Happy Tuesday to You!
I hope you are all well.
Today, I thought I’d share some thoughts on the importance of movement for our healthy, creative self-expression.
Our creative self-expression emerges from the wellspring of our mind. The word “mind” can be thought of as an indicator of the frequency of thought vibration. Dr. Daniel Siegel’s definition of
MIND: An embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information.
Our mind is what we use to access The Mind of the Universe, just like your cell phone gives you access to the “universe of communication” available in the microwave frequency range; you can call anyone who’s “phone mind” is connected to the cellular network.
Thoughts are active processes. They have a beginning, middle, and an end. Thoughts, as Dr. Siegel defines, regulate the flow of energy and information. You can choose to stop thinking a given thought; you can stop believing a specific ideology, or you can keep indulging your mind with worrying, blaming, or otherwise engaing in “stinking thinking.”
If thoughts were pure energy without information, you couldn’t possibly accumulate work-potential within yourself; without movement, it would be like a battery sitting on a shelf, doing not doing.
Soul is a tricky word, meaning many different things to people with differing belief systems.
My researches into the soul have involved an extensive study of credible authors, such as Deepak Chopra, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Fred Alan Wolf, Rudolph Steiner, Walter Russell, Paramahansa Yogananda, Rumi, Kabir, Osho, Paul Brunton, Plotinus, and many more.
But most importantly, I’ve researched the soul within myself extensively thorough ongoing inner-dialogue. The soul, after much research and inner-investigation, may be seen as “consciousness within”.
The soul can be likened to the middle of a coin; not heads (positive), not tails (negative), but the balance or “zero-point” from which all the “this or that” emerges. Just as a coin has no “currency” when either face is removed, the soul has no action pole when the ego is removed.
Another way to perceive the soul is to imagine the soul as your eardrum. By itself, it doesn’t do anything. It is simply there, but always has the potential to express any wave that reaches it as energy and information.
Because the soul is our “rest-point” or “balance-point”, any expression of a positive or negative (by way of mind) produces the perception of motion, which is the basis of emotion – to feel.
A computer can be thought of as “a mind”, but regardless of what you read, write, or express with the information within it, it doesn’t have feelings or emotions about it. Regardless of whether you surf porn sites, watch people being brutally murdered, or spend hours studying ways to love self and others better, your computer stays at the level of energy and information.
Therefore, what I’ve shared so far is that the mind is an embodied process that regulates the flow of energy and information. The soul is the balance point, or reconciliation of all “relatives”.
Because zero represents the rest state, or potential of all movement, and mind represents movement of energy and information, we have the capacity to be “conscious of”; Consciousness IS Everywhere and No-where, and is represented within the confines of our body-mind (ego) as the everywhere and nowhere of our own mind or dreams.
Our thoughts and dreams represent the “somewhere or something” that creates the relative experience of something occurring within our soul, thus we have “self-consciousness.”
Your body is the field of action for which you can express you unique identity – your individuality, your individual expression of the Whole.
Your body is a physical construct, also made of energy and information. While mind represents a zone of higher, faster vibrations, or subtle vibrations, your body is the gross and tangible expression or, fruit of “your” ego-mind’s vibrations expressed in, and as a tangible physical body.
The thought, “I think I’ll get some exercise today” is subtle; it takes a LOT of subtle thoughts to transform your body without reciprocal action within your body. This transition takes place through the action of choice, or “free will”.
Thinking about planting a garden only plants a garden in your mind, but to experience the garden as a tangible life-experience, you must choose to “embody” your thought action in body-action. Only you can choose to do that. Only you can choose to plant the garden and watch it grow; the thought was just the seed that you had to “physically” water and grow with a tangible body-mind representation, “a seed, water, and soil”.
Your body begins as a seed, an embryo, which grows in the “soil” of your mother’s womb. If your mother and father were still “thinking about having sex”, your body wouldn’t have emerged from the Mind-Field of possibility.
Just as our mothers and fathers had to “choose” to take (get some ) action before our bodies could grow and evolve, we have to choose to “get some action” to keep our bodies growing and evolving in the direction of our dreams.
Here you can see a picture of my good friend and client of mine, Laird Hamilton. Laird is considered by many to be the best overall surfer in the world. He was given the gift of a body when his parents “took action” on their thoughts and desires.
His mother and father exposed him to “the idea of surfing”. Something about his experiences of exposure created a “feeling inside him” (emotion) that motivated him to use his “free will” to explore his unique potential to surf. Through the actual “practice” of surfing, Laird’s body evolved to support his dreams (thoughts and ideas of surfing and what it could be for him).
If at any point, Laird “chooses” to stop exercising, be it surfing, or conditioning, the state of his body will change to reflect the state of his mind. He may maintain the “idea” of himself as the same surfer he was when in top surf condition and practice, but that idea can’t be expressed tangibly in the physical realm unless he harmonizes his body-action with his thought-action.
Laird is Laird because he uses the principle of movement to integrate and express the subtle vibrations of his mind with the comparatively gross (tangible) expressions of his body.
Movement is the catalyst for change at either pole – mind or body; and the soul is what “IS” between, witnessing it all; thinking without thinking – surfing without surfing.
If we look at the diagram above, you see “THE INDIVIDUAL” in a box, representing the seed of our individuality. Once we get clear enough as to what we want to create to make a decision, we begin the active process of learning, which involves thinking, communicating, using technology, and participating in society.
Each human being is “seeded” within a larger Self we call humanity. We each offer a unique expression of our larger identity as human beings. Without movement, we couldn’t express ourselves within a living community.
Movement and life are expressions of the same principle. You can say “life is movement”, or “movement is life” and be correct.
Where things move fast in life, life is fast. Where things move slow in life, life is slow. There are physical correlates to the flow of energy and information everywhere in the universe as we know it.
If you want to be a surfer, you will need to learn to think, move and condition as a surfer. If you want to be a dancer, you will need to learn to think, move and condition as a dancer.
If you are overweight, tired, and/or sick, you are experiencing the thoughts that you have embodied.
If they are not proving to be harmonious with the dream you hold for yourself “Now”, then it is wise to find someone to emulate who is more congruent with your dream.
But take note, “emulation” is an active process, you must choose to process yourself in, and as energy and information that is congruent with our dream.
You don’t need to move any more, or any less than your dream requires, just as you don’t have to kneed bread doe longer than, or bake it longer than it requires.
NOW’S YOUR CHANCE – MAKE A CHOICE!
If you aren’t satisfied with the way you look and feel, choose what you want to look and feel like, and start with the “end in mind.” Then, begin “moving in body-mind” in a way that represents your choice.
As you watch yourself and feel yourself learning and growing your dream, you will be moving just enough to be that person. Only you can decide if that is, or isn’t good enough.
Your soul “Loves” (allows) you to experience it all without judgment. How you live, look, and feel is up to “you”, and that’s what the ego is for. Without an ego, your soul can “BE”, but it cannot “do”.
How you spend the currency of the soul expressed as body-mind is truly up to you.
Enjoy the journey of life as movement.
Love and chi,
Paul Chek
Suggested Resources:
1. PPS Success Mastery Lesson 1: Determining Your Legacy
2. PPS Lesson 2: Managing Yourself
3. The 1-2-3-4 For Overcoming Addiction Obesity & Disease: MP3 Audio and Workbook Program
4. The Absolute Essentials Of OSHO: MP3 Audio
5. The Absolute Essentials Of Rumi MP3 Audio
