Breathing Lessons – The Integral Life Practice (ILP) Way.
Well, this morning again the pain has shifted to new and different spaces and places. The various pain filled places on my body move me to recall some of the greatest adventures of all of this lifetime. First off, my right knee is very, very, very pain filled and a bit stiff as I am working to loosen and limber it. I remember it experiencing a pretty frightening bike wreak down a back Kentucky Hallow way back when I was in the Fifth grade. My Mom and I decided to go for a bike ride one afternoon. She rode my old standard braking bike and I got to ride my Brothers brand spanking new 10 speed bike for the first time. Unbeknownst to him and with my Mother’s permission as she was on the ride with me, he he… Off we went, up and down hill and dale having a grand Ol’ time, when as I was catching wind and speed down a hill, what do ya know here comes a really big truck around a tree shrouded corner. In my automatic old braking response I hit the brakes with my feet and did not stop or slow but lost control. And, hit the road with my knee, shin and chin ending up further down the road, ending in the ditch carrying rocks and dirt in wounds and scraps all along my Louisiana Lily White Ass.
Which makes me think of the second most pain filled area…the lower lumbar region of my spinal column. I took a tumble down a flight of stairs after I caught my heal in the edge of one of the stairs when I was 29. Of course Doctors wanted to do surgery to patch it up; I refused. And, took myself to a reputable Chiropractor. After eight months of adjustments and special exercises I could finally sleep the night through without pain pills. Feeling the F-ing pain of it healing to a deeper level in this moment is just as fun as I remembered it being back then. Falling on your ass hurts whichever way you slice it.
And, my hip joints are painin’ me as well. Another walkabout years back when my hips hit the pavement from rolling out of harm’s way…ending with Two hip pointers and road burn but no broken bones that time. Along with the hip joint pain, an old broken wrist injury is aching as well.
Also in this moment, the soles of my feet are aching something awful. Geez O wheez, don’t really want to remember that walkabout. Lost all ten of my toenails during that adventure, along with some major layers of frost-bitten skin. Luckily, I still have all my little piggies going to the market with me after that rondaveax. (How do ya spell Fido in Cajun French?– Phideaux).
So, in response to these levels and layers of pain my knowing is that ILP just becomes a more vigorous and compassionate journey to work it through the body/mind. Integral Life Practice becomes more complex and healing as one climbs Jacob’s ladder.
It is my knowing and growing understanding that the most natural way to heal the body is to move it. And, what could be a more fun endeavor but to move it with a Loving Friend. Ken Wilber concurs with this knowing, but the Dalai Lama doesn’t for in his most knowledgeable treatise, Integral Spirituality - Wilber states, “According to his secretary, The Dalai Lama believes homosexuality is a sin, anal sex is a sin, and oral sex is bad karma, etc. When everybody KNOWS that oral sex is not bad karma, only bad oral sex is bad karma!” (Wilber, 2006).
So, here I sit hurting, healing, greening and rolling on my balance ball as my chair working out the kinks in my body/world.
Blessings Be to All Ya’ll,
Ascension works if ya work it….
Ashoka Aurora Ishaya
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