What is the Human Spirit? All You Need to Know About It
When we were born, our bodies constituted a fundamental DNA sequence that would differentiate us from anyone who has ever lived, say through our fingerprints. No one person is the same as the next (even identical twins) because each has their own spirit.
How do we know we are spirits? We have untouchable thoughts and emotions, that we know to be more alive than the physical things we see. We have a spiritual reality within us. Indeed our thoughts and emotions create the life we live, though this is the lowest form of living.
Thoughts and emotions are the lowest form we can live life because, how could we, human spirits, be reduced to being a thought that our tool, the mind, thinks? How could we be reduced to a fleeting emotion that we feel? How are we emotions if we are feeling them?
How are we thoughts if we are the being with the power to think the thoughts? It cannot be. And if it is, it is the lowest state of being alive. In this state of being, we will be tossed to and fro by our emotions and thoughts. Like a boat without a steering wheel, being driven by the winds of the sea, and if there is no wind, we do not move.
What Are Emotions and Thoughts For?
Nothing we inherently possess is useless. However, if we do not use what we have correctly, how will it serve us in its capacity? Emotions and thoughts are like notifications. The smartphone does not stop working because there are no notifications, but the notifications make alerts to the smartphone regarding matters at hand or matters that concern what’s in the smartphone.
Emotions notify us of each moment of our lives; notifying us not of the truth, but of what we perceive. Likewise, thoughts notify us of what our conditioned (by the world) mind is thinking each moment of our lives regarding a matter at hand, or regarding everything, every time, as a result of what we are feeling emotionally.
The problem is that emotions and thoughts assume we do not know what to make of the moment, and so, according to our upbringings and history, they tell us what we make of the moment. So we live off of our history, pains, and traumas. Our lives become cyclical, instead of linear. We grow into our past, instead of evolving into the future.
These notifications from emotions and thoughts are not bad, but we have to choose them. They cannot just happen to us and drive us uncontrollably, for then we are serving them, not them serving us. For us to heal from past pains and traumas, we absolutely must, through the Holy Spirt and His Word, introspect and process (intentionally feel) the emotions concerning the pain-filled events or times that birthed those emotions.
If we do not process the trauma-induced emotions (resulting in trauma-induced thought patterns), the emotions will be clogged up within us, with nowhere else to go. If we process them, accept them, and therefore be on a healing journey, sometimes preferably with professional help, or guidance from trusted elders or loved ones, and always non-negotiably with the Holy Spirit, we will unclog our emotions leading to emotional and mental (thought—thinking) health.
Our Emotions As Reliable Internal Resources
After healing and acquiring emotional and mental health through intentional healing over a period of time sufficient for the depth of the mental and emotional pain, our emotions and thoughts will then be able to be a tool we use upon our wise discretion. It is essential to continuously process emotions to heal.
Healing is not only for the past, it is for the continuous present. We may have taken offense, or been heartbroken, or in this reality of life, go through some form of sorrow. Our emotions would notify us of the sincere impact of these events or moments, and therefore indicate a need for healing when needed.
Otherwise, our emotions will inform us of happiness, anxiety, stress, etc., and here is where we need to choose whether we will be participating in being tossed to and fro by our emotions, or whether we will take hold of ourselves, step out of our emotions, and carry on as the true self, the spirit, which is fully functional (as it can think and feel) on its own without the mind (intuitively), only ever needing a functional body to dwell.
Likewise, thoughts will either have instigated the perpetual negative (not needing healing) emotions from unwise worldly conditioning and knowledge of evil, or the unhealed emotions will have fostered an environment for negative thoughts, which would have to be dealt with at the root by emotionally healing past pain and trauma.
Because we speak, and should do so wisely, we should use thought for our speech in thinking before we speak.
Otherwise, especially famous with thoughts, we understand we cannot just let negative thoughts go untamed, for that will happen to our detriment, but the same principle must go with emotions, granted that necessary healing is accomplished. Emotions too are fleeting, wearisome, and oftentimes the identical twin of thoughts. If we should not dabble with negative thoughts at all, well, we should not dabble with negative emotions too. Of course, positive emotions and thoughts are good (or don’t cause harm to well-being), just as goodness is good.
Why Thoughts and Emotions Must Die
A human is a spirit and an eternal spirit at that. Indeed, that that is spiritual is so because it cannot die, whereas the physical is physical because it dies and it is just for now (a short while in the history of time). A plant dies, and flesh dies. Now, the universe, like the human body, depicts both the physical and the spiritual, in that, the universe is unending like the spiritual, and also participates in dying as stars and galaxies die and are born anew.
If nothing else, this is the evidence of the eternally spiritual reality and the ever-ending physical reality. The human body is like the universe’s ending and unendingness, in that, the human possesses the ending physical body, and the unending spirit, and these two realities come together to make the soul. Our souls are our emotional and mental entities, which are made by our history and upbringing through the ever-collecting brain. Our spirits are who we actually, truly are as human beings. And our bodies are the specific expression of our unique, original spirit.
Most of us can have the same education and the same kinds of traumas. Listening to the same music, sayings, and watching the same movies. And these make up our souls. Our souls can be governed by the same voices and inspirations and all when we are actually not identical in the essence of our true selves. Not identifying with our individuality and novelty may very well, as I believe to be so, be the cause of all the pain and lack of peace and joy in the world.
We are disconnected from our spirits (our true selves) because we are living through our souls (our emotional and mental [thoughts]) selves. Instead of the spirit governing the soul and body, the soul governs the body. Of course, the spirit is too high for the soul to reach, and so the spirit is dormant and inactive (asleep) or fighting for its position at the top.
An Awakened and Aware Human Spirit
Won’t you awaken, o spirit? Won’t you be awakened by the need of you? Won’t you come forth and relieve your entities of their pain and suffering? Will the need for your being enlightened go unquenched?
We cannot live through emotions and thoughts because they are fleeting and therefore unreliable, and hence they must come to die in our human spirit. Because the true riches of life are in our spirit. These riches exist only in the spiritual realm, as spiritual possessions possessed by our spirit, and they are peace, joy, kindness, gentleness, patience, love (true unending love), goodness, truthfulness, humility, self-control—spirit controlled, etc.
These are not emotions, for they are ever-present within us, within our spirit, so what ever are we doing in our emotions at any given time? We, the spirit beings, must discern how and when not to be in our emotions, as the luxury of having an emotional entity.
And what ever could our thoughts offer us when wisdom, knowledge, and understanding are spiritual possessions which only our spirit can possess and manifest? Bring forth unprecedented knowledge, wisdom, and understanding that can only come from the spiritual realm through the spirit in union with the Spirit of God. Awaken to true living. Detach from emotion and thought, and be truly alive and novel.
May your mind be renewed, your faith be strengthened, and your peace be anchored in Christ, in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
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