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We are complex and in need of understanding. As betrayed as they may feel about their body, patients have to rethink the perception of pain first, according to Neil Pearson, yoga therapist from Vancouver. Typically, it’s an enemy to battle, to overcome… how does that work for you? How does numbing work for you? As with one with the lowest tolerance level for any kind of pain, it’s ironic that I find his teachings so accessible.

Given the recent letters from Dr. Vivek H. Murthy, United States Surgeon General to doctors about an unprecedented opioid epidemic in US, I think what Neil is sharing is so valuable to greater and greater number of people – who ordinarily lead a very normal strength based lives. As with anything, healing first comes from shift in how you frame the condition of pain that begets dependencies and then … empowering the sufferer. It’s not easy once you are in the eye of a storm so best have a regular practice. Not when it happens. Please take care – Namaste.

Flames of the fire are so beautiful, but … untamed fire can also be so destructive. Very sorry to hear of this tragedy while not personally affected, I feel that I could have been there if I were in the area. I mean, it could happen to any of us and our friends. While exercising fire safety, really drawn to fireplaces lately … precisely because the temperatures have dropped. It can get chilly like chattering teeth – COLD outside. Fireplaces, the heath draws us to find the quiet nearby as you feel the flickering …we find the kindling of fire within – so warm. There’s outpouring of love amidst the ashes. Prayers to the victims and their families.

To give, visit https://www.youcaring.com/oaklandfirevictimsfrom130531staveinoakland-70668

The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
– Paramahansa Yogananda

finish my mid-term project for Yoga Therapy training … at the same time, homework on yoga philosophy. I need sleep.

Found a surprising striking synchronicity with Pain Management & the Artist’s perspective post from 2 days ago. As I was reading Judith’s articles on yoga philosophy to help me with the latest homework (BTW, Judith has “Office Hours” – her new online learning with her lovely daughter, Lizzie. check it out if interested on yoga beyond the mat:), this is so exactly what the artist is demonstrating in an over the top extreme way – isn’t it interesting that I come across this passage after posting that MOMA exhibit, “Artist is Present”:

I read an interesting story lately about a Zen monk who was giving his first talk to a small group of beginning American Zen students. The monk spoke very little English and the students spoke no Japanese. The monk gave his presentation simply by standing in front of each student; he would not talk, smile, move or in any way avoid deep contact with the student. Some students were moved to tears. This deep acknowledgment of the God-sense or Self within us all is at the heart of svadhyaya.

Scientists continue to discover the powerful connections of energy that exist on all levels of the Universe. And these connections are not only between cells in the body, but between widely distanced events which only a few years ago would be considered separate.

– Judith H. Lasater on “Svadhyaya”