When I’m working with clients, and even when I’m doing my own personal growth work, I often find that the real obstacles to full health and well-being are ailments of the soul rather than truly issues of the body or mind. If someone is having difficulty staying on a diet or getting exercise, it is not usually because they don’t know what to eat or what to do, it is typically because they have a block perhaps unhappiness or lack of motivation to change their habits. Motivation, desire and happiness are housed in the soul. It is a very sad thing that we live in a time when work of the soul is such an ignored or even frowned upon activity. This has not always been the case and does not need to continue as such.

The truth is you cannot truly heal yourself, pull yourself together or reclaim the parts of you that have fragmented until you do a little soul work. It is not enough simply to eat right, get the right amount of exercise or have a clean house. In fact, often these activities can really be just a means of getting lost in the busywork that distracts you from truly creating health and happiness.  

I recently heard the term “active laziness” and thought it was a wonderful term.  How often do you get lost in “active laziness”, feeling very productive and busy and yet on a deeper level not very much better.  At the end of the day you have answered all of your emails, your phone calls, counted all of your calories, walked the dog twice and yet still something is missing. Still it is a struggle to feel good and happy and vital.