{"id":4717,"date":"2014-09-30T09:51:09","date_gmt":"2014-09-30T16:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/?p=4717"},"modified":"2014-10-01T13:58:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T20:58:14","slug":"4717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/yoga\/4717\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Playing with words&#8230;synonyms, antonyms&#8230;images come alive:<\/p>\n<p>Movement vs. Stillness<br \/>\nVibration, gyration, fluctuations, oscillation vs. calmness<br \/>\nDynamic vs. Static<br \/>\nSurge, Swell, Waves vs. Ripples<br \/>\nPouring, soaking vs. dripping&#8230; oozing&#8230;<br \/>\nJumping, skipping, Stopping vs. Flowing<br \/>\nSplitting, pounding, stabbing, splintering, separating into parts vs. combining, folding, melding, merging into wholeness<br \/>\nAgitation vs Peace<br \/>\nShaking, tremors, rolling, swaying vs. centering, grounding, settling&#8230;<br \/>\nHardness, Toughness, tightness vs. Softness, tenderness&#8230;<br \/>\nResilient vs. Delicate and Mellow&#8230;or the ideal would be resilient <strong>AND<\/strong>delicate and mellow probably&#8230;<br \/>\nRoughness rockiness vs. Smoothness&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Sharp vs. &#8230;. soft, cuddly, squishy&#8230;<br \/>\nSolid, firm &#038; steady vs. Flexible, Fluid and &#8230;Foolish?  no, no, Flowing:)<\/p>\n<p>Which will you choose? No, no, that is the wrong question.  It&#8217;s not about making a choice &#8211; its about striking a balance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Going from one extreme to the other?  Or stuck in the extreme?  Find the equilibrium, the balance of all the forces that whirls around you.<\/p>\n<p>We are programmed to go into heightened &#8220;Flight &#038; Fright&#8221; mode instantly  &#8211; it&#8217;s a matter of seconds when we respond and that electric responsiveness, while meant to be a lifesaver in the pre-historic times may not be as beneficial when it leads to chronic stress, chronic tension, chronic fatigue, heart disease, anxieties and that general feeling of &#8230; un-wellness.  We are wired to respond with alarm at a speed of light as our defensive mechanism is instinctive.  After all, its developed since the primitive caveman&#8217;s time to protect ourselves from predators and other possible disasters where, without our alertness and quick responsiveness, we would have perished.  We are the survivors &#8211; just the fact that we are here today, we are the by-products of chosen strains of DNAs after repeated tests of survival of the fittest&#8230;so we are already experts at sympathetic nerve system aiding us in times of crisis&#8230;or not.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand,  to truly feel relaxed and comfortable &#8230; to feel fully safe, we normally take upwards of 20 minutes (or more for some Vatta and Pitta personalities) or so.  Such &#8220;rest and digest&#8221; mode is needed for our body to nourish all its cells, repair some of its cells, renew all its cells so that we can once again be who we are  &#8211; luminous light, our true nature to warm our heart and soul.  Physiological part, we learned from Roger Cole, PhD.  To get to para-sympathetic nervous system dominance, today, that usually means that we are getting our nervous system into balance as there&#8217;s a general deficit on the para-sympathetic nervous system. Most of the time, we have a tendency to dip more into the sympathetic nervous system dominance &#8211; that&#8217;s our modern life style with the constant barrage of stimuli coming at you.  It&#8217;s hard not to respond, especially given the fine sensitively we have developed to hear, feel and heed our body.<\/p>\n<p>It is interesting to note though, that harder the exterior shell, softer the interior flesh&#8230; and that exterior shell, that skin of our&#8217;s is also &#8230; an organ.  The largest organ &#8230; all its pores opening and closing&#8230; breathing rhythmically. The rise and the fall&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>May we feel the Source.<\/p>\n<p>May we feel the Light. <\/p>\n<p>May we feel GOOD.  <\/p>\n<p>May we find joy, ease and comfort.  Namaste.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Playing with words&#8230;synonyms, antonyms&#8230;images come alive: Movement vs. Stillness Vibration, gyration, fluctuations, oscillation vs. calmness Dynamic vs. Static Surge, Swell, Waves vs. Ripples Pouring, soaking vs. dripping&#8230; oozing&#8230; Jumping, skipping, Stopping vs. Flowing Splitting, pounding, stabbing, splintering, separating into parts vs. combining, folding, melding, merging into wholeness Agitation vs Peace Shaking, tremors, rolling, swaying vs. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[10,8,3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4717"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4743,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4717\/revisions\/4743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wagayoga.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}