My Mind-Body-Spirit Connection – Literally!!
Good evening!
Ok, so where to begin?? Well, tonight was week 2 of my belly dancing class! I am soooooo LOVING this class!! If I didn’t hurt so badly after one, I could do this EVERY SINGLE NIGHT!!! I also have decided that I think it should be made a pre-requisite for any girl wanting to graduate from high school so that she is comfortable in her own skin. SERIOUSLY!!! 😉
I had a HUGE Ah-Ha moment this evening!! I have always known that I have had a mind, a body, and a spirit, but I have always treated them as separate entities! I learn to be smart, I talk to God to be spiritural, and I exercise to be physical. I realized that might just be exactly what my problem has been all along. I have literally created this disconnect between these three areas of myself and I have never made the connection that they each are effected and are dependent on each other.
Was this a lesson I missed in school??
Was I sick the day that this was taught in church??
Was this a day when I was too busy to listen to my mother??
Why haven’t I ever realized this before????
I have always been a heavy person, so I had come to the conclusion that I am never going to be a truly physical person because I have no control over my body.
The Ah-Ha moment was when I realized this was BS!
I am learning that practicing belly dancing shows you that through action, and practice you can make your body do things that you NEVER thought it could do previously!! The instant the instructor said,
“You can not think to do the move, you have to just let it happen.”
“What? That doesn’t make any sense”, my mind said to my body.
“Try it anyway!”, my spirit said!!
and the next thing I know, I am doing the move, at least the reflection of myself is doing the move, so I am assuming that person dressed like me, sweating like me, panting like me, is me!!
LIGHTBULB!!! YES, I CAN DO THESE MOVES!!
YES! I CAN BE A PHYSICAL PERSON!!!
But even more than that, my mind, and body, and spirit are all connected. They are not independent of each other! and if I am willing to put into practice actions that will challenge each of these three areas, they will rise to the occasion and things that I thought would never actually could happen, will happen. Now I think I understand what the Bible means when it says that men (or women) can move mountains!!
Am I the last one to have learned this lesson??? I sure hope not! I just can’t believe that I can do these moves!!!
I will tell you more about my day, tomorrow!! I even have pictures to post!!! but this girl has got to take her tired body, mind, and spirit to bed!! 😉
Have a FABULOUS evening!!
