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Importance of Balancing Mind, Body, Soul By: Jonathon Teasdale
(side note from Jamie: sorry this newsletter is not edited. I typed straight from the recording.)
Jonathon is a spirit who has that “guy next-door” energy. He is very calm but funny about coming into a woman’s body (Jamie) to give his lecture.
I spoke with Jamie before coming in about the importance of mind, body and soul. For centuries this term has been used: mind, body, soul. I am sure you are familiar with it.
I want to talk about it but I also want to debunk it as well. I think it is a great phrase but for a human it is missing something. Let me put it in a different order and add some things. Emotion, Mind, Body, Soul
The importance of balance:
What do you think of when I say balance? Would you think equal? Would you then say equal is 50/ 50? Most people when they find this one definition of balance; they start to sabotage their own life, because they are bored. I want to tell you a different definition of balance. Balance can be 60/40. Balance does not have to have equal values. For what you value is always different than what another person values. This is the beauty of being individual. As a human, logically this may be hard to wrap your head around. I say give it some time. The idea here is not to divide your self into equal parts but to divide yourself into ever changing rhythms. Pour yourself into where you are needed but always keeping an eye on the whole.
Emotion: The emotions link the mind to the body. In most societies these days, they do not give enough praise to the power of the emotion. The way you are taught is when you think of something you then have an emotional reaction then the body responds. So here is the current line up. 1.You think 2. You feel 3. Your body reacts 4. This kicks in your soul into gear where you give or take or shift energy.
What if we organized it this way? Allow your self to feel first then think.
Emotion, Mind, Body, Soul
Mind: If you have a decision to make and your heart feels differently but your mind says, sorry you need to do this. I am going to tell you right now the biggest liar you have is your mind. It is an alcoholic: under influence. Your mind tells you right or wrong because it is drunk. When the mind passes out from total exhaustion your heart can then step up. You feel the exuberance and passion from following your heart, which was your natural first instinct anyway. You struggled so long to try to follow the mind, but how did it feel to let your heart give you the answer.
Now, what if your heart was giving you a painful emotion. Would you choose to coward away from the emotion because it was hard and follow the drunken mind? Or are you going to own up to it? Most humans will change the rules, and avoid the pain, because you are taught, as a child pain is bad. You have a belief system that pain sucks, and it hurts, most likely not repairable and you don’t want to go through it. You want to run. There are sometimes you want to stand and fight.
But when you were a child you were taught that hot is hot and can burn you. And cold is cold and will not burn you.
If you were left alone to learn this:
You would have learned hot is hot and cold is cold but hot does not need to end up in a burn situation. It does not mean you need to run, you can adapt.
Your brain is a liar because it was taught by your parents and your society with the old rules and ideals, which do not serve us anymore. If you think you as a human have reached your potential then you are highly mistaken. Buddha says that enlightenment is when there is no suffering. What keeps suffering in your life? Your mind: the drunken person in your head. So train it. How? With meditation, but this does not work for everyone. For some people it is sitting still for others it is active meditation where your mind is busy or in a routine. Adapt your meditation to eliminate your suffering.
Body: The body is the piece of luggage you choose to make this journey in. Do you like what you packed for this trip? The body is an outward and external focus. This is how we can visually identify each other. Our looks are our show and tell. The body represents our storefront to our ego. Some people believe when they look in the mirror that it does not look like them. Our body does not always represent what is on the inside and that is where most of us go wrong. Where we go wrong is in expectation or assumption that the outside matches the inside.
For example: If you talked with a woman and she said she was married you would naturally think she was married to a man.
What if we took those assumptions out? Adopted a broader version, not of wife or husband but lover.
Please let people teach you what their storefront means. Think of broader terms (the grey) to use in conversation, not yes or no (black or white). Always present the grey and allow the person to teach you what the grey is. Then once you know then ask the details. It is perfectly natural to learn from people. We do not always know everything.
Soul: The soul is energy. What can you do with energy? You can give it, receive it, move it, or leave it alone. It sustains your life. Your emotions, mind and body need to be in good health to support your soul’s enlightenment. We are one.
We as people are not individuals. We are not separate from one another. We are all one.
We are all in this together. What to do each day to stay balanced? Deep breaths each day, connecting to people each day, eating well and meditate.
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