“The minds need to rest, while the body needs to work” Roshan

This iswhat my teacher used to say. We seem to do everything wrong, thinking is just another sense, but yet it comes on the 1’st place of the senses we pay attention to, the second is the eyes, the world we know is based on what we see with our eyes, but all perception comes from mind. And still we pay no attention or less attention to the other senses, or we are just not aware of them.

This is just another way of being ignorant, and is the mind who is ignorant. How can you think you have an accurate image of the world you are living in, when you use 2 senses perceive it. And even if you use all of them at 101% there is still so much we don t know/see.

A person in construction or on the fields, he is working hard 12 h a day, doing so much effort. He gets at home go to bed dead from all the work, and has a deep sleep. Wakes up back at 6 in the morning and starts the day all over again, and has no problem with it. His mind is at peace, he is doing meditation while working. He forgets about himself and he identifies himself with  his work.

“The creator is often seen in his creation.”

Someone working in the office, is stressed all day. Even if he manage to get somehow from a stressful situation, someone comes and ruins his mood again. He then takes a break, going for a cigarette, to calm itself down. What he is really doing he is hyperventilating even more, see your heart beat before and after a cigarette, the thing that s calming your mind, is the smoke, the CO2 and all the toxins in the cigarette.

All the body is experiencing is more pain, after sitting all day at a desk with the head in a wrong position, with a crunched back, and with a mind that is not helping. You are losing the appetite of life. And build frustration, but it is ok. All the money that you are making will ease that frustration by buying expensive clothes, cars, food menus, champagne, a big home that you don t have time to enjoy. In a future that is probably coming or not.

The future is promised to no one. We take every day as granted, and not only time, but everything.

Kris Rock had a funny way of saying this “We are so full of ourselves, we are so rich, that we don t even drink tap water anymore, we buy bottles now! The tap water that we use is so cheap in our eyes, that we use it only to wash our ass. While in other places of the world people are walking 20 km each day back and forth just to have access to potable water, or some of them are just dyeing out of thirst”. But we have “problems”, we are stressed. My colleague has a nicer dress than me, his car is bigger, he has a more money than me.

Yes this are biggg problems. Your life is sooo hard, and frustrating dealing with all this harsh things that life brings. pffuuu

Our ego is growing more and more, with the more things we accumulate.

We have forgotten to be thankful. We have forgotten who we are.

So there is a “counter posture” to this, it can be physical activity, running, Pilates, all types of sports, but I find that the most complete is yoga. Yoga dosen t stop on the mat, but brings more awareness to your life.

Everything is a muscle memory, “if you are not going to use it, you are going to lose it”

Many people cannot sleep. We are so tired, but still our mind cannot disconnect, it would be so easy sometimes just to have a plug, and turn it off in matter of seconds.

People are making sometimes fun of me, “I don t understand how you do it, you close your eyes and in 2 min you are asleep, in every position.”

I just take a deep inhale in, and relax everything. Of course there are times, when my mind is like a monkey J but trough respiration it calms and I get slowly into an unconscious state.

The solution to so many problems is just a fresh breath of air, bringing awareness to the most basic things we do, being in the present.

“Peace is the process of retraining your mind to deal with reality as it is, rather as you think it should be.” W.Dyer