Posts Tagged ‘Energy’
Stories
harry on 6:46 pm February 16th, 2011 / 2 Comments »
Once, after telling a story to my son for a solid hour, I had an idea.
“Where are stories, Habibi?” I asked.
“They aren’t anywhere,” he replied. “They just are.”
I know. He’s really like that. My kid is Yoda.
I think stories are written on our bodies. Not just in scars and tattoos and aches and pains and (if you are me), creaky joints–those are the stories of our physical bodies. They mean something.They teach us things, sure.
There are other stories written on our bodies, though. Big stories. Big stories about big things. Written right there, and here’s the thing–we are constantly writing them, over and over again.
Here’s a big story:
1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 1:2 Now the earth was unformed and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep; and God’s spirit hovered over the face of the waters. 1:3 And God said: ‘Let there be light.’ And there was light. 1:4 And God saw the light, that it was good…
Yes. I know. But it’s a big story. And it’s famous. Just be patient–it’s getting good.
So, the other week, Kim was telling us about the first two chakras. The first is all about basic survival. Safety. That kind of thing. It’s important. It’s what everything else is built upon. The second is all about desire, emotional, physical. It’s also important. It’s about our drives. So, here’s the thing. Kim was talking about this and she said “These two first chakras are sort of unformed.”
Right then all my years of Hebrew school kicked in and I thought of that story.
It’s as if those first two chakras are the basis for the rest of our creation. Our creating. The raw materials. If that’s the case, then maybe the third chakra, which holds our sense of self, is kind of like, not the light, but the value judgment we place on the light: “that it was good.” As soon as something happens to those raw materials, we put a value on it. Light is good. That’s our ego talking. That’s our third chakra.
And it’s written right there, on us.
Okay–next time I will write about music. I promise.
Full Circle
Leahm on 4:20 pm June 7th, 2010 / 1 Comment »
Allow me to present an interesting–to me, at least–follow-up to some of my previous posts on exercise and on anger. When posted, they didn’t necessarily have anything to do with each other. But I’ve been observing some interesting stuff… As mentioned in the exercise post, now that I’m deeper into yoga study, I rarely go to the gym or do aerobic exercise. Which is nice in a lot of ways, as it had become a real chore to think about scheduling in gym time. And while many times I felt better afterwards, there were increasingly times that I didn’t feel very good during or after my workout. (I think I was experiencing mild panic attacks on the elliptical trainer, actually!) Anyhoo, later came my post on anger and irritation, and how I’ve been experiencing this a lot recently. Granted, I am a Pitta, so I guess anger/irritation can somewhat come along with the territory (when provoked). Add to this the fact that we’ve been in the high heat of summer, when Pitta is at its meatiest point. One plus one equals two, duh. In and amongst all of this observation of my emotional state is that I have also been frequently feeling a prickly, icky heat and sweat in my face, which I’ve chalked up to an anger/Pitta imbalance. Ok. Facts laid out. So, last Friday, I went to the gym and hung out on the elliptical trainer listening to fun music and reading silly magazines for nearly an hour. Just a few minutes into it I was like, aw, yeah, this feels GOOD. And I tell you, up until yesterday, when some things occurred that tickled my irritant hot spots, I hadn’t experienced the face sweat thing. So, sometimes aerobic exercise may be just the energy-moving block that does the trick. Sweet! Free therapy!
The Neck Bone’s Connected to the…Shoulder Blades?
On days that I get to lounge around the house, I like to flop upside-down over the arm of my couch and watch my legs float in the air. If I let them hover long enough, they come to rest in a bone-balancing-on-bone position and my muscles don’t have to work at all to hold my legs in the air.
Lately I’ve been looking for that same sensation in the way I hold my head on top of my spine. Especially when I’m concentrating on a task, I tend to jut my head forward, which makes the muscles in my neck work overtime to support my 10-pound noggin. Over time, that hurts.
In my search for balance, I found a particularly insightful article by Richard Rosen. He says that the root of the neck is between the lower tips of the shoulder blades. When I imagine holding my head from that point, I catch glimpses of the sensation I find so easily in my lower body when I’m upside-down on my couch. My head floats and an icy-hot feeling spreads up the back of my neck and the top part of my breastbone. That’s the sensation I get when a new area of my body wakes up.
