7/1/15
I know for most people obtaining good
health is pretty obvious, eat well, rest, drink water, exercise, meditate they
are all just ways of responding to the body’s needs but for the best part of my
life I somehow managed to overlook these things and the profound impact that
they can have. I had the desire to have optimum health but I just couldn’t
follow through, I thought it was a matter of will and that I just had to try
harder.
I had limited sensitivity to my subtle and
not so subtle physical states but over time that changed.
The sensitivity I have now has been born
out of having daily contact with myself (the body) in meditation. So really
weather I like it or not I can feel exactly what is going on in the body and
the response is often quite intuitive and automatic with very little thought
involved.
My digestion, skin texture, muscle tone and
general fitness have all improved dramatically.
I wanted to share this because I felt at
odds with my body for about forty years before I came to this understanding.
The understanding didn’t come from the place that I thought it would. I wasn’t
meditating in order to understand my physical health in this way. In my
ignorance I thought that meditation would just help me think clearly about my
health and that would help me carry out a plan and that plan would probably be
devised by another person (health practitioner).
If someone told me that meditating would
improve my digestion I would just think oh yeh that would be nice and think
that any result that might occur would be a subtle one. How wrong could I have
been, my digestive system is me and I can’t not know what is going on with it.
It is a marvel to me every day that from
the moment I get up in the morning to the moment I fall asleep at night I am
intuitively responding to all that my body needs. It’s just what a living thing
does when there is no interference.
It is no small gift that I have been given
and one that no other person will ever know the full depth of what I am
expressing because I am the only one that can feel it. Words just don’t cut it.
It would be nice to think though that for
anyone who reads this and is in need of healing that the part of them that
desires healing like I did will hear what I have expressed and it will spark a
new interest in them to follow their own way to health.
It is not something that you can give to
someone but the people who nurtured that spark in me are Kate and Matthew Meinck.
Likewise it isn’t something I can give to them in return nor do they need it as
they have their own intelligence but I do hope that it will shine a light on
the nature and intent of the people that I call my friends.
