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Potholes: Hit Many Lately?

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I saw a pothole in front of me on Connecticut Avenue this morning and I hit it. Even though winter is long behind us, the roads are still a mess from the cold, the freezing and contracting, the salt.

If you focus on a pothole, you will hit it. If you’re not aware of it, you may still hit it but if you focus on where you want to go, you won’t hit it.

“Often things happen to race cars in the heat of the race…..perhaps a clutch fails. Brakes go soft from overheating. ….When faced with one of these problems, the poor driver crashes. The average driver gives up. The great drivers drive through the problem…..They figure out a way to continue racing…..It makes one realize that the physicality of our world is a boundary to us only if our will is weak; a true champion can accomplish things that a normal person would think impossible.” 

“In racing, they say that your car goes where your eyes go. The driver who cannot tear his eyes away from the wall as he spins out of control will meet that wall; the driver who looks down the track as he feels his tires break free will gain control of his vehicle.”

“Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that which you manifest is before you.”  The Art of Racing in the Rain (2008) by Garth Stein

What you focus on is what you’ll get. Be well. DIY.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it, because action has magic, grace and power in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

 

Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to substitute for medical counseling. Intentional Health does not treat, prevent, cure, or diagnose any disease or ailment.

 

 

DIY Health & Wellness

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All healing is self healing. We are all perfect even though your body, mind and emotions are most likely saying something else to you.

Give your body the benefit of the doubt, it’s smarter than you, much smarter. It wants to be well; it knows how to be well. It carries the wisdom of the universe, the “field” of God, or whatever you want to call it, in every single cell, all 70 trillion of them.

Whether you believe it or not (and you probably don’t if you didn’t study quantum physics) “we are all energy beings living in an ocean of vibrating frequencies – the unified field.” (Quantum Change Made Easy)

Your doctors, your chiropractors and yoga teachers and friends are all part of your pit crew but you are the only driver of your unique, priceless machine.

This doesn’t mean you don’t need a doctor ( sometimes) but what it does mean is that you are in charge of your health & wellness. You know what feels right (or wrong for that matter). The origin of the word doctor is teacher, from Anglo-French and medieval Latin, not God.

Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to substitute for medical counseling. Intentional Health does not treat, prevent, cure, or diagnose any disease or ailment.

 

Nine Ladies Dancing (and one brave dude)

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What a thought! What a sight! What a joy!

Today happens to be the 9th day of Christmas, the day of Nine Ladies Dancing. From 1558 until 1829 Roman Catholics in England were not able to worship openly. Each day of the carol had a hidden meaning. Nine ladies dancing referring to the Fruits of the Spirit: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self Control.

But that’s not exactly what I’m writing about.

It’s my NIA class. NIA? Never heard of it? Check out http://www.nianow.com/practice

Several nights a week I dance NIA. Why? For joy.

What I love about NIA is that it’s not about perfecting a move or mastering a step, it’s about feeling joy.

The late American Dancer and Musician, Gabrielle Roth (1941-2012), wrote, “Dancing, singing, storytelling and silence are the four universal healing salves”.

My dance practice is as important to me as my meditation practice is for being present. When I am dancing there is no past, no future, only now.

Several weeks ago I wrote about my favorite poet, Rumi. The essence of Rumi is that through music and dance one travels a mystical journey, abandoning the ego, growing in love and arriving at truth.

“When you dance the whole universe dances. All the realms spin around you in endless celebration. Your soul loses its grip. Your body sheds its fatigue. Hearing my hands clap and my drum beat you begin to whirl.” –Rumi

 

Dancing offers the same benefits as a regular exercise routine, but can be a heck of a lot more fun.

Benefits include: Improved mood, memory and attention, stronger bones, a healthier cardiovascular system. Dancing also strengthens muscles and stabilizes joints. Dancing counts as a weight bearing exercise which slows bone loss and it naturally strengthens the core and activates almost all muscles.

“If you just set people in motion, they’ll heal themselves.”  –Gabrielle Roth

Dancing and music modulate brain chemicals i.e. activate the pleasure center of brain. So boogie until you laugh and grin.

“If we’re not supposed to dance, why all this music?” From “To Be Alive” by Gregory Orr

 

 

 

Disclaimer: The information provided here is not intended to substitute for medical counseling. Intentional Health does not treat, prevent, cure, or diagnose any disease or ailment.

 

 

ONE WISH

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As we deconstruct the tree and listen to the holiday songs that we are not totally sick of for one last time, I have played over and over Whitney Houston’s One Wish from her 2003 album One Wish. It still gives me goose bumps – is it her voice, the music, the words, the message?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-tRbKAnguw

It hit me that this message is what is really on the other side of what happens when the “world ends”.

Was the message from the Mayans and all the other “ancients” that at some point, perhaps at a specific point in time, that conflicts must end and that we must  “all  come together  as one”.

What I find interesting, fascinating and downright amazing is that the same date the Mayans identified as the “time of no time” (versus the end of the world that some “religious” groups named this time in order to instill fear, separation, guilt & submission in people) is also the end of the Age of Pisces and the beginning of the Age of Aquarius.

Astronomically, the scientists have known since the 1960’s when they “discovered” the photon band that 2012 is the culmination of a 26,000 year cycle of the sun/earth rotation around our Galactic center. Ancient cultures including the Egyptians, Chinese and Sumerians as well as the Mayans, Aztecs and Incas also knew about this 26,000 year cycle called the Great Year.

“Coincidentally” 2012 coincides with the zodiac calendar where it takes, give or take, 2160 years for the sun/earth to move through the signs of the zodiac.

And for you astrology experts forgive my over-simplification….

Pisces = A Water sign of 2 Fish = Conflict, duality, choice, wars over religion ideology, beliefs

Aquarius = Also a Water sign but where Water is fully given to all = non duality, no conflict, knowledge replaces divisive beliefs, no more war

Which age would you rather live in, which world, which time?

Give me the Age of Aquarius anytime and definitely Let the Sun Shine In

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjxSCAalsBE