There is this concept in eastern religions of yin and yang. It’s this idea of finding balance between two opposites: things like dark/light; work/rest; tense/release; hard/easy; do/be. And just like we understand that we need muscle pairs to, for example, lift our arm up and then bring our arm back down, these eastern knowledge traditions understand that there can be no dark without a light; no work without rest; no tension without release; no hard without easy; no doing if there is no space to simply be.
Tag Archives: Soul
Raising an Adult
“If we were going to do a good job as parents, we needed to have a goal, and we needed to be intentional about how our actions today were helping us to get to our goal – especially because the goal was so far off!”
Honesty – Part 2
On Monday I talked about honesty – in telling the truth, and in not failing to tell the truth.
I talked about honesty that was based on love, not fear.
About whether our honesty is about connecting more deeply or about the avoidance of punishment and pain.
But today I want to go deeper.
Because I know that for me – and for many, many others – there are multiple layers of truth that we simply do not acknowledge.
Truth that we completely fail to realize exists.
Getting to Know Your … Soul
So last week I introduced the idea that we are a made up of four parts – our heart, soul, mind and body – and that to operate as our best, most authentic self, we need to be able to function equally between these different elements of ourself. So today we’re going to move onto ‘Soul’,Continue reading “Getting to Know Your … Soul”
Towards Wholeness
What if each one of us was created to be a unique, integrated person – with our heart, soul, mind and strength working together to help us to do the things we were created to do and be the person we were made to be? What if each one of us experienced brokenness – overContinue reading “Towards Wholeness”
Heather R. Morgan 