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The makeup of the human body is quite unique. It is a blend of the tangible and the intangible, the physical and the meta physical, working in tandem, everyday to produce a machine of efficient proportions that cannot be emulated by science and technology. While science wondered at the brilliance of the human body, we soon realised that besides disease and the natural progression of old age (inevitable to perfection), there are other cogs and bad bolts in the great machine of the human body that we were not aware of.

And these imperfections lay within the human mind. All these discoveries preceded the excavation of the human mind and the discovery of the pre conscious. Now more popularly called the ‘inner mind’ or the subconscious, science discovered that it was the controlling entity that decided on the spirit and the soul of an individual. How we behave, how we spoke, we acted, our reactions to situation, our addictions, our phobias and how we utilised our brain power – all were decided in the subconscious mind and these instructions were built up over years of sensory exposure during the developmental years as a child. Let me give you an example of how you can use subliminal technology to combat this and how the mind works. Let us take the topic of phobias first.

The prime example is a man, 27 years old, physically fit but deathly afraid of the water. Hydrophobophobia. This man cannot look at a swimming pool or be near the ocean without breaking into a sweat, feeling nervous or have the irresistible feeling of fear. Why is this? His social life is stunted, he is unable to enjoy the simple pleasures of life and he is left with a debilitating feat that can be a major factor in stunting the success in his life. Go back a few years when he was a child and trace an incident that he had with water that caused great trauma. The sub conscious mind is like a great sponge of emotions and associations. As a child, the subconscious mind immediately grabs onto the great fear and trauma associated with the incident and makes a mental association of water with these events.

It gets stuck in a cyclic existence in the sub conscious and triggers whenever he comes near to an open body of water. Because as a child, we are not blessed with the faculties of critical thinking and rationale thought, and we take things as they come, and interpret them as realities of the world. This is why parenting is so important, but trauma is one of those dynamic and unpredictable factors of childhood no one can predict. This man can empower himself to rid his mind of these associations and fears with subliminal technology – technology that can reach down into his mind, remove these fears and associations and plant new messages and thoughts. This is called the reprogramming of the pre conscious and it is a reality today with subliminal technology.

The concept of body modifications has long been prevalent in the human race. Put in simple words, ‘body modification’ refers to the process of making changes in the body. The changes incorporated can be temporary or permanent in nature. Primarily done for the purpose of beautification, body modification has emerged to be very different from what it had started as. The need as well as the ways for body modification has undergone transformation. This concept of making changes in the body has various implications and differs from culture to culture. While sharp objects, to tattoos to amputations are all categorized as ways to modify any part of the body, jewelries are the most common element that is used in body modifications.

Apart from being a fashion statement, body modifications in early days were done for purely religious reasons. This thing still prevails in the modern times where examples can be cited from various regions. Believers do so with this faith that their sacrifice and pain will satisfy God and they will be granted their wishes. The pain inflicted on the body while doing so becomes immaterial at that time.

Tracing back to the times of Indus Valley civilization, ornaments or jewelries has played a crucial role in body modifications. Earrings, anklets, necklaces, nose rings all excavated from the ruins have proved that they were in use in those days. The Bronze statues of a dancing girl excavated at one such site bore proof of the same fact. Bangles, rings, head bands also found at the excavation sites are evidence of the fact that even men used these for body modifications.

For many cultures across the world, body modifications have an altogether different need and importance. It is an inherent part of their culture and they are taught to imbibe this from their very childhood. Say for example in Myanmar, the women of the Padaung tribe has this tradition to wear tight neck rings around their necks. The practice starts at a tender age of 5. While at this time, the number of ring put around the neck is one, the number soon increases with time. It’s quite prevalent among them to wear as many rings as possible around their calves too. The ultimate reason for doing so is to modify the neck as in the process it gets elongated at times to alarming rates. Other body modifications followed by tribes related to this use jewelry extensively for elongating their ear lobes or ear piercings done previously.

Instances of body modifications can also be found in the American culture where the use of labrets is common among First Nations people inhabiting the North west coast. Modifications of the lips with the use of lip plates are common among Sara and Mursi people, mostly of African origin.

Body modifications can hence be categorized as common and ‘extreme’. While some are temporary and easy to do like body piercing, ear piercing, dermal anchoring which is placing a small steel bead on the skin, neck rings and tattooing – some can be really dangerous and harmful. The extreme kinds consist of tongue splitting and extra ocular implant.

With time, the sense of fashion has undergone a considerable change. For so long, footwear, jewelry and handbags co ordinate perfectly with stylish attire drew the attention in the crowd. Now is the time, when a ethnic embroidered apparel from India or a chic Indo western wear is well complimented by a perfectly done body modification.