Is it More Than Mind, Body, & Spirit?

When the phrase Mind, body, and spirit is used, it is supposed to represent the totality; a holistic approach to one's well-being. Maybe though, that is the conundrum: we all hide something in us that seems at times unreachable, the thing deep in our hearts that even we can't fully comprehend. Some because it doesn't often occur to us to look, some because we really don't want to. The writer Charles Bukowsky describes it in his poem "No Help for That"

There is a place in

the heart that

will never be filled

a space

and even during the

best moments

and

the greatest times

we will know it

we will know it

more than

ever

there is a place in

the heart that

will never be filled

and

we will wait

and

wait

in that space.

In kundalini philosophy hidden just behind the heart and above the solar plexus there is a chamber that holds a jewel which is your Heart's Desire. Some people know it when they are young and begin their search right on course, others reach the end of life without discovering what path to take that would bring them closer to our heart's desire. None of us can truly describe it to another.

'To another' is the crux. The place in the heart that will never be filled keeps us together, so instead of life being about me it is about us - "from me to we" as kundalini yoga says, so that we can encourage each other on the search. Even knowing we will never find all the answers, together we discover how to ask great questions. And so the force of life propels us through duality to evolve beyond it.

Stella Shakerchi