Being born into a human body is quite a challenge. A life long challenge...
But does it make it easier to be a fly, that lives for 3 days? It's all perspective, because what may seem like a breezy 3 days to a human might actually be a long, arduous haul for said fly...
We're this floating consciousness, born into this body and then there's all this karma attached to our Being and bodies that we need to work through, just to crack a smile.
Then we have to consider the effects our bodies have on out minds... But, that's another thing...
I've found that it's easier to deal with the tangible body as a means of pacifying the mind... And to calm the mind, we must cultivate out Being, via a rested nervous system.
Now, I'd like to identify some of the heroes in my life, including myself. These are individual situations born in to bodies that have raised certain complications, and though we seem to tread through life carefree... Well, take another look:
Growing up, I had a best friend - Let's call him "E6". E6 is still an amazing visual creative artist. His twist in life was that he was dyslexic and had severe mood fluctuation that gave him mortal thoughts...
Next I met A1, also a visual artist. Not only was her first language not English, but she was also his by a car when she was 8 years old, that made her lose her hearing. Now she is dependent on sign language and lip reading, hearing aids and lights that tell her when the telephone is ringing of someone is at the door. Yet she is raising a gorgeous little girl & husband.
T1 is a musician and visual artist. He and his wife have a pre-teen daughter. In 2008, he had the lower part of his left leg amputated. He now has to go one bike rides with his daughter using a prosthetic.
Recently, I met a public speaker who was born deaf. Yet he's a professional public speaker.
Myself, I have an invisible accent on my persona of head injury & nerve = chronic pain and spaciness... But I practice Transcendental Meditate, and use all the Vedic technologies available to me to make my everyday a functional day. I'm a musician and creative artist... But I can't produce anything when "my body won't allow me" - like my step-father used to say...
But it's just amazing what our bodies can do, and the different shapes they take...
I consider that the challenges I've had with my body, since first becoming an adult, have been a gift. The way i navigate life in quite ninja-like, and that's only because I have been force to navigate memory loss, paralysis, post-traumatic stress...
Happy Thanksgiving!!!
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