Body, mind, spirit, soul

The totality of a human.

There's a scene in Breaking Bad where Walt (Bryan Cranston) is breaking down the chemicals in the human body. As the scene progress we find out that hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium, iron, sodium, and phosphorus account for 99.888042% of body composition. Gretchen surmises that that must be everything. Walt isn't so convinced. There must be something more!

"There's got to be more to a human being than that", he states.
"What about the soul?", Gretchen questions. What about the soul?

If, indeed, the soul comprises 0.111958% of our make up, we rely upon it much more than 0.111968% of the time!

How do we maintain the balance? How do we keep the soul in sync with the body and mind and spirit?

My friend Kevin at Rebooted Body has a great saying: Do What You Love Today. His application is more towards movement, but lets apply it to everything!

If you enjoy running, this achieves nourishing the body through exercise. It probably gives you a chance to think and relieve stress which feeds the mind, spirit, and soul!

For some people, it can be a long walk, a chat with a friend, a nap, swimming, yoga, pilates, painting, getting a manicure, cycling, hiking, reading, driving, cleaning.

In my experience, if you're doing something active, this feeds your body and enables negative energy to be removed and replaced with peace, calmness, tranquility. I suggest my patients to walk 20 minutes a day, 3 days a week. Totally doable. The effects of this are grand. In a study by a professor at Cal State Long Beach, his participants rated better health, energy, overall mood, happiness, and self esteem. Simply by walking. An easy fix to many troubles. In a not-so-eloquent way, the energy you are using to be mad or annoyed or worrying about something is released physically during the activity. Not all of it and not every time, but it will be significantly improved.

“Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.”
― Søren Kierkegaard