When I am writing this…in a blog…I am brief. There is so much more that can be said about any of things that I have written. I am brief because I just want to entice a thought…not a monologue.

You ARE a spirit….you HAVE a soul…and you LIVE in a body. I say “you” meaning all of us. The spirit and soul are intertwined; like the muscle of the heart that has different chambers that are responsible for particular parts, the spirit and the soul operate similarly. The soul is: our mind…(or intellect)…our free-will…and our emotions. These three elements make up the mind. And the head of all of this…the big kahuna, is the spirit. Or at least it should be in charge.

When I was going through my recovery I really found out how this worked. I saw that my mental realm was in charge rather than my spirit…I hadn’t given my spirit the “food” that it needed and instead I had been run by my emotions constantly. Which of course goes to the body. Without keeping my emotions in check, I couldn’t control or recover my body. It was a constant process. And both the emotions (the mental realm) and my body couldn’t heal completely until I had fed my spirit.