Spiritual and Physical Health

A post by Dena Jensen

I have been taught all my life that using licit drugs was wrong, try to heal your body as natural as possible, drink water, herbal teas, live a healthy life, eat healthy, and live your life the best way you can. I was taught that smoking was bad, that caffeine was not to be consumed, and I was taught that my physical health was connected to our spiritual health.

 I have at a very young age, had to "listen to my health" because I have one kidney. I was in a car accident and to make a long story short, my left kidney was removed as a result.
I have had to learn through Doctors and reading a lot about the functions of kidneys, how to be as healthy as possible so that I can have a long healthy life with my one kidney.
 
  The world today is full of bad news, lots of bad things on the Television, and we have access to the internet making all kinds of media, some good but mostly bad, at our finger tips.
There is an advantage to the internet, and having all this knowledge we have, but with knowledge comes responsibility, at least, that is my opinion.
  When we do not feel well, we can simply go to web-md and look up our symptoms and there you have with in 5 minutes a list of three or four things that might be the problem. They will tell you of course, go to the Doctor and he or she will tell you with tests, what you might have, and you will be able to chose the next path to take with what you and your physician decides. I love web md. I love reading about the brain, the nervous system. I like to put in different symptoms just to read what it will say.
 We in this new age we are embarking, have the world at our finger tips and yet, I have found not a lot of people talk about our Spiritual Health. That one is more abstract, in my opinion. If something is broken, don't we just fix it?
  When I think of this planet and how many people are on it, I feel so small, but yet, I feel in my corner of the world I can make a difference. This was the whole reason I became involved with this project with my dad a few months ago. While things have taken off slowly,  I have seen that there are many people from all over the world read this webpage. They are searching for something in their life that is either missing or they are looking for something that can help them. Sometimes Mentally or Emotionally and sometimes Spiritually.
Our bodies need exercise and clean air, sleep and healthy food just like our physical bodies. When we do something to our physical body it effects our spiritual body and sometimes forever. I call this effect a foot print. I think of it as a blue permanent foot print.
  The blue foot print can be good or bad, depending on what you do. either way, it is there. This is where we need to care for ourselves in a way that we would care for a child, and protect our spiritual health the way we would protect our Temples.
  Please consider this for a minute. Consider your body, physical and spiritual, as a Mosque, a Temple, a Synagogue, or Mansion. Would you defile that Mansion? Would you take unclean things into your Palace? Would you keep the walls of your Temple clean and washed, polished for others to gaze with admiration?
 I was raised that my body is a Temple and that I would not seek to destroy something that God created.
 We would not want to destroy other peoples Mansions or Palaces either. We nurture and care for those we love around us, and care for our own Temples also.

Now that it is Spring time, I thought I would say, I think it is a good time to reflect on what I have said. Clean your "Temples", rid yourself spiritually and physically of things that will hurt your health, hurt your body or defile your Temples. It is a good time to do some "Spring Cleaning" clean your homes, your closets and reflect on your Spiritual and Physical Health.
This is a good time for some Personal Development in the Emotional and Spiritual way, wouldn't you agree?

Healthy Happy Living to you all. (And Happy Spring Cleaning!) Please, feel free to comment or ask questions! We (my dad and I) are always here to answer them!