A practice of letting go, giving and receiving.

            Yesterday I wrote about sitting on the floor, emphasizing how it is healthy for our bodies.  With an attack pending on Syria and the reality of our economy and environment it is important to also realize that anytime we choose to live with less it is not only healthier for us but for the rest of the world.   The more we are in the practice in letting go of things, clutter and even what we think of as “useful” objects the more we will experience that true health and happiness come not from these things but from inside ourselves and from living in connect with a healthy community.  So let go of you chair today, you couch tomorrow,   Who know what will be next, juice boxes? your morning coffee? your car?    We don’t need to be consumers, we can be givers.  Changing our lifestyle in our homes is a wonderful step towards living a life that is more in tune with our own needs and the rest of the worlds inhabitants.  

Letting go of chairs can also be looked as a spiritual practice, embracing the work of supporting our own weight.  Our great gift is this life we are living, this magical experience, and these bodies are our homes while we experience this wild ride.  The gift of using our bodies is to be appreciated not avoided.  We can embrace the work of sitting up tall, of getting up and down of supporting our own weight.  We can embrace the work of moving ourselves around, walking, running, biking, carrying groceries, growing food, building homes, helping each other.  In our past most of our ancestors often did need to conserve energy but right now many of us are at a different point. Physical work is a gift that many of us fail to value these day and many of us need.     As we recreate our economy we can go back to giving through our bodies.   We don’t need gyms to get in shape we can give our lives, our time and energy back to the world and in return we will be given the gift of health.