Someone told me tonight that I have a lot of spirit in me. Does everyone have spirit proportional to body? And in the same ratios? How does that work? So, fun idea: what if our spirits work like our bodies? We are born with little spirits (I know that we cultivated our spirits before we were born, though. Does that mean that some people are born with more/different spirit than other people?) And then our spirits automatically grow as we do. How can they not, when shaped by so much life, with all of the hardship and love it holds? Our bodies do that too—they get bigger as we get older and even just keep changing all our lives, even when we don't disrupt their defaults. Aging.
BUT. Caveat. Because it is evident, through warmth and light and love, that some people are housing spirits that are definitely not default. I know that I've met some of these people in my life. They have created homes that feel similarly warm, have raised children who are beginning to be similarly loving. That doesn't just happen all by itself. These individuals have worked hard to become this way.
Why wouldn't our spirits work the same way as our bodies? Doesn't god operate on the same laws through every plane? Laws of sowing and reaping, laws of natural consequence. So our spirits are like our bodies. Just as we work out and gain weight through muscle mass, our spirits can become more tightly packed (denser, of necessity, as we work to grow our spirits) into our same frames (with maybe even some seeping out the seams and that's why people can feel strong spirits in other people. And when we feed our spirits junk, we gain spiritual weight of that which is not dense, but simply fattening—it fills and dulls us, limiting our senses and capacities. And I know I've experienced this in myself. Short and long term. It's the human condition, I think.)
I find it interesting to think of my spiritual inclinations as muscles that I can exercise or allow to atrophy. I think this frame of thought can help us feel more control over the progression of our minds/spirits. And also, it can help us feel better when it seems hard to mark our spiritual progress over time—anyone who has ever done or done much research on long-term physical fitness can attest that it's important to focus on little daily things, and avoid discouragement from perceived lack of results. Because the results will be subtle and spread out.
And just as mental/emotional balance makes it easier to stick to long term fitness plans—and just as consistent exercise is shown 5 thousand jillion times to improve our baseline mental and emotional health—it's important that we balance our physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual improvement. Someone treating their body with respect and care will be, in the short and long term, more baseline attuned and receptive to the spirit than someone who is not, for example.
So that is the word blurb that I wanted to do to for a preliminary refinement on this new maybe-concept. And it's also really late, like 1:30, which is past the midnight time which is why the title says midnightISH. Goodnight all.
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