My body felt like tangled rubber bands and dried-out pens and sticky paper clips, like the contents of a drawer where you put the things you don't have anywhere else to put, and I knew that the mind and body are connected, and that my bodily sensations were just messages from my mind, but I just wished there was a box or a drawer or a hole in the ground where I could put all this, all this mind and body stuff that I didn't know what else to do with. Catherine Lacey
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The body is a complex machine which can be compared to a tangled mess of rubber bands, dry pens and paper clips. This only shows the body's complexity and its ability to perform various functions. The mind and the body are connected. When the body feels pain or discomfort, it is the mind sending messages to the body which are being interpreted by the brain.

However, this does not mean that your mind can read your bodily sensations. If it could do that, then there would be no point in having a mind.

Source: Nobody Is Ever Missing

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