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Annals of Psychophysiology                                                                                                        Volume 3, October 2016                  
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Perspective Piece 

Proponents of Harmonization between Body, Mind and Soul 
Waseem Hassan 

Institute of Space and Planetary Astrophysics, University of Karachi 

Corresponding Author:Abadallah.wh@gmail.com 

 

“The rhythm of the body, the melody of the mind and the harmony of the soul creates the symphony of life”. 

B.K.S. Iyengar, a foremost Yoga teacher from India correlated the symphony of life with a balance of body, mind 

and soul in such a way that it answers most of the questions by people suffering from stressful lives.  It must be 

understood that according to WHO constitution, health is defined as a complete well-being of mental, physical and 

social aspects of a person, not the absence of disability or disease (WHO, 1950). Not to forget that the aspect of soul 

is generally not considered in scientific world, this article steps forward initialising the understanding of soul as an 

integral part of human body in terms of philosophy as well as science. Considering the aspect of health sciences; a 

mind fully synchronised with the body and soul is a sign of having a greater intelligence than IQ and EQ as a mind 

convinced with current conditions of body and soul will be able to boost up the usage of intellect and wisdom in 

order to achieve greater and much effective results in terms of creativity, health and spiritual growth.  One of the 

best ways adopted by greats of their time to achieve harmony is through meditation (Thera, 2014).  

 

The Three Opinions 

Taking in consideration, the interaction between the 

body and soul, in terms of its operations between one 

and the other and one over the other, there are three 

opinions (Bowne, 1887). The first opinion is called 

the physical influx in which the sensory organs 

receive incoming data from the world in forms of 

vision when it comes to the eye and sound waves 

when it comes to the ears; similarly, for the senses of 

touch, taste and smell.  Since the organs carrying 

such senses receive firstly the impressions made by 

the direct interaction with the surroundings, these 

impressions trigger mind to think and will to act 

accordingly. Due to this reason, philosophers from 

ancient times believed that physical influx is a result 

derived from these organs and hence it enters the soul 

of a person.  

 

The second opinion named as spiritual influx 

suggested by the law itself in order to illustrates the 

useful findings in this regard. However, soul is an 

important component of spirituality which 

demonstrates the inner substance of an individual. 

The important element of spiritual soul is purity, 

internal aspects and previous materials that human 

body possesses within its self. Further, the 

relationship between body and its soul is termed as 

spiritual influx as suggested by different scholars and 

previous researchers. Therefore, human body is 

nothing without these illusions because soul gets into 

the grosser with related aspects such as posterior, 

interior and exterior. The spiritual material cannot be 

reversed at any means by natural phenomenon.  The 

human mind which has the functionality of 

memorizing the items, recall the previous scenarios 

and importantly thinks about certain situations and 

accordingly react with respective surrounding. The 

things or different situations, in which we react or 

interact on daily basis, collectively developed the 

personality traits along with soul perspective.  

 

The third opinion which determines or called as pre-

established harmony is learning in different modern 

theories due to its purposeful findings in human 

nature. The misconceptions of the mind and its 

thinking process acts collectively at the same time 

and place with human body and its spiritual soul. The 

success factor hidden in influx spirituality is harmony 

that has the link with different or simultaneous 

operations. Initially, the minds think and then its 

gives substantial power to the speaking skills which 

human beings exhibits in their self. The 

establishment of these operations exclude all the 

components of power and energy as mind plays his 

role. The interaction of human soul with its body is 

not possible as it must operate with existing body 

with its soul and sometimes both operate collectively. 

 

The Science of Soul 

“The day science begins to study non-physical 

phenomenon, it will make progress in one decade 

than in all the previous centuries of its existence” – 

Nikola Tesla 

 

Since the beginning of human awareness of soul, 

psychologically, a soul is considered to be the 

consciousness of a human body (Pereira, 2015). 

Taking this point in view, one can certainly deduce 

that consciousness is the driving force of the body 

which makes a body endorsing its existence in the 

universe. Different aspects of consciousness are 

defined and concluded by many researchers 

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throughout time. The presence of soul in a body is 

widely accepted and understood when a person dies; 

considering the fact that each and everything is 

present in a person essential to live, what makes a 

person die? A research by Duncan MacDougall in 

1907 proved that there is a soul in a person’s body 

and the soul has a weight of about 21grams (Roehner, 

2010). In this experiment, MacDougall took a sample 

of 6 patients who were about to die and put them in 

an industrial sized weighing machine that can weigh 

any substance as little as 5.5 grams. When soul is 

departed by the body, the weight which was reduced 

from the body was recorded by MacDougall with 

other doctors from the hospital to be about 21 grams 

or approximately one ounce. Such discovery has put 

most of the scientists to think beyond material and 

hence the concept of body and mind synchronisation 

was tuned up to body, mind and soul harmonisation 

(Pandya, 2011). 

 

The Proponents 

Harmonisation between body and mind is taken 

through various concepts by psychologists, 

psychophysiologists and psychiatrists on accordance 

to their knowledge and experiences. A proponent is 

defined as something which advocates and supports 

in achievement of something. Considering the 

harmonisation of body, mind and soul, as it speaks of 

itself, would not be something which should be done 

through just one way; a person needs to get through 

multiple practices and multiple understandings in 

order to achieve harmony of body, mind and soul 

which would both differ and coincide with each 

other. A person is said to be in complete harmony 

when his/her body, mind and soul is completely 

utilised throughout the day before he/she sleeps and 

when he/she wakes up, he is optimised for his/her 

work. Such state is achieved when a person performs 

physical work in order to exhaust his/her body, 

analyses and attempts different intellectual tasks up 

to his/her limits to drain his/her mental energy and 

goes in a world of imagination to tire his/her soul. 

When a person goes through such processes during 

the time he or she is awake and sleeps afterwards, 

his/her body, mind and soul makes up a connection 

between each other in order to optimise to the fullest. 

It is one of the easiest ways to achieve harmonisation 

between them. One other way to harmony is both 

psychological and philosophical and also advised by 

the author. In order to achieve harmony, firstly, one 

should be able to gain the state of peace throughout 

his/her existence and that is done by acceptance. As a 

person accepts everything which comes into his/her 

interaction, no matter if it impacts him/her good or 

bad, it will naturally allow him/her to gain state of 

peace within the body. In such condition, the person 

is harmonised with all the aspects of his/her 

existence, i.e. the body, mind and soul. 

  

Conclusion 

Since harmonisation of body, mind and soul is a 

wider study which cannot be confined in a single 

study, it must be noted that the aspects and concepts 

mentioned in this article are just drops in an entire 

ocean. Once simply cannot claim to withhold all the 

knowledge of such harmonisation since there is a 

gradual increase in the understanding of body, mind 

and soul of a human body. One thing which we 

should think of is, to what level does the 

synchronisation of body, mind and soul extends to?  

 

References 

 World Health Organization, 1950. The preamble 

of the constitution of the World Health 

Organization. 

 Bowne, B.P., 1887. Interaction of soul and 

body. 

 Pereira, C., 2015. Soul & Consciousness. 

Scientific GOD Journal, 6(7). 

 Roehner, B.M., 2010. Fifteen years of 

econophysics: worries, hopes and prospects. 

arXiv  

 preprint arXiv:1004.3229. 

 Pandya, S.K., 2011. Understanding brain, mind 

and soul: Contributions from neurology and 

neurosurgery. Mens sana monographs, 9(1), 

p.129. 

 Thera, N., 2014. The Heart of Buddhist 

Meditation: The Buddha's Way of Mindfulness. 

Weiser Books.

 

 

   

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