Every
now and then I get caught up in a whirlwind of popular thoughts and fashions;
am I the correct weight is the BMI index accurate am I obese, am I just a
number on a chart, does one size and age fit all? Do I look old and wrinkly, should
I be taking my medication and I am treating myself alternately is this harming
me, should I place myself in my doctors hands, yet I know that my research has
led me not to trust doctors although they are genuine in most cases and that
the large pharmaceutical multinationals are mostly corrupt and profit seeking and what shape,
food and exercising should I do and take?
I
have been a reasonably healthy and fit person and with age I have suffered
injury that has led to me being unable to walk much or do physical exercise as
much as I would like.
For
many years I have had this dilemma between physical aerobic exercise and Tai
Chi and Qi Gong, now I feel to do the chi and drop the exercise machine and
equipment.
What
shape and movement should I do, what food and rest balancing and so on and then a
feeling came in a reflective quiet moment; Be still and feel and inwardly
listen, breathe and let the local egoist programmes of habit and the past be
quiet and feel the body informing you of its needs as you age and move on in
the clearing process through meditation and the new energies.
It
came to matter of trust, trust in myself not the programmed past but the ever
new in the silence, be still, breathe, listen and then the words of dear Eckhart
Tolle came to mind; ‘You didn't create your body, nor are we able to control
the body’s functions.
It
is the same Intelligence that sustains all nature.
You
cannot get any closer to that Intelligence than being aware of your own energy
field----by feeling the aliveness, the animating presence within your body’
This
then settled to some extent my dichotomy; my dearest body signalling to me to
change and the past which served me well and its dictates were in need of an
overhaul and to come out of my head and into my heart and gut.
My
shape, fashion and lifestyle come from quietness and not from fads, fashions
and popular health edicts. Once again I
am led to the quiet mind and its wisdom.
SHACK
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