Health and Spirituality: Your Physical Body is a Meaning Vessel to Achieve Your Spiritual Self

In our path to pursue the achievement of our spiritual self, we need to also pay attention to our body.  Our body is the vessel to our soul.  When it is healthy, we will be more able to think clearly.  When it is healthy, we are more able to be of service to others, to contribute to communities, to have the energy to share, and to make effort in raising the consciousness of our human brethren higher level.

As such, the body cannot be neglected.  As we work to become holistic, we also need to be wholistic and to have appreciation, compassion, and care to our body by providing it with the opportunity to exercise, of enjoying the benefits of good diet, and of  be rejuvenated by ample rest (especially not to sleep too late).

Are you committed to your body? Do you have compassion for it?  Currently, I am committed whenever I wake up in the morning just to do some simple exercise 4-5 minutes of calf exercise, 65 crunches, and 25 push-ups.  This is done for the purpose to stimulate our meridian channels and to allow our energy, our chi to be "awakened" and to flow much better.

On the weekends, mostly on Sunday, I go to Bukit Kiara to spend 1 or 2 hours walking up and down the hill, getting to taste the fresh air and the generous energy emitted by the green.  And all the time being thankful in the process.

Also, I spend some time to focus on certain chakra.  As they are meditated and have energy stimulated, it can flow to also nourish the body.  However, I must remember to close it after I finish meditating.  Yet, chakra meditation can be combined with walking meditation.  This is something I would like to experience and experiment.  Before doing this, I will have to speak to the Divine to guide me through the process and enable me to feel the energy within so it can naturally direct me onto the parts in where it needs work.

Although the body is transient/impermanent, it is the medium in which we use to act, to create meaning in our life and to establish meaningful relationship with others and the environment.  When our body is weak, then there will be challenge to do the above.  Though it is not impossible as some people with resolve can still attain the above achievement, I will leave this for another post to discuss and facilitate my further contemplation.