There are times when you believe that you are the body. When you want to move from one place to another and it appears to happen without any delay it is easy to be sure that you are a body.

However, when you close your eyes for a moment and you feel how your body feels you might get a different idea. If your close your eyes and listen, you can hear the rush of blood through your blood vessels, you can feel your heart pulsing in your chest. You can feel the warmth of the blood moving to your hands and feet. You can feel the jittery, tingling sensation as the blood flows in your fingers. You can tell all of these things are happening. Then you move, and it all becomes one. Now you are one with your body, where you were observing it move and function before.

If you go back, as before, you can now feel the cold air on your body. You can feel the coolness of the surface beneath your feet. If you extend your sense of knowing what is going on, literally your sense of awareness, and you can actually sense the movement of the breeze in the trees outside before you ever hear any wind. Now you are observing from even another place, as you see yourself observing. Yet, in this place of looking at everything, you can even become one with this, in much the same way that you became one with the body and were able to sense all activity, without a sense of delay.

It would seem that you are not the body, but you can become one with the body. It would further seem that you are not the outside wind, trees and all else there, but you can also become one with it. It would make sense that you are the one behind, seeing everything and being aware, as you observe. This would make you an awareness that is always observing and having an experience, as this awareness becomes one with the observation.

This would explain what we mean when we say in Quantum Mechanics the observer and the observed are the same. This is so, as the exchange that happens when the observer (you) observes (notes or records) the event (heartbeat) results in an internal sensing of the event. This is how the observer becomes one with the event.

This is how you have the sense of becoming the body, even when you are not the body. It also explains the process of what happens during a meditation.

When you move your body, you are actually informing the physical particles how to rearrange themselves. You may perceive this as moving your muscles. Even though it may not seem that way, you are also informing the physical particles, in your local environment, how to rearrange themselves as well, in a certain way.

For we know that matter and energy are the same, and can thank Einstein for that knowledge. Matter is simply a particular arrangement of energy that is less able to rearrange itself spontaneously. It is much like arranging a box full of crosses together. Once they settle, and the arms become entangled with each other, it is difficult to move them without taking each one out by itself. So we are affecting the shape it takes, even though we may seem to be doing something else entirely, unrelated to this, as we attempt to remove the connected and linked crosses one at a time.

So in addition to being the observer, we are also the informant, who makes and affects the particular patterns that we see before us as a result of choice. The metaphor here is that we always create the result that we have even if we cannot see the whole shape of what it is we are creating.