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Thought for the Month posted on:
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Balancing the four aspects of Man.
As human beings we are made up of four aspects, physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. These four aspects must be in balance if we are to live a life worthy of our humanity and if we are to avoid many of the pitfalls of our existence and to grow fully in our manhood or womanhood.
If we allow our physical side to dominate how we live, by for instance, always giving way to our appetites, then we shall almost certainly end up with a poor quality of life. Eating too much will make us obese and lead to various illnesses that prevent us from being the active and purposeful people we should be. Allowing our selves to be casual and even reckless about our sex lives will often mean that we suffer from sexually transmitted diseases, have pregnancies that we do not want and internal damage that will prevent us having the children we do want. And always doing what our bodies demand will affect our relationships with other people, some of whom we actually value.
To live a life that is only filled with mental activity, by which I mean studying various subjects for years and years, may give us much knowledge about things, but will also often make us less able to have a meaningful conversation with those we love because we will be so intent on appearing cleaver that we will fail to listen to those we think of as less intelligent and in this way not be listening to them when they give us an education in the real world that surrounds us.
Emotion addicts who live from one emotion to the other are often totally unable to plan their lives and will miss the tranquillity that comes from (Just Being) which keeps us in touch with our natural selves and reality.
People these days often speak of an adrenaline rush, but this is often a cover for the inability to face life in all its ordinary everyday simplicity and this frightens us because it draws us into our selves and our true identity and we do not like what we see within or feel when we realise how little we really know about anything.
Our spiritual side is the side that takes us out of our own existence and places us securely in the realms of (Otherness) and gives us the realisation that we do matter but that there is a value that we have that does not depend on human thinking. It makes us aware, if we are willing to make the effort to understand, that everyone is a Unique, Valuable, Individual, worthy of love and respect.
What makes many avoid this aspect of our selves, is that we then have to make difficult changes to the way we view those around us and to how we treat each other. The spiritual side does not necessarily lead to an organised religious type experience, but may just show as a romantic attitude to life and by that I do not mean boy meets girl romance, but the romance of the appreciation of a beautiful sunset and a full moon on a cold and frosty night.
I hope that you will think deeply about the above statements and learn to give balance to your being in a way that will allow you to live life to the full.
May the force be with you, the spiritual force that can make our every day life real and worth living from day to day?
Fr Peter Norris SFO
Chaplain USS Nimitz Association.
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