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Polaris Quotes
" When we say the word "Love", we don't limit that to this good "heart" feeling that you get when culturally and socially you think of the word. We mean complete presence: a complete awareness. "
Last week I resumed my tai chi practice. I was a little nervous about it, thinking that my practice was still new enough that in more than a month away all the elements to the long form I do would drain away and I’d have to relearn everything again, but no. There it was, stored within my body, waiting. I readied myself, dropped my awareness into my dantian, and began. It all flowed from there.
Surely there’s a metaphor in there somewhere, right? Trusting the body — the inner awareness — to hold a space even when we feel we’re unable.
Healing has been a long road, a road I’m still on. I am impatient when it comes to things like this. My way in the past has always been to push. Push through the pain. Push myself into doing and being, even though my body or heart was weary. I am finding I don’t want to push any longer. I can allow things to simply Be.
It was a huge pleasure speaking last week with host Jennifer Hillman on Abstract Illusions Radio — AIR — last week on BBSRadio, and I'm pleased to be able to share the archived show from May 27 2010 with you in its entirety. Enjoy!
I’m a big proponent of the Slow Food movement, which encourages mindfulness in eating. According to Wikipedia, the Slow Food movement “strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and promotes farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristics of the local ecosystem.” This is all about making conscious choices in food while providing an avenue to truly connect to the natural world around us and bringing that world inward into our bodies with the foods we consume.
It struck me, through my recent feelings of discouragement with my personal healing, that there is something to be learned from slow healing as well.
I’ve mostly felt good with my process. Joyful. But the other night someone asked me, “Aren’t you frustrated about not being able to get out much and get around?”
Last week I resumed 
I’m a big proponent of the