certain conditions of the mind.”
Dr. Barbara Bova, HOD, Department of Homeopathy
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