Passing Thoughts

What are you thinking about at any given moment? Could you even answer that? Probably not, but your mind is always active with some thought constantly passing through your mind. The fact is, over 70,000 thoughts per day is the researched number.

What is thought? Do you actually think mentally, or is thought just a passing reflection without any given pattern? Of course at times you do concentrate on a given theme or a task where something is accomplished. At times your thoughts are creative and you become deep in thought, a thing that no other animal can do. But even so, do you actively engage in mental creation, or do you simply tune into a mental wave length at random.

What are we doing now at this very moment? Are we engaging in actual or passing thought, or is it a mental or spiritual reflection having more or less interest? What becomes of each passing thought? Where does it go during sleep or at the time of death? On such occasions the physical body either remains dormant or disintegrates. But what about the mental or spiritual aspect? Is there a logical answer?

And, what is life anyway? From whence does it come and where does it go? Within the womb of the mother, for instance, a physical creation is taking place and at a given time a combined reaction takes place and the baby is born with a mental and physical element all its own. Mental impulses call for nourishment and physical growth takes place for a given period of time, When adulthood is reached, physical growth is arrested. However, maintenance and reparation continue all through life, maintaining a state of being until "death do us part."

But what about the process of maintaining health and function or activity? What regulates this element? What changes common food into flesh, blood, and bones, hair, skin, and nails. Food provides distribution when and where it is needed. Have you thought of this reaction? Would you entertain the concept that this process would require pill, shots, physiotherapy, or passing thought on your part? Not so!

All function and activity of the body are directed and controlled through the nervous system that stems from the brain and spinal cord. The spinal cord is encased within the spinal column and sends out bundles of trunk nerves through openings provided for that purpose between the vertebrae that form the spinal column.

Through this medium sensation reaches the brain where the message is interpreted and responding mental impulses set glands and organs into activity and function in a process of directed or controlled definite activity, in a state of health.

This is NOT merely a passing thought ... It is a fact!