Our Bodies are separate Beings

What if the human body is an independent being in and of itself?

As in it is separate from us, from our consciousness.

Like a horse and rider

Our bodies are our horse.

Just more closely interwoven

And when not provided adequate necessities, our bodies, and subsequently we, experience discomforts, disease.

Because we are in control of the body, we decide how we eat, sleep, live, think, act - we can get out of balance.

And the body can fall into a constant state of discomfort, or chronic anxiety.

So then we diagnose ourselves with having anxiety, and the myriad of downstream pathologies of mind and body which we strive to comfort in vain.

When in fact it is our horse, our vehicle, which is stressed.

And by simply giving it the necessities it needs as well as reducing negative influencers on it we may calm our vessels and in turn experience a calmer state of being.

When our bodies are in a constant state of anxiety, the nervous system seems hyperactive, as if it's hyper-aware. Likely to identify further potential threats for self preservation.

Everything is too much and we(our bodies that our consciousness identifies with) become irritable.

I'm finding by being still, closing my eyes, relaxing all of me, letting my thoughts float by, and most importantly allow my natural unemployed breaths to recommence and drive my breathing while appreciating the primal ability to breathe at all, that I gradually begin to feel calmer, lighter, more relaxed, and with small bursts of enthusiasm for life and inspiration for ideas.

I will continue experimenting with this concept and with what I for simplicity's sake refer to as Ease Breathing.

My body is a sentient vehicle that I command. I calm it by relaxing and breathing naturally. And it will re-calibrate to its optimal setting.

Setting fire to my mind with joyful imagination and my heart with loving appreciation.

CASE STUDY:

A dear friend's mushroom experience:

At the peak of her trip, she went to the bathtub, laid there, looked down at her body, felt remorse and wept for taking her body for granted. For not loving her body as it is. For not appreciating it for all that it had done for her. Like she abandoned it.

Implication:

Supported by the organic experience and not predetermining the trip with any discourse about the body, thus furthering the hypothesis that the body is its own being.

Acceptance pt.2

Resistance = perpetuates present condition 

Acceptance = changes present condition

Irony is, if you try to change the present condition without first accepting it you perpetuate the condition. 

But if you don't resist the condition from perpetuating, then it will eventually change. 

Why does this happen?

By resisting the condition we focus on it, hone our attention to it.

And since Energy Flows Where Attention Goes, we're adding more energy to the condition thus preserving it. 

Now when we accept the condition, by allowing it part of our experience in the present moment, we no longer push against it. We allow it to be, and so our attention is freed to focus elsewhere, adding energy to whatever it is we're now focusing on. 

You'll know for certain if you're accepting a condition by the feeling of relief, freedom, detachment, peace, and/or an increase in mood. 

Like all things, to be good at this requires practice. So be patient with yourself. Because if you aren't and grow irritated with your progress or seeming lack of, you're back to resisting lol. Accept where you are. Accept where your life is. Accept where the world is. Accept Accept Accept. 

Acceptance

Acceptance of your circumstances liquefies you, makes you like water. Allows you to mold into the current shape of your life and so releasing resistance to what is. 

Thus freeing up attention allowing you to shift your State of Being. 

Shifting to a better emotional state which will then reflect better circumstances.

If you try to shift your state of being before accepting what is, you will be alternating between wanting something and pushing against something else. 

Law of Attraction states where attention flows, energy goes. 

So if your attention is consistently switching between what you want and what you don't want, it's like trying to drive somewhere by pushing on the gas and then the brake and then the gas and then the brake. It's exhausting and barely goes anywhere. 

Acceptance is taking the foot off the brake. 

SUPER POWER: Instant Regeneration Technique- Relaxation

There's a definite line between breathing and relaxing. 

You can do a breathing exercise of a hundred controlled breaths. But if you're not any more relaxed after it then all you did was breathe a hundred times. I know. I've done it. 

You can relax on your exhales but not your inhales. In that case you're just taking a step forward and then a step back. Done that too. 

Interestingly relaxation doesn't actually depend on breath. It's possible to relax when holding your breath, or even upside down, or during a physically active task. 

In all cases it's clear that breath without relaxation is idle. And further, relaxation IS the goal of breath. 

It's a very subtle thing, relaxation. 

Doing this thing that requires the absence of effort. 

Almost paradoxical. 

It's the letting go. 

When you've quieted your mind to the point where you can feel slight changes in the body, try letting go. 

As if you're standing and you close your eyes and fall back. 

If you did it successfully you will feel a slight release somewhere within the body and a correlating emotional sense of relief.

You may feel the release in your chest, your belly, your face, around your eyes, around your nose, your brow, neck, back, shoulders, groin, legs, feet, anywhere. 

Try building up that act of release. 

I find attaching it to my inhale and exhale produces a compounding effect. 

After a few minutes of successful relaxation you will feel physically more energetic as is you've gotten a full nights rest. You'll also feel physically limber as if you've been stretching for an hour. As well as physically stronger. 

Mentally, you'll notice a significant increase in processing. An elevated feeling of clarity. Along with a boost of positive energy. 

You can do this anytime of day and with a bit of practice anywhere too. One of my favorite places is on my commute in the NY subways, sitting or standing. I've also utilized this in getting me through 19 hour jobs with only a few hours of sleep the night before due to being extra social ;)

You can do it multiple times a day for extra boosts. 

It's like taking a coffee break or energy drink without the side effects and you're actually addressing the cause of tiredness, which is simply the accumulation of tension over the course of the day. 

You'll find that the less sleep you go on the easier and faster it is for the body and mind to get tired again after relaxing. So use it for when you need it and by all means if you need to get through an entire night without sleep go for it, but eventually give in to what the body needs and get a full nights rest. 

Which will increase the effectiveness of relaxation for the next time. 

Things get really cool when you can relax while doing things. That is what I believe the Masters at whatever subjects are able to do. They've repeated their act so many times that they are completely relaxed during it. And so can do it with all their attention i.e. excellence. And can get imaginative during the act i.e. creative. 

That's the goal. 

To be a Master of Life. 

Namaste Bitches 🙏

Breath

A belief that my life up until this very moment has helped culminate, which before this present moment I did not have the clarity to formulate into concise verbiage, has managed to conglomerate within the vast abyss of my mind, into a manageable sentence. Perhaps it is still too verbose, but my enthusiasm for its newly born comprehensible form betrays my better senses to sustain until polished. 

So, without getting into details or explanations, yet, here it is:

The quality of your life; physical, emotional, mental, and beyond; is directly proportionate to the consistency of depth and length of your natural, unemployed breaths throughout all your conscious moments. 

P.S. I want to live here. 

A letter for you

Dear friend, 

I want to tell you about a time in my life when I felt completely stuck. Feeling helpless and fundamentally flawed. In a limbo of knowing but not experiencing. Interestingly it came about after some wonderful realizations about life. Insights that I thought would take me to where I want to be. But I was missing something. I want to share that here with you. 

I reached a point where I understood that what other people do isn't a reflection of me but of them. On top of that I recognized I, and I alone, attract every experience in my life, good and bad, by my vibrational attitude I daily emit. So when unpleasant things would happen to me I wouldn't get upset at others or the circumstances, but at myself. "I attracted this in some way, so the fault lies with me", I'd say to myself. 

In a way this insight was worse than before I understood these things, because back then at least I felt a sense of innocence and righteousness. But after the realizations I just constantly felt guilty. Guilty that I was still attracting unwanted things, that I should be better at this; that I know too much to be anxious, self-conscious, afraid. 

It wasn't until almost two years later that I realized the grace I was giving to others I wasn't extending to myself. What changed for me was finally letting go of what I thought I should be, do, have, and accepting my "mishaps" and my "flaws." Just doing this has given me the wonderful sense of knowing who I am and knowing what I want. Which fuels a sense of worthiness and confidence I've never before experienced. 

And so my hope with this post is that it helps you realize that we are all innocent — you included. 

You are doing the best you can, and so is everyone else in their own world. You are enough, you can be, do, have, whatever it is you want. You just simply have to let go of the word "should", and lovingly believe in yourself. Accept you for all of you. It sounds easy, and it is, but we put so many conditions in our way that not until they are fulfilled will we finally accept ourselves. But you can't accept yourself in the future, you can only do it now. If you keep delaying accepting yourself, waiting to achieve this or acquire that, you will always find things to put in front of you before you allow you to accept yourself. 

I'm telling you, you can do this right now. It takes trust in The Universe, God, Life, to let go of trying to control the things in your life in order to get what you want. It takes closing your eyes and falling backwards trusting that Life will not only catch you, but wrap Its arms around you with peace of mind and abundance of all you need and want. 

If you can do this now, wonderful. If not now, it just means you don't yet want to trust that Life will always provide a way, that's ok. 

Once you do let go of control and accept yourself, there is a chance you will wake tomorrow and feel like your old self, but that's just old patterns of thinking. It takes a little bit of time and focus to shift things that have been running on the same neural paths for years. But you'll be surprised at how fast your thoughts will begin to feel like they are on your side again. Yes, you will have days when you just can't seem to change the negativity around – that's ok. It's all part of the process. Keep letting go, keep trusting in Life, keep refocusing on things of positivity. 

As long as your peace comes from your trust in Life and not external circumstances, you will feel invincible. You will want to take score and look at your external life to see if it's bearing the fruit you think it should, but do your best not to. Keep practicing unconditionally trusting that Life always works out for you. And very soon your life will transform to where everything around you supports your feelings of well being and blessings. 

People will become attracted to you in more ways than you can understand right now. Opportunities to make your dreams come true will keep "coincidently" popping up in your days. Your idea of who you are and where you're going will become more and more clear. Your worries will fade until they are distant memories that you deliberately choose not to visit. You will finally feel a sense of Home that you haven't felt since the 90's or childhood. Life will feel right again. 

All because you chose not to delay a day longer and finally, once and for all, wholly and truly accept yourself, and practiced every moment of everyday accepting yourself. Until eventually you fall in love with yourself. And when that happens you simultaneously fall in love with everyone in the world and everything. Love becomes everything. And everything can be seen in the framework of different degrees of love. Love is now the language you speak and you understand events and people as phenomena of love. 

Like how the scientists know there is no actual source of "cold" but rather an absence of heat. And "darkness" is only lack of light. As that with love, all is love. You will see there are degrees of how much love is being allowed to flow in every given circumstance. And anything that feels bad isn't actually bad, but just needs more love. People will become like innocent children in your eyes and blame and criticism will feel completely pointless. You will treat yourself the same way, and when you are on your side, the whole world can't stop you. And in fact, the whole world will conspire to help you. Because the world is waiting for you to believe in yourself. 

You can do it. 

Let go of control.

Trust in Life. 

Accept yourself completely. 

Practice every moment in lovingly accepting yourself. 

Be easy with yourself on bad days when you can't seem to shake it off. 

Keep practicing. 

Watch your life transform. 

I believe in you. 

Now it's time you do. 

Love,

Bart

Nature

I find that Nature hardens the exterior of humans and softens the interior. 

Civilization softens the exterior and hardens the interior. 

Balance is beauty.