Has your soul ever felt heavy, lazy, or a little out of shape?
Like your body, your soul needs a workout sometimes.
When our lives are comfortable, we might not reflect as much. We start to go through our days on auto-pilot. We might stop learning and changing.
But when our lives become a little more challenging, sometimes our souls start to wake up.
In this video, Thomas Moore, PhD explains how difficult circumstances can potentially recharge our souls.
It’s only 3 minutes long, so I don’t want you to miss it.
Have you ever learned a powerful lesson after a difficult challenge? Leave a comment below to let us know.
I have learned and believed in the healing power of positive confession of the Words of God. I was healed of colon cancer back in 2010 confessing Psalm 118: 17.Had I not going through that challenge I would not be as empathic of other’s challenge. I always heard there are teachable moments in life and a challenge is a powerful tool.
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The ‘soul’ is a nice construct which has a poetic feel and can invite us to co-construct narratives from those things which are extraordinarily ordinary. And yes, we are built for challenge and need to build it into our lives. The ParaOlympics are on at the moment, and its inspiring to see what those champions of life have done with their challenges. Conversation is the lifeblood of connection which can help us reflect with a variety of frameworks, not just those which are habitual. I’ve read and enjoyed Thomas Moore’s books, and as a happy atheist, am happy to use the word ‘soul’ – that part which responds to beauty, values, and poetry. My digital photography invites me to make the ordinary, extraordinary. Small ravette. See you tomorrow. 😉
Your program sounds great, but in these hard economic times your program is way to expensive for most of us that need it the most. A lot of people like myself are out of work and short on funds.
Too bad for us?
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Ruth,
How long do you reckon it might take for us to shake off the old paradigm of referring to ourselves as ‘having’ souls. If I have a soul, then what am (is?) ‘I’?
After millennia of using restrictive language, it takes a certain amount of effort to retain the concept that we are spirit and operate bodies; and while this is something that can be communicated and agreed upon in extended conversation, I have not myself come up with a simple verbal expression which can be easily apprehended, assimilated and kept in perpetuity by one’s audience.
Bodies are a necessary ‘evil’ (or ‘good’) and there are, thankfully, very few of us seeking freedom from the burden of being yoked to one. So talking, and thinking and feeling, from a soul perspective needs a great shift of focus … or maybe requires a relaxed move away from focus. And if we say “my body” it still just comes across as the same old, same old, pre-occupation with the purely physical and material.
Maybe it’s the possessiveness of the word ‘my’ that’s at the core of the confusion.
Something we should think about? Or perhaps seek higher guidance on. Any ideas? At the age of 89, I’d like to stick around to see what happens.
Monty.
Thank you, Monty for bringing up something that questions our Cartesian language. My own thoughts on this are that we don’t have a soul or a body. Rather we are both. I don’t believe we are spirit, dragging around what St. Francis called “Brother Ass”. I believe a good way to think about body and soul is energy. Spirit is a form of energy. Thought and emotion are movements of one energy, different modulations of a single energy. Body is, again, a different expression of the one energy. So my body is just as much “spirit” as is my “soul” or “spirit”. Clumsily put but maybe worth consideration. Congratulations on your longevity! I’m 80. My best friend, besides my wife, is John. He’s 90. Us wiseguys need to stick together.