As much as I talk about being in the present moment, the Seven Spiritual Laws also will not let us forget about our Intentions and Desires, which is the 6th spiritual law in my yoga practice. There is a saying that goes something like this. If you want to get something more in your life, put more attention towards it, and if you want to get something out of your life withdrawal your attention from it.
With the pain I am in and the scar tissue and active Crohn’s problem right now, it seems that I need to put my focus on certain areas of my body that I want healed. Especially when dealing with pain, the more I can zoom in on the spot of pain, the more I can release the pain that is in me. On the other hand the active disease and other problems I am dealing with are things that I also want to get out of my life and the Law of Intention would tell me to withdrawal my focus from all this things that I have been focusing so much on. In my past doctors appointments with Dr Simon he has always told me that I put too much focus on my health problems. At first it was with my Crohn’s disease where he would tell me to quit thinking so much about the problems I am having but focus more on the good choices I can make that will bring my mind, my body, and my spirit back into a balance. According to Ayurveda this is a balance that is unique to me and my mind-body type or my Dosha. After my Crohn’s got under control I started to put my focus on my seizures and spend way to much time trying to figure out how I could stop taking my medication. Still today if I let my dilantin level get too low I will have a grand mal seizure in my sleep and wake up in the emergency room or twice I even woke up in the intensive care unit. That is a whole other story on practicing Dr. Simon’s Commitment to Acceptance for the way things are right now.
Where is all this leading me to? I am discovering that as I go along here that there is no catch 22 like I thought at first. At this moment I can see myself putting a lot of attention on my problems, but very little on actually doing the right choices to get me headed in the right direction. So far up to this date this blog has been full of information on what is wrong with my health now, what was wrong with my health in the past and what I should be doing in the future. Very little I have said has had to do with what actions I am accomplishing to bring my Dosha back into balance. What I thought were the things I needed to put my attention and intention on is really the stuff I should not focus on. I need to start to focus on making and accomplishing the right choices for me, right now. It took me almost 5 years to understand what Dr Simon kept telling me, but I think I finally get it and am willing to start. Sounds like a good time to go to some yoga.
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