I'm Deepak Shopra. This is really breath. Our new series is called Total Meditation. The brain isn't like an

automobile which runs only if you turn the ignition on. The brain runs on dual control, which means that it obeys both

conscious and unconscious impulses.

So who's in control? So who's in control?

Is it your conscious mind or your unconscious mind?

We all experience Is it your conscious mind or your unconscious mind?

We all experience unconscious impulses.

And these keep going on without instruction.

For example, your blood pressure, your heart rate, your digestion, your immune system, your hormones,

they're happening right now, self-regulating, feedback loops, all of that.

Homiestasis, self-regulation is happening right now

without your conscious awareness.

In sleep, particularly in deep sleep,

we lose awareness altogether.

When we're awake we have thoughts without awareness of how neurons operate.

Nobody needs to know neurology to experience thought.

Without medical knowledge, you wouldn't even know that you have a brain.

Of course, these days, everyone knows they have a brain because they've seen a picture or a cat scan or they've been told

but without actually having an experience of looking at the brain or its image or a photo you actually don't even know that you have a brain.

Dual control as seen by the nervous system is always happening.

So for example, breathing is automatic and yet we can intervene by taking a deep breath, by making a yawn or a sigh. Here's another

example. Try to stop a sneeze. Both sides of the breathing mechanism,

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