by: Richard Blackstone
Thought, word, and deed (action) are the foundations of all of our creations. Thought creates at one level, words create at a higher level, and the action that we take concerning those thoughts and words is what manifests them into our reality.
The action part of creation is where the rubber meets the road. This is where you actually have to “do” the steps necessary to create your reality from a non-physical thought to a physical reality.
The act of creation is a three-part system and, just as in all of nature, there is a beautiful symmetry here. We are made up in human form as a three-part being: mind, body and spirit. When we create, we coordinate our creative process into our human process. It works like this: The soul conceives with thought, the mind creates with words, and the body experiences with deeds.
We can now understand the importance of balance in the mind-body-spirit connection. When we create in harmony with our beingness we work at a very high level of creation. We still create even if we are not in full harmony in this triune combination, because the spirit side of us is always with us even if it is being ignored.
Within the separation paradigm of life we subscribe to the belief that we are mostly a mind and a body. In fact, most of us have not cultivated our minds for quite a while (often since high school) and think of ourselves as mostly a body. This level of awareness, of thinking that you are mostly a body, makes it easy to buy into the separation mentality.
The body is subjected to whatever the uncaring world throws at it, and it must re-act to those events to produce a response that is in the best interests of the body. Most of these reactionary responses are based in a fear mentality that says I have to look out for myself or I will lose in the game of life.
When you are not in balance with all three parts of your beingness, you are out of balance with your connection to the true nature of your self. The true nature of your self, in this human form, is that you have three equal elements at work here. One is no less important than the other. Each contributes to the whole and is necessary to allow beingness to form in the relative world.
That beingness manifests itself as the entity of mind, body, and spirit, the spirit children of God. When we are not in harmony with this entity, in our life's journey, we miss out on the contribution of the unharmonious parts.
The soul's contribution to this three-part harmony has been usurped by subscribing to the concept that we are all separate from everything. We say that the body rules and we are thus mainly concerned with the body's reactive powers to whatever stimuli it is confronted with, reaction instead of creation.
The deed or action part of the creative process is the function of the body. The spirit (soul) conceives with thought, the mind creates with word, and body experiences through deed (action). So how we relate to the relative world is to compare our body, and the body's experiences, in relationship with all that is not our body or the body's experiences.
To the exterior world it appears as if the body is who we are because that is what we can see. You can't see the mind, (not to be confused with the brain) and you certainly can't see the spirit. To the exterior world these are only concepts. In our day-to-day experiences we don't normally deal with concepts. We have been taught to deal with what we can see, feel, touch, taste, and smell.
We use these five senses, and our bodies, to take the thoughts and words we choose to create to fruition. It is in this part of the creative process that we can sometimes lose the thread of what it is we intended to create. The thought and word part of the creation equation can be done in an instant, but the action part can take years, depending on what it is you wish to create.
The action part of the equation has to do with this slow cumbersome body and its dealings with the available resources of the physical world. If you desire to create the experience of eating an ice cream cone, you can select that thought, tell yourself that you desire an ice cream cone, and get in your car, drive to the ice cream store and be enjoying the fruits of your creation in a short period of time.
If you desire to write a book about “Nuts and Bolts Spirituality,” you can select that thought, tell yourself that you desire to write this book and get the body to do the deed. You begin writing to complete the action part of your creation but you don't see the fruition of your creation for a long period of time. (Trust me on this one)
No matter what the time frame involved, you must move toward your desire with action. It is only through action that you can manifest your desires into your reality.
