Body, mind and soul: the perfect combination.

Body, mind and soul: the perfect combination.

by sara duva -
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It is a common belief that being far from the place of living can benefits the soul.This because we think that our unsatysfaction and sadness come from the world outside and that being far from it can improve our interior condition. This is deeply wrong. When we travel we travel with ourselves first and so we bring our problems with us. As Seneca said: "You have to change your soul, not the sky". We are humans and we have to accept that we are a complex combination of more elements: body, mind and soul.

The first thing is to stay well with ourselves. Only if we have reached an interior peace we are ready to go out, relate with others, let the nature surprised us and find armony and joy doing the things we have to do. If we are in peace with ourselves we stay well everywhere. The peace has to be discovered both in mind and body.

According to Freud, the body is something human itself ,full of istincts and needs. It is not merely a coat which humans wear but a medium in life experience. Everything from objects to feelings pass through and reflect on it.

It is not just a conicidence if when we are under pressure we see our face spotted at the mirror or if when we are depressed we are more likely to get sick. This is the evidence that mind and body are strictly linked. Moreover body requires caring which can consist of having an equilibrate diet, being trained, having its needs satysfied. Also mind requires both exercise and relax, for istance with music and other pleasant activities. As we know, a stressed mind can not work properly but also a tired body can not give benefits. 

In conclusion I would say that neither of them, body and mind, is more important than the other. What really matters is the balance between the body's and the mind's health, which together lead to serenity in life.

In reply to sara duva

Re: Body, mind and soul: the perfect combination.

by stefano agresti -

Mind, body and soul

 

Mind, body and soul are strightly related. They constitute a unique organic system, that is our being. The mind can be considered the central, the “capital”of that system. But it functions and it expresses itself only through the body; and the body is stimulated by external inputs, that are received and elaborated by the mind. But we must not forget the role of the soul in constituting nature and shaping sensations and feeligs: we can considered it that what permeates the body and the mind themselves, the essence and the mistery of our organic being and our existence.

During the human history, these tree parts were not always considered indivisible and in relationship. For example, from the ancient Greek metaphysical tradition to the Christian culture, the soul was judged superior than the body: the soul was the immaterial and spiritual substance, closer to that of the metaphysical sphere, the body was the material one, belonging to the everyday life and reality, with all its negative features. In opposition to this tradition, it developed indipendently from the antiquity another way of thinking that put the body and the materiality in a central position. They put first the body and its relations with the real world, whitout a teleological perspective. Now, in contemporary times, the human being is considered in all its complexity, and we have the possibility to reconsider its position in the world, in the reality and in the human history.