The Body Category

Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 6:38 am

The Body Category

The topics of the self improvement books you will find in The BODY Category of the 4 main categories of Mind, Body, Emotion, Soul from On Being Human.

The BODY category includes everything physical on being human. From the development of a baby through childhood, the teenage years and into adulthood, the mature adult through to middle age, the senior adult who becomes an elder and their eventual death.

Our body is not just the vessel for our soul, mind and emotions. No one aspect of being human can be separated from any other, all aspects have an influence each other. The code for our existence is written in our DNA in nearly every cell of our body. Our genetic programming defines our appearance, our growth and ageing process, the hormones that influence our emotions and also our intelligence.

As to our soul, the life force that enters our body at conception or birth and leaves us at death, and enables our body to develop and move through our allotted years, that is the one mystery that keeps us guessing and we cannot solve definitively in our lifetime. All we know for sure is that without it, the body is simply a vessel.

The BODY category separates out those self improvement books that concentrate on physical topics. The health or illness of our body, our fitness by exercise and diet, our appearance; the core maintenance of the body’s health and appearance is essential for our well being.

The BODY category is concerned with not only the health of our skin and bone and blood and organs, but also our five physical senses – our eyes, ears, and nose, our taste and touch.

In our complex society our physical appearance is also of prime importance to us in our interactions with other people. So books on the sculpting of the human physique, our clothes and cosmetics, and our choice of physical therapies both medical and alternative or “folk” are part of the body category.

N.B. As well as the four main categories of BODY, MIND, EMOTION & SOUL, there are three additional categories to be aware of, that of SELF, RELATIONSHIPS and EARTH.