When we find ourselves in difficulty, it is especially important to refresh ourselves in the saving truths of the universal family—the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man—however you may express them.
Here is a philosophy of living reflection on integrated living. Health, sanity (mental efficiency), and happiness are linked. Here’s a quick lesson in how.
Watch the 6:53 video or listen to the audio file.
Think of the personality system: body, mind, soul, spirit. The joy in the spirit comes into the soul and overflows into the mind. From there it permeates to the interface between mind and body. The cells of the nervous system (not only the brain—it extends throughout the body) receive the blessing.
When the soul is happy—our essential needs are met in God—then the mind can function better: we can take better care of our health, treat others the way we want to be treated, cooperate with public health authorities, and enjoy sharpened intuition into matter, mind, and spirit. In an emergency, it is normal for people to be anxious and distraught; but paying attention to the helpers is stabilizing. They have the training, the teamwork, and the calm needed to help us. This approach to personality unification enables us, in a way–qualified by realism!–to be not on the side of those anxious with understandable self-concern, but to be on the side of the helpers, the healers, the friends.
When Jesus poured out his spirit upon all flesh, he gave us a special opportunity. The joy of this outpoured spirit, when it is consciously received in human life, is a tonic for health, a stimulus for mind, and an unfailing energy for the soul.
So no matter what is going on in your life and in our world, always know that you are a divinely created, infinitely loved, spiritually indwelt, evolutionary (yes), free-will, son or daughter of the living God!
Image credit: By DFID – UK Department for International Development – Rescue teams search earthquake-hit Chautara, Nepal, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=39864462
