Mental Body
The mental body is the home of thoughts, mental processes, and the ability to know something. This is where thoughts are organized and beliefs are formed. This is where you can create and interpret your life path, and rationalize decisions along the way. This is where you process experiences in order to gain understanding. Your ego lives here, an self impression of who think you should be...or need to be.
The mental body sends thought energies along to the emotional body where an emotional reaction occurs. The deeper and stronger a thought or belief, the stronger the emotional reaction will be. Thoughts you have based on what someone said to you, like you are worthless, you will never amount to anything, you are ugly, etc., can form limiting thoughts in your mental subtle body. These thoughts can cause you to set lower goals and refrain from being the most you can be. Thoughts like these need to be confronted and cleared, hopefully before they go on to the emotional body and get even stronger.
The energy traveling through the mental body will eventually affect the physical body, but first it must travel through the emotional body and the etheric body, and their respective chakras. Each subtle body acts on this energy in its own specific way.
The mental body sends thought energies along to the emotional body where an emotional reaction occurs. The deeper and stronger a thought or belief, the stronger the emotional reaction will be. Thoughts you have based on what someone said to you, like you are worthless, you will never amount to anything, you are ugly, etc., can form limiting thoughts in your mental subtle body. These thoughts can cause you to set lower goals and refrain from being the most you can be. Thoughts like these need to be confronted and cleared, hopefully before they go on to the emotional body and get even stronger.
The energy traveling through the mental body will eventually affect the physical body, but first it must travel through the emotional body and the etheric body, and their respective chakras. Each subtle body acts on this energy in its own specific way.