Stretching to the Edge of Your Personal Growth
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At 87, Michelangelo was asked if he had any more
personal goals or desires. He answered in Latin: “I am still learning.”
Michelangelo was someone who desired to live the next moment, the next day, the
next year. When any of us stop learning, we spiritually, emotionally, and then
physically die. When a plant stops growing for some reason in nature, if not
for just a season to rest, then the plant or tree is usually about to die. This
metaphor hold true for our human existence.
Change looks like a good yoga workout. When you
begin, you center with breathing exercises, and find a connection from your
mind to your body. In other words, you become the observer and parent of the
body, so that you don’t make actions that will hurt your fragile physical self.
Then we begin to make relaxing movement. This action
is slow and meticulous. We begin with the spine, which connects the entire
body. We end by rolling the head, which uses the neck and has hundreds of
muscle attachments on each side of the occipital bones behind the head and at
the top of the neck. This head movement is one of the best indicators of how
stressed and tight the body has become. Often, I’ll get to a part of the
movement that feels stuck or hurt. I stop at the point, breathe into the pain,
and let oxygen flow to the muscles, before I begin to move into the pain.
From there, we move into the Asana, which is connecting or holding positions to strengthen and
feel the entire body. The Asana or
movement portion of the practice is not the most important part of yoga, the
meditation is. The Asana is, by
nature, the part of the practice where we identify our God Body, which is the
conduit or the house for our spirit. As we have entered into a place of divine
connection from mind to body, we learn to use our minds to control the fragile
and ephemeral body. If we are aware and awake, we learn the most tenuous part
of the practice, which is coming to the edge of pain, and waiting for the body
to relax into a pose, to move deeper and more intricately into the ephemeral
body.
All of this is a divine metaphor for change. In
life, we always stand at the precipice of pain, trying to decide whether or not
we want to face it—head on, dive in, or our best choice, to wait for spirit and
your highest self to accept the problem, then gentle begin to make change. If
we don’t face the issue and back away, then we never have the opportunity to
learn our divine lessons. If we dive into the pain, our existence gets hurt and
submerges into the deep, almost drowning from too much mental and physical
stress. But, if we stand at the precipice of pain, waiting, we move slowly into
the pain to get past it.
We are on the earth to create beauty. This is
impossible if your mind is stuck in the past or feeling pain. Face it first.
Stand at the edge of it and wait for God and your highest self to make a plan.
Grieve if you must! But gently wade into the waters of change and begin to
slowly move through it until you liberate yourself and your world from the
obstacles that hold you from your divine destiny.
* Bo Sebastian is a Hypnotherapist and Life
& Health Coach, available for private sessions to QUIT SMOKING, Lose
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