Move or Die

This post was going to be in the form of a video but that will come later in the week. My wife is nervous that people who have seen my videos believe that I have lost my mind. I pointed out two things to her. The first is that most of the readers of this blog have never met me, so you will assume that whatever you see here is just who I am. The second thing I pointed out is that my insanity has always been part of my charm. This post is about our reluctance to embrace change and the mysterious.

Our attachment to the Age of Reason has moved us away from our essential nature. For men, that has meant the loss of the Warrior Spirit. For all of us it has meant a counterintuitive loss of sophistication and complexity. If we ignore the connections among Mind, Body, and Spirit, then we become only stick people. When life’s problems do not fall before our reasoned approaches, we are all of a sudden at a loss and unable to move forward.

The field of psychoneuroimmunology is pointing to the consequences when there is a disconnect between the mind and body. Reason has its place but it’s also about doing and nurturing, reflection and action. Too many of us stop short on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and have no idea that moving towards self-actualization and a belief in something larger than ourselves will prevent our descent into lives of “quiet desperation.”

Learn how to really breathe, make your workouts (if you even workout!) more complex and sophisticated, understand what it means to truly love, give up your scientific humanism for the miraculous, and find your True North.

Well, after this, my wife may be wishing for the video