What control do we have on our own physical body?
When we are driving a car, we can change the direction and speed of the car the way we want.
We can move our external organs like hands, legs, eyes and head to a large extent the way we want.
But, what about our internal organs of our body?
Our normal and average heart beat is about 60 times per minute:
Right from the start of our birth till now, our heart is beating on its own without our intervention, without any of our willingness.
We do not have any control on the beatings of our own heart in whatever way we want.
Our normal inhale and exhale rate of air by us is about 15 to 20 times per minute:
We may delay for few seconds but cannot stop breathing for a long time. We do not have control on our breathing, the way we want.
We eat on an average of 3 times a day and excrete at least once in a day:
We may have some control on the choice of type of our intake of food and delay excrete for some time, but cannot stop eating or excrete for a long time the way we want.
We eat and excrete every day:
Our control on type of intake of food is limited to some extent, but we do not have control on our own stomach, intestines and digestive system.
We sleep every night:
We will have some control either to be awake or to get ready when to go for sleep. When we sleep, we enter into dream state at some point of time. We do not have any control on our dreams.
We sleep every night:
At some point of time in the night when we enter in to deep sleep, we do not have any control on what is happening inside our body in deep sleep.
We sleep in the night:
At some point of time, when we enter into deep sleep, we will not be knowing what is happening in our body. But our heart keeps beating, lungs will be doing inhale and exhaling and our kidneys will be working and other organs of our body keep doing their job on their own in coordination with other organs of our body, without our knowledge or intervention.
Reproduction and Procreation:
Another very important human activity is the reproduction and procreation in which the human beings will not be able to have much control over their body in the process.
Conclusion
There are many functions in our body which keep doing their function all the 24 hours of the day, without our knowledge and intervention. Our body is our property, we take care of it, but we do not have control on happenings in our body. Unlike the animal world, human beings are knowledgeable beings yet we do not know what is happening inside us. This is like many things go on in the nature around us, we will not be knowing what is happening and why it is happening, still they try to meddle with the nature. Though the science is able to explain about the human body to some extent, full explanation is not available so far. The strange thing can be observed in human beings is, though they do not have control over their own body, they try to exercise control over other living beings in the nature.
One of the explanations is, we are brought on to the earth by our parents and parents by their parents. In this process the parents through the mother pass on their genes to their children, without their knowledge. The genetical system in the body grows and maintains the body in its own in-built system of nature.
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