Hello my friends I'm Dipak Chopra this is Really Breath.

Our new series is called Total Manitation.

Brain and mind are indivisible.

It isn't a matter which came first.

The body mind is one thing.

And because it operates as one it has

always existed as one.

Let's try something right now.

Close your eyes and imagine a bright yellow lemon with a kitchen knife beside it.

Okay, so do it right now.

Now in your mind's eye, see the knife cut the lemon in half,

watching drops of lemon juice spritz into the air and at some point in this visualization you

will begin to salivate involuntarily. This is a classic example of the mind body connection.

The image of the lemon and the knife and the lemon juice was in your mind.

But the saliva was secretia. was a secretion

secretion in your body.

So your brain doesn't know the difference between an imaginary lemon and a real one. The brain then triggers salabary

glands. It doesn't matter whether it's an imaginary lemon or a real one.

Your mind does know the difference because you're not your brain.

You are using your brain.

This is a very important point which I and my colleague Rudy Tanzi also made in our book, Superbrain.

The brain and mind reacts simultaneously and almost instantly to each other because in fact the

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