The excerpt below is from an interview with Matthew Sanford, a yoga teacher paralyzed from the chest down since he was 13 years old. There is something to be learned here re: the mind body connection and energy, but perhaps even more there is deep wisdom and counsel about embracing self acceptance and compassion.
Mr. Sanford: (reading) In principle, my experience is not so different from yours, it is only more extreme. €¦ My mind-body relationship changed in an instant ۠the time it took for my back to break. But the changing relationship between mind and body is a feature of everyone’s life. We are all leaving our bodies ۠this is the inevitable arc of living. Death cannot be avoided; neither can the inward silence that comes with the aging process.
I now experience a different, more subtle connection between mind and body. It does not require that I flex muscles. It does not dissipate in the presence of increasing inward silence.
€¦ It does require, however, that I seek more profoundly within my own experience and do so with an open mind. It means that I must reach intuitively into what may feel like darkness.
Read the entire interview here: http://www.dailygood.org/more.php?n=5027
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