The purpose of the Body Module is to introduce you to practices which cultivate your health by taking care of the matter of your gross physical body. But beyond this, the module introduces you to the other bodies that are also vital for one’s health, the energy in your subtle body, and the causal body of stillness within which the other two bodies rest.
1. Three Bodies
In the same way that your consciousness normally has three states–waking, dreaming, and deep sleep–your body also has the corresponding gross, subtle, and causal bodies. Remember the distinction in the quadrants between the interior and exterior dimensions of reality? The interior quadrants are the ones are the left, and the exterior quadrants are the ones on the right.
Each state of consciousness is an interior dimension which has a corresponding exterior form or dimension that is referred to as a body. Let’s take a look at each of the three states of consciousness in turn and the associated form or body which encapsulates them.
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