Usually people say ‘I have a soul’, implicitly they mean they are another entity and have a soul. In orient, we say ‘I am a soul, and I have a body’. Have you ever observed that during dreams, you see distinctively others, landscapes, scenes, but you never see yourself? Not your body, your look or even your hand, your foot or any of your body parts? Dreams are visualised through the lens of our eyes, the gate to the Hun, the soul spirit according to Chinese medicine. The hun represents the sum of all our possibilities, our life potential and aspires to learn as much through the body experiences we cross in our lives.
Living a healthy, balanced, peaceful and contented life is an art. It needs to be recognised as a philosophy of life, a code of conduct, an attitude and an approach, as well as an art of living which is capable not only of ensuring physical well-being, mental peace harmony, moral elevation and spiritual uplift of man/woman but also of transforming man/woman from his/her gross animal existence to the sublime heights of all his/her divinity.
It must, however, be kept in mind that it is a long arduous journey calling for perseverance, persistence, patience, dedication and total surrender.
There is no instant transformation. It is not a question of merely closing one’s eyes or of sitting in a posture. It involves cultivation of an attitude and approach to life. It must not only be a philosophy to be read or studied, but a practical philosophy which must be lived. It is therefore not enough to think of changing and defining the new goals, and make a plan for actions, as a professional project. Developing techniques and methods to help us align and connect to our soul and soul purpose is a critical success factor to a true transformation. Learning to connect to our innate intelligence, to our inner guide will progressively take us to the highest state of creativity, a discriminative knowledge and wisdom and experience. WE don’t only have dreams, we are dreamers!