Zatím na to znám dvě odpovědi, z míst, kde jsem byla:
Na Rainbow festivalech.A na psytrancových festivalech :)
Na těchto akcích se pohybuje nejvíc lidí, kteří vypadají, že jsou v normálním přirozeném tělesném a energetickém stavu, jehož obraz si odmalička nosím někde hluboko v sobě. Mají svaly na správných místech a přirozeně tvarované, projevují pružnost, život, vitalitu, je vidět, že jim energie správně proudí.
To dává zajímavé odpovědi na otázku, jakými aktivitami toho stavu dosáhnout.
Obě skupiny zjevně soustavně a dlouhodobě kempují v přírodě, je to podstatná část jejich životního stylu. To znamená spoustu různorodých fyzických činností.
Psytrancáři tančí. A tančí a tančí a tančí. Hodiny a hodiny, každý den, co stráví na party, což mohou v létě být týdny. Vypadá to, že to samo o sobě v zásadě stačí, ke zotavení ze života v krabicích a postupnému návratu do přirozeného stavu. Spolu s tělem se probouzí i duch, rozsvěcují se oči, objevují se nové nápady a myšlenky.
V obou skupinách se hodně žongluje.
Na Rainbow je hodně lidí, co praktikují jógu a další cvičení.
Připadá mi, že ve skutečnosti hlavní jsou ty činnosti, které probíhají spontánně, neplánovaně, nesystematicky, právě všechno to chození, bydlení v kempu a tancování, činnosti, které nejsou míněny jako „cvičení“, dějí se buď proto, že jsou potřeba, nebo jen tak pro radost.
Takový člověk má v sobě jistou přirozenost a uvolněnost, která třeba kulturistovi chybí... A taky vypadá jinak. Je vidět, že jeho tělo je aktivní tisícem různých způsobů, neopakuje donekonečna denně stejné pohyby.
Není to jen o těle, je to daleko víc o energii, o vitalitě, a zároveň o KLIDU, který vyzařuje člověk, jehož tělo má naplněné své přirozené potřeby.
K tomuto textu mě inspiroval festival Ozora, ty tisíce lidí tam. Žasla jsem nad tím, jak ten tanec stačí, i když většina z nich nejspíš nedělá nic dalšího systematicky.
Pro prvotní zotavení a probouzení člověka, ze stadia otroka do stadia bytosti, která se pro začátek přinejmenším dokáže rozhodnout, co je jí příjemné a co si přeje dělat, stačí tančit. Tančit svůj vlastní tanec, nikým a ničím jiným neurčované vlastní energetické pohyby vycházející zevnitř, z duše. Ponořit se, dělat to pořádně, a dlouho.
A ono se něco stane.
pátek 17. srpna 2012
sobota 14. dubna 2012
How the System Works I.: Physical Passivity and How To Overcome It
The majority of the people living in the „developed“ world spend most of their waking time sitting on chairs or sofas or in cars. Their only exercise consists of a few steps from each chair to the next and maybe of some housework (if they are women).
The System makes us believe, that this is normal. Yes, we hear mentioned that you should get at least some exircise, like half an hour three times a week. If you actively move your body for one hour a day, you count as an athlete. What the propaganda really tells us is that the sedentary lifestyle is normal, OK, that you can be quite healthy and happy being physically passive, that this is comfort, a great achievement of humanking. Not having to do anything but sit in boxes all day. Maybe take a vacation from this for a few weeks a year, then get back to it.
As all the facts about the System, the truth about this is perfectly obvious, but people do not see it, blinded by their conditioning and the propaganda.
We all know that the human body is not made for sitting all life. It's made for walking, running, climbing mountains, dancing, hunting, building, creating, caring – physical activities in real space. It is supposed to move freely in nature, in open spaces. It is meant to be strong, to be flexible, to stretch and bend and rotate.
Forcing it to sit in a closed box for years is a crime against the body. You imprison a considerable part of yourself, deprive your muscles, tendons and ligaments of the motions their need, deprive your lungs of proper airing. Your metabolism cannot function properly if you do not move. Your whole body degenerates slowly, becoming ever weaker and stiffer with age. This leads to the sad phenomenon of old people who suffer from extreme pain and disability. We are made to believe that this comes normally with age. It's not true. A person who has enough natural and varied exercise can remain vigorous, flexible and active till 80 or 90. There can and will be illnesses, but nothing comparable to the terrible state that befalls old people after decades of “comfortably” sitting on chairs.
How are we conditioned for this? To rot away slowly while thinking that it is comfortable? To live in the prisons of rooms, offices and computers?
First of all, many of us carry deep traumatic genetic memories of the generations forced into excessive manual labor under the previous stages of the System. People who had to work in their feudal lords' fields during the day and in their own at night. Slaves, servants, the first factory workers. Too much physical work, too hard, with no perspective and not enough food, that was the life of millions of people in the not very distant past.
This is not a normal state of free sustainable communities by the way. Even the most “primitive” people, if free to live by themselves in their natural environment, will only have to “work” a reasonable number of hours a day to get food and all they need. They have time to relax, celebrate and create, and their “work” is meaningful, brings them direct reward – food for the family, new clothes.....nothing like the pointless drudgery in a factory. Such people enjoy to move their bodies. They are not exhausted, they have physical energy to spend and to share, they will dance all night at rituals and do physical actions purely for the fun or for the mastery of it.
With factory work, the problem of physical exploitation reached its climax. What went on in factories in the 19th and early 20th century in the West (and still goes on at a terrible scale in the Third world), was simply too much.
So it's not surprising that when the economies started to change after World War II and more and more people found jobs that no longer required physical labor, they embraced this as great progess. It must have seemed a liberation, admission into a lifestyle previously reserved only for the rich. More and more people could also buy cars, and they welcomed not having to walk anymore.
We live with the results today. Most likely, we will only learn most of the consequences later, after the end of the System. If there is anyone left to learn. Physical passivity is one of the PRIMARY problems of the West today, yet it receives minimum attention in the media. We rarely ever hear about it.
Ancestral memory is of course not enough to condition people for something completely unnatural. The sitting training has to start in early childhood. It's called school and takes countless years of torturing young bodies by making them sit motionless at their desks for hours and hours. At an age when the whole being wants and needs to move and explore the real world.
It is well-enough known that children learn much better if they are allowed to move and sit as they wish. Many early learners teach themselves reading, writing, maths, chess or geography at ages of 3-5 without being forced by anyone. They sit as long as they like, get up and play when they need to.
Any physician or holistic practicioner can describe dozens of consequences of not moving the body. The first is physical degeneration and weakness. People have no energy. They live in chronic muscular disbalance – the muscles that keep us upright have to work and the load on them is too high, if all the other muscles do nothing and are athrophied. This results in chronic back pain, a condition afflicting almost all people in our part of the world. A healthy person does NOT experience back pain. All kinds of illnesses are also caused or worsened by lack of exercise. Remember, it's chronic deprivation. Depriving your body of active motion is just like depriving it of sleep, food or water. Only you die from it much more slowly. Bad digestion is another primary consequence.
All the painful and unpleasant conditions of course affect the psychological state. And it is affected directly as well – only in a healthy body that has enough regular physical activity will the brain be nourished properly and run at it's full capacity.
Who knows how much unhappiness and violence is caused by people who feel sick because of their passivity, do not recognize the cause and react by mishandling others? Who knows how many wrong and stupid decisions are made by politicians who just sit in cars and conference halls and overeat at dinners?
There is the illusion of separation of mind and matter again, behind all this. We believe that we can live well in our head while ignoring our bodies. This is nonsense. There is no separation. Mind is matter. Matter is conscious, alive. Everything is alive. The idea that our way of life does not affect the way we think, feel and relate to others is absurd.
If you, the reader, do not suffer from lack of exercise, you belong to a minority. Most likely, you have it to some degree.
Now, what to do? If you are one of those who do not move at all, the beginning is simple. You start walking every day (choose routes with clean air, if possible nature or parks). You choose some form of energy exercise, yoga is probably the best option. This will help you stretch what is shortened, strengthen what is atrophied, get your energy flowing again, bring yourself into balance. Daily practice is needed, but it does not have to be long (later, you will probalby want to do more, all by yourself). You also need some kind of aerobic exercise, like running or dancing, regularly, more than once a week :)
Walking is wonderful, but it's a natural basic expression of life, rather than “exercise”. It will make you fitter, healthier and more energetic than non-walkers, but it's not enough to restore you to a normal physical state after years of passivity. A good “first-aid” package could consist of 40 minutes of yoga, and 20 minutes of dancing, juggling or running, etc.. Or one standard 90 minute lesson of something like dynamic yoga that covers all your needs. Of course, if you are relatively young, relatively healthy and relatively slim. If you are older, ill or overweight, you should consult professionals and find out which activities are safe for you to start with. After you get stronger, you may go for more demanding forms of exercise such as martial arts if you are so inclined. It's not a good idea to start with something hard on the body, such as weight training, immediately after a prolonged period of passivity. You need to stretch and to build core muscles first.
Useful physical work, like garden work, is a great way too. It teaches you new skills, gets you back to the real world, clears your mind.
This is the first step. If you incorporate physical activities into your life, especially if they happen in nature, you will gradually start to view life differently. You will feel stronger and more grounded, everyday life will be physically easier and so you will also feel easier about it. You might get new ideas, find new relationships, new interests. New horizons open for your mind and your soul.
It's absolutely great, if you get one hour or more of good quality exercise a day. You will look better and feel better than most people, you will get countless benefits. But if you spend all your workday sitting at the computer and half the evening watching TV, you are still a prisoner.
Now, you probably chose it yourself. Or you believe it to be your choice. The office job, the comfortable evenings playing computer games.
But if suddenly all people were to wake up, no one would want to do these things anymore. No one would continue a job where they would have to sit and sit and sit. They would demand the creation of new technologies that can be controlled in more natural ways than from the chair by keyboard and mouse. Sitting all day is unnatural and an awakened person simply will not do it anymore. Just as they will not accept poisoned air, poisoned food or throwaway junk products. If something hurts, a healthy person will not do it. Period. There are no mind-games about it being “comfortable”, “practical” or “necessary”. This does not work, a different solution must be found.
Right now, at this moment, awakening people usually solve the problem by creating a new lifestyle. Like working from home and alternating computer work with physical activities. Or choosing a whole new profession, which inclueds a lot of physical activity. Or retreating from work life, being „unemployed“ and focusing on community work or some way of alternative living. You name it, your soul knows, countless options are possible, you just need to open your mind to them.
Good luck exploring ! :)
The System makes us believe, that this is normal. Yes, we hear mentioned that you should get at least some exircise, like half an hour three times a week. If you actively move your body for one hour a day, you count as an athlete. What the propaganda really tells us is that the sedentary lifestyle is normal, OK, that you can be quite healthy and happy being physically passive, that this is comfort, a great achievement of humanking. Not having to do anything but sit in boxes all day. Maybe take a vacation from this for a few weeks a year, then get back to it.
As all the facts about the System, the truth about this is perfectly obvious, but people do not see it, blinded by their conditioning and the propaganda.
We all know that the human body is not made for sitting all life. It's made for walking, running, climbing mountains, dancing, hunting, building, creating, caring – physical activities in real space. It is supposed to move freely in nature, in open spaces. It is meant to be strong, to be flexible, to stretch and bend and rotate.
Forcing it to sit in a closed box for years is a crime against the body. You imprison a considerable part of yourself, deprive your muscles, tendons and ligaments of the motions their need, deprive your lungs of proper airing. Your metabolism cannot function properly if you do not move. Your whole body degenerates slowly, becoming ever weaker and stiffer with age. This leads to the sad phenomenon of old people who suffer from extreme pain and disability. We are made to believe that this comes normally with age. It's not true. A person who has enough natural and varied exercise can remain vigorous, flexible and active till 80 or 90. There can and will be illnesses, but nothing comparable to the terrible state that befalls old people after decades of “comfortably” sitting on chairs.
How are we conditioned for this? To rot away slowly while thinking that it is comfortable? To live in the prisons of rooms, offices and computers?
First of all, many of us carry deep traumatic genetic memories of the generations forced into excessive manual labor under the previous stages of the System. People who had to work in their feudal lords' fields during the day and in their own at night. Slaves, servants, the first factory workers. Too much physical work, too hard, with no perspective and not enough food, that was the life of millions of people in the not very distant past.
This is not a normal state of free sustainable communities by the way. Even the most “primitive” people, if free to live by themselves in their natural environment, will only have to “work” a reasonable number of hours a day to get food and all they need. They have time to relax, celebrate and create, and their “work” is meaningful, brings them direct reward – food for the family, new clothes.....nothing like the pointless drudgery in a factory. Such people enjoy to move their bodies. They are not exhausted, they have physical energy to spend and to share, they will dance all night at rituals and do physical actions purely for the fun or for the mastery of it.
With factory work, the problem of physical exploitation reached its climax. What went on in factories in the 19th and early 20th century in the West (and still goes on at a terrible scale in the Third world), was simply too much.
So it's not surprising that when the economies started to change after World War II and more and more people found jobs that no longer required physical labor, they embraced this as great progess. It must have seemed a liberation, admission into a lifestyle previously reserved only for the rich. More and more people could also buy cars, and they welcomed not having to walk anymore.
We live with the results today. Most likely, we will only learn most of the consequences later, after the end of the System. If there is anyone left to learn. Physical passivity is one of the PRIMARY problems of the West today, yet it receives minimum attention in the media. We rarely ever hear about it.
Ancestral memory is of course not enough to condition people for something completely unnatural. The sitting training has to start in early childhood. It's called school and takes countless years of torturing young bodies by making them sit motionless at their desks for hours and hours. At an age when the whole being wants and needs to move and explore the real world.
It is well-enough known that children learn much better if they are allowed to move and sit as they wish. Many early learners teach themselves reading, writing, maths, chess or geography at ages of 3-5 without being forced by anyone. They sit as long as they like, get up and play when they need to.
Any physician or holistic practicioner can describe dozens of consequences of not moving the body. The first is physical degeneration and weakness. People have no energy. They live in chronic muscular disbalance – the muscles that keep us upright have to work and the load on them is too high, if all the other muscles do nothing and are athrophied. This results in chronic back pain, a condition afflicting almost all people in our part of the world. A healthy person does NOT experience back pain. All kinds of illnesses are also caused or worsened by lack of exercise. Remember, it's chronic deprivation. Depriving your body of active motion is just like depriving it of sleep, food or water. Only you die from it much more slowly. Bad digestion is another primary consequence.
All the painful and unpleasant conditions of course affect the psychological state. And it is affected directly as well – only in a healthy body that has enough regular physical activity will the brain be nourished properly and run at it's full capacity.
Who knows how much unhappiness and violence is caused by people who feel sick because of their passivity, do not recognize the cause and react by mishandling others? Who knows how many wrong and stupid decisions are made by politicians who just sit in cars and conference halls and overeat at dinners?
There is the illusion of separation of mind and matter again, behind all this. We believe that we can live well in our head while ignoring our bodies. This is nonsense. There is no separation. Mind is matter. Matter is conscious, alive. Everything is alive. The idea that our way of life does not affect the way we think, feel and relate to others is absurd.
If you, the reader, do not suffer from lack of exercise, you belong to a minority. Most likely, you have it to some degree.
Now, what to do? If you are one of those who do not move at all, the beginning is simple. You start walking every day (choose routes with clean air, if possible nature or parks). You choose some form of energy exercise, yoga is probably the best option. This will help you stretch what is shortened, strengthen what is atrophied, get your energy flowing again, bring yourself into balance. Daily practice is needed, but it does not have to be long (later, you will probalby want to do more, all by yourself). You also need some kind of aerobic exercise, like running or dancing, regularly, more than once a week :)
Walking is wonderful, but it's a natural basic expression of life, rather than “exercise”. It will make you fitter, healthier and more energetic than non-walkers, but it's not enough to restore you to a normal physical state after years of passivity. A good “first-aid” package could consist of 40 minutes of yoga, and 20 minutes of dancing, juggling or running, etc.. Or one standard 90 minute lesson of something like dynamic yoga that covers all your needs. Of course, if you are relatively young, relatively healthy and relatively slim. If you are older, ill or overweight, you should consult professionals and find out which activities are safe for you to start with. After you get stronger, you may go for more demanding forms of exercise such as martial arts if you are so inclined. It's not a good idea to start with something hard on the body, such as weight training, immediately after a prolonged period of passivity. You need to stretch and to build core muscles first.
Useful physical work, like garden work, is a great way too. It teaches you new skills, gets you back to the real world, clears your mind.
This is the first step. If you incorporate physical activities into your life, especially if they happen in nature, you will gradually start to view life differently. You will feel stronger and more grounded, everyday life will be physically easier and so you will also feel easier about it. You might get new ideas, find new relationships, new interests. New horizons open for your mind and your soul.
It's absolutely great, if you get one hour or more of good quality exercise a day. You will look better and feel better than most people, you will get countless benefits. But if you spend all your workday sitting at the computer and half the evening watching TV, you are still a prisoner.
Now, you probably chose it yourself. Or you believe it to be your choice. The office job, the comfortable evenings playing computer games.
But if suddenly all people were to wake up, no one would want to do these things anymore. No one would continue a job where they would have to sit and sit and sit. They would demand the creation of new technologies that can be controlled in more natural ways than from the chair by keyboard and mouse. Sitting all day is unnatural and an awakened person simply will not do it anymore. Just as they will not accept poisoned air, poisoned food or throwaway junk products. If something hurts, a healthy person will not do it. Period. There are no mind-games about it being “comfortable”, “practical” or “necessary”. This does not work, a different solution must be found.
Right now, at this moment, awakening people usually solve the problem by creating a new lifestyle. Like working from home and alternating computer work with physical activities. Or choosing a whole new profession, which inclueds a lot of physical activity. Or retreating from work life, being „unemployed“ and focusing on community work or some way of alternative living. You name it, your soul knows, countless options are possible, you just need to open your mind to them.
Good luck exploring ! :)
neděle 4. března 2012
Yiengar on Asana Practice
Basic Principles:
STHIRA
firm, steadfast, enduring, lasting, serene, calm, composed
SUKHA
delight, comfort, alleviation, bliss
ASANA
Perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, benevolence of spirit
Necessary for pranayama and meditation
Reduce stress in the brain, rigidity of the lungs
Experiencing oneness with oneself
Awareness and intelligence must PERMEATE THE BODY.
The heart has to feel the posture.
AFTER ACTING, REFLECT
during action – reflect constantly, too
Action and silence have to go together
During asanas, mind is in full silence, watching yourself from the inside
Do things rhytmically, with a calm mind
Do asanas MEDITATIVELY, pranayama DEVOTIONALLY.
AWARENESS: Every pore of the skin has to become an eye.
use the “eyes” of the millions of cells, feel their position, know what is happening, know whether it is right or wrong, know how to correct it -> flow of intelligence
Listen to the body, what it can do, reflect, solutions will present themselves
PAUSE and REFLECT between each movement
Self-aware=being fully inside yourself, NOT looking at yourself from outside
BALANCE: give attention to your weaker side
Create equal strength, stability, intensity
To bring a part of the body in correct alignment, you have to work with the whole body.
Constantly recharge attention – rays of light of intelligence shining through the body
Dynamic extension: from the core of our being
Create room between the skin and the tissue under it.
After extending to the extreme: live in the asana, experience joy and freedom in it.
STRETCHING: create space, extend from the center
compression is bondage, expansion is freedom
STHIRA
firm, steadfast, enduring, lasting, serene, calm, composed
SUKHA
delight, comfort, alleviation, bliss
ASANA
Perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, benevolence of spirit
Necessary for pranayama and meditation
Reduce stress in the brain, rigidity of the lungs
Experiencing oneness with oneself
Awareness and intelligence must PERMEATE THE BODY.
The heart has to feel the posture.
AFTER ACTING, REFLECT
during action – reflect constantly, too
Action and silence have to go together
During asanas, mind is in full silence, watching yourself from the inside
Do things rhytmically, with a calm mind
Do asanas MEDITATIVELY, pranayama DEVOTIONALLY.
AWARENESS: Every pore of the skin has to become an eye.
use the “eyes” of the millions of cells, feel their position, know what is happening, know whether it is right or wrong, know how to correct it -> flow of intelligence
Listen to the body, what it can do, reflect, solutions will present themselves
PAUSE and REFLECT between each movement
Self-aware=being fully inside yourself, NOT looking at yourself from outside
BALANCE: give attention to your weaker side
Create equal strength, stability, intensity
To bring a part of the body in correct alignment, you have to work with the whole body.
Constantly recharge attention – rays of light of intelligence shining through the body
Dynamic extension: from the core of our being
Create room between the skin and the tissue under it.
After extending to the extreme: live in the asana, experience joy and freedom in it.
STRETCHING: create space, extend from the center
compression is bondage, expansion is freedom
neděle 26. února 2012
Tělo jako chrám, Seznámení s dělohou, Dýchání do dělohy - 3 automatické texty o ženské energii
Tělo jako chrám
Člověk je vším nebo sám
Záleží, zda obývá svůj chrám
Bohyně, velekněžka
Je bytost jako ty
Která se však dotýká své podstaty
S každým dechem
Božský nektar do ní prýští
Tisíce přátel
Najde v kupce spadlého listí
Je spojena s celým vesmírem
Skrze svou posvátnou loď
Zářící bránu, do neznáma vchod
Tělo je tvůj vysílač
Tělo je přijímač požehnání
Tělo je tvým nástrojem
Extáze i zrání
Miluj ho, buď s ním
Přijmi do srdce svůj stín
Není žádný hřích
Je jen teplo, něha
Živost a smích
Seznámení s dělohou
Zdalipak ji znáš
Svou pravou tvář?
Jeskyni vědění
Studnici umění
Fontánu poznání?
Lůno vesmíru
Plodí skutečnost
Tvarů a barev přemíru
Lásku a rozmanitost
Naslouchej hlasu z hlubin
Ptej se, vnímej, studuj
Buď učednicí své dělohy
Tou, která chce odhodit okovy
Tou, která řídí náhody
Ochránkyní života, vzduchu a vody
Pochopení pravdy skrývá se
V projevech nekonečna
Jež přichází z dělohy
Dýchání do dělohy
Přes hory, přes vody
Skrz tisící porody
Hlubinami náhody
Proudí vesmírné pochody
Vinou se setkání a rozchody
Ve svém středu
Najdeš vnitřní pravdu
Ticho nekonečna
Které objímá
Hukot vesmírného řádu
Stojí mimo zákony
Aktivního stvoření
Není tam vzdálenost ani čas
Zůstává jen objetí
Všechno znáš
Když se tam dovnitř dáš
Klíče k záchraně života máš
Je na tobě
Co s nimi uděláš
Člověk je vším nebo sám
Záleží, zda obývá svůj chrám
Bohyně, velekněžka
Je bytost jako ty
Která se však dotýká své podstaty
S každým dechem
Božský nektar do ní prýští
Tisíce přátel
Najde v kupce spadlého listí
Je spojena s celým vesmírem
Skrze svou posvátnou loď
Zářící bránu, do neznáma vchod
Tělo je tvůj vysílač
Tělo je přijímač požehnání
Tělo je tvým nástrojem
Extáze i zrání
Miluj ho, buď s ním
Přijmi do srdce svůj stín
Není žádný hřích
Je jen teplo, něha
Živost a smích
Seznámení s dělohou
Zdalipak ji znáš
Svou pravou tvář?
Jeskyni vědění
Studnici umění
Fontánu poznání?
Lůno vesmíru
Plodí skutečnost
Tvarů a barev přemíru
Lásku a rozmanitost
Naslouchej hlasu z hlubin
Ptej se, vnímej, studuj
Buď učednicí své dělohy
Tou, která chce odhodit okovy
Tou, která řídí náhody
Ochránkyní života, vzduchu a vody
Pochopení pravdy skrývá se
V projevech nekonečna
Jež přichází z dělohy
Dýchání do dělohy
Přes hory, přes vody
Skrz tisící porody
Hlubinami náhody
Proudí vesmírné pochody
Vinou se setkání a rozchody
Ve svém středu
Najdeš vnitřní pravdu
Ticho nekonečna
Které objímá
Hukot vesmírného řádu
Stojí mimo zákony
Aktivního stvoření
Není tam vzdálenost ani čas
Zůstává jen objetí
Všechno znáš
Když se tam dovnitř dáš
Klíče k záchraně života máš
Je na tobě
Co s nimi uděláš
pondělí 5. září 2011
Wisdom from Martha Beck I.
Any person who undergoes a dramatic shift creates a ripple effect, requiring change from others around her/him.
Attention is a powerful nutrient. It amplifies and accelerates the situations on which it is focused.
To liberate our minds enough to begin seeing alternatives, we must realize, prosaic as it seems, that we are physically capable of not doing almost everything we think we have to do.
Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realizing of some Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.
The nonverbal brain knows things you haven't put in words. What do you almost know? Let it come into your awareness; speak it.
The more respect you give your night dreams, the sooner they will become day dreams: ideas for new adventures, enterprises, and life strategies you may never have thought up while physically awake.—
Every time I have managed to eliminate all past and future thoughts from my brain and then accept the present moment absolutely, I've experienced the Stargazer’s incredible bliss, the feeling I can't possibly describe and you can't possibly imagine unless you've been there yourself.
I try to use the phrase "Tell me where I'm wrong" at least four or five times a day. Try it. You'll see that while insisting that you're right is gratifying, accepting that you're wrong can be transformative.
Whereas the physical immune system may create inflammation (a "flame" in the body), anger is like fire in the soul. Repressed, it destroys from the inside, by slow burn or explosion. Misdirected, it can blaze a path of destruction through your life and the lives of others. Cared for and properly used, it can warm you, light your path, fuel your progress, and keep hostile interlopers at bay.
I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. The simple act of hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone - a habit that can replace anxiety with happy anticipation.
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.—
This very day, do something brave to reduce any duplicity in your life. Stand up for yourself with someone who you've allowed to bully you. Apologize to someone with whom you may not have been entirely honest. Immediately- this is a promise- you will find the things you have been longing for drawing nearer to you.—
Right now, think of something about your life that is troubling you, something you want to change. For the next five minutes, instead of worrying about this thing, find a bright spot in the situation. You'll find the bright spots start to pop out more and your negative judgments fade.
An apology is the end of our struggle with history, the act by which we untangle from our past by accepting what it actually was. From this truthful place we are free to move forward, whether or not we are forgiven. Apologizing doesn't make us perfect, but it shows our commitment to be honest about our imperfections and steadfast in our efforts to do better.
As the Stargazer, you see that you are absolutely continuous with the rest of creation. You therefore love everything as yourself and have no doubt, none whatsoever, that you are infinitely loved in return by the entirety of which you are a part.
Attention is a powerful nutrient. It amplifies and accelerates the situations on which it is focused.
To liberate our minds enough to begin seeing alternatives, we must realize, prosaic as it seems, that we are physically capable of not doing almost everything we think we have to do.
Begin making choices based on what makes you feel freer and happier, rather than how you think an ideal life should look. It’s the process of feeling our way toward happiness, not the realizing of some Platonic ideal, that creates our best lives.
The nonverbal brain knows things you haven't put in words. What do you almost know? Let it come into your awareness; speak it.
The more respect you give your night dreams, the sooner they will become day dreams: ideas for new adventures, enterprises, and life strategies you may never have thought up while physically awake.—
Every time I have managed to eliminate all past and future thoughts from my brain and then accept the present moment absolutely, I've experienced the Stargazer’s incredible bliss, the feeling I can't possibly describe and you can't possibly imagine unless you've been there yourself.
I try to use the phrase "Tell me where I'm wrong" at least four or five times a day. Try it. You'll see that while insisting that you're right is gratifying, accepting that you're wrong can be transformative.
Whereas the physical immune system may create inflammation (a "flame" in the body), anger is like fire in the soul. Repressed, it destroys from the inside, by slow burn or explosion. Misdirected, it can blaze a path of destruction through your life and the lives of others. Cared for and properly used, it can warm you, light your path, fuel your progress, and keep hostile interlopers at bay.
I’ve developed the habit of mentally listing things that make me optimistic about the future. The simple act of hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone - a habit that can replace anxiety with happy anticipation.
It seems to me at this moment that laughing is a serious thing, that it connects us with truth and love and God.—
This very day, do something brave to reduce any duplicity in your life. Stand up for yourself with someone who you've allowed to bully you. Apologize to someone with whom you may not have been entirely honest. Immediately- this is a promise- you will find the things you have been longing for drawing nearer to you.—
Right now, think of something about your life that is troubling you, something you want to change. For the next five minutes, instead of worrying about this thing, find a bright spot in the situation. You'll find the bright spots start to pop out more and your negative judgments fade.
An apology is the end of our struggle with history, the act by which we untangle from our past by accepting what it actually was. From this truthful place we are free to move forward, whether or not we are forgiven. Apologizing doesn't make us perfect, but it shows our commitment to be honest about our imperfections and steadfast in our efforts to do better.
As the Stargazer, you see that you are absolutely continuous with the rest of creation. You therefore love everything as yourself and have no doubt, none whatsoever, that you are infinitely loved in return by the entirety of which you are a part.
Wisdom from Prashanti
Prashanti de Jaeger, ayurveda teacher, founder of Organic India, from a seminar on the 8 limbs of yoga in 2010
Main cause of disease: Not applying ourselves to what our heart really wants.
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Our thoughts and judgements about our personal impurity can be very toxic.
Experience is something you have. Wisdom is something you are.
It is the love, not the object, that intoxicates the free.
Always see the VICTOR, not the victim, in somebody.
Express honesty in a way that is digestible & nurturing to others.
Another name for peace is NOW
Another name for love is ALLOW
FIRST DO NO HARM.
Minimize AGITATION in the cosmic field
MEAT makes mind much more aggressive and rajasic, prone to see other
Be conscious of your power, your Prana and what you are giving it to
What influence has my way of holding my prana on the space around me?
The more sattvic you are, the more sattvic you become.
The SPIRIT of the law is alive and intelligent. The LETTER of the law is limited and stagnant.
Main cause of disease: Not applying ourselves to what our heart really wants.
How you do anything is how you do everything.
Our thoughts and judgements about our personal impurity can be very toxic.
Experience is something you have. Wisdom is something you are.
It is the love, not the object, that intoxicates the free.
Always see the VICTOR, not the victim, in somebody.
Express honesty in a way that is digestible & nurturing to others.
Another name for peace is NOW
Another name for love is ALLOW
FIRST DO NO HARM.
Minimize AGITATION in the cosmic field
MEAT makes mind much more aggressive and rajasic, prone to see other
Be conscious of your power, your Prana and what you are giving it to
What influence has my way of holding my prana on the space around me?
The more sattvic you are, the more sattvic you become.
The SPIRIT of the law is alive and intelligent. The LETTER of the law is limited and stagnant.
sobota 5. února 2011
John Holt o přirozeném učení
Pokud se dítě zabývá tím druhem učení, kterému se věnuje většina dětí ve škole, tj. polyká slova, aby je na požádání mohlo vyplivnout zpět na učitele, pak plýtvá svým časem, nebo spíše my plýtváme jeho časem. Takové znalosti nebudou trvalé ani podstatné ani užitečné. Ale dítě, které se učí přirozeně, které sleduje svou vlastní zvídavost, kamkoliv ho vede, které přidává ke svému duševnímu obrazu skutečnosti, cokoliv potřebuje a pro co umí nalézt místo, a které odmítá beze strachu nebo bez pocitu viny všechno, co nepotřebuje, takové dítě se rozvíjí, pokud jde o znalosti, o lásku k poznání a o schopnost se učit.
Přihlásit se k odběru:
Příspěvky (Atom)
