You get whatever you think about all the time. I belief this happens when your two selves are working in perfect alignment without involving your third self. Your first self is your MIND. Your second self is your BODY. Your third self is your SPIRIT. Your body cannot do anything on its own without instructions from your mind. Your body will do anything your mind tells it to do without question. Your body functions like a robot. That is what gives your mind so much powerful over your body. This is why it is important you always watch your thoughts. This is especially so when you have not yet become fully aware of the role of your third self. It guides your mind to think either positively or negatively. This leads you to act either positively or negatively. You have the freewill to think and act either positively or negatively. You are free to do either what is right or what is wrong. Both have consequences.
Now imagine your spirit standing between your mind and your body. Again, imagine your SOUL, your fourth self, the judge, standing as an independent observer watching, listening and noting down everything the other three selves are saying and doing. Whenever your mind tells your body to act in a certain way, your body has three options; a) it can act on the instruction without a second thought, b) it can consult the spirit to check if it is right or wrong to act in that way, or, c) it can take no action at all. Any of these options will still constitute a decision, a choice that your body and your mind have to make. Each decision has consequences. The role of your soul is to judge your actions. It does not judge your thoughts until they have been translated into either positive or negative actions. You can use your thoughts to empower your whole self. Your thoughts can also be your means of disempowering yourself.
Thinking is a learnable skill. The skill gives you the ability to use your first self (the mind) to control your second and third selves (your body and your spirit) in order to enable your fourth self (your soul) to fulfill its destiny. Understanding the relationships between these four selves is very critical to living your life in total balance. This WHOLE SELF comprises your mind, your body, your spirit and your soul. They interact with the environment in which you live and work. Without your mind, your body is an empty shell in a vegetative state unable to function rationally. Without your body, your mind cannot translate your thoughts into actionable activities. Without your guiding spirit, your body and your mind would only function on logical basis with little or no consideration for equity and fairness. Without your soul, your mind would not be held accountable for its thoughts and your spirit would not be answerable for what it has led your body to do.
No one part of your WHOLESELF is bigger or smaller. No one part is more or less important. Your whole self is greater than the sum of your part selves. Each part is equally important to your quality of life. As humans, we tend to pay more attention to the body. This is good. But if we pay as much attention to the mind and the spirit half as much as we pay to the body, we would be living much healthier lifestyle, living a much longer life and the world would have been a much peaceful place for humanity to live in.
Learning is the essential nutrient that the mind needs to grow and to develop. Without a purposeful learning, the mind is dead. A well-developed mind is the storehouse of knowledge and wisdom. A great mind uses questions as a searchlight to find solutions to existing problems. A great mind does not refer any problem to the body unless it already has thought through the solution. Albert Einstein, one of the world’s greatest creative thinkers once put it succinctly: “you cannot solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it”. This is why you must invest in your mind. The return on your investment in your mind is enormous. It gives you the ability to think the unthinkable. In resolving a problem, Einstein is saying that you must make your level of thinking rise up over and above the level of your thinking when you created the problem. You can only achieve this through investing in your mind. When you invest in your mind, you develop the ability to know and understand your body perfectly well, what it needs and when it needs it in order for the whole you to be operating at the highest level of human performance.
Meditation is one indispensable nutrient for the growth of the spirit. For some, it is prayer. Some others, it is in the silence. Yet, others achieve spiritual growth through regular reading of their respective holy books such as the Bible, the Quran, or the Tao Te Ching. They achieve the same purpose. They help you to grow and develop spiritually. When your spirit is well developed, you will no longer be acting alone. You will be receiving counselling from your spirit. You will be acting in accordance with what the spirit tells you. You will no longer be acting on what the mind tells the body to do. When your mind, your body and your spirit are working in total alignment, your soul will be at peace with itself and with the environment in which you live and work. This is the essence of Value Life Balance.
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