Brian Johnson connects the spiritual idea of your body as a temple to everyday choices: what you eat, how you move, how you sleep, what you watch. He draws on Christian, Buddhist, and Hindu sources to argue that small habits compound into honoring yourself.
Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Optimize plus one. In our last plus one we talked about Joseph Campbell's question, what am I? Am I the bulb that carries the light, or am I the light of which the bulb is a vehicle? Hmm. I say yes again, saving the longer philosophical chat for another time. We attempted to ground that brilliant mindbender into practical reality by talking about how to dial our light bulb wattage up all the way to a lighthouse worthy 1,000 watts of goodness. How our fundies of course today we're going to talk about one more little facet of how to optimize and actualize spirituality wise. You know that whole idea that our bodies are the temples of God. It's echoed throughout a number of wisdom traditions. The Bible via Corinthians 6:19 20 tells us that our bodies are the temples of God. In Buddhism we learn via the Buddha, your body is precious. It is our vehicle for awakening. Treat it with care. And in Hinduism, we are told via the Rig Veda, the human body is the temple of God. So are you acting like it? That's today's plus one. Super simple. When we eat, move and sleep today, and let's act like we're honoring the temples of God for which we've been blessed to be a steward. All that sugar and flour and pseudo food, the lack of movement or over training, the over consumption of nonsense entertainment that diminishes the quality of our sleep. Aren't all those suboptimal behaviors kind of like spray painting graffiti all over a beautiful temple? Sure seems like it. Let's not do that. Let's honor our temples today one micro fundy at a time as we plug in together and let the light bulbs in the temples shine.
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