In the meantime, awareness of the inner body has other benefits in
the physical realm. One of them is a significant slowing down of the
aging of the physical body.
Whereas the outer body normally appears to grow old and wither
fairly quickly, the inner body does not change with time, except that
you may feel it more deeply and become it more fully. If you are
twenty years old now, the energy field of your inner body will feel just
the same when you are eighty. It will be just as vibrantly alive. As
soon as your habitual state changes from being out of the body and
trapped in your mind to being in the body and present in the Now,
your physical body will feel lighter, clearer, more alive. As there is
more consciousness in the body, its molecular structure actually
becomes less dense. More consciousness means a lessening of the
illusion of materiality.
When you become identified more with the timeless inner body than
with the outer body, when presence becomes your normal mode of
consciousness and past and future no longer dominate your attention,
you do not accumulate time anymore in your psyche and in the cells
of the body. The accumulation of time as the psychological burden of
past and future greatly impairs the cells’ capacity for self-renewal. So
if you inhabit the inner body, the outer body will grow old at a much
slower rate, and even when it does, your timeless essence will shine
through the outer form, and you will not give the appearance of an
old person.
Is there any scientific evidence for this?
Try it out and you will be the evidence.