Dynamic yielding with Damaris and Steven

Daniel Kish has been sightless since he was a year old. Yet he can mountain bike, navigate the wilderness alone, and recognize a building as far away as 1,000 feet. How? The same way bats can see in the dark. Since his infancy, he has been adapting to his blindness in remarkable ways. He has learned to use what he calls "Flashsonar," or echolocation. He produces a brief, sharp click with his tongue, and the sound waves bounce off every object around him, returning to his ears vastly decreased in volume, but perceivable. Kish has trained himself to hear these slight echoes and to interpret their meaning. Standing on his front step, he can visualize, with an extraordinary degree of precision, the two pine trees on his front lawn and the curb at the edge of his street.

Kish was born with an aggressive form of cancer called retinoblastoma, which attacks the retinas. To save his life, both of his eyes were removed by the time he was 13 months old. Kish is now 44.

Kish and a handful of coworkers run a nonprofit organization called World Access for the Blind, (http://www.worldaccessfortheblind.org) headquartered in Kish’s home. He is not the first blind person to use echolocation, but he’s the only one to meticulously document it, to break it down into its component parts, and to figure out how to teach it. His dream is to help all sight-impaired people see the world as clearly as he does.

What an inspiration this man is, we all have so much potential, anything is possible when we have a dream and the courage to follow it. Live your dream today.

I invite you to give yourself a few minutes break to enjoy a felt sense of your body.

Wherever you are make yourself as comfortable as possible.

Feel the way your body makes contact with the surface that is supporting you.

Sense into your skin and notice the way your clothes feel.

Sense underneath your skin - what sensations are there ?

Now, gently remembering these sensations, how do you know that you feel comfortable ?What physical sensations contribute to the overall feeling of comfort ?

Does becoming aware of these sensations make you feel more or less comfortable ? Does this change over time ?

Sit for a moment and enjoy the felt sense of of feeling comfortable.

" My belief is in flesh and blood as being wiser than the intellect.
The body-unconscious is where life bubbles up in us.
It is how we know re are alive, alive to the depths of our souls
and in touch somewhere with the vivid reaches of the cosmos."
D.H.Lawrence
Having a practice like tai chi teaches us the wisdom of the body. Working with it slowly but surely reigns in the thinking mind. We learn little by little that we are not our thoughts we are so much more. Practicing on 'good ' days and 'off' days a steadiness develops which is a balm when it feels like things are falling apart and also calms the heart when it is ready to explode with joy.

Connecting , sticking , listening , yielding , softening ,
what a profound practice this is.

         Love is always Loving you.

         Without this Love you cannot breathe,

         as without air you cannot live.

         Love is Meditation, Meditation is Love.

         Heart has no frontiers;

         Meditate on This.

         You are this Love, You are That.

         Simply be Quiet and stay as such.

          Papaji

       The first line has become my mantra

                  wonderful.

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