When Mind, Body And Spirit Are Aligned?

 

This morning, a question was posed in Quora.com:  HOW FAR CAN WE GO?  Ane Christensen shared his/her insights.  He/she turned 80 this January 2025 and still works as a production designer. [DON'T GET HER WRONG.  SHE'S NOT WORKING FOR THE SAKE OF $$$$$$ BUT SIMPLY TO BE BUSY AND GET GOING].  To quote him/her further:  THERE'S REALLY NO SET AGE WHEN ONE CAN STOP WORKING AS LONG AS THE MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT ARE UP TO IT  AND ACTUALLY, WORK AND SOCIAL INTERACTION KEEPS US YOUNG, seriously.  I just CAN'T agree more on this WHEN MIND, BODY AND SPIRIT ARE ALIGNED💚💛💜

Years back, I had the rare opportunity to be invited by noted Life Coach Samira Gupta and I remember her differentiating and at the same time reinforcing the need for our MIND, BODY and SPIRIT to be aligned, as follows:

• Our MIND represents our intentions and thoughts which shapes our communications and decision-making

• Our BODY is the vessel that carries out these intentions, reflecting our inner state through gestures, posture and even facial expressions.
• Our SOUL encompasses the very essence of WHO we are guiding our actions and reinforcing our core values

BUT before we end up  " SILO'ing' " our MIND, BODY and SPIRIT, let us NOT miss out the undeniable fact that we are one whole human being BUT on the condition that they are all in alignment although if someone WHO lives and breathes more via his intellect, such alignment may appear to be ambivalent OR ambitious in scope💥💥💥

The main message that keeps resonating across the landscapes is for us to shift our old paradigms and consider to start thinking anew to incorporate other methods of explanation that may enlighten ourselves at most.  One of the most popular best practices is getting into meditation because that helps to become the platform that will lead us to that certain 'elevation'.  Unfortunately, yoga was wrongly tagged by some quarters as another sect, another faith BUT it's NOT.  Instead, it reinforces the very foundations that will help us to shape as the human being we ought to be.  Look NO farther than those nightmarish experiences of American military personnel WHO just came back from deployments either in the vastness of Afghanistan OR Iraq😡😡😡

A sordid YET unbelievable first-hand narrative I heard is with regard an American WHO just came back from Afghanistan.  Since returning back to his family, his MIND, BODY and SPIRIT DIDN'T seem aligned at all.  He initially manifested behaviors that were either too irrational if NOT alarming until one day, he killed his whole family before killing himself for reasons only he himself would have brought to his grave.  Although this tragedy is an outlier of an American story, it has been happening [albeit with nary any publicity].  IF ONLY we can ensure our MIND, BODY and SPIRIT are always aligned😌😌😌