Short story: A psychologist writes about living a fuller life, by living from all parts of ourselves, more fully

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The well-respected psychologist, Anton Pressnose, wrote an article, which was included in the magazine, Psychology Today, last month, on the need to mature our emotional self, and how to not let it run riot in our lives. Here is his article: 'We live in a multi-storied house, where our soul lives on the second floor, and our physical body, emotional body, and mental body, live on the lower floor, all together.' 'Some of us, therefore, do not even know that we have a soul living upstairs in our house. We might not even know that there is an upstairs to our house.' 'Nevertheless, our soul is always there for us, to access whenever we want to do so.' 'Most of us stay mostly in our own favourite room, our mental space, trying to build it up, and to become wiser, and better thinkers, and there is nothing wrong with us doing that, but we do need to go into the other rooms of our house, sometimes too.' 'When we do so, we should not just stay in that room, by itself for too long either, so that we become too focussed only in the one are of our life, and so risk, becoming controlled, or overattached, to just that one part of ourselves, then too.' 'Our emotions must be matured, and controlled, by our mind, for example. They must not be allowed to control us, as when their animal nature, tries to take us on their ride.' 'Our physical body should not control us to by its greed for food, and other satiatments, (to coin a new word, for satiation), such as alcohol consumption, smoking, or the addiction to other substances too.' 'Self control, and self discipline, help us to live more productively, and make better use of all parts of ourselves.' 'We need to accept that we are spiritual beings too, and the Christian Bible contains much help in our seeing this vital part of ourselves as being a real part of our house too.' 'Proverbs, chapter 29, verse 11 states:' '"A fool gives full vent to his anger, but a wise man quietly holds it back."' 'and Saint Paul advises us like this too:' 'Romans, chapter 12, verse 2:' '"Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect."' 'Live wisely, by living more fully then; be your complete self, and grow in each facet of yourself, to be all that you can be, for both yourself, and for God.' And on that last note, the psychologist finished his article, in which he had made some good points on how we can better live a more fuller life. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com