Sometime, somewhere you need to take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.
– BUDDHA
In the first years of the Spiritual Journey, the sudden realization that we must enter Truth by entering Pain is a concept that frightens 99% of the common man back into his or her worlds of comfort addiction and entertainment…or fitness specialization.
On the other hand, The Genuine Yogin In Pursuit of Freedom and Truth who endeavors and endures in chasing Pain into Purification accepts that the Truth hurts. Example; our hips hurt, right?…so enter Truth by entering your hips.
Now, it’s one thing to do the steadfast Inner Work to open your hips, yet i tell you Oh Noble Yogin In Pursuit of Wholeness; that ain’t It. Getting open hips is a fine cairn to pursue along the Path, in fact, it is a requirement for Enlightenment. Yet, it is another thing entirely to open your painful hips while logging 10+ hours/week of cardio. Very few yogins are brave enough to develop endurance plus suppleness. Oh, and leave those cursed iPods (the “i” stands for ‘Ignorance’) off your precious ears, while doing at least MOST of your cardio work, okay? How can you inTend to hear the go(o)d music or receive Divine Insight or develop your Chi with your ears plugged up with addiction to entertainment? Run like a real Warrior; run nakedly as possible and LISTEN to the Song Of The UniVerse!
Most yogins or athletes will find a little niche of fitness specificity that they feel confidence in; be it asana, running, cycling, meditation, the gym, etc. Then, they stagnate…they do not push their True Edge in other areas of their body and mind. They hate being a ‘beginner’ again and again which is precisely where True Wholistic Fitness keeps us; our MultiDisciplined Yoga constantly prevents us from ‘excelling’ in any ONE physiologic area…in fact, the WF Warrior will likely never excel in one area of their fitness…except one; BALANCE! (*)
The WF Truth hurts; Your Workout lies in every bodypart AND in every physiologic realm!
Our lower backs ache from an early addiction to Lateral Dominancy (always using one side of our body more than the other), shallow, unconscious chest breathing, furniture, shoes, and non-self propelled movement…so enter Truth by entering your lower back. Even if that means brushing your teeth while wearing YogaToes� using your Non Dominant Hand with one foot up on the counter and the other arm reaching high into Father Sky to unglue the intercostals which we suffocate by lack of Conscious Breathing. The WF Truth that i have been Teaching you since 1982 hurts; Your Workout is Everywhere! AWARENESS, YOGIN! AWARENESS, AWARENESS!!!!! you do not need me to keep doing all this free Coaching of your Desire to Rise Higher; you need only your AWARENESS!!!!
Besides the predictable resistance the common yogi displays toward Endurance Cardio consistency, such a feeble yogin is also frightened by fast-twitch, explosive power training of our deepest fibers…Strength Training! …So…you don’t run away from the “Iron Temple”, you run INTO her Hallowed Halls of The Metal Element and enter Truth by doing high intensity strength training! Who taught you that a “chaturanga” is somehow more “spiritual” or “better” than doing DB Flyes using the WF StarDrive Leg Position� while performing the WF Strength Training Technique of “Staccato Technique�” or “3-Stage Technique�” ? Don’t be fooled into thinking you can Balance your MindWaves before you’ve done the Sweat and Focus of bringing Each of Your Bodyparts into physical symmetry. The WF Truth hurts; we keep running away from what we need to work on the MOST!
The pursuit of Truth is the pursuit of Pain wherever we may find it lodged within our tissues, our resistances, and our negative patterns. Why? Do not overanalyze…instead; accept the energetic fact that Pain is blocked Pran. Flip the switch of your consciousness so that you no longer see Pain as an obstacle, rather see it as another opportunity for Purification and Strength and Wisdom. Such are the training effects of the Pursuit of Truth.
May your Practice be inspired and inFormed by my humble offering to you today…
“DL is like INSTANT MOTIVATION!”
– Rich Paul, SUNRIDER Herbal Warrior of Clan Ananda
i will close with just another example of what happens to our National Tribe when we give up the Pursuit of Truth..
namaste,
coach ilg
(*) Temple Manager Note; it may behoove the DL Reader at this point in Coach’s essay, to realize that these words come from an outdoor athlete who has competed in 5 World Championships in 4 physiologically diverse sports! Sometimes, the Truth also inspires!!!
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Sent in by Ragin’ RJ:
Wed Mar 29, 4:56 PM ET
LAS VEGAS – An ambulance company has responded to oversize needs in southern Nevada by providing an ambulance equipped to handle patients weighing 500 pounds or more.
“We’re getting more and more requests to transport larger patients every day,” said Roy Carroll, operations manager at American Medical Response, one of two companies with Clark County Fire Department contracts to provide medical transport in and around Las Vegas.
Crews have called 75 times in the last six months for additional manpower to handle morbidly obese patients, said Chris Piper, a western regional spokesman for Greenwood, Colo.-based AMR. He said the largest patients weighed more than 500 pounds.
Carroll, in Las Vegas, called handling large patients difficult and unsafe for patients, paramedics and emergency medical technicians.
“Not only does this person not fit, there’s a chance he or she could fall,” Carroll said. “Our job is to get that patient to where they need to be safely and in a dignified manner. Traditional ambulances can’t do that.”
The company recently put into service a $250,000 bariatric ambulance, which looks like its other 80 ambulances, but is extra-wide and has a larger gurney, a winch and ramps capable of loading up to 1,600 pounds.
Clark County spokesman Bob Leinbach called the need for the larger ambulances obvious.
“If you don’t think it’s needed, all you have to do is look around,” Leinbach said. “Americans are heavier.”
The county’s other ambulance provider is awaiting delivery of a bariatric ambulance and recently bought four electric gurneys capable of handling patients weighing up to 750 pounds, said Matthew Cox, a spokesman for MedicWest Ambulance.
“There’s less stress on the paramedics’ backs and it’s a better stabilizer for the patient,” Cox said.
Of Nevada’s 1.7 million adult residents in 2004, the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the state Health Division estimated that 21 percent, or about 357,000, were obese.
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Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal
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