Open up AND restore with yoga – that’s the solution:)
“Adults constantly raise the bar on smart children, precisely because they’re able to handle it. The children get overwhelmed by the tasks in front of them and gradually lose the sort of openness and sense of accomplishment they innately have.
When they’re treated like that, children start to crawl inside a shell and keep everything inside.
It takes a lot of time and effort to get them to open up again. Kids’ hearts are malleable, but once they gel it’s hard to get them back the way they were.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore
He has no children – speculating he’s referring to self. Maybe because of that act of “crawl inside a shell”, he drifted into the subconscious and cultivated so much imagination out of boredom and loneliness.
He is funny:
“You know, if you are kind of rich, the best thing is that you don’t have to think about money. The best thing you can buy with money is freedom, time. I don’t know how much I earn a year. I have no idea. I don’t know how much I pay in taxes. I don’t want to think about tax.”
Yes, reminded, it’s tax time for us all…
He continues: “It’s miserable. I have my accountant and my wife takes care of that. They don’t let me know anything. I’m just working.”
About his first reader …
“We’ve been married for 40 years or something. She’s still my friend. We have a conversation, always a conversation.
She helps me a lot. She gives me advice regarding my books.
I respect her opinion. Sometimes we quarrel.
Her opinion is so harsh sometimes.
It can be…(so harsh).
If my editor did the same thing, I would get mad.”
Murakami shrugs:
“I can leave my editor, but I can’t leave my wife.”
SO Shiva-Shakti, put in yogic terms.
excerpt from an interview I missed from awhile back: “I took a gamble & survived” interview by Emma Brockes.
I think yoga would help a child (or anybody) open up and be restored …as the practice allows us to recognize the beauty within.
