The Illusion of Body Consciousness

The Illusion of Body Consciousness – A Wake-up Call!

by Sunanda Sharma
Waking Up from the Illusion

Most of us are sleep walking through life by wearing blinders that even the light becomes distracting. The illusion that our physical body is all that there is to our existence is strongly ingrained in our psyche that most of us just spend our whole life gratifying this primal urge. We work, eat, and sleep in a robotic manner trying to fulfill an ego-driven, make believe reality. Media has done wonders to take it to every level of insanity, per se.

Epic television shows like Friends and movies, such as Sex and the City, are minting on the vulnerable human mind, while eulogizing every facet of material and sensual urge as the benchmark for humans to be. No wonder there are breakouts of depression, drug addiction, stress, and paranoia for no fathomable reason. The condition is such that for most of us it’s very difficult to spend time alone. Either we need a laptop, a mobile device, music system, or TV and if none of this works, then we definitely need another human to talk to. The word ‘alone’ offers a scary vibe for some; it is sometimes a feeling in which we can’t fit in. Ironically, the best presence of our existence is felt when one is home alone. Few realize this and even rarer do they relish it.

 
Illusion of Robotic Followers

For many centuries, man has been indoctrinated to believe that one must be a follower else one will be an outcast. Families across the globe condition children by teaching them this false paradigm and leashing out another line up of replica progenies. Very craftily, the Hollywood blockbuster move, In Time, features the robotic race and how future generations may end up to be. Western countries are still concerned with free thinking as Asian nationalities have yet to take the extra mile to break the conditioning blizzard. Under this illusion, many of us consider ourselves to be free and independent thinkers, yet when it comes to expressing our individuality, we look outside ourselves for a role model to follow. We all want to be like somebody rather than powerfully being our unique self. Instead of expressing the uniqueness of the soul, we like to decorate the body. In the process of amplification of the body, the soul simply shuts out. The real us is locked and veiled in the race to replicate another, one who we feel is the numero uno.