Wholistic Fitness

{NOTE: the following is NOT to be republished in any way, shape, or manner without my permission. all Karma is God. thank you and may your Practice Benefit…coach ilg)

Remember your first orgasm?
How about your Top Three?
Top Five?
Top Ten?

probably not.
why?
because you’ve come to abuse the privilege, haven’t you?

Do you tend to masturbate more often than what your Intuitive Wisdom dictates?

Do you eat more calories than your physiology really requires?

Do you listen to and engage in too much gossip through TV, news, music than what your Intuitive Wisdom dictates?

Do you tend to rely too often on sex, alcohol, coffee, drugs/pills more than what your Intuitive Wisdom dictates?

Do you tend to spend inordinate amounts of your life overthinking and under-meditating?

Do you tend to spend inordinate amounts of your grasping? for money? for acknowledgment? for some way to calm the base-line anxiety over time, money, kids, cars, houses, partners? always yearning for the next vacation? the next football game to drink more beers?

why?

because
we are all addicted to what our Ancient Teachers termed,
“Sense Pleasure.”

it bears repeating:
Sense Pleasure Addiction or what i call; S.P.A.*

remember your first Junk Food High?
how about your Top Three?
your Top Five?

probably not.

why?
because you’ve come to abuse the privilege, haven’t you?

why?
because we all suffer from S.P.A.
to one degree or another we addicts have one common denominator;
we’ve lost our natural sense of Sacred Connection.

whenever we overdo anything
– be it using one arm more than the other or spending too much time grasping for money –
we lose something vital to our Atman; our Inner Soul
that something which we lose is called
Sacred Connection.

i mean, be honest.
when was the last time you flushed your shit down your toilet using with Gratitude your non-Dominant Hand and appreciating the obvious yoga and miracle of even having potable water in such abundance that we use it ungratefully to wash down our shit, our cars, our lawns…i mean, let’s get REAL, shall we? What a MIRACLE it is to be able to have flush toilets! you have forgotten, haven’t you, your lifetimes spent at the dangerous watering hole? of trekking miles each day to a paltry, sulphur loaded spring just to fetch water? what has HAPPENED to your Gratitude? your Sacred Connection to the Rain Gods?

well, tough pill to swallow, however, somewhere along the Way, we’ve exchanged our Sacred Connection (yoga) for an addiction to comfort…for a slithery, sinful addiction to Sense Pleasures…even though our Ancient Teachers warned us in volumes of Sacred Scriptures…we still let our Higher Selves become unfit, haven’t we.

i know ilg has.

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breathe.

When,
through our hard Inner Work achieved in former lives,
we are Blessed with meeting a Dharma Teacher in this one
and begin practicing His or Her instructions faithfully,
we begin to limit the number of times we
“release“**.

when we begin to train our ego in restraint (niyama)
do you know what happens?

do you know what happens?
do you know what happens?

Suddenly,
sex, masturbation, coffee, alcohol, drugs, junk food,flushing our shit down our toilets, washing a dish…
all our material things
begin a glorious re-transformation toward their True Nature:
they once again become Sacred as they once were
when you experienced each for the first time…

“Just Listen.”
– the WF Bible in its entirety, by coach ilg

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NOTES:

( recorded on 5/1/06 in my Practice Journal, written with my Non-Dominant Hand)

*(i know, i know, i could make another million by sensationalizing my notion of “S.P.A.” which would lead to a contract with a prescription pill company to cure it, a new book, legions of listeners, appearances on the TODAY SHOW, blah, blah, blah.)

** (ejaculation, gossiping, giving into junk food cravings, trading meditation for making money, etc.)