| The Trinity of Body Mind Soul | | | | While the body can affect our physical |
| | | | environment in a sort of brute force way, the |
| 01st December 2005 | | | | mind shapes our lives much more than most of |
| | | | us realize. Its tools may appear to be more |
| Author: Amy Biddle | | | | refined. Rather than the power of hammers, |
| | | | muscles, and the opposable thumb, the mind |
| We are all spiritual beings, each of us with | | | | has the power of attention, belief, and |
| the gift of a body, mind, and soul. When we | | | | observation. With these tools, the mind |
| are not very aware of our essentially | | | | shapes our world in a way far more profound |
| spiritual nature, we tend to identify | | | | than bulldozers and chain saws. We can |
| ourselves as just one thing or the other. | | | | visualize a whole new life for ourselves and |
| Some of us think we are this body that does | | | | watch it manifest without our bodies forcing |
| things, or we're a mind that has to figure it | | | | anything. |
| out. Our soul, we may imagine, is something | | | | |
| that floats up and may or may not live on | | | | The challenging thing about the mind, for |
| after we die. | | | | most of us, is that it encompasses both |
| | | | conscious and unconscious attitudes, beliefs, |
| As we grow in spiritual awareness, we develop | | | | and desires. It is our whole mind that |
| a more integrated understanding of ourselves. | | | | creates our circumstances, not just the part |
| We come to know ourselves as spiritual | | | | we're aware of. This explains why we so often |
| creatures, operating through a unified | | | | experience the frustration of our conscious |
| trinity of body, mind, and soul. These three | | | | beliefs and desires. The conscious mind has |
| facets of self allow us to have a creative | | | | only a fraction of the mind's total power. |
| experience of life in (at least) three | | | | |
| dimensions simultaneously. | | | | Fortunately for us, neither the body nor the |
| | | | mind is in total control. If there seems to |
| Through the body, we can experience and | | | | be a stalemate between our conscious desires |
| affect our physical environment. We can build | | | | and our unconscious beliefs and attitudes, |
| shelters, make clothing, and find or grow | | | | attention to the third aspect of ourselves |
| food. We can feel pleasure and pain. Our | | | | can help us get unstuck. The soul has direct |
| brains (which are organs of our bodies) can | | | | access to all wisdom, power, health, and |
| learn by conditioning to survive on the | | | | love. |
| physical plane. Our bodies have their own | | | | |
| consciousness. An example of this is in body | | | | The soul is the part of us that lives in the |
| memory. Have you ever found it useful to | | | | vast collective pool of good that is God. |
| "dial" a frequently used phone number in the | | | | When we integrate our whole selves through |
| air when you need to remember it? The | | | | regular attention to the soul, we find that |
| information seems not to be stored in your | | | | we are neither mind nor body alone, but that |
| head, because the fingers that dance that | | | | both our minds and bodies give fuller |
| pattern so often have their own memory. | | | | expression to our spiritual essence. |
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