We would all like to think of being able to retain all our mental faculties as we age. This includes the subtle faculties that are less easy to define, but that nevertheless play an important role in our inner life. As well as all the obvious benefits of keeping a healthy, balanced body, our psychological health is needed if we wish to preserve both the faculties that allow us to function in the physical world and the subtle faculties that preserve the life of the mind and consciousness.
Whereas our general mental faculties help us to relate to the material world, our subtle faculties provide us with such qualities as insight, intuition, and the inspiration we need for mental creativity and also for our own integrity. These are faculties required for both the creative arts as well as for our use in the creative processes of our daily life.
They are more difficult to understand as they function in different spheres beyond material analysis and the knowledge that we presently hold. Just as our well known faculties serve us in material existence, so the subtle faculties help us become more aware of our soul.
To not only understand ourselves but to feel we have a place in the grand scheme of things is imperative if we wish for a strong self image that allows us not only mental health and fitness but satisfaction for the inner and enduring part of ourselves. It is here that we turn for inner guidance to our superior sense, that of intuition.
We are reminded of the spiritual directive ‘Man Know Thyself”. We need to be comfortable with our efforts towards understanding our whole nature and to live comfortably with our vision of who we are and what is our ideal of personal excellence.
In this, we need inspiration to encourage us. Inspiration is experienced both as an inner dictate of our higher consciousness or as an injection from a higher source, completely beyond our own ego and individuality. Each one of us needs to know that there is a reservoir of beneficent and greater intelligence and vitality that can nourish our own.
If we allow our subtle faculties to serve us well, it is possible to think that we may reach a state of total mental fitness, to experience expanding states of peace, happiness and well being.
Sally Janssen’s wonderful book “Mental Fitness: A Simple Self-Help Guide”, offers simple and timely solutions. Read more…
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