Science Of Life

Author(s): U S Dugar
Publisher: U S Dugar

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seemingly force one to perform certain actions, present relatively little choice. In the case of thirst and hunger or physical addiction to nicotine or drinking wine or itching of skin surface (the urge to scratch it) etc., the initial signals emerging from the natural bodily processes are only a temporary warning, whose memory must suffice to influence to appropriate action. The feelings may abate after a while. It serves as information rather than action and needs an evaluation. The more intense the discomfort felt, the stronger the urge. Sometimes the urges are physical as if body's needs. At other times they are mental.
Physical urges are one way the body tells what it wants but as time passes they subside. The body is a very subtle and miraculous mechanism. It adjusts to anything if one has the will - the greater the will, the sooner the body is adjusted again. Body becomes healthier, because it is natural. The body is fighting with us; it sends signals; but we do not heed that. Even though the body has urges one has the amazing ability to reason and practice self-mastery and practicing these great virtues daily and recognizing that one is doing it will make him stronger and able to say “no' to bigger urges. It infers that bodily urges involve mental force and call for volitional interference by way of resistance or some convenient pre-emptive measures to control. Mental drives are not permanent features once acquired. They can, more or less consciously, be attenuated and eventually eliminated, by making suitable choices over time - for instance, training oneself to respond differently to the same stimuli by sensivity,
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