Day 16
Inflammation:
Inflammation can be physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, at the least, add to this our compounding theory and you can see it all adds up ! Yes inflammation has its place to ward of infection and disease, but that happens periodically, and is not the state you want to be in constantly.
Physical inflammation:
Food..yes food per se is inflammatory, that why choosing the appropriate food for yourself is important. lack of movement,dead drink, low frequency thoughts, low frequency emotions all manifest physical inflammation,
Mental inflammation:
is cased by stimulants, drugs, low frequency thoughts, the monkey mind, over information, over movement, lack of restful sleep, being in the flight fight mode, i.e stressing about stress and not tackling the stress.
Emotional Inflammation:
A big one, emotions come and go, getting sti=uck to them, questioning them, beating yourself over them, these cause more stress than the emotion itself. Let me please share a story.
A teacher of mine, this time my Dad, shred this story with me:
When you get a slap, the physical pain subsides in some time, but the emotional slap remains much longer, we move through upset, anger, rebellion, sadness,etc.. And it keeps going on and on. This example came about when i was a teenager and I used to love picking fights, so one day I was bored and decided to pick a fight with 20 people! Now i find this very funny so excuse me if I smirk or smile while i narrate this story. So Not 5 not 10 but 20 people! Thats how blind and unaware I was, anyway as expected I was surrounded and in the group was one Big guy about three times my width and 2 times my height …at that point I was extremely fit and strong and was at the peak of my Karate practice, and though my sensei’s always educated me that Karate is not about fighting, I obviously had to go through this lesson to wake up. So the fight happened, we beat each other up, I obviously got thrashed, but somehow I was not that badly injured…now what happens next is even funnier…this fight consumed me for the next 1 month! I became bitter, questioned myself, my abilities….really?!! What would one expect with such poor choices! Besides that the fight was over it was time to move on, but no, the emotion stayed with me for 1 month! I had anger, sadness, feeling bad for them, etc etc….but this incident taught me many things…I evolved in my karate practice, went deeper into Yoga and started my journey of self development.
Spiritual inflammation:
Being obsessed with the meaning of Spirituality and not really feeling it. Spirituality is nothing but the spirit to feel what you want to feel, to own the emotion you want and the emotion that serves you. Going round and round intellectually rather than experientially, will cause inflammation. For example I tackle this by creating compartments and boundaries for when I deliver a lecture like now, I am coming from an intellectual space, but with aspects of spiritual space, when I meditate or teach yoga I come from a spiritual space, when I consult for Life coaching i come from experiential, spiritual, emotional, spiritual. So in this manner its important to create your zones and keep the boundaries supple, so not only are you aware of them but also allow the possibility of flow between them. Just like you I am still playing and experiencing this space, so all I can share is that its fun and its really rewarding.
Solution?
Understand your fundamental base rules 🙂
Adaptability:
If you don’t adapt you don’t live, u simply survive.
Its important to understand your fundamental base rules in life, based on that have the ability to adapt, so be flexible but still have the ability to feel grounded, remember we have 5 elements in our beings..earth, water, fire, air, and space.
Like everything we have spoken about, this too is important to experience all these emotions in balance and adapt it to suit you. In todays environment, we have over stimulated Fire, air and space, so its important to find balance in earth and water…
So how do we adapt? Just like you train your body to be flexible, train the mind to be flexible or as its called Brain plasticity, also known as neuroplasticity, is a term that refers to the brain’s ability to change and adapt as a result of experience.
I have a fantastic mediation that I will be sharing with you in the last few days, and the meditation is called ‘the buffet meditation’, so we use the analogy of a buffet with different foods and make choices of the foods that we want from the buffet,
connect it to emotion and experiences and use that analogy to choose the emotion and experiences that serve us.
Its important to exercise our choice, but also allow the possibility that the universe looks after us….