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Body - Body. See PRINCIPLES, HUMAN; KOSA; STHULA-SARIRA; etc.
Body Cleansing - a program of fasting and elimination of toxins to maintain body health. (NAD)
Body Cleansing - A program of fasting and elimination of toxins to maintain body health.
Soul - The illusion of separation from spirit. It should be understood that the spirit is that which seeks manifestation and appears as a soul/body. The soul is that which characterizes, shapes, informs, moves and operates the material flesh and action it its unique expression. Without the soul, the body is no more than an automaton or zombie without meaning or purpose. Without the body, the soul is a wraith and an unfinished blueprint -- electricity without a plug. The Psyche is that entire part of the soul that ranges from all the depths of the Unconscious as its roots merge with the physical body all the way up to Consciousness itself, which is the intended goal of the spirit, like the fruit or blossom of a plant. That ultimate product, consciousness, is what the Greeks called the nous and which we translate, somewhat innacurately, as "the mind". But theosophically and alchemically speaking, Mind is much larger. It is the field encompassing both being and non-being, in which the spirit dwells, a continuum or sphere of containment for the All (that is, unaccessable "omiscience"). In short, the spirit seeks to know itself by means of the soul''s use of the body as a tool to create consciousness. When, however, the soul identifies too strongly with the body, it soon becomes corrupt, turning into a mere slave of the flesh and the spirit is checkmated and imprisoned.
Body Parts Rulers - Aries-Head; Taurus-Face; Gemini-Neck; Cancer-Chest; Leo-Stomach; Virgo-Waist; Libra-Sexual Organ; Scorpio-Belly; Sagittarius-Thighs; Capricorn-Knees; Aquarius-Buttocks; Pisces-Feet. Book
Aura Balancing - technique for clearing, smoothing or harmonizing the auric field around a person''s head/body. (NAD)
Body Characteristics - Body Characteristics - double dosha body types
VATA-PITTA
Their characteristics show a combination of vata & pitta, for example they often have wavy hair, caused by a combination of vata’s curliness and pitta’s straightness. They generally have the poor circulation , though they love to eat but they will have trouble digesting large meals.
A healthy balanced vata - pitta person have a capacity for original thought, a vata’s characteristic, and also expertise at application of theory, a pitta’s characteristic. As lightness and intensity are the common qualities of vata & pitta. Proper direction of this intensity calls for harnessing the lightness for intensive self development. When a person having imbalanced vata & pitta fear alternates with anger as a response to stress.
PITTA-KAPHA
Pitta-Kapha people probably adjust best of any constitution to the confusions,irregularityand constant change which characterizes today’s world because they combine kapha’s stability and pitta''s adaptability. many of the people who achieve all – round success in life are pitta-kapha. Pitta’s active metabolism balances kapha’s powerful physique to promote good health, and pitta’s anger is well tempered, by kapha’s cautiousness to encourage good mental balance.
The ease with which they succeed in the world promotes pitta’s arrogance and overconfidence and kapha’s smug self satisfaction which can insulate the personality totally and efficiently from all realisties other than the real
Bitter and Astringent are their best tastes.
KAPHA-VATA
Vata–Kapha people tend to be tall but are average in build and most other physical qualities are just as pitta type. Vata and kapha are united in their coldness. Though they do not suffer as intensely from physical cold as do pure vata types because of the strength and insulation of kapha. They Have a double emotional need for heat.
Their lack of heat usually manifests physically as digestive disturbances, especillay constipation, respiratory disease with much mucus production is also common. They may be wary of jumping to conclutions without proper preliminary investigation.
They should use sour, salty and pungent taste foods.
Body-mind Rhythmic Movement - A system created by Susan Kramer. Elementary academic instruction using rhythmic movement patterning as a way to develop and reinforce the bodymind connection.
Double Dosha Body Types
- Body Characteristics - double dosha body types
PITTA-KAPHA
Pitta-Kapha people probably adjust best of any constitution to the confusions,irregularityand constant change which characterizes today’s world because they combine kapha’s stability and pitta''s adaptability. many of the people who achieve all – round success in life are pitta-kapha. Pitta’s active metabolism balances kapha’s powerful physique to promote good health, and pitta’s anger is well tempered, by kapha’s cautiousness to encourage good mental balance.
The ease with which they succeed in the world promotes pitta’s arrogance and overconfidence and kapha’s smug self satisfaction which can insulate the personality totally and efficiently from all realisties other than the real
Bitter and Astringent are their best tastes.
Double Dosha Body Types - Body Characteristics - double dosha body types
KAPHA-VATA
Vata–Kapha people tend to be tall but are average in build and most other physical qualities are just as pitta type. Vata and kapha are united in their coldness. Though they do not suffer as intensely from physical cold as do pure vata types because of the strength and insulation of kapha. They Have a double emotional need for heat.
Their lack of heat usually manifests physically as digestive disturbances, especillay constipation, respiratory disease with much mucus production is also common. They may be wary of jumping to conclutions without proper preliminary investigation.
They should use sour, salty and pungent taste foods.
Out Of The Body Experience - A perception of one’s consciousness as being outside of one’s physical body and usually as movable. See Astral Projection and Mental Projection.
Out-of-body Experience - Leaving the physical body while at rest, asleep, near death, or temporarily dead.
Out-of-body Experience - Experience which occurs when the astral body or etheric body leaving the physical body while the individual is at rest, asleep, near death, or temporarily dead.
Out Of Body Experience - A fully conscious experience in which the person''s centre of awareness appears to be outside of the physical body.
Subtle Body - Sukshma sharira, the nonphysical, astral body or vehicle in which the soul encases itself to function in the Antarloka, or subtle world.
The subtle body includes the pranamaya, manomaya and vijnanamaya koshas if the soul is physically embodied. It consists of only manomaya and vijnanamaya after death, when pranamaya kosha disintegrates. And it consists of only vijnanamaya kosha when manomaya kosha is dropped off just before rebirth or when higher evolutionary planes are entered.
Also part of the subtle body are the antahkarana (mental faculty: intellect, instinct and ego - buddhi, manas and ahamkara), the five jnanendriyas (agents of perception: hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell); and the five karmendriyas (agents of action: speech, grasping, movement, excretion and generation).
See: indriya, jiva, kosha.
Astral Body - The soul. That part of the individual which dwells on the astral plane. The densest part of the individual to survive death. That vehicle through which one astral travels. The emotional body.
Astral Body - ASTRAL BODY: a duplicate of and existing within the physical body, but made of a substance not physical. However, this body can sometimes leave the physical body, and in some cases can temporarily create a separate physical body.
Causal Body - Causal Body. See KARANOPADHI
Beta Body - astral body. (NAD)
Causal Body - Karana sharira, the inmost body; the soul form, also called anandamaya kosha, "bliss sheath," and actinic causal body.
See: kosha, soul.
Astral Body - subtle or dream body that disengages during sleep/through consciousness techniques; exact replica of the physical body with a higher frequency of vibration. (NAD)
Pranic Body - The subtle, life-giving sheath called pranamaya kosha.
See: kosha, prana.
Etheric Body - See Astral Body.
Causal Body - An out-of-date term for the level of Buddhic/Christ consciousness, the point from which the soul projects itself into the sheaths of the lower world-mental, emotional, and physical. The cause behind personality
Astral Body - 1)
Innermost Body - The soul body.
Biological Plasma Body - Soviet term for the astral body. (NAD)
Etheric Body - A term sometimes used to refer to the Astral Body, but which actually refers to that vehicle or body whose density lies between that of the astral and physical bodies.
Physical Body - Physical Body [cf Sanskrit sthula-sarira, annamaya-kosa]
The most material sheath or instrument used by the forces manifesting as the human composite nature. This body is the evolutionary product of the inner man''s experience during vast ages of time in and through all the kingdoms of nature. Thus the reimbodying ego, having acquired knowledge of the earth''s manifesting forms and forces, combines or correlates the principles and products of the mineral and vegetal life-atoms in its animal body, while evolving through its human incarnations. The atoms of a person''s body which are dispersed on earth at death, are karmically drawn to him again in the next life. As the quality of his own thought and feeling has been impressed upon these atoms, their automatic magnetic return to him insures the justice of his self-made physical heredity.
The continuous interchange of the physical material of the earth itself and that of everything upon it, provides for the body''s nutrition, endurance, and renewal. The similarity of material, chemically and otherwise, in the earth and in man has prevailed from the time when the filmy presentments of early root-races appeared on the then condensing globe. When the earth reached its depth of materiality during the middle of the Atlantean or fourth root-race, the physical bodies of the Atlanteans were the grossest and coarsest of any before or after this long period. Since then, everything having begun the turn on the upward or luminous arc, matter and man are slowly radiating finer qualities of substance and of force. This progressive refinement of matter reflecting humanity''s mental and spiritual evolution, will continue until, in the far distant future, the human encasement will be "relatively transparent, or diaphanous and luminous -- an ethereal body of actually condensed light" (ET 65).
The human body has "Manasic as well as Kamic organs," so that the cells answer to physical, mental, and spiritual impulses. The higher ego cannot act directly on the body, as its consciousness belongs to another plane of ideation; it has to act through its alter ego -- the personal self (BCW 12:368-9; or St in Oc 90-1). The inert physical body is built, cell for cell, upon the invisible substance of the astral model-body or linga-sarira. The latter contains the real organs of the senses and sensations, and it transmits the mental, emotional, and instinctual impulses to which the physical body reacts.
The lower mind acts upon the physical organs and their cells; but only the higher mind can influence the atoms in these cells, and arouse the brain to a mental conception of spiritual ideas. That is to say, ideal, mental, and physiological wholeness depend upon the dominance of the atomic, spiritual impulses over the desires of the selfish kama-manasic nature. The personal nature is limited in action to the material, molecular cell. This subtle but practical interplay of his physical and superphysical nature points to the natural unity of purpose in the trend of ethics and physiology.
With power to know good and evil, and free will to choose, man is responsible for refining and perfecting his material, personal nature into becoming a responsive and powerful medium for manifesting his spiritual and higher intellectual individuality. The inner man is ever acting with the cosmic evolutionary urge toward perfection of type. It is this reincarnating ego which directs the atomic life of the fertilized germ-cells in upbuilding the body according to pattern; this is the mysterious organizer which eludes all analyses of biological researchers. Likewise, the morally and intellectually irresponsible entities evolving in the lower kingdoms are impulsed, in addition to the urge of each individual entity''s monad, by the instinctual phase of the universal mind which is directed by celestial beings acting with the so-called laws of nature.
The universe being a living organism functioning throughout consciously, has its analogy in the physiological operation of the human body. Hence, biological scientists who tamper with the natural arrangements of chromosomes or artificially combine different embryonic elements, instead of solving the problem of life, are only dealing with the matter which is manifesting the conscious creative powers of ideation.
Etheric Body - Etheric Body. See ASTRAL BODY; LINGA-SARIRA
Triple Body - In Mahayana Buddhism, the notion of three levels or "bodies" of Buddha''s existence; (a) the Eternal Buddhas of the Body of Dharma (dharmakaya), (2) human incarnations in the Body of Transformation (nirmanakaya), and (3) Celestial Buddhas in the Body of Bliss (sambhogakaya).
Astral Body - The astral body is a composite, made up in varying proportions of a physical (or semiphysical) body and a “spirit” body. During its projection the second body draws “astral material” from the first body through the silver cord that connects the two.
Also See
Emotional Body - The vehicle, or reflective nature, esoterically called "astral" (meaning "starry") wherein reside unresolved emotions and currents of force awaiting expression
Causal Body - The vehicle of consciousness that holds the Jiva soul. in bondage until it is cracked open and transcended. The Causal body literally "causes" incarnation after incarnation, because it holds the accumulated misperceptions of our evolving consciousness, as well as the wisdom of the lessons learned
Astral Body - Astral Body, or Astral "Double". The ethereal counterpart or shadow of man or animal. The Linga Sharira, the "Doppelgäinger". The reader must not confuse it with the ASTRAL SOUL, another name for the lower Manas, or Kama-Manas so-called, the reflection of the HIGHER EGO.
Subtle Body - In the Vedic tradition it is believed that the physical body has a subtle counterpart made not of gross matter but of a finer substance, or energy. The chakras, nadis are the basic structures of the subtle body.
Beta Body - The astral body (This appears to be erroneous as the astral body operates on alpha waves. )
Astral Body - The subtle, nonphysical body (sukshma sharira) in which the soul functions in the astral plane, the inner world also called Antarloka. The astral body includes the pranic sheath (pranamaya kosha), the instinctive-intellectual sheath (manomaya kosha) and the cognitive sheath (vijnanamaya kosha) - with the pranic sheath dropping off at the death of the physical body.
See: kosha, soul.
Etheric Body - Astral or dream body (state of mind)
Resurrection Body - According to Christian theology after the second coming of Jesus, we will all be brought back to life and be given a resurrected body that is not subject to death or sin. It is taught that Jesus, after his resurrection, possessed such a body - one without blood - and he was able to move about as He desired instantly and even through walls. Jesus is the only one who has received a resurrected body. That is why he is called the firstfruit from the dead
Astral Body - A spiritual body capable of projection from the physical body. The astral body survives death.
Astral Body - A non-physical body which is a counterpart of a physical body and one of the seven layers of the Aura
Sangharama Body - A monastery with its garden or grove, a universal body.
Celestial Body - Celestial Body Taken from Coleridge, who divined that in the human celestial body must be stored the memory of all preexistent experiences of the soul. The phrase is said to mean the thought-vehicle of the monad in devachan, through which functions the manasic ego (Key 137).
The range of stored memory of experiences varies in extent according to the degree of sublimity of the different vestures. Ancient mysticism taught that the self has several vestures, each of which may be called a body or sheath through which the monad acts and by which it comes in contact with the particular worlds in which it may be functioning. "There are also celestial bodies and bodies terrestrial" (1 Cor 15:40).
For instance, the Vedantic classification of the kosas (sheaths of atman) gives annamayakosa (physical body), pranamayakosa (vital-astral body), manomayakosa (psychological or lower manasic body), vijnanamayakosa (higher manasic body), and anandamayakosa (buddhic body). In the Taraka Raja-Yoga system are the following upadhis or vehicles of atman: sthulopadhi (gross vehicle), sukshmopadhi (subtile vehicle), and karanopadhi (causal vehicle or self).
Different schools have different enumerations, for though the truth is one and the same, yet when it is formally expressed, we must expect adaptations rather than exactitudes. One theosophical division gives 1) the divine monad; 2) its first vehicle, the spiritual soul; then 3) the human soul; 4) the astral-vital soul; and 5) the physical body.
See also PRINCIPLES
Dense Body - The physical body
Mental Body - The higher-mind layer of the subtle or astral body in which the soul functions in Maharloka of the Antarloka or subtle plane. In Sanskrit, the mental body is vijnanamaya kosha, "sheath of cognition."
See: intellectual mind, kosha, subtle body.: : : : : : : : : :
Astral Body - A "soul", consciousness, or body comprised of spiritual energy, said to mirror the precise appearance of the physical form.
Cognitive Body - Vijnanamaya kosha. The most refined sheath of the astral, or subtle, body (sukshma sharira). It is the sheath of higher thought and cognition.
See: astral body, kosha.
Subtle Body - The second of four bodies within a human being (the physical, subtle, causal, and supracausal bodies), which is experienced in the dream state.
Causal Body - Causal Body. This "body", which is no body either objective or subjective, but Buddhi, the Spiritual Soul, is so called because it is the direct cause of the Sushupti condition, leading to the Turya state, the highest state of Samadhi.
It is called Karanopadhi, "the basis of the Cause", by the Taraka Raja Yogis; and in the Vedanta system it corresponds to both the Vignanamaya and Anandamaya Kosha, the latter coming next to Atma, and therefore being the vehicle of the universal Spirit. Buddhi alone could not be called a "Causal Body ", but becomes so in conjunction with Manas, the incarnating Entity or EGO.
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