Some other things that will also help in the connection
between body mind and spirit would be relaxation, massage, and listening to music.
Not exact matches
Think of your class as the time to find the ultimate balance — a connection
between your
mind and your
body that can carry on through every aspect of your world.
She is
mind and
body, with no relational stuff in
between.
As in comedy, a misunderstanding exists, here
between one's
mind and one's
body.
Wieman argued that such a
mind could never experience love or justice because these are not «experienced in one's own
body... [but] are experienced in the relations
between persons» (41 - 2).
But whether I use the term «psychicalism,» favored by the process philosophers, or such terms as Russell's «neutral stuff» or Feigl's distinction
between the physical as the «reference» and the psychical as the «sense,» I am merely positing a name, not arguing philosophically for a conceptual scheme designed to overcome the
body /
mind dualism.
Indeed, much of the most exciting research today is being done on the relationships
between those aspects of the self that we have long held to be opposed: reason and emotion,
mind and
body the physical and the mental.
Campbell: Several members of our congregation became interested in holistic health — the scientific medical examination of the relationship
between body,
mind and spirit in healing.
So, can we abandon all the confusing jargon:
body, flesh,
mind, spirit, soul, will, choice and tooth fairy, It boils down to there's a choice to be made
between possibilities although sometimes there isn» a conflict?
Temporally
between the significantly different atomic views of Democritus and Epicurus came Plato, in his mature and late dialogues asserting the «self - activity» of souls or
minds, any and all of them, even the supreme or divine
mind whose
body, Plato says, is the cosmos, including all lesser
bodies or
minds.
In any case, it will be evident by now that the relationship
between God and the created order is much more like that
between the human
mind and the human
body, as we commonly conceive it, than it is like that
between an earthly ruler and his subjects.
But because of their different relation to the past, Collingwood makes a distinction
between «
bodies» and «
minds.»
Collingwood introduces, within the actual world, a clear distinction
between «
bodies» and «
minds.»
The first is human dignity, which is characteristic of our status in
between God and beasts: «Not simply
body, but also not simply
mind or spirit; rather, the place where
body and spirit meet and are united (and reconciled?)
The misplaced concreteness of
mind language and
body language and the impossibility of interaction
between domains whose very definitions preclude causal relations, become clear in the teeth of all the theories and institutions based on a dualistic ontology, e.g., psychiatry versus neurology versus psychoanalysis versus a holistic view of humanity.
Distracted exercise helps reinforce the divide
between our
bodies and spirits by occupying our
minds with one thing while our
bodies do something else.
This vagueness in the perceptions of our own
bodies is the reason, according to Hartshorne, that the
mind -
body relationship is often mistaken as a relationship
between two fundamentally different substances.
Of the nervous system they knew nothing; to the complicated interrelation
between body and
mind they gave but elementary attention.
Israel admitted no dualism of
mind and
body with a sort of antithesis and rivalry
between them; but man was one single unified organism and personality.
There is almost no end to the passages that urge the internal peace, the mutual love of the church, including 1 Corinthians 12 on the mutual concern of the members of the
body of Christ; 1 Corinthians 13 on love as the highest spiritual gift; Philippians 2 on the
mind of Christ; 1 John 4 on the interconnection
between love of God and love of brothers and sisters.2
For example, he has had to deal often and critically with issues surrounding the
mind -
body distinction, as well as those who assume that a strong distinction must be drawn
between facts and values (the assumed impossibility to move logically from an is to an ought).
Likewise, the disciplined imagination of speculative reason can surmount the interminable conflicts
between man and nature,
mind and
body, freedom and determinism, religion and science, by assigning each its rightful place within a larger systematic framework.
In many parts of the world, psychologists and psychotherapists are using biofeedback to throw new light on an age - old mystery — the relationship
between the
mind and the
body.
Perls rejected the split in much philosophy, psychology, and psychotherapy
between the
mind and the
body, the human organism and the wider interpersonal environment.
The link
between justice and ecological issues becomes especially evident in light of the dualistic, hierarchical mode of Western thought in which a superior and an inferior are correlated: male - female, white people — people of color, heterosexual - homosexual, able -
bodied — physically challenged, culture - nature,
mind -
body, human - nonhuman.
If human beings could communicate among themselves by direct sympathy, then they would be as mutually dependent upon each other as the
body and
mind are; and this condition would deny individual persons freedom and distinct individuality over against one another.26 Although the relationship
between one's
body and
mind seems to be immediately social, Hartshorne holds that interchange
between human
minds is almost never by direct contact and generally through mediation of vibrating particles of air and other kinds of «matter.»
Concerning the manner of interaction
between mind and
body, Hartshorne maintains that there is only one possible intelligible explanation.
These theories, he says, solve the problem of the relationship
between body and
mind by a radical simplification.
Imaginative reason in the form of a speculative philosophy such as Whitehead's can surmount the interminable conflicts
between man and nature,
mind and
body, freedom and determinism, religion and science, by assigning each its rightful place within a larger systematic framework.
At the core of the environmental crisis is a great divide
between mind and
body,
between head and heart,
between human and nature.
This means that all phenomena are identical in their constituent self - identity; all are in a state of constant transformation; and there are no absolute differences
between human nature and the natural order,
body and
mind, male and female, enlightenment and ignorance.
«The aim of this book is to argue that the
mind -
body problem is not just a local problem, having to do with the relation
between mind brain and behaviour in living organisms, but that it invades our understanding of the entire cosmos and it history.»
Attempts to deal with mental health or to plan training programs in mental health without recognizing the interconnection
between the
mind and the
body not only give a limited view of health and illness, but can hinder efforts of clergymen who counsel individuals with behavioral problems.
JK: Is there any difference
between your view and Whitehead's when it comes to the
mind -
body relation?
In particular, there is present in both the desire to solve the problem of the relation of
mind and
body by denying that there is an essential difference
between the two.
The denial of simple location also applies, therefore, to the relationships
between mind and
body.
Soul and
body also intertwine because «There is a
body of the
mind, and a
mind of the
body and a chiasm
between them» (VIV 259).
In fact, such texts, most of which date no earlier than the late second century, favor an extreme dualism
between spirit and
body and offer little consolation for those hoping to celebrate the sexual passions that are so much on Brown's
mind.
Such an unchanging perfection would require a schism
between mind and
body that Whitehead is likewise unable to accept; it would also posit a God who operates in some way outside the «actual occasions» of reality.
At a later cultural stage a sharp distinction is usually made
between two kinds of existence which, it is supposed, may occur separately as mindless matter and as disembodied
mind but, at least in man, in an association of
body and soul.
He also grants the common - sense view that a human corpse is a dead thing as a human
body, but he still makes his panpsychistic point by insisting that even a corpse is composed of many living things and, as far as our knowledge runs, nothing else.29 In addition, he claims that his belief that there is only a relative and not an absolute distinction
between mind and matter is given support by recent developments in physics that have shown that the differences
between matter and various kinds of radiation are differences of degree and not of kind.
The particular amount of distance
between any point visited by a moving
body and the next one visited must be in accordance with some or other law of nature and must be decreased by a mathematical
Mind.
Besides, if becoming is only a feature of logic, language, or consciousness, we get a serious
mind -
body bifurcation and an unbridgeable gulf
between appearance and reality.
Few illnesses reveal as clearly the relation
between body and
mind.
Perhaps the most important difference
between this year and others has been that for the most part I have had to shut my mouth and work with my hands, to think less with my
mind (explicitly) and more with my
body (tacitly).
For us, however, the split
between mind and
body is not a moral cleavage — i.e., the notion that the
body is evil, while the
mind or spirit is good.
In truth, however, Descartes» dualism is no insuperable obstacle to Whitehead, since Descartes does acknowledge that interactions
between mind and
body exist — they are discussed in considerable detail in The Passions of the Soul.
He avoids the split
between mind and
body by rejecting the idea that the
body is a mere instrument of expression for a prior subjective experience.
Descartes, on the other hand, seems to have established a clear dichotomy
between the two, mirrored in the
mind /
body dualism for which he is famous.
In Process and Reality Whitehead makes a clear use, as in Adventures of Ideas, of analogy as that
between the structure of
body and that of
mind.