The body knows
The body knows everything. Every cell is aware of the breath. It becomes aware of the life force the inhalation will bring, even before it happens, and as the exhale takes place the body receives the energy. The bodymind is a device of mindfulness that results in consciousness. It is awareness of self, of the body as an object, of the mind as thinking, as aspects of breath – and of life itself. The “statements” I scribbled on the little studio blackboard are a few ideas that are often explored in integral yoga practices.
Such exploration, overt or covert, class after class, or at work, home and play, is as this metaphysical inquest is as much a yoga root practice as breathing and meditation is. And it all takes place in the body. Not in the head; in mine or yours.
How true are these statements, and how true are they for you? Don’t take my word for it, find out for yourself. Meditate, go within and explore the nuances of reality. How are these realities for you? Remember this when you consider and think about and fathom this stuff to include the thinking mind. Feel, sense, and contextualise cognitively. The trick is to not let the thinking mind, emotions or material world, or for that matter, the unseen, dominate.
Everything, every single atom in this universe, and whatever it contains, is connected to every other thing. And this is only a beginning to understand the multimentionality of whatever it is that we are so inextricabally part of. To believe otherwise is… delusional… belieivng in an illusion.
Everything is about context – meaning if you look at something from a perspective, you are looking at it from “a side”. The drop of water in a bucket, the emotion behind a teardrop, the cloud above the rain and the sky above the earth are pieces of a greater whole. Every angle or point of view is relative, including one’s metaphysical point of view when it does not acknowledges that nothing but complete holism is accurate. Else a “worldview” is exactly that: “a view of the world”, and not quite a “knowing of all things” :-))
Alienation, cynicism, aloofness, criticism, elitism, poverty in extreme and chronic states is a manifestation of seperation. We don’t have to believe in God, mythology or in science to know that the breath is life. When we include rather than exclude separation is abolished. Love is the bottom line. The chalkboard sign in the studio changes because the represent ideas, but the small love sign is written in koki.
Take care, nurture the illusion, and the connection to the unseen one-ness. One just got to… love the duality.
With love,
Johann
Johann Kotze Music & Yoga
Muizenberg,
Cape Town,
18 September 2015
