Is Your Exercise Enabling You to be More Than Just Flexible in Body?

Yoga was and never has been in its history, only hatha stretches. So many of the Ancient Peoples from the all over the world stretched themselves like animals by observing and imitating them. They also sat and looked at the night sky contemplating the stars and moon. Spiritual leaders were more attuned to energy thousands of years ago than we are now. During the daytime these leaders contemplated the energy of the sun. They noted that one type of energy was softer and quieter and the other was strong enough to grow new things. (The well known concept in China of Yin and Yang is being used more in our modern languages and is starting to make sense to a growing mass of people. Later on by thousands of years, computer scientists realized the simple binary system can work as the literal switch that starts much more challenging computations.)

In Ancient times after generations passed many of the ancestors of peoples who danced, imitated animals and chanted became too busy hoping to simply survive to do contemplative practices regularly. More and more people continually got out of good habits of taking care of themselves, and not simply accumulating wealth. They, like modern people disconnected from being under the leadership of a Medicine Lineage Carrier. (People in some nations called them Shamans. That person or persons would teach individuals ways that helped them to keep finding better survival techniques and overcome weakness.) Western nations came along and insisted people convert to their religions and thinking processes. Before that happened, people who didn't want to be eaten by wild animals or have their land taken by other tribes would learn from the Shaman who taught ancient remedies.

Now many people in these modern worlds don't want to be ‘eaten’ by government controls on medicines, foods and education which our societies permit to be developed in increasingly un-natural ways. It is a logical revolution since people are able to research things themselves more with the help of the internet, great numbers of us are taking charge of the power we were born with to equate the energy in the earth and universe with energies in our bodies. Ayervedic Medicine from India, Taoist and Buddhist Healing systems from China and the Orient and all other natives around the world whose systems were passed on via father/mother to son/daughter are now again popular ways that people are recognizing that they can interact with symptoms and relieve them through movement combined with ways to think about, feel, and touch the currents of energy that are in living things and pull out their healing powers.

Are you doing more than just stretching? Today could be the day to begin researching and finding ways you can become more interactive with your inert healing capabilities that need to be re-developed in specific ways. Do some more for yourself starting today.

Re-evaluate what your total needs are to be a body that stretches itself not just physically but also emotionally, mentally, energetically and spiritually. When you stretch all of these parts of yourself you become less stuck literally into thinking you are only your body conducted by one mind. When you consider that you are in charge of your attitude about how to stretch these other layers of yourself you will evolve toward being a 'you' who goes beyond the flesh and blood. Eat better, think better, dream better, quiet yourself through practices and become an evolving being in this lifetime.

Do you fear that you will be going against what you have been taught by your parents? Do you think your philosophy of what you have learned up to this point in time is etched in stone? Do you think someone or God will say, you are straying from your long held traditions? No tradition has to be departed from to adapt a more open attitude that you and the Universe are one with everyone else. You must get yourself together and start doing enough research to know that modern science is spouting similar beliefs to the ancient knowledge that leaders of society were sensitive enough to tap into as much as 45,000 years ago. Cave people were not all brutes. The leaders were quite different and this article is not of the scope that could convince you. Many books and computer searches and years might go by before you can open to the attitude that can incorporate a greater vision of you and your fellow humanity on this planet. With such research it will be clear to you why wars have come about and you will be part of the solution that will enable you to relate to people who, like you, just want to have peace, no matter how and why their ancestors came to feel separate from another clan. Stretch yourself fully and help to transform not just your body, but an evolving human race.