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Mind, Body, and the Holy Spirit

Okay! So what if the whole world makes sense to me through the discipline of exercise? It’s how I connect. Connect with what? My inner being. And it gets better or worse for some…it’s how I connect even more so with the Holy Spirit. I can hear you now. Connecting to your inner being I can swallow, but to the Holy Spirit? I don’t know about that, you may say.

For the most part of our lives, at least for some of us, we are accustomed to looking on the outside. We seek for wealth outside of ourselves not realizing that wealth exists first in the mind. We seek for health outside of ourselves not realizing that health exist first in the mind—inside a healthy body is a healthy mind we have heard. We look to blame others for our short coming before we look within to see what our responsibility should be or should have been. We seek for happiness and peace within the world rather than creating the happiness and peace within ourselves first. We look to political and world leaders for change rather than focusing within ourselves to be the change the world needs.

To bring it home to my fitness lovers, we lift weights, we workout, but unless we connect with the muscles within, our bodies will not take a specific shape. The other day, I worked out with a friend who went through each exercise as if he were running the 100 meters race. I finally asked why are you rushing through your exercises?  You must connect your mind with your muscles, so the movements should be controlled.  By slowing down the motion, the muscles receive more tension.  Similarly, in walking to lose weight, the legs must be connected to the head. One time or another, I know we all have gone through “the motion” in our lives when doing an activity. But if we expect to get result we must connect from within. We must move from the external to the internal.

Our entire Christian faith shows this focus: the Holy Spirit is God within. Jesus-the man, was “Emmanuel”—with us. The Holy Spirit comes to live within us. It is our responsibility to connect with the Holy Spirit even when one has accepted Jesus Christ. The connection must be continually made else we will only go through the motion of being a Christian. You may ask how do we connect with him?  The same way you get within to everything else except it is not just the mind involved; it is not just the body involved, but it involves also your spirit connecting with God’s Holy Spirit. The irony here is most people can grasp the spiritual connection in theory, but have not connected the Holy Spirit to their bodies and minds. For example, the body houses the Holy Spirit of God.  Our mind is the mind of Christ and under constant repair and reconstruction. It’s the headquarters. If this area is not brought in connection with the Holy Spirit, it can destroy the body.