Modern Health and Spirituality

I read and article a while ago which basically gave the personality traits based on the blood group of the person. The Japanese use blood groups in the same way we use horoscopes and star signs. There are basically 4 basic blood groups, Type A, B, O and AB. So what does your blood type say about you?

Type A

The second most common blood type in the UK - 42 per cent of the country fall into this category.

They are considered to be: Harmonious; Unconfident; Considerate; Sensitive; Calm; Traditional; Reliable and Worrier.

Type B

The second rarest of the blood types - only 9 per cent of the UK fall into this group.

They are considered to be: Easy-going; Passionate; Disorganised; Independent; Lethargic and Untidy.

Type O

The most common group in the UK - 46 per cent. It’s also considered to be the best blood type in Japan.

They are considered to be: Confident; Hyperactive; Hot-blooded and Self-destructive.

Type AB

You’re a rarity - The AB blood type constitutes between 2 and 5 per cent of the UK population.

They are considered to be: Beguiling; Outgoing; Rational; Distant; Enigmatic and Changeable. 

How could the two be linked? 

In the 1930’s a Japanese psychologist Furukawa Takeji suggested that there was a link between personality and blood type.   Takeji looked into the psychological differences between the blood groups. He conducted a survey and deduced from his answers that there are differences between the blood groups.

The theory is that our blood groups show who our ancestors are, and we’ve inherited their behavioural traits.

Although all this evidence appears to be real, I am still not too convinced. I still therefore ask is it possible to determine a persons personality knowing their blood group? Does this mean everyone who is type AB have the same characteristics? Probably not like not all Capricorns or Leos are the same.

How can we create the life we want to live? How much do we trust and believe in our brains and minds?

Seeing is believing

When we look at our hands we know what it can do, we see the hands, we feel them, we see them holding something, we have total trust and faith in what they can do. What about our minds? Do we have absolute confidence, trust and faith? We underestimate the power of our minds/brains, it has the ability to do and create so much in our lives. We know the many functions of our brain, the way it controls our physical body.

I suggest that because we cannot see the brain we don’t understand how much it can create, Have you heard the saying “My body is not me but mine” if so you will know that you can control your body to do whatever you want it to do, by the same token I suggest that you can control your brain. For most people seeing is believing. The most obvious reason that people lack control over the brain is that they simply don’t believe that they have control over it.

Understanding the brain

To create the life we wish to live we need to master our brains, take control of our mind and body. To do this first we have to understand our brains. Essentially our brain is made up of three parts, Cerebral Cortex, Limbic System and Brain Stem.

1. Cerebral Cortex

This is the outermost layer of the brain and is composed of grey matter. It has two hemispheres, both hemispheres are able to analyse sensory data, perform memory functions, learn new information, form thoughts and make decisions. The corpus callosum connects the two hemispheres and allows communication between the right and left hemispheres.

2. Limbic System

The limbic system is associated with the complex aspects of emotional expression. It is involved with asigning emotional value or content to various objects and experiences and with expressing these emotions as external behaviours. Appetite for food and sex, emotions of joy, anger, and grief arise within the limbic syste.

3. Brain Stem

The brain stem is in charge of the autonomic nervous system that is responsible for the basic life functions of the body, including digestion, respiration and circulation. It is the least known and yet most important part of our brain. 

Now we understand what the purpose of the various parts of the brain, we must balance our brains, to master it and control it.

How to master the brain?

There are probably many ways to master your brain and control it. I believe that meditation is the most effective way. Meditation has infinite power to change the brain. Research has shown that meditation has a profound effect on the structure and function of the brain. If you use meditation to change your thinking, you will be more equipped to change your environment. To achieve full mastery of your brain you must let your True Self take control. Sometimes called the “soul” this is the perfect devine part of you that understands the oneness of everything and your place in the universe. However, there is the small self, the “ego” the part of you that falsely separates you from the others. The ego is always judging and comparing, it also prevents you from achieving mastery over your brain, it defines and limits you according to a preconceived notion of identity. To an extent limits your success.

Create the life you want

Now that you have mastered your brain and know how to control it, you can create the life of your dreams. For every belief you act on you will get a result. So set your goals, take action and see the results. You are who you want to be.

Brain Declaration

For us to create our life we want, I believe we need to make the following declaration to ourselves:

• I declare that I am the master of brain
• I declare that my brain has infinite possibilities and creative potential
• I declare that my brain has the right to accept or refuse any information and knowledge that is offered
• I declare that my brain loves humanity and the earth
• I declare that my brain desires peace

Let’s change the way we think and change our environment, let’s make for a happier and peaceful world for us now and in the future.

Everybody wants success and to be successful in one way or another. Success means different things to different people. What makes some people successful and others not? I believe that the difference between successful and non successful people is attitude and awareness.

What is success?

Success can be measured in many ways. To most people success is usually about gaining the material things in life, things that money can buy. If someone who has made lots of money is he deemed successful if some areas of his life are neglected. Is his life fulfilled? Is he happy or content?

Success to me is about reaching a happy state in all aspects of your life. Having good health, enough wealth, emotional intelligence, friends, family and time freedom are the some of things I need and strive for to be successful, each category of my life must be fulfilled. You can prioritise but at the end of the day each box has to be checked, you have to feel joy equally in all aspects.

How to be successful?

There numerous books on how to become successful, I think the key to success is self development, a well known businessman / enterpuener Jim Rohn said “Traditional (University) education will get you a good wage but self education will earn you a fortune” he believes that you have to work on yourself to make yourself better. Success is not something to be chased, it is something you attract by being the person you want to be. Success is inside you, therefore it comes to you.

Paul MacKenna, was a successful broadcaster in the U.K, before becoming an author and a hypnotist, he is recognised the world over.

He wrote a book called “change your life in seven days” He describes how you can change your life in seven days through seven chapters. Here is a summary of the philosophy in his book.

Chapter 1 (Day one) - Who Are You, Really?

Discover your true potential and become the person you really want to be.

Chapter 2 (Day two) - A User’s Manual for Your Brain

Master your emotions and release your full potential.

Chapter 3 (Day three) - The Power of a Positive Perspective

The art of reframing

Chapter 4 (Day four) - Dreamsetting

Discover what you truly want and make your dreams come true.

Chapter 5 (Day five) - Healthy Foundations

Creating and maintaining a healthy body, mind and spirit.

Chapter 6 (Day six) - Creating Money

Discovering the secrets of the millionaire’s mind

Chapter 7 (Day seven) - Happily Ever After

Live the secrets of life-long happiness - NOW !

I don’t believe you can change your life in one week, the change that happens is that you are putting the process into motion to achieve the result, I guess you can argue that in itself constitutes a change, depending on the expectation of the result.

You can change your life one week at a time, you need to change the way you think, they way you process the information. Everything we see, read, touch and hear is all information, how we use and process that information determines how successful we will be. It ls all about changing your thought patterns, setting yourself goals, it’s about being the person you need to become to achieve success.

You need to take action. Thoughts become words and words become actions.  Actions become habits and habits become character.  Character becomes destiny.

When I was younger our parents would always tell us if we were not good little boys and girls we would not go to heaven. We would always ask where is heaven? How do we get there and can we go there now? The reply was always the same, just be good and you will reach heaven. Where is heaven? We then we went on ask the question what is paradise? Is there paradise on earth, how do we get there? What can we do when we get there?

Heaven

If you asked the question where is Heaven or what is heaven, no doubt you would get different answers from different people, here are some of the definitions I have heard used to describe heaven.

The sky, the firmament, the atmosphere enveloping the earth regarded as the region where clouds float, the wind blows etc, the abode of God and the blessed, the place of supreme felicity and any place or state of extreme joy or pleasure.

All of the above are good definitions, some are quite simple and blase and some based on religious teachings which tells you if you follow the right path here on earth there is a place waiting for you in heaven , you have deserved to have a place, you deserved to be there. The question is Who decides if you are deserving? What is the criteria on which you are judged? How do you know if you are in heaven?

These questions I have often asked myself. I guess I will never know until it happens, there is no guarantee one will get into heaven once at the pearly gates. I believe that heaven is inside us as is god, we need to look deep inside of us, get in touch with our soul and spirit, look toward our completion as a person, our physical being and then our spiritual being, find a purpose to why we are here after which we will be in heaven, the place that has always existed within us.

Paradise

Similarly, if you asked the question where is Paradise or what is paradise, no doubt you would get different answers from different people, here are some of the definitions I have heard used to describe paradise.

The garden of eden, a place or state of bliss, Heaven, a place or condition of perfect bliss, a park or pleasure ground.

Here again whilst growing up we led to believe that paradise is a place and like heaven a feeling of extreme joy.

The concept of paradise in my opinion is similar to that of heaven. Most people would describe paradise of being a place of breathtaking beauty with idylic surroundings and then events of unforgettable joy and pleasure. Paradise is used to describe a physical location, somewhere you can see, touch and feel, somewhere where all your senses are excited to feel the joy you feel deep inside.

Heaven is deep inside of us, Paradise is anywhere we want it to be, look inside yourself to see the beauty of what is around you, the world around has so much beauty to see and explore, take time to excite all your senses, to Hear, Smell, Taste, Touch and See all that nature brings us and has to offer, let’s be in peace with our surroundings.

What is the real significance of Martial Arts? Have we lost the original meaning and sense of this art form?

Martial Arts

There are so many forms of martial arts out there, they all have differing benefits. Someone once told me that martial art is any of the various forms of single combat pursued as a sport. Over the centuries they have become a sport and in some cases employed in an aggressive and confrontational manner.

In my experience many students have not realised the purity of the martial art form, in the sense that most people see it as a form of self defence and not seeing the health and spiritual benefits of these so called sports.

Practising martial arts is to take on a philosophy for life, a life filled with peace, joy and spiritualism. In the East where it originated, peoples mindset is different to that of the west. Here in the west we have taken this art form and have butchered it. Martial arts has been made popular by films, starring the likes of Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li to name a few, although they have brought it to the masses, I feel the meaning has been lost, I have heard people saying “I’m learning Taekwondo, with this I can kick ass” it was not meant for that purpose, yes you can kick ass, but as a last resort, I have seen many people bragging about having a black belt in this and that only to come unstuck when they really needed to use it to defend themselves, the reason for this in my opinion was their mentality and stupidity. 

A martial art can only help you if you have the right mindset when using the techniques you have learnt. In my opinion someone practising martial art should strife to for humility, health, peace, spirituality and to lose the ego.

In my early days growing up I had tried various styles of martial arts, I tried Taekwondo, Sam Tu Dang, Kempo and Shao lin. I wanted to know more about the cultural and historical philosophy, the messages passed down from generations of these styles, but as I was doing more and more the other students used it as a form of bravado which put me off, however, I still maintained an interest in it.

I now practice DhanMuDo, which I am enjoying far more than the martial arts I had practiced when I was younger, this is more of what I was looking for and expecting.

DhanMuDo

“Only those who find the centre in their bodies can balance the world”

DhanMuDo is a comprehensive system of healing and martial arts that came from 5 thousand year tradition of healing and martial art training of Korea. DhanMuDo includes principles and practices for the enhancement of life energy (Ki/Chi/Qi) and the development of the capability to use energy. With enhanced energy-awareness and ability to use the energy, we can heal ourselves and others physically and energetically.

In DhanMuDo training, we learn how to use our body to enhance our mental and spiritual strength and integrity also. The ultimate goal of DhanMuDo training is to awaken and develop the integrity and wholeness within us in order to attain mastership over the body, mind and spirit.

Dhan in DhanMuDo means pure energy, which is the essence of life, permeates our body, keeps our life functioning, and integrate our body and consciousness into a living awareness.

Mu in DhanMuDo means ‘martial’ and ‘limitless’ . DhanMuDo is a discipline both to develop power and find limitlessness in us the limitless energy and limitless creative power. Eventually DhanMuDo is the art to attain limitlessness in awareness and energy, which is truly the source of freedom and creation.

Do in DhanMuDo is Tao which means the way, the ultimate truth and reality. 

In brief, DhanMuDo is a training system that enables people to develop their energy to reach limitlessness within them.

Benefits of DhanMuDo Training

The benefits are as follows:

• Align and correct the muscles and bone structure
• Strengthen the natural healing power and the immune system
• Build the internal energy
• Prevent osteoporosis
• Help diet and weight control
• Helps normalize blood pressure
• Activates brain cells and the brain’s left and right hemispheres
• Strengthens the self-confidence and enhances the self-esteem
• Improves learning ability and work performance
• Strengthens the lower body

As an exponent of DhanMuDo for a few years I have certainly seen the changes in me. I also now instruct occasionally and can see the improvements, especially in the more elderly students in the class.

We always make new year resolutions, we start diets, new exercise fads, for some reason we find it difficult to keep to them beyond 2 weeks. We start get some good results but often then not we go back to square 1, why is this? 

It’s not just resolutions, there are other areas of our lives where we just don’t seem to get what we want or be what we want to be, for example, why do we always fall for the same type of person? Why do we yo yo with our weight? 

Is it we lack the will power, don’t know how to change ourselves or is there something far more fundamental?

So why is it we can’t we keep our resolutions, stay slim or find someone different from the ones we have always fallen for?

I think it stems from our childhood, we are programmed to think in a particular way, this is basically the beliefs we take from our parents and the environment around us.

Our parents always said things like “You have to work hard to get on in life”, “No pain no gain”, “Money is the root of all evil”, “Money does not grow on trees” these are some of the things we heard when we were children growing up.

What are the significance of these phrases, how did we interpret them and how does it shape our thinking and therefore our futures? My analysis of these statments are as follows:

You have to work hard to Succeed

You have to work hard to get on in life or to succeed. What does that actually mean? We have all been told if you work really hard you will achieve what you want, we all go through life working hard during school and university so that we can get the grades we need to get a good job thereby have a good career and get the rewards, although this true to some extent.

What I feel is that we all work hard but some of us don’t necessarily get the rewards we believe we deserve. In all cases everyone thinks they work harder the the next person, although this maybe true there are other factors that needs to be taken into consideration.

The success within the corporate system is made from different and often complicated criterion and not everybody gets the promotion or the recognition they feel they deserve, so what happens, they get despondent and lose motivation and before you know it they go through a crisis in their life.

I have been quite fortunate that I had reasonable success within the corporate environment, I was given promotion and a more reponsible position without looking or asking for it. Why is this so? I learned somewhere along the way that for me to get on I had to work harder on myself than my job.

I remember talking to a salesman many years ago, he was telling me his story.

This is his story:

 ”I thought I was doing really well, I was working long hours and therefore working hard to get the results that I was getting. I was making enough money to get by, paying all the bills and having the holidays, but was not happy with my situation, I wanted more, I never won the salesman of the month.

Then I met someone who was very successful businessman by a chance meeting and he had a profound effect on me. He asked me “Are you happy with your life? What you are earning? Happy with your relationship?”

I told him my life was fine, that I was doing o.k. not earning greats amount of money but just comfortable and that I had a wife of 15 years and 2 children who did not know me. Over a period of 6 months we would meet often and he would give me his philosophy on life, which I had heeded.

He told me that I did not need to work harder on getting more sales but start working harder on how to be a better salesman, thereby increasing the amount of sales. I listened to him and after applying the philosophies he presented, I became the company’s best salesman and shortly after started my own business and am very successful.”

I did not go too deep into the story as the thing I took from that story was that I had to work harder on my self to succeed, it does not necessarily mean that I did not work hard at my job, it’s just I was performing better and it got noticed by my peers and management.

No Pain no Gain

I remember my father telling me  ”No Pain no Gain” It’s telling me that life is hard, we will only succeed if we go through some sort of suffering, so what do we do? we suffer. Life is not meant to be hard, we are not meant to suffer.

We start having this mindset life is meant to be hard and we carry this all the way through our lives, so when we are experiencing some sort of suffering we think it’s normal, we are meant to go through this adversity, it’s character building. Why do we still believe that there is no gain without pain? 

Money does not Grow on Trees, Money is the root of all evil.

What is money? Money is only paper, nowadays it’s just digital information. When we were told that money does not grow on trees, we were given the idea that money is scarce and hard to make, so what happens we start struggling for money.

Money is the root of all evil, this is implying that money is evil, it’s not good. How can this be? If money is paper or digital information how can this be evil? We start having a bad relationship with money and think of money as being bad, that all rich people have got rich by being evil. This could be the reason why you don’t have enough money.

If we changed our perception of money and not seeing it as an evil our relationship with money would change. If we think that if we had money we could do something good and positive with it, then we would change our mindset and money is something good, it can actually be used to do good.

Our futures have been shaped by these limiting ideas, these beliefs were passed onto us by our parents and our environment. We as human beings tend to have habits we always revert to, we need to break the cycle.  

I believe that life is a series of results. We take action, because of desire and our emotions which come from our thoughts.

I guess what I am saying is that our mind controls us rather than us controlling our minds. Unless we can control our unconscience we will not have free choice or be as successful as you want to be.

Here’s to taking back your mind and creating your life as you want it to be and breaking all those recurring habits.

I’m sure some where along the you have asked the question “Were is God when I need him?” Why do we ask the question?

In some respects it is a comical and funny question to ask. The fact that we live in a high tech world during an information age aside, the fact that you must ask implies you have never heard the gospel.

The fact that you are in need of God actually means that the defenses you have in place are keeping god out in your own mind.

So we are still asking “Where is God” or are ready to get honest with ourselves and grow up? Perhaps we should pause at this point in order to allow any mortals reading this the opportunity to leave least their status as a sub-human species be violated when they WAKE Up. So if any wish that their separation from God remain intact, please discontinue until such time as you can handle the TRUTH!!!! If this seems appropriate then perhaps you see the profound comedy, if not why did you not leave with the mortals? Where is God indeed, it’s a good thing they don’t shoot people for blasphemy because most mortals would all be standing before the firing squad.

So where is God when I need him? If you are ready for the only option to mortality then let us tell you. God is hiding inside of you because he is everywhere outside of you.

We like to think: God is omnipotent and omnipresent meaning he is everywhere and all powerful. But then they grovel before this idea in some kind of beggarly servitude persecuting all who would heal the separation between them and God. Now it may not seem like this is what we are doing unless you are among the religious elite, but they are the ones who trained you, so guess what, yes, that is what you do. If you have discovered Life in the Spirit and renounced religious servitude then congratulations, this does not apply to you.

If God is everywhere all the time, why is it, that he is suspiciously absent everywhere we go? Now if this doesn’t sound like the standard dilemma of all mortals, then we don’t have a clue as to what does. Since this does seem to be the standard let us assume that it is and begin our exploration here.

God is everywhere all the time but he is suspiciously absent wherever I go, this means that the thoughts you are thinking produce the absence of God in your experience. This is where it gets scary because this statement means that you will have to take responsibility for your creation and get honest with yourself about creating. It is so much easier to blame someone else and that is your right as a mortal who wants to stay mortal, but I thought we were beyond that by now. So like it or not responsibility is the First Immortal Law. If you are actually creating your experience (and you are) how can you blame it on someone else without being deceived, even if you call that deception truth? You just can’t do it and that is what we are talking about.

So then if every experience is a reflection of your thoughts and you have no thoughts of God within. Perhaps it’s time we give you some thoughts to think to overcome that handicap. Now we could go all off on a quantum fields and perceptual mechanics with a lot of hoopla and fanfare. But instead let’s try to keep this simple and as easy as possible.

Assuming you are a believer in the Bible as most claim to be, let us give you the single most important reference in the whole book that explains what the whole rest of the document is all about. “I HAVE Made you ONE with Myself” is the promise of God in New Covenant. Now so long as you relate to God as a mortal via the law of sin and death, I will not leave is your promise, but the reason he cannot leave is because he is you.

So where is God when you need him, right where he has always been in the Self that cannot be confined to an idea. That is why it is so hard to think about God because you cannot confine yourself to an idea. Otherwise you must think about God instead of thinking the thoughts of God.

To find God as self hiding deep in your heart of hearts is what you have known all along would be the answer but who wants to admit the truth, let someone else get honest with themselves and maybe then we will believe.

What is faith? What is Religion?  Why do we ask “What faith are you? or What religion are you?” and generally get the same answer. Is Faith and Religion interchangeable? At what point in life do we start believing in a faith/religion? Just some questions I often hear, not sure of a convincing argument or answer.

Faith

The assent off the mind to what is stated or put forward by another. Firm and earnest belief, spiritual apprehension, operative belief in the doctrines and moral principles forming a system of religion.

Religion

Belief in a superhuman being or beings, a personal god, controlling the universe and entitled to worship and obedience. The feelings, effects on conduct and the practices resulting from such belief. A system of faith doctrine and worship. 

The above are dictionary definitions for both faith and religion. It would appear that they can be interchangeable, they both use the words to define the word e.g when defining faith “operative belief in the doctrines and moral principles forming a system of religion” and religion “ A system of faith doctrine and worship.” you need have a faith and belief to follow a religion.

Why follow a religious path?

It has been increasingly clear to me that as we grow older or when we have children, we tend to gravitate back to our faith. I say back, because it started when we were children and probably didn’t really understand too much about religion and were expected to have faith in something we could not see or feel.

I believe we follow a religious path to give ourselves some kind of discipline, trust in a higher being to lead us in the right direction, to have higher moral standing and to live a full life with peace and love in our minds and hearts.

This faith and belief is passed down by our parents or in some cases we are born into the religion, nevertheless they are our point of influence. We then go through the teenage years where we start rebelling, ”I don’t want to go to church, mosque or temple, I find it boring, it’s a waste of time, I’d rather be with my mates playing football”. Our faith becomes less important, it starts to take a back seat to “being with friends, playing sports, going clubbing or partying” Why is this so?

The Experience

What did we learn about our religion or faith during our formative years? Why did we start to rebel? Did our parents and elders lose their ability to influence us? Were we searching to find ourselves? These are just a handful of questions I wanted to ask others to find out how it influenced their attitude to their faith, what is their view point now and how strong is their belief.

I shall try to answer these questions from my experience. I did not feel I had a good doctrine of my faith, frankly, I was not really interested, my parents tried hard to educate was but were on a loosing wicket, I did not see the need and was just going through the motions to please my parents. The way we (My brother and I) were taught about our religion was we got a religious teacher in house. Over the next 6 months it became clearer to the teacher that we were not interested at all, he tried to control us, but our spirit and enthusiasm for other things were overwhelming.

Although my parents practiced their religion, I was far removed, I had internal conflicts, did my religion allow me to get ahead in this society? Would I be alienated by the people around me as I was of a different creed and race? these were questions I would ask myself. I started to question myself and actually found an answer from an unlikely source, a group of people from the community I aptly named “The God Squad”

The God Squad

The god squad were a bunch of people who read everyone the riot act without looking in their own back yard. They were very moralistic, they would intimate that so and so from the community are sinners and that they would rot in hell.

I realised I not and did not want to be like them, even though they had their faith they were so empty, all they did was gossip in the name of god, I found them to be hypocritical. Had they not been hypocrites and explained the essence of the religion/faith then I probably would have followed that path to help me grow. I would have practiced my religion for the greater of human kind.

Chosen Path

So from that day onward, I chose not to follow the religious path completely, I would take the best bits from different religions, I would read books, making a comparison of the basic fundamentals of each religion, I would then conduct my life applying the different philosophies I read. Having made the choice, for a short while I started living life a little carelessly, I was falling into the peer pressure syndrome, I started to do things to fit in, a short while later I was constantly challenging myself by asking is this what I really want?

As I was got older, there was a shift to my way of thinking, I started to look inside me more, I was in that phase of being despondent of my surroundings and started to search for myself. I was on a journey, for I started my spiritual journey. My view is that I think that people have missed the point of religion, the spiritual side has been neglected. I am far more spiritual than religious, I am on the path of enlightenment, to complete my soul.

Influence

As we grow older our parents have less influence on us, we start to make decisions for ourselves, this is definitely the case when it comes to religion.

We see life from a different viewpoint, however, this goes full circle when we have children of our own. We do somehow show traits in ourselves we did not like in our parents.

This is my observation, as I do not have children but I have seen this in my siblings and friends who have children.

I still don’t know at what point we start believing, I think it’s in our DNA make up, all humans have a faith and wants to follow a spirit path, this is within us but lays dormant until the point we are ready to release and live a fulfilled life, after which we try to pass on to the next generation.

We all want to live a healthy life but do not necessarily know how to do so or do the things we need to do, as sometimes it is easier to put things off for another day, “I’ll start tomorrow”, we have been there at some stage during our lives, right.

One of the most important route to success and being successful in life is to live a life of health, work towards total well being.

Total well being

Total well being is working on all aspects of your health, I was once told or may have read somewhere that there is something called 3 dimensional health, at first I remember wondering what was that? What is he talking about? It then became apparent and obvious, that he was referring to the Body, Soul and Spirit. Each part needing to be healthy as one is interdependent with the other two.

The three aspects are like layers in an onion, you have the core which is the spirit, on top of that is the mind and then the third outer layer is the body. Each has to be strong enough to support each other, the inner most core (Spirit) has to be strongest as it supports the other two, the second layer (Soul) in turn has to support the outer most layer (Body).

The Body

It is quite common to pay more attention to one over the others, I would say most people look after their body only, the physical aspect, while this is good as we need to look after ourselves right, to look good for the opposite sex etc…, however, a lot of people neglect their physical bodies, I am amazed how some people take more care of their pets then themselves, some peoples dogs can run and run for hours, but their owners can’t even get up the one flight of stairs.

Concentrating on just the physical aspect, I believe you miss out on far more of what life has to offer, you don’t see or appreciate the beauty of the things around you, cannot get the wisdom and knowledge without reading books from great writers of the past and also our current generation. Don’t have a faith or beliefs to give you the foundation and grounding to allow the growth of a person in it’s entirety.

The Soul

Then there are those who concentrate on their soul, the intellectual side to their being, although this also good as it keeps the mind active and you gain a lot of knowledge and wisdom. 

However, what good is that if are not able to benefit or appreciate what physical exercise can do for health of your body and mind, when you don’t have the energy to play with your children or your partner. Although you gained a lot of knowledge and wisdom from reading and observing life around you, I feel that you are not complete if your physical health is ignored, one is missing out on all the possibilities the combination can achieve.

The Spirit

Then there are those who concentrate on seeking spiritual enlightenment, they get so enlightened that they don’t seem to be earthly, have a belief and reached a point where they are so peaceful they don’t exist.

Having said that the spiritual side of any being is the core, the pillar of strength which all the others can be built on. Being strong spiritually can bring miracles to life, the peace, self believe and the faith gathered within will never be lost, the use of this strength and faith can move mountains and create far reaching peace.  

Creating a Life of Peace 

We can change the way we live and create the way we want to live our lives, to achieve this we must change ourselves, work on ourselves first, we function best when we live in balance, let’s go and re-instate the balance in our lives, go and create a peaceful world for yourself and everybody around you.

Look after your Body, Soul and Spirit.