LOGICAL ANALYSIS OF POSTURE: DUALITY OF CONTROL
Posted: June 21st, 2011 | Author: admin | Filed under: Pain Relief-Muscle Relaxers | Comments OffTherefore, the subconscious brain as well as the conscious brain plays a major role in maintaining posture and an erect position. In an unconscious state or in sleep the body will collapse. A person sleeping in a train cannot keep the head up and it sways in all possible directions in jerks. Similarly during a fainting attack the body collapses even though the subconscious brain functions quite well. A person who has fainted has normal breathing and pulse rate even though the consciousness is not there.The ultimate example of elongating muscle fibres occurs during transcendental meditation (TM). All meditation creates a link between the conscious and subconscious mind, but TM has a physical manifestation. Its exponents adopt a sitting posture in such perfect balance that even the posture-maintaining muscles are not needed. There comes a point where the subconscious brain suddenly becomes aware that their support is missing and these muscles abruptly extend in synchronism, resulting in the sudden elongation of the spine by a matter of inches, like the marbles suddenly being squeezed. The jerk is so powerful that it lifts the body off the floor in a small leap. Some people refer to this as ‘levitation’. It is, however, neither magic nor supernatural. It happens, it is well documented and easily explainable. I defy anyone, however, to explain it in a world in which muscles only contract.*54\330\8*
