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Brain’s Electrical Signature After Death, Pancha Kosas

Human body has five sheaths or layers.

Annamaya Kosa, Of Food,

Pranamaya Kosa,of Vital Breath,

Vijnanamaya Kosa, of Knowledge,

Manomaya Kosa , of Mind and

Ananadamaya Kosa.

These five layers surround the Atman,the individual self.

Annamaya Kosa is made up of the essence of Food, not food itself.

The food we eat gets digested and its essence. called the Rasa and it sustains the body.

Food determines our thoughts and dispositions-read my post on this under Hinduism.

We become what we eat for we think because of what we eat and we become what we think.( Bhagavad Gita)

Prana is the subtle breath, not actual air.

It is the subtle quality of air.

Breath regulation is taught is Yoga;people mistake control of air.

Breath has three aspects,

It is puraka when inhaled(through the left nostril)

It is also called the Ida Nadi.

Rechaka is drawn through the right nostril, Pingala Nadi.

When retained in the lungs it is Kumbhaka.

The ratio of Pranayama, of breath control is 1:4:3-Puraka:Kumbhaka:Rechakam.

Mind is the other layer.

Thought ways determine what we think and what we think decide what we are and what we become.

Through right food and right breath control, right mental disposition can be attained.

Vijnana or Knowledge is another layer, made of two types of knowledge.

They are,

Para Vidya, Knowledge of the Reality, which is eternal, correct .

Stomach Report By a Camera In The Stomach

We have 'gut feeling'

Have a 'knot of Fear in Stomach"

These phrases seem to be true and are scientifically explained now.

Michael Mosley swallowed a tiny camera which streamed the Stomach.

Report:

Not many of us get the chance to watch our own stomach's digestion in action.

But along with an audience at London's Science Museum, I recently watched live pictures from my own stomach as the porridge I had eaten for breakfast was churned, broken up, exposed to acid and then pushed out into my small intestine as a creamy mush called chyme.

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I had swallowed a miniature camera in the form of a pill that would spend the day travelling through my digestive system, projecting images onto a giant screen.

Its first stop was my stomach, whose complex work is under the control of what's sometimes called "the little brain", a network of neurons that line your stomach and your gut.

Surprisingly, there are over 100 million of these cells in your gut, as many as there are in the head of a cat.

The little brain does not do a lot of complex thinking but it does get on with the essential daily grind involved in digesting food - lots of mixing, contracting and absorbing, to help break down our food and begin extracting the nutrients and vitamins we need.

And all those neurons lining our digestive system allow it to keep in close contact with the brain in your skull, via the vagus nerves, which often influence our emotional state.