3) A human being comprises body and soul, and human sexual desires are influenced by developments and
disorders of both body and soul.
Not exact matches
This can be sensed physically, because
of the unity between
soul and body,
and expressed too - always according to the truth
of God,
and with honest prudence in the light
of His grace; we all have to be aware that we live with a fallen nature, that our
bodies can be victims
of disordered drives.
Hickson documented his assertion with specific cases: Complete cures were claimed as to pain, rheumatism, ear discharge, goiter, severe headaches,
and blood poisoning (p. 118); blindness, paralysis, deafness, possession by evil spirits, asthma, stammering,
and curvature
of the spine (p. 128); palsy, dumbness,
and mental deficiency (p. 151); deformed feet
and legs made almost entirely normal (p. 152); «the healing
of sin - sick
souls»
and «the healing
of the
body» (p. 168); partial paralysis, paralysis, infantile paralysis, rheumatoid arthritis, neuritis, St. Vitus's dance, epilepsy,
and mental
disorders (pp. 182 - 183).»
After the Fall, says the Catechism, «the harmony in which they [Adam
and Eve] had found themselves, thanks to original justice, is now destroyed: the control
of the
soul's spiritual faculties over the
body is shattered» (400);
and, it adds, this
disorder can extend to the marital relationship itself: «the union
of man
and woman becomes subject to tensions, their relations henceforth marked by lust
and domination» (ib.; cf. 409).
In return, the relationship was also so very healing for my
soul and mental health — not only as a new mom, but as a woman: after spending most
of my life hating my
body and abusing it through an eating
disorder (spending so many years wishing my boobs would disappear because they were «extra fat on my
body»), watching my son thrive
and grow on the milk my
body made was just the most intensely awesome thing.
As a Licensed Counselor, Certified Personal Fitness Trainer, Mindfulness practitioner
and Educator with thirty years
of experience, I believe that only by treating the mind,
body,
and soul can we ultimately heal Anxiety, depression
and other
disorders.