Parinama

    Fear is static that prevents me from hearing my intuition….Anxiety, fear, panic, etc., is a fleeing from something. There is something over there in the corner of my mind, some thought, some image, that I don’t want to look at, that I want to run away from. Fear Is often an indication I am avoiding myself. Notes to Myself, Hugh Prather   Faith is a sensitive response to the intimations of the Unknown. It has no relevance with regards to the known.   It awakens only when the whisper of the Unknown is heard. The whisper of the Unknown can be heard only when the mind is completely and deeply silent.   But silence demands tremendous energy. Yoga the Art of Integration, Rohi Mehta   In his podcast “Through the Dark Woods,” Jungian psychologist James Hollis asks us to consider, “What does fear make you do?   What does fear make you avoid?” These are important questions to me.   I know what it is like to limit myself from fear, how small...

    The viscera cannot be consciously controlled; moreover, they are influenced by processes associated with feeling and emotion….Because the cerebral cortex has no control over the functions of the viscera, reason cannot check a racing pulse by demanding that it act differently.   Nor can it fill an empty heart. The Owl Was a Baker’s Daughter, Marion Woodman     The autonomic nervous system has two components.   The para-sympathetic system which regulates a relaxation response and the sympathetic which regulates the fright, flight, freeze response.   Both are necessary for living.   While the para-sympathetic system controls the body at rest, digesting, making love, creating, the sympathetic system prepares the body to protect itself when faced by a threat.     Many of the diseases of the heart, the circulatory system, breath, and endocrine system are rooted in an over reactive sympathetic nervous system a...

  Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes and I am left the same as I began.   The more things change, the more I am the same. Notes to Myself, Hugh Prather   I am glad to be able to visit my mother again.   She will be 82 in September and I worried about her during the pandemic.   I feared that in her isolation she would be lonely, might not eat regularly or properly, may physically or mentally decline from the lack of socializing and activity.   She held out better than I could have hoped and is now back to twice weekly golfing games, almost daily lunches with friends, and day trips to Cape Cod or Rhode Island.   She has taken good care of herself for many years and is strong and pain free although her short-term memory is fading.   When I visited her recently, she couldn’t remember a recent family gathering to celebrate my daughter’s graduation from college.   With some prompting, however, s...