| The Trinity of Body Mind Soul
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| | the mind shapes our lives much more than
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| 01st December 2005
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| | most of us realize. Its tools may appear
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| Author: Amy Biddle
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| | to be more refined. Rather than the power
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| We are all spiritual beings, each of us
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| | of hammers, muscles, and the opposable
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| with the gift of a body, mind, and soul.
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| | thumb, the mind has the power of
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| When we are not very aware of our
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| | attention, belief, and observation. With
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| essentially spiritual nature, we tend to
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| | these tools, the mind shapes our world in
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| identify ourselves as just one thing or
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| | a way far more profound than bulldozers
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| the other. Some of us think we are this
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| | and chain saws. We can visualize a whole
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| body that does things, or we're a mind
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| | new life for ourselves and watch it
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| that has to figure it out. Our soul, we
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| | manifest without our bodies forcing
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| may imagine, is something that floats up
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| | anything.
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| and may or may not live on after we die.
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| | The challenging thing about the mind, for
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| As we grow in spiritual awareness, we
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| | most of us, is that it encompasses both
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| develop a more integrated understanding
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| | conscious and unconscious attitudes,
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| of ourselves. We come to know ourselves
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| | beliefs, and desires. It is our whole
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| as spiritual creatures, operating through
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| | mind that creates our circumstances, not
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| a unified trinity of body, mind, and
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| | just the part we're aware of. This
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| soul. These three facets of self allow us
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| | explains why we so often experience the
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| to have a creative experience of life in
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| | frustration of our conscious beliefs and
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| (at least) three dimensions
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| | desires. The conscious mind has only a
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| simultaneously.
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| | fraction of the mind's total power.
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| Through the body, we can experience and
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| | Fortunately for us, neither the body nor
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| affect our physical environment. We can
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| | the mind is in total control. If there
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| build shelters, make clothing, and find
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| | seems to be a stalemate between our
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| or grow food. We can feel pleasure and
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| | conscious desires and our unconscious
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| pain. Our brains (which are organs of our
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| | beliefs and attitudes, attention to the
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| bodies) can learn by conditioning to
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| | third aspect of ourselves can help us get
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| survive on the physical plane. Our bodies
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| | unstuck. The soul has direct access to
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| have their own consciousness. An example
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| | all wisdom, power, health, and love.
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| of this is in body memory. Have you ever
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| | The soul is the part of us that lives in
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| found it useful to "dial" a frequently
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| | the vast collective pool of good that is
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| used phone number in the air when you
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| | God. When we integrate our whole selves
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| need to remember it? The information
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| | through regular attention to the soul, we
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| seems not to be stored in your head,
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| | find that we are neither mind nor body
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| because the fingers that dance that
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| | alone, but that both our minds and bodies
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| pattern so often have their own memory.
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| | give fuller expression to our spiritual
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| While the body can affect our physical
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| | essence.
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| environment in a sort of brute force way,
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