Body / Mind / Spirit

When we separate "body", "mind", and "spirit", we're tripping across the liability of Western thinking, imagining that they're distinct... as opposed to intertwined.  

Jan Carlsson-Bull suggests the following exercise to begin to experience, at a sensory-motor level, this sense of body/mind/spirit being intertwined:

- If you had to free associate body/mind/spirit as music, what would the music be? 

- As a dance, what would the dance look like? 

- As an image, how would the image be manifest? 

- As a film, what would that film be?

- As a smell, what would it be? 

- How would it make you feel?  

- How would you be transformed by any of these?  

About: Jan Carlsson-Bull, M.Div., Ph.D., is a Minister at First Parish Unitarian Universalist, Cohasset, MA. She is currently chairing the Commission on Social Witness of the Unitarian Universalist Association. Rev. Dr. Carlsson-Bull earned her Master's of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary in New York City and her Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from Yeshiva University.