When did your Soul Start to get dirty?
Have you ever thought about how a baby is born pure and clean and how it gets dirty over time? Can we talk about the filth of an unborn person? Can we call a baby scum in the womb of its unborn mother? Our soul is actually born in all its purity. But we humans are driven into bad thoughts. But is every soul unclean? Isn't it possible to keep the soul clean? Can't we touch and clean our soul like our body?
Can we keep our soul as clean as our car or clothes? Moreover, we do not have a chance to get a new soul!
More or less all of us regularly clean or have someone clean the things we own or use. Our clothes, our house, our room, our closet, our kitchen, our various personal belongings, our car, our environment, our body, etc. Like everything we use, they get dirty in a while and it becomes necessary to clean them. Of course, we may not all show the same care and diligence in this matter, but in the end, it is cleaned somehow. This process makes them look newer, more useful, healthier, more efficient, longer-lasting and better-looking. For many of us, these possessions are very valuable and we pay special attention to their cleaning and care. There are even those of us who go to extremes in this regard.
What about our soul, do we give it the same care? Our possessions are not just physical things. We also have a soul. Just like the physical things we have, impurities occur in our souls; Needs maintenance and cleaning. There may be those who think or defend that there is a self-cleaning system that works automatically in the working mechanism of our soul. But if this were the case or if this system worked for everyone, no one should have a problem with their soul, and they should always feel good, happy, peaceful, peaceful and always in positive emotions in every situation. The events that polluted his soul would not leave any residue behind, and in a short time the person would feel spiritually pure. But unfortunately, even if we accept the existence of such a system, we cannot talk about a system that works perfectly. In this case, the task falls to the head, we have to clean our polluted soul ourselves or have it cleaned when we are insufficient.
If we try to answer the question of how to clean the soul; First of all, we should know that this will not happen with water, detergent or various cleaning materials, more special and different methods should be used. But before the cleaning phase, we need to realize the pollution, because it is not visible to the naked eye like the pollution of an object, but it is the dirt that can be seen with the spiritual eye. If our spiritual eye sees well, it's okay, but if not, we only notice this contamination when it starts to cause a malfunction. Then cleaning becomes more difficult of course. In order to understand pollution, we need to be sensitive to our own feelings and thoughts and be able to recognize and define the negative emotions we experience. For example, we need to be able to recognize and define our negative emotions such as anger, anxiety, fear, sadness, hatred, jealousy, shame, guilt and the like that occur in our souls, as well as perceiving their severity and intensity. This first phase requires some exercise (almost every day) so that we can become more sensitive so that we can see the contamination in our souls.
After detecting the contamination, we can move on to the cleaning phase. At this stage, the first thing we need to do in short and simple; Trying to find our thoughts or ways of thinking that cause negative emotions, which we have just defined in order to see the contamination, and when we find this chain again, that is; To make a brief analysis of the event experienced › the negative thought it creates in us › by reviewing the stages of negative emotion caused by this thought, and by honestly reconsidering our way of perceiving the event. Doing so will activate the spiritual cleansing system and will largely, if not completely, remove the daily contamination of our spirit.
In addition to these suggested, there may be many other helpful ways to help us cleanse our spirit; for example, worship, meditation, spiritual pursuits, sports, artistic pursuits, etc. Everyone can find many helpful ways according to their interests, manners and abilities. He can create his own cleaning formulas. I think he should even share these formulas with others. The important thing is to accept that there is physical pollution as well as spiritual pollution and make an effort to clean it.
However, there may be impurities remaining in our souls even though we do and apply them, or there may be impurities that have formed somewhere in the past and have caused or caused serious blockages and deterioration, and these may be preventing the healthy functioning of the spiritual mechanism. Sometimes these can be pretty stubborn dirt. Sometimes we may be wandering in a mud field all the time. In these cases, our personal cleaning efforts may not be sufficient or we may not have the appropriate cleaning tools. Then, without hesitation, he should get support from professionals who are experts in spiritual cleansing; we should want to be healthier, happier, more productive and cleaner. For a better life.
Even how hard we seek the path of righteousness, we always end up being tempted with sin. But, of course, we always have the chance to be righteous, as long as there is life. We should not waste the chance to live life to the fullest and think everyday as if its the last day.
You have written it pretty well my friend. The examples and all of the explanations are all informative.. Nice work!👏😊