The need for increased meditative and self-observational practice naturally increases with age as our bodies change as the body’s ability gradually weakens. This also means that during our self-reflection we encounter what we have stored within it of unresolved psychic material, together with the original functions and their inherent mental processes which we have failed to listen to in our encounter with them. Instead, we have let the body carry it. It has become our body’s task to be a collection for all that we have not wanted to face in relation to ourselves. When this material makes itself felt through the body and psychosomatic symptoms, we provide it with what we superficially believe it needs to revive itself. Which in the long run will further increase the weight of the mental load we transfer onto it. We do not see that it is the psychic substance of our raw mental processes and their underlying functions that, when listened to, in seclusion from the distraction of our external senses, also lightens the burden we have placed on our bodies. When we do that and stop filling it with what we want it to have to be lively and instead give it what it needs, while paying attention to the content we have accumulated within us, we free it from the mental ignorance that does not belong to it, but whose content we constantly push onto it. Consciousness provides us with the property that unites the present with the past and the future in a timeless way. It does not belong to the body, since it is not an experience we gain from the temporary nature of our body. When we mix our external senses with properties that belong to consciousness, our perception of the body suffers. We lose the dependence it has on the tangible and the temporary. On the mental functions that are part of what goes beyond it, in the absolute foundation within us, which provide us with content. It is our inner duty to find ways to make others be able to perceive this as something in themselves as well. It’s not just about mental hygiene, but more so about an absolutely fundamental reality within ourselves. Contrary to common belief, ethical conduct does not originate from the mind, but from the body.