Wholistic Fitness

New WF Online Student Scott, ” Emotions well up in me as I look out upon this path. A sense of dread. A sense of failure. A sense of being incapable. These feelings rise up to hold me down. This journey is the most difficult thing I have ever done. Again I thank you for being. I thank you for your willingness to guide as guidance is needed. I thank myself for the courage I draw from to face this direction.”

AN ACTUAL ONLINE STUDENT FACILITATION; COACH and NEW STUDENT SCOTT

Dear Steve,
Thank you deeply for being.

COACH:
Most Noble Shishya,
Being is a Gift.
no need for thanks,
however, i bow to your Metta.

STUDENT:
I had a long talk with myself over the last three days (I don’t think this talk will ever end). Influenced by the DL readings and so many of the battles going on inside me between a seductive and whiley ego and my noble desire. I am afraid of this path.

COACH:
that is because you are wise.
you know this Path will lead you Higher,
demanding the utmost from your Higher Self.

STUDENT:
As I mentioned to my friend John, who is watching some of this process with interest, I am afraid that I will lose myself in not knowing who I am.

COACH:
“To know yourself,
first lose yourself.”
– Jesus Christ, yogin

STUDENT:
What if I’m not who I thought I was.

COACH:
then you are Growing Up(ward) in the most Genuine, the most exciting, the most rewarding Way a human is able.

STUDENT:
Actually I already know that I’m not a lot of who I am. The stories ‘I’ve told myself and others throughout my life have been bandages or blinders or crutches used to ease the impact of being. Ego.. once again as I look back I find that my ego has been and continues to be deceptive. It feels very strange to come face to face with what I thought was a childhood memory, examine it, and find that 90% of it is fiction. So much to learn… I will face it. I will enter, learn, and flow. This path has always been there and I have skirted along the edge of it. I am emerging from the periphery and will do everything I can to travel on the main trail.

COACH:
and i,
everything i can to help Guide you accurately.

STUDENT:
The path ahead looks steep and difficult and a voice in my head is searching for points upon which it can pick and present arguments. Coaxing me through fear and doubt to remain where I am. To ignore my intuitive voice. Emotions well up in me as I look out upon this path. A sense of dread. A sense of failure. A sense of being incapable. These feelings rise up to hold me down. This journey is the most difficult thing I have ever done. Again I thank you for being. I thank you for your willingness to guide as guidance is needed. I thank myself for the courage I draw from to face this direction.

COACH:
your Early Morning Ritual, particularly the Pranayams will gradually reduce the egoic voices and you will be able to regulate your Mind as you continue to regulate the breath.

remember, Noble Shishya, Breath first. Then Body. Then Mind.

STUDENT:
As I prepare for the journey to the island I am wondering if there will be any changes in my SUNRIDER order. I will adapt as needed. I would like to place my order this week so that I don’t have order from Kauai.

COACH:
no.
maintain as directed.

{Bone Malas hang in mystical silence above a RamaDa that coach built in New Mexico.}
STUDENT:
Mala beads – Noble teacher, what are mala beads?

COACH:
they are a Buddhist meditation and ritual rosary.

STUDENT:
What significance do they hold on this path?

COACH:
much. at a Basic Level, wearing them tells the Outer World that you are a Practitioner.

STUDENT:
I have this notion that the mala beads serve a different purpose, at different times, all along this journey.

COACH:
precisely.

STUDENT:
I am thinking that the initial connection to the mala beads, for me, would be an outward connection/reminder of my choice to engage in this journey. Based on some reading I have done, they would also serve to help me in counting my breaths. And perhaps even help me focus my thoughts towards nothingness step by step as I learn and develop my inner focus.

COACH:
how did you get to be so smart?
did i Teach you all this wisdom?
😉

STUDENT: Homework – I have been reading DL. Day by day since the very first entries. I have not found the 3 forms entry yet. I have however found so many stories and thoughts and perspectives in addition to a form of energy in these readings. Sometimes while reading the appropriate action at the moment propels me from the chair, out the door, and onto the trail or down to the gym.

COACH:
Thus,
the Noble Work on DL has Served its intent; to help someone.

STUDENT:
God – I am nervous about this topic. This form of thought. Western religion (organized religion) that points me to a spiritual figure and says here is your god – does not hold anything for me. I do not believe in one omnipotent ethereal being that created all. I do not kneel in a building and drink the blood of christ nor do I eat a metaphor of his body. If god is a term of language used to describe a feeling, then I can relate more to that. God is not. The Universe is. I am part of the universe. I have been communicating with the universe for as long as I can remember. Especially at night when I can see up into the starts. The universe is my business partner. Sometimes we bicker and fight. Sometimes I don’t listen or speak to it. Sometimes is only sometimes. I always return, it’s always there just being.

COACH:
do not Worry about God.
Focus on doing go(o)d,
on Being go(o)d,
on Listening purely to your speech and thought.

Do this, Noble New Student of WF,
and God will appear Smiling in many, many beautiful and subtle and exquisite Ways.

Man cannot even create an earthworm,
yet he creates gods and religions by the dozens.

In WF,
we just stay true to the 4 Lifestyle Principles and the 5 Fitness Disciplines
and
in doing so,
God sneaks in and winks at us,
in-couraging us ever
Higher.

STUDENT:
And now I am going to go sweat.

COACH:
And now i am going to smile,
knowing that in your Sweat
there will be a moment of Purity…

STUDENT:
Peace,
student scott

COACH:
om,

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