Dynamics Between Body and Soul

Let me warn you (the reader) that this essay may come across to you as rather cold and mechanical rather than warm and "coming from the heart" as I would prefer it to be. I will do my best to make it as heartwarming as I can. Please bear with me a bit on this shortcoming since I feel that it is important to explain the "mechanics" of the connection and relationship between the body and soul in order to get a better understanding of each of those two entities (body and soul) and the interaction that should go on with each other.

Let's start with an act of love itself as carried out by a human being (a body-soul entity). An act of love that originates from the soul (as opposed to an act of love motivated by love that originates from the mind) is the "true" and "pure" love. The act is carried out by the body as directed by the mind in response to the "influence" of the soul on that mind. When the body acts in this particular manner, it is doing so in alignment with its rightful design and role as the medium by which the soul is able to carry out its nature. What is the nature of the soul? Although the nature of the soul consists of lots of things that is beyond my mind's ability to fathom, I do know with certainty its most important and elemental aspect...that aspect is none other than love...true and pure love...love that is God.

When the body acts in the above described fashion, we can say that it (the body) is in harmony with the soul (its counterpart). There is no other motive for this type of act other than to achieve this harmony between the body and soul. This harmony is important to us human beings because when this harmony is absent and the alignment of the body with the soul is in disarray, then our body and mind will manifest this disharmony in the form of mental and physical illness, the inability of the body to heal itself, and worst of all malaise, the absence of "inner peace".

If you want to think of the motive for this type of act of love in terms of the concept of "reward" as the motivator for the act, then think of the reward this way - the love that within the soul is active...it cannot stay in one place...it needs to flow from the soul on to another soul. Although all souls are connected, souls cannot carry out acts and therefore needs the body to do the carrying out of the loving act. The reward in this case is therefore the enabling of the flow of love. This can be considered a reward because when true and pure love is allowed to flow, then the rightful order of the universe is realized. When the rightful order of the universe is realized, then "all is good" (for lack of a more appropriate phrase).

With the above illustration, we can now visualize this activity as the establishment of a connection between two bodies that is in alignment with the (already existing) connection between the two associated souls.

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