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Emulating Plato

Plato used to walk the markets of ancient Greece to see how much stuff he didn’t need. One of the richest and most vibrant characteristics of a deep sense of well being is a profound simplicity. When our bodies, minds, and hearts are restfully vibrant, we realize we don’t actually need much stuff at all.

As I write this I am sitting on a bench in south Carolina at some retail outlets. I spent the last hour walking the place and going into stores. Sure, there is lots of “stuff” that in a moment I might want, but not much at all I really need. As I walked, I would see something that drew my attention. The “wanting mind” would find an object it wanted. I’d feel the sensations of excitement in my body. Then I take a deep breath,asking the question, “do I want this, or do I really need this?” Nice sunglasses, cool shoes, summer shirts, a pair of pants for my summer trip with Lynn. Not a bit of it did I actually need.
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The Bhakti Sutras, recorded by Narada aeons ago, provide a simple understanding of how we derail with stress and how that might affect our bodies. I am a fan of any philosophy from around the world that helps us live more effectively and gracefully today. I am simplifying a great deal here, but here is what I got this morning from the Bhakti Sutras. Everything is love. There is no other “currency” in the Universe. The Universe appears to be held together by some invisible force, and according to the sutras this Universal essence is love itself. Physicists may call this “dark matter” but to me its simply Universal Intelligence as love. It is the “glue” of the physical universe. Do not doubt for a second that you are made of this very same energy. And this is not New-Age Woo-Woo. Astrophysicists like Neil deGrasse Tyson and Carl Sagan have expressed similar sentiments in the language of science.
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I love the way my British friends talk. I especially like those Mind the Gap T-Shirts. Not only do they look really cool, but they point us to some pretty powerful mojo for personal transformation. That mojo is all about living in the Gap. No, I don’t mean living in the London subway. What I do mean is that the ability to get into that GAP between our thoughts, emotions, and reactions. To get into that place of dynamic stillness within from which authentic presence, alertness, silence, creativity, focus and calm energy arise. In this Gap we get to be the active choosers of what we see and how we act.
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The Art of Being, The Act of Becoming – Create Your Best Year in 2012

Dr. Matt Lyon Charlotte, NC Chiropractor

Congratulations! Its 2012 and you are alive, you are reading this, and you possess a completely blank slate moving forward. Anything is possible, limited only by your imagination and your willingness to change your mind about your mind.

Its a beautiful paradox – you are an infinite, eternal child of God with nothing to improve upon and a simple feeling of joy, gratitude, bliss, and connection is the very fabric of your existence. AND, at the very same time, you are called to create your life, moment by moment into a masterpiece. You are called to bring for that Innate Wisdom resting in you, as you, into form in your life. This is the great gift, as far as I can see, of life. We get to consciously co-create our life and our world. Wow. In the mystical Jewish Kaballah tradition, there is an angel over every blade of grass saying, “Grow! Grow! Grow!” If its over a blade of grass, you have an entire legion of angels over you encouraging you to evolve and become!
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M Scott Peck in his book, “The Road Less Traveled” opens his book with a statement. “Life is difficult.” He is right. Sort of. Its difficult because we as humans have an extraordinary ability to make it so. And we have an even more extraordinary ability to experience life as a joyous, exciting, expansive, blissful, and deeply meaningful journey of self-actualization. “Wait, I thought this was about posture?” you are asking. Yes, it is. Just hang with me for a minute as I wax poetic. It will make sense in a minute. Or it won’t. And that is OK, too.

Life is difficult when we are consistently taking the path of most resistance without the tools to do anything about it and to create a new reality for ourselves. Life is difficult when we don’t have resources. Once we get a clear picture of where we are at and how we can make a complete mess of things on so many levels then we can start to change. We start to get free when we get that all the things in our life that are difficult have one thing in common: us.
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So, we all know on some level that emotion is a powerful aspect of our lives and our health.

I’ll make this so very simple. Emotion is nothing more than energy in motion that we perceive as feeling. We might perceive it as an experience of joy, anger, depression, sadness, excitement, grief, expansiveness, silliness, boredom, nothingness, exhilaration, affluence, etc.
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Hi there!

So, we all know on some level that emotion is a powerful aspect of our lives and our health.

I’ll make this so very simple. Emotion is nothing more than energy in motion that we perceive as feeling. We might perceive it as an experience of joy, anger, depression, sadness, excitement, grief, expansiveness, silliness, boredom, nothingness, exhileration, affluence, etc.
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Did you know what the #1 complaint to doctors is in the United States? Take a guess…..

Flu? No. Back pain? Close – but not the most common. Fatigue. That is right – the #1 complaint to doctors in the United States is fatigue and “feeling run down.” For sure, there can be some serious organic causes for fatigue. However, 95% of the time, fatigue comes from overall stress, nutritional imbalance, poor sleep, emotional imbalance, and a distorted + contracted nervous system (spine, nerves, supporting muscles, and connective tissues).

I practice, as most f you know as a Wellness Doctor and Network Chiropractor in Charlotte, NC. I agree with this statistic….one of the most common things I see in the cascade of stress related problems is feeling too tired to live with vibrance, flourish on every level, and play full out.
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Vitality, like everything beautiful is art. It is the art we create everyday with our palate of life choices. The fruits of vitality are a deep inner sense of calm, an unshakeable reserve of energy, unwavering mental focus, ability to go with the flow and be flexible, joy, happiness, acceptance, and loving-kindness towards ourselves and others.

Yup, vitality is pretty much the fuel of a happy life. At the same time it is the result, just like a beautiful garden, of conscious, intentional, and consistent work. Even better, the more we do it, the more effortless it becomes, and vitality springs from our eyes, our skin, and our very personality. Who we are radiates and shimmers hope, joy, steadiness, and energy to those we come into contact with. Vital people inspire vitality. As Gay Hendricks, PhD states, “they are good times waiting to happen.”
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An ode to exercise, to the beauty of movement. An ode to the power and grace of the human body, regardless of its shape, age, or condition. An ode to the dormant potential that lies waiting like a coiled spring to burst forth in each of us.

If there are 3 or 4 things that make up the foundation of a healthy life they are, I believe, as follows: 1) A healthy nervous system – this is the megacenter that controls everything (and no I am not talking about Wal-Mart). Without your amazing nervous system your body and mind can’t do much of anything; 2) Eating to live – eat simply, eat locally, eat lots of stuff that grows from the earth and don’t eat anything processed; 3) Some daily practice to drop into regenerative and re-creative rest – namely meditation/prayer; 4) EXERCISE.
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