Body and Spirit
Sep. 26th, 2007 10:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I've surprised myself by being more or less regular in my yoga practice for the past couple of weeks, and not only am I feeling much better physically and much more centered mentally, the impact on my spiritual practice has been unprecedented.
I follow each yoga session with an RJ Stewart practice called 'The Rising Light Below,' and follow that with prayer and meditation. My meditation is far more fruitful and rich after a yoga session. I've never seen such a direct cause and effect impact. The fact that I'm doing all this before breakfast is also a first.
All my life I've lived primarily in my head. The few exceptions have usually involved martial arts or sex. While never embracing the Western prejudice that the body is "bad", I never considered my body spiritually significant except in the abstract -- which is almost as bad as not honoring it at all. I just never made a meaningful connection between my spiritual life and my body until LM and our partner finally initiated me into sacred sex.
Discovering that "exercising" has a direct positive impact on my energy work and meditation is something new to me. Which is kind of embarrassing, given how many people take it as a given. It's just never been part of my experience until now.
I feel like I've discovered a whole new kind of magical secret.
I've surprised myself by being more or less regular in my yoga practice for the past couple of weeks, and not only am I feeling much better physically and much more centered mentally, the impact on my spiritual practice has been unprecedented.
I follow each yoga session with an RJ Stewart practice called 'The Rising Light Below,' and follow that with prayer and meditation. My meditation is far more fruitful and rich after a yoga session. I've never seen such a direct cause and effect impact. The fact that I'm doing all this before breakfast is also a first.
All my life I've lived primarily in my head. The few exceptions have usually involved martial arts or sex. While never embracing the Western prejudice that the body is "bad", I never considered my body spiritually significant except in the abstract -- which is almost as bad as not honoring it at all. I just never made a meaningful connection between my spiritual life and my body until LM and our partner finally initiated me into sacred sex.
Discovering that "exercising" has a direct positive impact on my energy work and meditation is something new to me. Which is kind of embarrassing, given how many people take it as a given. It's just never been part of my experience until now.
I feel like I've discovered a whole new kind of magical secret.
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Date: 2007-09-27 05:39 am (UTC)There will be more in email when I get a chance to write any. (Probably tomorrow after work. Tonight I am Too Dead.)
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Date: 2007-09-28 05:25 am (UTC)It's a secret I've known for a while now, but feel like I've still been unable to touch it sexually, so I envy you that experience.
I think that's part of the reason I love hockey so much, because it's giving me a low-stakes means of accessing and practicing spiritual embodiment.
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Date: 2007-10-06 01:31 am (UTC)Please, please write about post about this!
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Date: 2007-10-10 05:38 am (UTC)