Fact
2. Earth's atoms flow through you and all living
creatures.
Your
physical form is composed of carbon, oxygen,
hydrogen, nitrogen and a smaller mixture of
the other 96 naturally occuring elements. You
bring these atoms into yourself with every breath,
every drink and every meal, change their relationships
into new ones that form your body, give you
energy to perceive the world around you, and
to remember, think, and move.
You
expell the atoms when you are done with them
and these, along with the other things that
escape you (your actions, your words) move out
from your focus and create changes outside of
you. This pattern, the atoms flowing together
towards your focus, the change within you, the
flowing out again, and the changes in the world
around you are the prime characteristic of the
process of life. All living creatures create
themselves and maintain their existence within
this 4-step process.
You
can prove this to yourself right now by simply
exhaling all of the air in your lungs and not
breathing in again while you read the next small
paragraph. Try it now, breathe out completely
but don't breathe back in until you finish the
next paragraph. This is an experiment through
which you can establish the truth.
Within
seconds of stopping the continual flow of atoms
through your focus you will become desperately
aware of the reality of the requirement for
the atoms of oxygen to enter into your focus.
The longer you hold off refreshing the atoms
the more aware you will become of the absolute
fact of the flow of atoms through yourself.
You surely feel the truth of it by now if you
are still waiting to breathe in again. Feel
it, then breathe in and admire the feeling of
satisfaction as the atoms flood into you again.
If you breathe in and hold your breath for 20
seconds you will feel an increasingly sharp
awareness of the need to release the atoms from
your focus. How long can you hold your breath
before you fully and completely acknowledge
that the movement of earth atoms through you
is no theory, no opinion, no model, but an absolute
fact of life? Try it and see.
By
this simple experiment prove to yourself that
the atoms of the planet flow through you, and
that you change them into your form, and that
the atoms not only form your body but also energize
your movements and your perceptions and your
memories and your thoughts.
Science has proved what you cannot feel or know
directly. All of the atoms that now form your
body will enter your focus from a wide area
of the world around you and then leave you again
within a surprisingly short time. Every atom
of your brain will be exchanged for new atoms
within a week. Almost every single atom in your
entire body, including your bones and teeth,
will be exchanged for new atoms within a year.
You
can verify this as well. Reduce the flow of
atoms through your focus by minimizing the intake
of food and drink to one drink of water and
one mouthfull of rice per day for 20 days and
you will see your physical form deflating and
your strength leaving you as new atoms flowing
into you do not keep up with the atoms flowing
out of you. You don't need to perform the experiment
to realize the truth of this constant flow.
The
atoms that now are in you will soon be exchanged for new ones and the atoms in you now will soon
become rain, the ocean, the plants, and other
creatures as they are recycled in the flow of
life on our planet.
To
experience the thread of awareness, you must
be able to visualize this flow and be absolutely
sure, totally convinced, of this pattern of
the atoms flowing in towards you, your changing
them into new relationships, and then releasing
them back into the world in a changed form where
their relationships are changed again into the
water, soil, bacteria, plants, and other creatures
that surround you. It is a provable, and essential
fact.
And
you must also remember Fact 1. The atoms that
are moving through you at this moment are the
same atoms that were here when the earth formed
4 billion years ago. The carbon, oxygen, nitrogen,
hydrogen and other elements creating you now
have recirculated through living creatures and
through the ocean and the clouds and the plants
- changing their relationships and their movement,
but they are the same atoms.
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