Wake Up! Reiki Blog

Over the last week I have had a remarkable breakthrough with my Spiritual Self regarding my relationship to my body! I have finally “allowed” myself to “hear” what my body wants to do for exercise. The whole last year I have struggled madly with trying to keep to a daily Yoga or Belly Dance schedule. I would do good for about a week and then fall off the wagon for 3 weeks. I couldn’t figure out a way to motivate myself to keep going even though I was feeling some benefit from the movement.

I finally really started paying attention to my emotions that radiate from my stomach or Solar Plexus chakra. This is where our emotional guidance system is located and some believe where the soul is housed. That’s why we should always go with our “gut feelings” on things. I finally got over my resistance to saying inwardly, “Body what do you want?” I was astonished to “hear” it say I want to do meditative walks in nature and appreciate the beautiful natural all around us. It was wonderful!!

I think the reply I heard was a combination of my body and my Spirit. My mind was finally at enough peace and rest that I could let those Body/Spirit signals through!

So, without resistance at all, I put on my walking shoes and headed for the bicycle trail only a block from my home. I let my mind go and told my body and Spirit to take over and just go with the exercise that they wanted to do. Then I realized that I already knew “how” to do walking meditation at a pretty good clip. I let my mind observe everything that was going on with my body and Spirit, my mind did not participate in this thing at all, only observed. I realized that as Tich Nhat Hanh said in the last blog posting that I was breathing correctly and automatically doing a 3/1 ratio! Three steps to one breath in and three steps to one breath out! My mind said, “WOW this is really cool that my body knows this”! Then I realized that the half Buddha smile was already on my face and that I was breathing in the smile! I realized that my body was feeling great and was wanting to move faster. My stride deepened and widened, just like my Spirit at the time and I felt the sun on my face. I turned toward her and gave deep thanks for her warmth daily.

Wait a tick, was that APPRECIATION I just did there? OMG that was an attitude change I had been striving for! There it was for my observation, in the middle of inspired movement, the thing that I had been trying to FORCE WITH MY MIND ONLY. My appreciating went on and on during that walk for grass, squirrels, other people, blue sky and everything! Now bear in mind that this was only a 2 mile walk, but it felt like an eternal, life expanding experience.

I also observed that when other people saw my now wide grin on my face at my pleasurable appreciation for all things, that they would smile back and say, “Hi!”, with a big grin on their face! Then it dawned on me that I was getting back what I was putting out as a vibration. Holy cow, my whole vibration has now changed in one little inspired walk! Imagine now if I was inspired to do that daily, how elevated my whole vibration would be! How much more joyous life would be and is now in my reality.

The point of my whole story is this: Let your mind REST and be quiet, just for a few minutes, then ask your body what it needs or wants and then BELIEVE that you will get an answer. Then you will experience movement without resistance from your body, because you will be doing what it “wants and needs”. This will lead you to a place of Divine Spiritual Movement, which is really what exercise is all about and it is delicious!!

Namaste