Does Balance = Happiness?
Would you agree it is important to be physically healthy? What about emotionally or mentally healthy? Is it possible to be mentally, emotionally and socially healthy without being spiritually healthy? The bible views health as completeness or wholeness. Only when a person has a good physical, mental, emotional, social and spiritual condition they can be said to be balanced and truly healthy.
Addiction Smoke and Mirrors
Many people suffer under the illusion that we can be mentally fit and physically unhealthy. For instance lets look at addictions. Addictions, no matter what they are physically dangerous. Smoking, drinking or drugs will eventually kill us and in the meantime make us very ill. If we give into addiction can we say we are mentally healthy?
Isn’t it a person’s mind that triggers the addictive desire and it is the mind that controls the body to engage in the addictive behavior. Some might argue that the addiction is beyond our control. Is it? Could it be the mind is so used to the addiction that it that the addictive behavior has become subconscious – like the ability tie our shoes or ride a bike.
Philippians 4:5a (KJV) says, “Let all men (people) know your moderation”.
The Rest of You.
What if the mind, the body and the spirit were so intertwined that they could not be separated. What if when your body was unhealthy, not including injuries, that meant your mind was unhealthy? What if the condition of your body reflected the condition of your mind? What if the condition of your mind was a reflection of the condition of what some people refer to as your heart, or soul or spirit?
The Bible says in Proverbs 23:7 (NKLV) “For as he (a person) thinks in his heart, so is he.”
Can You Think With Your Heart?
Could this mean that whatever you think in your heart becomes reflected in the physical, emotional and social aspects of your life? How does a person “think” in their “heart”? Could it mean the heart is the place where thoughts originate? Or could it mean that deep feelings give rise to thoughts and those thoughts give rise to actions that have corresponding consequences?
In Galatians 6:7 the bible says, ‘Be not deceived; God can not mocked: for whatever a person sows, that shall he also reap”
Do You Always Get What You Deserve?
Some people believe this illustrates God’s justice by saying ‘you will always get what you deserve’. In many places in the bible the scriptures point to the condition of our heart as the being the reason for our actions and circumstances. Do you agree that if you have a broken leg just taking pain-medication is not a proper solution to the problem? It may numb the pain, but it will not fix the problem. If you had a broken leg wouldn’t you want someone to mend it and brace it so it would heal? You’d want someone to fix the cause of the pain, not just medicate it, right?
Are Addictions Just Red-Flags?
What if the real source of our addictions was not a physical desire or even an emotional desire. What if our addictions were the result of a spiritual unbalance? After all isn’t the very nature of an addiction indicate an behavioral unbalance of some kind? What if the addiction was a merely a red-flag pointing to a spiritual hole that you may not even be aware of.
Could this be the reason why the addiction can never really be satisfied? Could this be the reason why what you want, never makes you genuinely happy? Maybe, we don’t know what we really want? Maybe the solution to our addictions can be found on a spiritual level.
If you want to be genuinely happy, if you want to overcome addictions, be totally healthy and live a balanced life then stick around – you’re in the right place.