Well, firstly, I can tell you that I am a scholar in physics and human body science, so for a large bulk of this question, you are asking the wrong person. I can, however, comment on neurology, neurological processing, etc. Secondly, I chose the physical science field because it made sense to me, where words do not. For example, the word FIVE doesn’t mean anything. Or rather it doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone, just to the people who made it up. And why a people made up a word is because their experience required it. To most people in the world the word FIVE communicates as much as &%$#. But is you set down 5 stones, and 5 apples, and 5 (legless) chickens, you can begin to communicate what 5 is, not just what it’s called. Most of your question has to do with definitions. And of words that I am assuming are not of your culture, nor your experience. I can answer based on how words like “neurology” are used in my culture.

What’s the relationship between neurology and that which is called “spirit”? Is spirit something like a good, whole body, muscle spasm or twitch?

I don’t know. I don’t even know what “spirit” is. I’m pretty sure someone made that up to account for something missing in a logical argument. It happens a lot when you can’t use numbers or equations.

GREEK MAN 1: We can’t solve this problem!

GREEK MAN 2: Well, try giving the animal spirit, and see if you can work it out.

GREEK MAN 1: Cool! It makes sense now!

GREEK MAN 2: Great. Write that down, would you?

(Notice there was no Greek women in this scenario…)

And is kharma what happens next after the twitch is twitched out? Or is kharma more like a charlie horse?

Kharma? See answer #1. Only replace the Greek man with an Indian one.

The rest of your question on neurology and YOU…

The terms conscious and subconscious mean something different depending on whom you speak to. Many times people think of subconscious as they stuff they are doing habitually that they aren’t paying attention to…like gait, i.e. “I walk this way subconsciously, because I learned it a long time ago and it’s pretty deep in there”. From a neurological standpoint, this isn’t correct. Your subconscious is the part of your brain that keeps your body temperature regulated. It’s managing your cellular factory, and doing all of the things that need to be done in order for you to continue living that you have no idea need to happen. Outside of that, there is the conscious. Things you have learned, experience, and believe to be true because it is your experience. Things you think are subconscious are just the deepest biochemical grooves in your conscious. But they are things you acquired after your conscious had begun working on keeping you alive. And all of that is subjective, and can affect the “keeping you alive” tasks on the subconscious is trying to do.

For example…it’s cold. Your subconscious is trying to keep you warm. But you didn’t bring a sweater (you forgot, you didn’t want to mess up your outfit) and you wanted to stay outside and watch a show or something. The things YOU want have nothing to do with what your subconscious needs to survive, and usually impede the process. Caring or not caring, those are conscious things. They are opinion, not function.

All that being said, your neurological system (as the anatomical/medical community defines it) is both of those things. No wonder we feel conflicted. We’re constantly choosing if what we WANT to do is more important than biologically flourishing.

MEDITATION:

Meditation, again, is just a word. You would need to define the activity of which you are speaking. There’s moving meditation, Vipassana meditation, chanting, journaling, and lying on the floor. By those examples, meditation would mean “doing what makes me feel good, or where I connect with something greater than me”. Then add church, video games, drugs, alcohol, and running an extreme marathon. I LOVE meditation!!!

Does your neurology need YOU?

If by saying “you” you mean your interpretation of events, your insights, your preferences, than no. In fact when your body really needs to get down to healing, it’s going to shut you down fella. That’s a coma, baby.

When I fall off the BOSU, my neurology is on the floor, right?,

Really? Is this a question? Yes. Do you often see yourself as something besides your body? What’s your body ever done to you??

but am “I” looking in the mirror?

See previous answer.

And then afterward, when I feel like a complete fool, is it my spirit or my neurology that’s demoralized?

Falling off a BOSU demonstrates the state of your balancing system (subconscious). Not able to stand without falling? Then its time to look at the affect your conscious mind is having on your health.

Subconcious Brain: “I am on the floor.”

Concious Brain: “I feel like a demoralized fool.”

In order for your cells to flourish and continue to regenerate optimally, both messages should be saying the same thing. Guess which statement…

Moving On…

One habit is walking with your feet pointing in different directions. Another habit is thinking on questions without any possibility at reaching an answer…perhaps to delay getting back onto the BOSU.

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