Mind, Body, and Spirit

Mind, Body, and Spirit

When considering well-being, think of your physical, emotional, and spiritual self as a 3 legged stool. When one of those aspects of your life is off-balance you are going to fall. You can be in top physical shape but if you are an emotional wreck, you fall. You’re spirituality will suffer if you are not taking care of yourself physically etc.

We know that stress causes emotional, physical, and spiritual troubles.

A few of the causes of stress:

1. Family issues
2. Work issues
3. Money issues
4. Driving while talking on the phone
5. Driving!
6. Gruesome, scary movies
7. Arguing with people

There are ways to attack stress:

1. Serve others
2. Spending quiet time with those you love
3. Work
4. Exercise

A few of the benefits of exercise

1. Improves health
2. Releases tension
3. Gives you a healthy perspective on life
4. Improves self-esteem and confidence
5. Strengths muscles
6. You have a more restful sleep
7. Gives you time to meditate and ponder
8. Is a diversion from your worries
9. Counters fatigue
10. Better blood circulation

 “Physical well-being is not only a priceless asset to one’s self—it is also a heritage to be passed on. With good health all the activities of life are greatly enhanced. A clean mind in a healthy body enables one to render far more effective service to others. It helps one provide more vigorous leadership. It gives our every experience in life more zest and more meaning. Robust health is a noble and worthwhile attainment.” 4

Ezra Taft Benson, talk given at President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s second annual Council on Physical Fitness, Cascade, Maryland, September 8, 1958.