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Question: Is there a connection between our physical bodies and mental state and our spiritual health!?
yesterday I started my day with very little sleep and feeling ill from a food allergy!. I really struggled all day to remain at peace and to keep the insanity at bay!.

I have been wondering if my mental and physical aspects had affected my spiritual awareness or if my spiritual blindness had manifested as physical and mental ailments!.

Can we view them separately!?Www@QuestionHome@Com


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since the body-mind arises in this pure spiritual awareness, even this allergic reaction and the sicknes is watched!. as long as the body is alive, it is prone to illness, it is a pleasure and pain instrument!. especially those days are a great opportunity to stay rooted in the awareness!.!.!. another good thing is to spend a whole week with your parents!.!.!. they are the ultimate practise to stay in the present moment, rooted in your presence of the now, not letting yourself be drawn to past memories, to the pain body, that got programmed especially during childhood!.
nothing can be separated, you are a whole being and in this wholeness even sicknesses can happen!. but they can happen without the notio "I am suffering", when you stop resisting it but see it as one of the endless transient things that arise and subside in this life!.
the body always follows the mind!. it needs to obey, so when there is a lot of resistance and suppression in the mind, body expresses it!. but body is only the red signal, the root is in the mind!. awareness is the key!.!.!. you know it!.
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Definitely!. If you are physically ill and in pain then you are never going to be able to have nice, happy, positive thoughts!. That in itself will hinder your spirituality!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

your mind and body can not be separated- train your body will train your mind- you have met with ill fortune physically, but your spirit is very resilient and sometimes it is good to suffer because it makes our spirits stronger- so those "bad" things that happen to you, it is the way you perceive them which will make your spirit stronger- if you receive negative things in a positive light, they will do the opposite- rather than drain your spirit, all things negative will improve your spirit- when physical hardships happen, they only affect your spirit negatively if you let them!!!! you always have a choice!! It is up to you- your body is linked to your mind, but only thru your will!! and how you think of things, if you are always positive, then anything physically challenging will always be good for your spiritWww@QuestionHome@Com

I think it can go both ways--your physical can affect your emotional and spiritual--but it can work in reverse as well!. If you are ill emotionally or spiritually it can begin to manifest itself as illness in the body!. Therefore we must treat ourselves as a whole needing all parts!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

the energy of our spirit is before everything else and Will be there after everything else,
we are always under spiritually attack or a silent attack,but a food allergy is what is that your body rejects or doesn't like it,this is not
from spiritual blindness,
this could help if you would figure out what food does this to you,and understand that a lack of sleep will cause anxiety and edginess with weird mode swingsWww@QuestionHome@Com

Yes!.!.!. of course, some people view them as harmonious, some as discordant, and there's some debate as to the breakdown of components of a person's psyche (I tend to reject spiritual myself)!. However, it's unlikely that it's as black and white as you say -- that they merely "affect" one another, because realistically how could they be otherwise -- but rather that it breeds effects of a certain character that may or may not be congruent with the original problem!.

Most likely, though, in your particular case, your cause-effect scenario is simpler: You didn't sleep and were sick, so of course you felt discombobulated!. Physical to mental IMO!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Definitely- yes!. However, with a sound spiritual health, you manage to control your physical body and its sufferings in a better manner!.Www@QuestionHome@Com