In his book The Secret of the Ages, Robert Collier asserts that the mind is master and commander of the body because a subconscious “inner intelligence” directs and controls every function in the body.
For example, it knows how much sodium and potassium you need to balance the regulation of the sodium ion pump, a mechanism that controls cellular water content. You don’t need to concern yourself consciously for it to work properly because the task is dispatched on deeper levels of your subconscious mind by the inner intelligence.
The complex proportions of the nutritional elements you require are automatically measured and uptaken to support your every activity and whether you’re chopping wood or sound asleep, the exact amounts of the proper nutrients are factored in to the recipe.
When you stop and consider this, I mean really think about it – it’s absolutely boggling. What is this “inner intelligence”?
Living beings are equipped with an inner intelligence that supervises, repairs, operates and builds their bodies from the ground up, and it’s at work in every one of the trillions of cells in your body.
According to Collier and others, the subconscious mind directs and controls every function of your biology, millions upon millions of ceaseless inner chores that you’re not even aware of and simply take for granted. What’s more, it always keeps your body moving in the direction of optimal health and healing even when your behaviors or the environment you reside in get in the way.
With this awareness of the subconscious inner intelligence within you, you can create a new and powerful self-image. You are much more than you think, even more than you can think. Your body is a universe in itself, made of galaxies of atoms, elements and systems – and mind is the radiating center around which it all revolves. This is ancient wisdom that’s been taught in schools of self mastery and higher awareness for centuries and now we have modern science to corroborate it.