Rethinking your mind, renewing your body, reconnecting your
soul—which of them plays the most pivotal role in your depression? They all contribute to your overall holistic
well-being, which is your freedom from depression. They all work miracles in your life so that you can live your life as if
everything is a miracle.
Your body, mind, and soul work together as a system of life
energy. The free flow or stagnation of this life-giving energy is dependent on
the “state of being” of your body, mind, and soul at each moment. It is this
moment-to-moment alignment in your body, mind, and soul, as well as their
alignment with one another, that creates your unique state of being, which is a
miracle in itself.
What is your current state of being? Do you feel depressed?
If you are living your life as if nothing is a miracle, most
probably your body, mind, and soul are in misalignment
with one another. You might feel your life has little or no meaning, without a
goal or purpose, strangled with sadness, and doomed to despair whenever you are
confronted with life challenges and obstacles that are as inevitable as death.
On the other hand, if your current state of being is one of joy, hope, and
purpose, you are living as if everything is a miracle because your body, mind,
and soul are not only interconnected, but also in perfect alignment and harmony
with one another.
Alignment or realignment is interconnection of the body,
mind, and soul to achieve ultimately the becoming
and being of the self.
Your body alignment
Your body is the composition of your mind and soul in your
physical world. It perceives and validates all your life perceptions and
experiences.
Align your body to work miracles to renew and rejuvenate
your toxic body through regular detoxification, a healthful diet and lifestyle,
good natural sleep, a stress-free living environment, and a daily exercise
routine, aided by life-giving breaths and body-transforming posture.
Your mind alignment
Your mind is the interactive messenger between your body and
soul. It is the interpreter and overseer of your physical being.
Align your mind to work miracles to interpret correctly and
express clearly your emotions and experiences in the language for your soul, as
well as to register accurately all the nerve impulses generated by your body in
your physical world.
Your soul alignment
Your soul is the source of life force in the form of
invisible energy to your body and mind to give them direction in your physical
world.
Align your soul to provide guidance for your body in terms
of behaviors, and actions in the physical form, as well as to inspire your mind
in the form of choices and decisions that lead to appropriate actions and
reactions in your physical world.
The miracle of
desire and decision
Alignment or realignment
does not and will not occur by itself unless you so desire to align, realign or
to change any misalignment. You have to change in order to live your
life as if everything is a miracle. Don’t shrink back from the challenge of
change. Don’t expect others around you to change in order to let you get what
you want in your life. If your body, mind, and soul are in total alignment with
one another, everything in your life will naturally fall into its right place;
you will see all possibilities of reaching your dreams, and you will see no
void between what you have and what you want. If your desire for alignment is
greater than your desire for anything else, you will surely find the way to
motivate your body, mind, and soul to seek their alignment with one another. Once
you have the desire for the body-mind-soul alignment within yourself, you will
then seek alignment and connection with others as well. Believe in the miracle
of desire and decision.
“And you will seek
Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart.” (Jeremiah 29:13)
Make your decision
to desire alignment or realignment and connection with others, and then act
accordingly. Remember, any indecision is sometimes worse than a wrong decision.
As a matter of fact, if you let your soul guide you along the way, your
decision can never be a wrong one.
Connection and Disconnection
According to entropy, one of the laws of physics, anything left to itself will ultimately disintegrate, and fall apart.
According to John Donne, the famous English poet, no
man is an island, and every man is a piece of the
continent, a part of the main. Essentially, everything in the universe
is somehow and somewhat connected, just as man is connected with one another in
a subtle way. The miracle of this connectedness is to provide balance and
harmony to guarantee their existence and co-existence, which is their
alignment.
To illustrate the relevance of alignment, for thousands of
years, the Chinese have observed the importance of balance and harmony
manifested in the “yin” and the “yang,” which literally means the bright and
the dark side of a hill, respectively, or the contemporary version of the
“male” and the “female.” Essentially, all things are both the “yin” and
the “yang” simultaneously, despite their polar opposites; they are what
they are by relativity to the other. In other words, they are interdependent on
each other for balance and harmony for their existence and co-existence. In
Chinese health and healing, the concept of the “yin” and the “yang” is further
governed by the “Five Elements” (wood, fire, earth, metal, and water), with
each representing a major body organ, and each indicating a process of action
and interaction, in which one thing acts and interacts upon another, thereby
balancing and complementing each other—just as the “yin” and the “yang” do. To
illustrate, wood feeds the fire; without wood, there will be no fire. Fire
creates earth, which is the ash from burning wood; without fire, there will be
no earth. Metal comes from earth; without earth, there will be no metal. When
metal is heated by fire, water through condensation is formed; without metal,
there will be no water. In the natural cycle of things, without water, there
will be no wood; without wood, there will be no fire; without fire, there will
be no metal; without metal, there will be no water. This ancient Chinese
healing philosophy attests to the importance of alignment, connection, and
interconnection for the existence and co-existence of anything and everything
in the universe.
In life, having no connection may be as bad as, if not worse
than, having a wrong connection. Believe in the miracle that all happenings in
your life are somehow connected for an unfathomable and unimaginable purpose,
and that you can turn any bad situation into an opportunity for self-learning,
self-improvement, and self-enlightenment. Believe in the miracle that you are
connected with everyone you meet in your life, and that everyone can be either
your teacher or your student. In other words, there is much to learn from any
circumstance, as well as from one another. This is the miracle of alignment and
connection.
On the other hand, disconnection with others may make you
indulge in your self-ego. Don’t let yourself unwittingly become the proverbial
frog being cooked in the pot without even knowing that the self-destructive
heat has been turned up slowly and unnoticeably. Therefore, adequate connection
with others is critical to the wellness of your being, but you must be aware of
it; and act on it accordingly.
Becoming and Being
Alignment and realignment of your body, mind, and soul will
bring about your becoming, which is more important than your doing.
That is to say, the ultimate goal in believing that everything in life is a
miracle is to discover your destiny, not in what you will do, but in what you
will become. With a re-energized body, a re-kindled mind, and a revived
soul, you are now willing to become the person God wants you to be in order to
discover what God wants you to do. Your becoming
is your being.
Understanding this wisdom of alignment of the body, mind,
and soul, as well as the importance of becoming and being, will set you free
from depression.
Stephen Lau
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