The Body Mind Spirit Model (The Unified Theory of Emotion part 3)

 

The Body Mind Spirit Model

 

Body mind and spirit what does that even mean? Well today I will be going over a diagram that explains it and that also explains all human emotion and all human suffering. This model also helps to map out the path to inner peace.

 

So you have probably heard a lot of people throwing around the words body, mind and spirit it is all over the place now. It is on TV and yoga and meditation classes at the gym and even on some of the latest medical journals but has anyone ever stopped to fully explain the body mind spirit model to you? How it works and more importantly has anyone ever explained to you why understanding it is essential to understanding your emotions? Look I know that they have not and that is going to be fixed right here right now in this article.

 

First I will give you the why you should care. What is so important about understanding this body mind spirit thing in the first place? The quick answer is that hidden within this model is the answers to stuff that you were told that you were not meant to understand. Such as life, death, why pain and suffering has to happen, where true happiness resides, within the body, mind and spirit model are hidden beautiful truths about inner peace. Almost all major religions and not so major spiritual traditions on the planet are referring to this model when they talk about knowing thyself or enlightenment, or the Kingdom of Heaven is within in you or whatever words of the particular faith are used this goes to oracle of Delphi too which had inscribed on the god Apollo ‘know thyself” could one of the biggest messages across all cultures be wrong? Sure they very well could be but they are not. This is why the body, mind, spirit model is so important because understanding this model is a huge part of the know thyself process. You as human being have a body, a mind, and what has been commonly referred to as a spirit or soul, perhaps it would be better understood today as consciousness or awareness.

 

And yes I fully realize that you have never heard that looking within yourself for the answers to life’s big questions such why I am here?, does god exist?, who am I? Etcetera unless of course you listen to Plato, Socrates, Wayne Dyer, Lao Tzu, Buddha, Jesus, Eckhart Tolle, Deepak Chopra. It is because most of the religious leaders do not understand how to teach these secrets properly that next to everyone in the world is still walking around blind but it is also not their fault most people were simply not ready to listen and may never be. I am going to do my utmost best to demystify all of their mumbo jumbo for you and help you to understand it. Before I am done with writing this series hopefully you will have a better understanding of being human being is all about. The goal is to get you to fully understand the secrets of life, love, and joy and how to remove things like fear, anger, and sadness from your life. So I hope that settles the reason why you should be interested so now let’s actually take a look at the Body Mind Spirit model and dig into some basics and have some common definitions when we begin talking about this stuff in numerous future articles.

 

Basically speaking the body, mind, spirit model is the best tool that we have to explain the universe’s model of existence for human beings from a 50,000 foot view and scientific perspective including all of the intricacies of humanity and what it means to be human. The individual components of this model come together to create your human existence. Let’s look at the body portion of the model.

 

The Body

 

From a 50,000 foot view our bodies are the biological component of our human existences. Many of us typically see our bodies as what makes us well, us. This is because it is what we see when we look in the mirror. In reality that is not the whole story when you look at the body from a more critical perspective the body can actually be seen as a separate living entity with its own consciousness that lives independently of our control of it. I am really going to hit this point hard in a few articles from now but there is a lot of conscious activity going on inside of the body that is not directly connect with our own consciousness. So this is the part of the model where we will look at things like the body consciousness, like the body’s intelligence, the decision making capacity it has, the influences that the body has on the mind and the mind can have on the body, I will go into the creative capacity of the body, and how the body changes based on the need to fulfill its own unique mission.

 

The human body is designed to evolve slowly and adapt to the changing environment that allows us humans to survive in a constantly changing environment that is our planet. Understanding more about the human body and its own consciousness and its own ability to create will allow you to have a better relationship with your body and allow you to have a greater understanding of the awesome system that has been created that allows us to have this human experience. I will talk about the body in depth in later articles but for now unless you are a doctor or someone else who studies the body in depth suffice to say for now that there is a lot you do not know about it. Next we have the mind.

 

The Mind

 

The mind is the interface between our bodies and our consciousness. It is the experience of your brain being there. So our minds are very connected with our bodies but they are not the same thing. The brain is the body our mind is the experience of having a brain and it creates the interface to the body. It perceives and helps create the thoughts, sights, sounds, and other perceptions that seem to create the universe around you. It is a very complex component of your existence and one we will cover in depth because of its capacity to create pain, suffering, and negative emotions and its propensity to block you from getting in touch with your consciousness. It is in reviewing this part of the model that we are going to discuss the attachments of the human mind. This is also where we will discuss the ego and why it basically influences everything that you do and the relative valuation system and how conflict arises in the world because of it and we will go more in depth into the equation of emotion that was the first article in this series, that is an accurate and working model that explains in detail and is even able to predict human emotion. You guys are going to be the first people on the planet who finally get the true definitions of emotions who understand the slow motion process of how they are created within the mind. That is huge because emotions are the reason for all conflict as I will layout and prove.

 

Regarding where your mind fits in with regard to the search for your true self your mind is also a separate entity from your true self although most of you will fight to the death arguing that your mind is your true self. It is not. Which is why you need to learn more about your mind because it is your mind that creates the illusions that distract you from the third and most important component of your existence or the spirit/consciousness.

 

The Spirit

 

Now you are allowed to think that I am big tease here but I am going to hold back the explanation of the spirit until such time that we have had a good foundation to talk about it. This is the portion of your existence that you have not discovered yet. Trust me if you are reading this you have not discovered it yet but do not feel bad because there 7 billion people on the planet that have not yet either. This is also the portion of your existence that you are going to have to discover and experience for yourself anyway. Any attempt on my part to explain it to you would not only be pointless at this time but it is almost impossible to do so. The moment that I open my mouth to tell you what this silence is like will you understand or are you more likely to become confused. It is a paradox talking about this particular aspect of ourselves because words are next meaningless here. It is like trying to describe warm swirling water that your hand is in. How do I accurately describe such an experience. My task is to make it easier for you by showing you how to get all of the other crap out of the way and show you how to get there. And if you do not believe in spirit or awareness or soul or consciousness that is fine stick around and you will at least understand how emotions come into being within you and other human beings. Unfortunately I cannot just hand you your inner discovery it would be nice if it worked that way but it does not.

 

Now you might notice in the drawings that I have posted that there are some lines that interconnect the components of the model. These are important because they help to explain how the portions of the body mind spirit model interact and influence each other. You might notice how there are close connections between the conscious mind and the body or how body image feeds directly into ego which then connects into the equation of emotion which then creates emotions brought about by body image. You might also not the lack of connections the spirit component and everything else. You will learn why all of this stuff exists and how it all works and how we can change it if so desired in future articles.

 

Now this might seem complex when looking at the diagrams provided but so is human life and human emotion but trust as we move forward with all of this that everything will be explained in great depth to the best of my ability in a no nonsense detail way so that you can understand it and apply it to your life. Once you start to understand the intricacies of the body, mind, spirit model you will not only understand how you work but you will also understand how everyone else works too which will allow you to have more harmonious relationships in your day to day life. You will not only learn why you do everything that you do but also why every human being does what they do. This will help raise your levels of compassion for everyone around you. In short it is the best tool that we have to help humanity move forward.

 

Please check the comments section for the hand drawn diagrams of the model.