Some things you can learn by listening and talking. Others you can learn by quietly observing. And then there are the lessons you can learn only by doing. The lessons learned by doing are often the hardest kind to explain. I can spend all day telling you how to ride a bike. You can tell me what you learned from my lecture. You can watch me ride around and see that it looks easy. But until you get on a bike and pedal for yourself you will never fully know the freedom of wheeling through time and space on a joy ride. To know that experience you must leave your mind and become a citizen of your body. You must learn to trust what the body already knows. You must be willing to concede some degree of control. It’s a process that takes practice. Each time you waiver, each time you fall and get back up to try again your body learns. The vestibular system, with its coils and circles, makes the right minute adjustments without your direction. Proprioceptors in your muscles learn the right patterns necessary to propel you forward. These systems and others learn to coordinate and become fine-tuned, but only through the practice. You just have to try. Learn by doing. Let go of fear, embrace trust, and you will find balance.
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March 3, 2012 at 4:23 am
Dana
I’ve been reminded by a number of posts this week that I’m terribly stuck in my head at the best of times… Even when I resolve to “try something new!”, I’m often motivated by the desire to read new books. 😉
What a poetic post, today. I think the universe is trying to tell me to get off the computer, out of my head, and back into my body for a while!
March 20, 2012 at 2:20 am
Lunar Euphoria
Thanks for reading, Dana. This was supposed to be the first of a couple posts, but I got all sorts of distracted by puppies, friends, family, and flowers.
Maybe it’s time I got back I got back to saying what I was going to say! Then again…it’s so springy around here, I just want to go frolic.
March 20, 2012 at 3:51 pm
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March 20, 2012 at 3:51 pm
ram0ram
wisdom post …… thanks …..love all.
May 18, 2012 at 4:11 pm
Lunar Euphoria
Thank you for dropping in – and for your kind words.
May 18, 2012 at 4:25 pm
Ashram Lessons 1: Cultivating Joy « My Little Spacebook
[…] Beneath that muck, seeds of joy were being planted. Several lifetimes of lessons were condensed into those two weeks. It was a lot to processes. I’m still working to understand what I learned and to apply it to daily life. (For more on that end, see A Heart Flung Open and Knowing by Doing.) […]