As intelligent beings it is easy to blame our environment for our posture and bad habits. The food we eat, the traffic on the freeway, our noisy neighbors, the state of the economy and a million more reasons to complain about something. Our brain has an incredible capacity to change, to learn new skills and the ability to heal itself. The bad habits we developed can be corrected and unlearned by incrementally reinforcing positive habits during our lifetime. Humans are highly self intelligent but our brains are easily tricked and numbed by a barrage of stimuli. Our failure or ignorance to accurately perceive the misuse of our physical body leads to dis-ease and sometimes painful consequences. It is not normal to live with stress, migraines or back pain. Don’t just put up with it and expect to relieve the pain with a daily dose of medication. The fact that we make mistakes is inevitable, but we have to use our body awareness to self correct and must have a deep inner desire to heal.
By cultivating a daily attitude of healing the mind and body, the brain will soon start to auto-correct itself. Try to develop a daily relationship with your senses, take time to do yoga, walk in nature, swim, meditate, not because its relaxing, see these daily activities as an exercise in learning about how your body works. Cultivate what feels natural and what intuitively feels good to you, there is no one system. Keep a diary or post-it notes of the things that made you feel energized and the things that bring you down, date it and review weekly. Your intuitive intelligence with the proper motivation to heal is your best guide. And of course get advice from your doctor, dietitian, physical therapist or Google a credible site with healthy advice.
Archive for March, 2009
Self Correcting Organisms
Friday, March 20th, 2009Don’t confuse Bliss with Exhaustion
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009
Yoga can be applied as a mental tool when needed for a mind and body tune up. An obsessive daily routine with a motivation of attaining a perfect pose or a blissed out state of mind by pushing and pulling the muscles of the body to their limits can lead to exhaustion. Exhaustion may sometimes be associated with surrender and a temporary suspension of thought, but it is not bliss. It is just plain tired, your body may be depleted of its vital energy from trying to achieve the definitive power vinyasa flow.Technology and Meditation
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Technology and meditation:
What if technology was able to assist people to reach heightened states of consciousness? A technological short cut to the evolution of the human mind might be possible. With the invention of binaural beats, the brain can be influenced in subtle ways through the entrainment of brain waves and can be used to induce relaxation and increased awareness depending on the frequency of the sounds being used, these sound frequencies or waves are called Beta, Alpha, Delta, and Theta. Listening to these different brain waves may not immediately induce any changes in consciousness. A person must also have the proper motivation. Delta (1 to 4 Hz) and theta (4 to 8 Hz) waves may induce relaxed, meditative, and creative mental scripts, it may also help individuals who have trouble sleeping to fall asleep. The alpha frequencies (8 to 12 Hz) can aid in meditation and increase mental clarity and the beta frequencies (16 to 24 Hz) may increase concentration and improve memory. These frequencies can be combined to create various effects on the brain’s ability to process data. These examples are a brief summary of the benefits of this technology, and I recommend doing your own research into this field of brain entrainment. Binaural beats can be applied to many aspects of daily life as a substitute to memory supplements, sleeping pills or caffeine. Binaural beats can also be complimentary to meditation and studying for a test. This all depends on the will and motivation of the observer. Fair warning, this technology may not be recommended for everyone because all of us are unique with varying degrees of intelligence and understanding. Self inquiry and discernment is your best filter in determining which tools to use to raise your consciousness.