Wholistic Fitness

“We know all too well the multitude of society-based ‘disorders’ and ‘anxiety syndromes’ that are constantly springing up to scare us into submission to doctors and other ‘health experts’. Their high gloss Scare Tactics work so easily upon those who do not Practice daily sweat and stillness. First they create a new Fear or Doubt within our minds, and then They slap our fears with fancy labels and order us to get addicted on some newly ‘approved drug’ specifically synthesized for our particular ‘dis-ease.’ From this drug prescription? Well, guess what? Yep, the “doctors” get a royalty check based upon their ability to hock this drug. The Snake Oil Salesman is alive and thriving in 2006…they just use fancier names to scare us all.

Well, your humble ol’ mountain yogi coach has noticed another “disorder” that pretty much lies at the root of all the other “disorders”, “syndromes”, and “Dis-eases.” I call it, ‘Silence Anxiety Sydrome.’

We are, as a society, losing at a speed faster than high speed internet capacity our OWN capacity to listen. We HEAR many things; cell phone conversations, advertisements, TV shows, movies, traffic noise, car stereos, home stereos…yet, we don’t Listen. Our attention spans are shortening at a rate even faster than our waistlines are bulging. Why? Because Listening is a Performance Art…and all Art requires something we have been scared away from; SPACIOUSNESS and INTUITIVE WISDOM.

the Art of Listening requires inner spaciousness, expanse, and patience. Those are three adjectives that run contrary to our Western notion of ‘progress.’ As we continue to accelerate our lifestyles toward the gaining of external things to “make us happy,” we are developing what i call, “silence anxiety syndrome.” This neurotic anxiousness of anything profoundly quiet stems from Fear. Essentially, a Fear of Death. Death of our ego noise. This is why you accept an invitation to see a movie instead of meditating alone.

We have witlessly attached our sense of self to the many layers of our ego noise instead of our innate nature of Receptivity.

I have Taught you many, many times over the years; Human Beings are not Human Doings. We still forget that a lot.

We are, by our nature, receptive Beings…human beings. Our destiny – the way our physiology is set up – is as a Receptive Organism, not a Generating Organism.

Yes, we are masters of regeneration at the cellular level, yet to accomplish that cellular regeneration, we must all-Ways receive something; herbs, love, sunlight, air, prana, water…

Today, i want you to Practice Receiving…not generating. Do you TAF you can do that as part of your Wholistic Fitness� Practice today?”
– Coach Ilg
from Private Online Counsel to a Student who is scared from years of being on anti-depressants.
Tibetan Prayer Flags greet Grandfather Sun’s radiance as the Sacred Peak hovers above the WF Temple H(om)e this morning