28/11/2022
Pain IS the healing. Krishnamacharya used to say, “Thank God for my pain, because it has enabled me to practice.” He called it the “unavoidable motive to practice” that moves you to take the practical steps to enjoy your life.
By the gentleness of its daily discipline, your Yoga teaches you to participate in the natural intimacies that you have already been given. The resulting health alleviates your pain. The essential ingredient is not simply the breath but also your own intimate relationship with your breath and with life. This allows the healing power intrinsic to life to function most efficiently.
We all breathe, certainly and essentially, but we usually forget all about our breathing. The daily practice of breathing and moving, will develop an intimacy with your breath and with your self. This intimate connection is the great healing. You are participating with your breath, consciously and compassionately, in the fullness of life itself. The result is regeneration and health: the goal of Mother Nature.
Leave the body alone. Give it a chance for its inherent intelligence to function. Life can explode from within you or it gradually unfolds. It is what happens with life on Earth. This is what we are built for. When we stop looking, the natural state, which is love, the intrinsic union with all, seeps through and sometimes suddenly bursts forth. You will taste life like you have never tasted it before.
In a life of Yoga we let the wonder and utter connection to life be sufficient. We let breath be sufficient. We let this sitting here be sufficient. We let the Reality be sufficient. We enjoy the intrinsic, inborn powers of life moving in us. Life itself moves us into every kind of wonderful relatedness, including deep, abiding sexual intimacy freely chosen in the way that is right for us as individuals. S*x is the substance and nurturing force of all form.
We are okay as is. In fact, we are more than okay. The life current is in the skin, it is in the spine, it is in every cell of the body.
You don't have to do anything about that. It is made abundantly available all the time. You are not separate from Nature. You are that. Nothing is required.