{"id":3024,"date":"2003-08-29T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-08-29T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/living-in-harmony-the-triple-trinity-of-body-mind-and-spirit\/"},"modified":"2021-06-23T22:51:22","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T22:51:22","slug":"living-in-harmony-the-triple-trinity-of-body-mind-and-spirit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/living-in-harmony-the-triple-trinity-of-body-mind-and-spirit\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in Harmony: The Triple Trinity of Body, Mind, and Spirit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content\"><p>You are one entity with three aspects. Each has its needs. Each part of you has to honour, respect and work in harmony with the other parts in order for all to reach their needs. Each part has basic needs, intermediate needs, and ultimate needs.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<p><b>Body\u2019s Basic Needs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>food<br \/>\nwater<br \/>\nclothing<br \/>\nshelter<\/p>\n<p><b>Body\u2019s Intermediate Needs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>to be healthy<br \/>\nto feel well<br \/>\nto feel good<br \/>\nto be pampered<br \/>\nto be touched<\/p>\n<p><b>Body\u2019s Ultimate Goal <\/b><\/p>\n<p>to be immortal<\/p>\n<p><b>Mind\u2019s Basic Needs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>control<br \/>\nsafety<br \/>\nsecurity<\/p>\n<p><b>Mind\u2019s Intermediate Needs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>to be loved<br \/>\nto be connected<br \/>\nto feel part of<\/p>\n<p><b>Mind\u2019s Ultimate Goal<\/b><\/p>\n<p>self-actualization<\/p>\n<p><b>Spirit\u2019s Basic Needs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>to be known<br \/>\nto be recognized,<br \/>\naccepted as existing<\/p>\n<p><b>Spirit\u2019s Intermediate Needs<\/b><\/p>\n<p>to heal<br \/>\nto become whole<br \/>\nto feel at peace<br \/>\nto know itself<br \/>\nto find wisdom<br \/>\nto find God<\/p>\n<p><b>Spirit\u2019s Ultimate Goal<\/b><\/p>\n<p>heaven<br \/>\nnirvana,<br \/>\nending the cycle<br \/>\ncoming home<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We talk about living in peace and harmony with others, but very little is said about living in harmony with ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>Most people emphasize one aspect over the others, usually mind. We talk of people so caught up in the material world, in making money, acquiring things, paying off the mortgage, that they have lost their soul.<\/p>\n<p>Some are primarily concerned about their body, either making it look good or making it healthy. Of them we say they are trying to live forever or be young forever.<\/p>\n<p>Some are spiritually oriented to the point where they denigrate their body, become ascetics, learn to overcome physical discomfort, and even self-flagellate. Or more commonly denigrate mind, attributing to it negatives such as selfish, fearful, shameful, controlling, guilt-ridden. They may attack body and mind as distractions, illusions. This is not harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Harmony is each aspect recognizing, respecting, and taking care of the others; honouring body, mind, and spirit. Harmony is body, mind, and spirit living and working together in intra- dependence.<\/p>\n<p>Your body is not just a vessel for your mind and spirit. That\u2019s disrespectful. Your body has a life of its own, is beautiful, even a miracle, provides pleasure.<\/p>\n<p>Respect your mind. Quit the name-calling. Stop putting ego down or seeing it as something to be controlled, even an enemy to your spiritual self. Mind has its role and can be seen as positive. Rather than controlling, me-driven, and selfish, we could just as easily say mind wants to take care of, protect, help; qualities we normally call selfless. Mind lets us live in this world, sees that we are fed, safe. It partakes in the beauty around us, can see wonder, learn, soar. Pigeon-holing mind as negative is not harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Pay attention to your spiritual needs. Don\u2019t wait until you face death. Getting caught up in the demands of daily living is not harmony.<\/p>\n<p>Each has its needs, from the most basic to the ultimate. Each has its role. If it doesn\u2019t play its role or its needs are not met, then there is disharmony. Living in disharmony is no fun.<\/p>\n<p>If your trinity is in disharmony is it possible for any one aspect to meet its needs? Can mind achieve self-actualization or even love, connectedness, and feeling part of, if it ignores body and spirit? Can spirit achieve peace and wisdom by denigrating body and mind? Can body achieve health, wellness, and feeling good, when mind and spirit are not involved?<\/p>\n<p><b>Hearing<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Each aspect has its own way of communicating:.<\/p>\n<p><b>Body feels.<\/b> Body feels well or ill or tired or vigourous. Body communicates by feeling.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mind talks.<\/b> And talks and talks and talks. We call it our inner voice. Mind also has an outer voice which we use to communicate with other people.<\/p>\n<p><b>Spirit knows.<\/b> You have this sense of knowing. That\u2019s why you need to get quiet to pick up spirit\u2019s communications; because it doesn\u2019t have a voice that talks. Spirit just knows.<\/p>\n<p><b>Harmony<br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n<p>When body, mind, and spirit are living in harmony, our lives, our energy will be in flow. Flow means everything works, everything comes easy.<\/p>\n<p><b>Body<\/b> is in a state of health and well-being.<\/p>\n<p><b>Mind <\/b>is calmly and efficiently operating in the material world.<\/p>\n<p><b>Spirit<\/b> is centered and connected.<\/p>\n<p><b>This is harmony. <\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u00a9Alice Steinbart 2003<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We rarely live in harmony with ourselves.  Spiritual people bad mouth their Body and Mind.  Material people and those caught up in taking care of the Body ignore their Spirit.  To live in harmony we need to recognize and value Body, Mind, and Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[1071],"class_list":["post-3024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spirituality-religion-beliefs"],"authors":[{"term_id":1071,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"alice-steinbart","display_name":"Alice Steinbart","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3024"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4477,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3024\/revisions\/4477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3024"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/care-givers.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=3024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}