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Body/mind/spirit
Definition & Relation: Body/mind/spirit
The human body is a biomechanical entity that runs on biochemical combustion. Without water, nutrition and oxygen the body perishes fast. Mechanical failures render a body useless but the body can repair itself. The human spirit uses the body in the material universe and extracts sensations from it. In this sense the human body can be seen as an instrument of the spirit, or as a connecting device between the spiritual and the physical. The body is constituted of both physical and spiritual elements. The human spirit and the human mind exist seperately from the body but all three are influencing one another. Since humans first began to wonder about the nature of the mind and its relation to the body, they noticed that the mind sometimes seemed independence of the body. The mind, perhaps viewed as the spirit of the person, seemed to be able to travel without the body during dreams and trances. Indeed, the spirits of the deceased seem to visit us in our dreams. Even death itself seemed to suggest a departing of a spirit from the body. When a person dies a natural death, his or her body is still whole but it is no longer active. Its heart no longer beats, its chest no longer breaths, and its eyes neither move nor show response to what we say. Something is missing from the body, something we cannot see or feel, that which we have traditionally called the spirit or soul. Since the body is still present but what animates it is neither visible nor presence, people came to believe that what animates the body and gives it life is an invisible spirit. Such a belief is especially comforting in the face of death. When philosophy emerged tens of thousands of years later, it reinforced the belief that the mind and spirit were non-physical. When we look inside the body of a human, we see nothing that suggests a mind or spirit. We see organs, muscles and bones, but no life force, no thoughts, no memories. Even the brain appears to our limited vision as just a couple of pounds of passive, dull gray matter. With the rise of Christianity, the belief in the non-physical nature of the mind become religious dogma. With the rise of industry and science, some Western philosophers began separating the mind-body issue from its religious context, but the basic misunderstanding persisted. The great 17th century philosopher, Rene Descartes, developed the first systematic analysis of the mind-body issue. Descartes reasoned that the mind could not be physical because all physical things are characterized by measurable spatial extent and mechanistic causality, while the mind could not be measured and it possessed free will. Furthermore, while mental events obviously occurred in time, they did not occur in space at all. Descartes concluded that the mental and the physical were two, radically different substances. Descartes' idea that the mind was non-physical is called mind-body dualism since it divides the world into physical and non-physical domains. Anything else non-physical, like God, souls and spirits, fit into the mind's non-physical domain. Philosophers after Descartes refined his distinction between the qualities of the mental and the physical. The mind is active, invisible and intangible, while physical objects are inactive, visible and tangible. Minds cannot be seen or touched, but physical things can be. Also, all physical things were believed to have mass, but not the mind. Indeed, it is meaningless to ask about the size or mass of a thought. How big is one's memory of grandma? It's rather like asking about the mass of the number 5, which is a nonsense question because mass is not a property of numbers. It's not surprising that the inappropriateness of the questions was interpreted as indicating a nonphysical nature for mental events. |
Who is Man?
The soul, not the mind, is the man. Man is consisted of a soul, spirit and physical body. The spirit of man contains the mind or intellect. No other part of man was made in the image of God, but the soul. For that's why the soul is the man. The physical body being formed for the sole purpose of continuing the evolution of the soul and spirit, for the man to become "individualized" through first progressing in the physical realm. In the physical world, man learns of "self." Some call this consciousness. This realm is used for only a short time to develop "self" and may be used to progress further in soul development.
Most religious speeches work only on building the intellect or mind and never teach how to progress one's soul. Teachings which work solely to progress the spirit of man are not unlike the Law of Moses. They both teach to come into some form of harmony with the law of God which says, " a man shall reap whatever he sows", by trying to identify what is "bad" and what is "good." Teaching the control of one's mind and emotions to stay clear of "the bad," may work to bring some peace and harmony, but will not bring one closer to God and divinity. Freeing the mind of the various prisons the intellect can create is profitable, for it is our thinking in error (sin) that creates the self-imposed prisons we call hell. The spirit of man, the mind (or intellect), can be allowed to darken the soul left undeveloped. When the spirit of man is allowed to reign over the soul, this is what Jesus referred to as "the devil." Others call this the "ego." And just as hell or a prison of the mind can be created by the intellect, it should be known that the hell or prison can be undone, as well. The control that the spirit (mind or intellect) has over the undeveloped soul is what must be "undone." It is a change from being lead externally to being lead internally. "Salvation" is being set free or "saved" from this condition of "fallen mankind." This is what it means to be "born-again." For man was created in the image of God as a living soul, and the soul is what God communicates and identifies with. The word image means "not real" or "an illusion." When one begins to develop the soul, the image of God begins the transformation into the substance of God. The holy spirit of love, truth, joy and peace forever transforms the soul. As the soul progresses, Wisdom is gained, Health is gained.
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Evolution your Soul
learning of developing equally physical, mental, and spiritual, you will achieve a new kind of unified perception where the invisible will become visible, the intangible will feel real. You'll gain a stunning insight & intuition to which you'll understand the paradox that you are simultaneously an individual and universal in your identity, with no sacrifice to either. I am "Me," and I am "Us." "I" am part of the "Us" and "We" are part of "Me." This allows you to matter-of-factly draw intuitive guidance from broad, mystical sources: from the collective mind of all people, from the planet itself, and from the past and the future. But how does this state of balance actually feel? For that you have to come your body, mind, and spirit togather, you'll feel more authentic, more grounded in your personality, and at the same time you'll move in harmony with the currents of action and guidance generated by the collective consciousness. You'll experience your mind as present within and distributed throughout your body, as your body, and you'll discover your spirit is inside your body as well and is guiding you. You'll have access to all of yourself in every moment. No longer will you feel you're partial or missing something. When body, mind, and spirit are unified, when you direct your attention outward, you'll experience life as a unified field of boundless, free flowing energy and knowledge. You'll feel your identity as something greater than before, a presence that is everywhere, that is inside everything in the world. Insight will come from everywhere, from all aspects of yourself, all at once. Life will feel familiar, familial, companionable yet brilliantly spontaneous.
Unification Your Body, Mind, and Spirit
One of the simplest methods for attaining body-mind-spirit unification is a three-step meditation. In step one, you bring your wandering attention inside your body and place it in its natural "home," the geometric center of your brain. This brings your conscious mind into your body. In the second step, you drop your awareness farther down into your body and establish a conscious link with the earth, integrating the basic life force energy that funds your physical existence. In the third step, you activate your heart, which is the true seat of the soul in the body. As you expand into the world with the soul's awareness, you'll perceive everything from that high, yet neutral,
frequency.
RUMELA. COM wishes you a
balanced body mind and spirit!!
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