I once had a dream in which I was driving a car late at night through the woods on a narrow dirt road.  There were two other people with me. The person closest to me I knew well and could see very clearly. I knew she was quite ill. She was holding a bowl in her lap because she felt she was going to be sick. The second person, on the other side of the first, was a bit farther from me, hazy in appearance. I had a vague idea of his identity but I was not fully aware of who he was.

We arrived at an old abandoned house. Inside there were three rooms.

The room we were in was in the center of the house. It was large and well lit. I could see every part of it. It was very clean and uncluttered. It felt warm and inviting.

I then got up and walked into the second room off to one side. The lights were off, I could not see it very clearly, but I could tell it was cluttered, filled with many possessions.

There was a young man, an old lover, in the bed sleeping. I put on two bras, picked up a small statue and then left the room.

The third room was on the other side of the main room and the door was closed. There was light coming from beneath the door and movement inside casting shadows on the floor. I was frightened of whatever was moving inside. This room was very mysterious.

When I woke up, the meaning of the dream was clear. The three people symbolized my complete being. I was the body. But the girl next to me that I knew, that I saw clearly, she was my soul. And she was very ill. The man that was further from me, hazy, less known, he was my spirit.

The house also symbolized my whole being. The main room, well lit, well seen and understood. Clean and well maintained. My body.

The second room, dark, but still visible, with an old lover in the bed, clutter everywhere, an idol, and a need to cover myself up intimately. This was my soul.

And the third room, again the one I could not see inside, the one that was foreign, closed, unknown to me. The one that had unknown things moving about inside, things that even frightened me. This was my spirit.

At the time of this dream I had spent a great deal of time getting to know my body, cleansing and healing physically. A fair amount of time getting to know my soul. But my spirit was still almost a complete mystery to me then.

When we desire to heal, we are desiring purification. We are desiring to clean up things that are in states of disorder and chaos. Things that are dirty and toxic. And we must understand the whole person we are… or we will never fully heal. An otherwise healthy body with cancer in just one part is still a body whose life is in danger. One part overlooked can still mean a very serious life threat. For it is the neglected parts of us that are most likely to quietly fester into disease of some sort.

But here is where it gets fun, for those of you who don’t even know where to start.

Every part is so connected to the others, so affected by the others, that you will see a purification of the soul suddenly heal the body. A purification of the spirit suddenly heal the soul. A purification of the body suddenly uplift the spirit. A change in diet affect mental health. A change in thought affect digestion. It is amazing. Simple purifications with huge life altering effects.

The body is easy to understand. It is visible. It is touchable. You can see the actual ingredients of the actual things you put on it and in it. You can see the actual visible results of making changes.

The soul is a bit trickier. A bit more abstract. It is not visible except in the thoughts and emotions we express. The things that it ingests are less easy to decode, they do not come with an ingredient list. They come in many unexpected forms. A mark on the soul, a toxin ingested by the mind or the emotions is much harder to detect. We need to learn the language of our souls, learn to see when they need certain things, when they need to be protected from other things, when something icky needs to be pushed out… and how.

And the spirit, this strange locked room. This mysterious entity. This breath, this electrical energy that moves through you making you live…

We will learn about every part that makes up our whole person. We will learn how to see them, how to feel them, how to speak their language, how to detect when something toxic is present, how to find the most life-giving forms of nourishment.

The body must be purified so you can heal.

The soul must be purified so you can heal.

The spirit must be purified so you can heal.

And the result will be a person bursting with life. Radiating beauty from every corner, intention, movement and wrinkle. With the ability to love and be loved and connect deeply. Because this ability is the foundational result of true health and happiness.

 

 

 

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