play. Laugh. Exploring New limits

I have notices a correlation between folks who are on the evolvers bandwagon and how they tend to do things like acroyoga, poi spinning, hoola hooping, and slack lining. I think that's because the drive to consciously evolve and become better people is the same drive to becoming physically more capable. There is also a level of playfulness, not taking oneself seriously, required to have the audacity to look like an idiot in the first stages towards mastering these skills. Getting up and moving, whether to dance or to try hooping, requires a decision and proactivity, and sometimes an acknowledgment of fear that lurks beneath the comforts of sitting in the grass watching people live playfully.

Our bodies are vessels for movement. Many times we are unconscious of our limits and thus never push the limits of our abilities. Yoga classes come to mind... Whereas I considered myself flexible, revealed to me are new limits and thus a new aim comes into view. It's an infinite adventure. Most people live under the assumption that as you age your body declines and becomes stiff and prone to injury. Realizing that there are limits to my flexibility I feel I have been granted Time to improve. Six years from now my body will be at a rising peak and when I am fifty it's possible I won't look very old.. I see elders that are vibrant and keep them in mind as examples.
They are eating raw foods, exercising, getting massages, stretching, existing playfully, laughing a lot, dancing a lot... That will be me!

Here is a study I remember from college: elders who associated aging with words like "crippled, decline, feeble," etc. Lost their hearing quicker than people who associated aging with words like "wisdom, golden years" etc. So, what do You think of aging? What images come to mind? How did your parents and grandparents model this process for you, and what will you take from them, or do differently?

How seriously do you take yourself? Or rather, how often do you catch yourself taking yourself too seriously? Its not so straigtforward recognizing when its a'happenin. Its great when someone else points it out to you, so you can start by looking for signs of it in others and then seeing how you sometimes show up in the same way.

How freely do you dance and/or play?How highly do to value dance and play?

Do you laugh every day?laughter is even physically healthy (not just mentally and emotionally) because your body receives extra oxygen. And since oxygen in our atmosphere and in our water has decreased astonishing amounts in the last century, getting oxygen into our blood may be worth putting our effort into! Breathing unconsciously, without practice, usually produces shallow breaths.

So do you laugh often? Don't feel bad or get defensive if you don't. There is no need and you are taking yourself too seriously again!! Hahahehehihihoho!!

We can all start right now, by taking a tiny step and seeing this possibility in our future, that we laugh every day with our full belly cackling laughs, maybe for no reason but being goofy. Maybe there is a laughter Yoga meetup near you. We can also begin to see ourselves dancing skipping or cartwheeling with the freedom of our given bodies. If we intend to become such a character, and revisit the vision on occasion, we are bound to become it! Loosey goosey, happy laughing!

Missing and Loving

I hate missing people. I can't stand that feeling, the gaping hole in my stomach that feels like sickness and incredible lack.

i hate it i hate it i hate it! and with that hate i am resisting it.

So here is the solution:

1. I am incredibly grateful that this person exists
2. I am incredibly grateful that this person is in my life, maybe not in the present moment, but in the great scheme of life we are and have been and will be intertwined.
3. We cannot possess anyone. We are doomed to be separate. I accept that, and happily await death, when our consciousness can merge {or something}
4. repeat steps 1 through 3.