More so what!

The problem for me writing this blog is that I find myself wondering if I'm telling the truth. I have always liked to write in the form of a journal or some kind of 'diary'. But putting my thoughts out onto the world wide web is something else. It brings into sharper focus my ability at times to talk rubbish. I trained many years ago and acquired a diploma in osteopathy. When I entered this 5 year course I was to say the least, very naive in terms of the why's and the wherefores of the healing sciences, to be more specific the so-called natural or alternative healing sciences.

I'd had some amazing transformational experiences with reflexology and cranial osteopathy and massage and breathing techniques etc. Unfortunately for me these necessitated being rather too dependent on the therapist using said technique, and not only that but it was all a bit expensive as well. Nevertheless as someone 'who needed help' I was willing to go the extra mile and get the money and pay the man/woman. Of course the main thing for me was that the effects of these treatments were always temporary for me andI found this highly frustrating.

OnceI gained my diploma in osteopathy I worked for a time as an osteopath. I was disappointed with this approach to health in the way that I witnessed it being used, i.e, a another fix and repair job, and more often than not as a great way of earning lots of money, which I personally wasn't interested in. This is not to say that osteopathy and all the other opathy's and ology's don't have a place, but in my opinion they are palliative most of the time in the same way that allopathic medicine is.

So again this is my opinion, and yes I know that there are all sorts of people that have been cured of all sorts of things with these various modalities. The point of this for me on a personal level is that once I started to do yoga I found my 'need' for external support evaporate.

Dependency is an insidious by-product of the consumerist way of life is it not? NO? YES?

Moving on; Yoga is not necessarily designed for healing purposes anyway, it is designed, if that is the right word, for the transformation of consciousness. We may find that we are unhappy with our lot in life, we may find that we are no longer satisfied with buying more things for ourself. What do we do? We seek out a therapist maybe or we learn some relaxation classes and we start to feel better and more relaxed and we can get on with our life again. That may just do the trick, but if you are the one in a million that is never truly satisfied what do you do? My God there a million and one therapies to explore and have fun with, but which if them is lasting, which of them does the trick? Trick what trick?

Anyway you may or may not get the point, you may think the world is going to end in 2012, or that we are doomed to die in a heat blaze in 50 years or even starve to death because the food sources have dried up. you may think it's all bullshit and keep on going the way you have been on and on. . . . . . . . . So what !!

When you have had enough you may just sit down and think. You may then start to breathe and tune into the natural rhythm of your own breath. Your heart rate may slow down and in spite of all that is supposedly going on you may feel better. You may see things in your mind that will scare the bejasus out of you, but it is your mind is it not? How did those things get in there? Can they be changed or even replaced by a more optimistic mode of thought, hmmm, maybe. Can you even start to imagine stopping think altogether for short periods of time? Blimey that would be a miracle then you my start to see that thoughts are illusions. The only trouble is these illusions have the power to affect your very physiology, electrical impulses (thoughts) leading to chemical responses (Hormones etc).

Hari Om Sat Tat.