Where is the Spirit?

Many moons ago (about 30 years back), I was studying to become a registered nurse.  Mind-Body medicine had been around for decades even before that time, but had just started going mainstream.  Of course today, there is biochemical, anatomical and histological scientific evidence that corroborates the notion of the interrelationship between the mind and the body.  There is no question today that the health of the mind affects the health of the body and vice versa.

Ten years after that, I became really excited in naturopathic college because now we weren't just talking Mind-Body, we were talking Mind-Body-Spirit.  The trilogy was frequently depicted as a triangle with Spirit being on the top point.

You will notice that this site does not include the notion of Spirit in its framework, which many people consider to be the most important point of the triangle.

After all, all of these three aspects of the human being are dynamic and ever-changing.  The body and mind are ever-changing, so to the spirit.  Like the mind and body, the spirit can also contract and expand.  When the spirit contracts we often feel like "our spirit has been broken".  When the spirit expands we often feel like "our spirit has been set free".

For quite awhile, the site for me always had something missing.  The notion of Spirit.  That thing that extends beyond Mind and Body that is uniquely definable by each of us individually, and yet at the same time, undefinable.  Spirit is where unity and collective oneness is possible.  Two bodies can come together, but they are still two bodies.  It is the Spirit that creates oneness.  Two minds can think alike, but they are still two individuals thinking through each of their own filters of perception.  It is the Spirit that creates oneness.

I myself would prefer to see Spirit in the Framework of Holonation, if only to give it a voice and a springboard from which to explore and discuss from.

The CEO of the site did not choose to incorporate Spirit into the Framework for his own reasons. 

This sat really well with me in the end, because for me, Spirit is found in everything.  In the thoughts I think, in the foods I eat, in the hugs I give, in every breath I take, in every mountain I climb, in every hurdle I jump over, in every wall I crash into, in every rock I trip over, in every lesson I have not yet learned from, in every word I write into the site.

Spirit is in everything. 

Every member of Holonation will add their own Spirit into this site.

And that, for me, is more than blessing enough.