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From another perspective though, the Physical body itself has its own consciousness, distinct from the mind and emotions. This is the consciousness of the body as a whole. Moreover, each organ in the body also has its own consciousness, and each tissue in each organ, each cell in each tissue, and so on. So there is a whole hierarchy of physical consciousnesses, although these are usually beneath the level of the normal waking consciousness.

Thus, in the physical body, as everywhere else, there are varying degrees of consciousness. You can go right down into the consciousness of the cells and even the atoms, which is a very constricted consciousness; what Sri Arabindo calls the Inconscient. This is the consciousness of inanimate matter itself. On a level closer to our ordinary experience, there is the biological or Organic Physical Consciousness of the physical body; the automatic organic functioning and reflexes of the body. Left to itself, the body follows its own instinctual wisdom, transmitted from the spiritual physical consciousness level.

Unfortunately, human neuroticism tends to interfer by imprinting negative emotions in the body, at the level of the Emotional Physical, thus producing muscle tension, bad posture, and disease. Although permamnet cure requires going deep into the Spiritual Physical Psyche, techniques like rebirthing, body work, and primal screaming, can temporarily clear out emotional-physical blockages. Hence their popularity in the New Age movement, which is very much orientated to a gentle sensation-feeling state of consciousness.

The next level further in is the Mental Physical, which involves habits and abilities the physical body learns to do by itself, without the need of supervision by the conscious ego. An example of this is touch-typing, or, on the level of the whole body, martial arts.

The Next level of consciousness - the Psychic-Physical- is the subtle consciousness of each organ cell etc. this is is a natural wholesome consciousness what could in new age partance be termed a "divic" consciousness.This "divic" consciousness exists in all things,animate and inanimate. It is Possible to project love to the body's divic consciousness via the physical body.