Lack of Rhythm

[Guest guest]

Sat Nam to All,

 

What is going on in the person that does not have

rhythm? A left/right brain thing going on? What

about

the psychological significance? I see this alot in

older people which is not a surprise, but also am

seeing it more in younger people as well.

 

Kundalini Yoga and Meditation I know will help in the

long term picture, but is there anything specific to

help with coordination of movment and finding an

internal beat so to say? Cross Crawls come to mind.

 

Thanks.

Linda

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

Hi Linda and Sat Nam,

I don't know if this will answer your question, but I'll take a try

at putting it into words.

In Yoga we create (or tune into to) the union between the microcosm

and the macrocosm. The union between our human personal experience

within our Five Senses and the Universal vast and impersonal experience

beyond our Five senses. The Macro is reflected and mirrored in the

Micro. This is Rhythm to me. Whenever we can appreciate it [the Macro]

in the present, seemingly finite, sensual and personal realm, we are

affirming and surrendering to it [Rhythm] in the greater, impersonal

realm. Some of the time we're able to experience it better than others,

regardless of age, and the reasons are varied. One thing is for sure, if

we turn away from it on a conscious level for too long, it actually

becomes a subconscious aversion. Surrounded by a culture that values

doing and achieving, and keeping your nose to the grindstone, that

leaves little time or energy to be "frivolous" or leave any detail of

their life to chance or serendipity. Such an approach takes relaxing,

having some faith and maybe learning to rely on the miraculous. This

relaxation thing is not so easy and I guess that's why this "Yoga thing"

is so big these days - people are turning back inward to find

themselves. I think a lot of us don't relax very well because in means

becoming ourselves, and that relationship is often not one of ease. In

fact, relaxation will often be followed by a release of negativity.

Stuff does comes up when we start loving ourselves and Love does bring

that which is unlike itself. We confront a demon/neurosis or two, and

neurosis can be defined as "a break from our sincerity". Some folks are

able to be with that process and make good things happen with it and

come out richer for it. And, oh yeah, it doesn't matter whether we're

from Riverdale, the South Bronx or Tibet (

http://www.theyogisoftibet.com/clip_05.htm ), we all have to embrace the

funkier aspects. The Slam poet, Patricia Smith, once defined Funk as

"the underside of anything".

 

The rhythm and deepest notes that we can hear and perceive

consciously are about 40 octaves above the sounds made by the big

celestial bodies. We'll never really hear these sounds as the sound

waves are really large with much greater distances between the peaks and

troughs than the sound waves we normally hear but maybe we can tune into

this "bass factor" with our breath and intuition and let it resonate

through us and deepen our level of comfort with our spirituality. This

is soulfulness.

 

Also, one other way to look at this diminished sense of rhythm. When

our Eighth/Pranic Body is working we feel light and have a sense of

continuity between our personal pranic body and the bigger Prana energy

around us. The Pranic body is the subtle energy layer that transmutes

pranic energy from the environment into life force energy. When our

Pranic body is strong we have fearlessness, youthfulness, healing power,

and an innate innocence. One thing that breaks this innocence and

continuity is having secrets. Some of us shed and share our secrets as

we grow older, and some of us hold onto them and make them "sacred" and

wall ourselves off from the bigger flow of Prana. The Micro stops

mirroring the Macro. There has to be a minimum of secrets.

 

I think this is why Yogiji said we have to do the emotional work.

Left Brain/Right Brain is important. My suggestion is to have them do

One Minute Breath (20 secs inhale, 2 secs suspend, 20 secs exhale) at

the end after their layout. (Are you observing this in your students?)

Five to eleven minutes is good. This will make the experience much

closer to the inner workings of the mind and senses and intimately

deepen the appreciation of their new state of being. This is

physiologically almost like telling a secret.

 

Also, eating food slowly. Ayurveda teaches alot about coming back to

our senses (the Microcosm) and maintaining it and in cultures where the

"yogic" traditions were part of the foundation, everybody including the

old people have rhythm. Even the old Yupik and Inuit elders of Alaska

can dance.

 

Okay, I've rambled on long enough.

Sat Nam,

Dharam Singh

 

P.S. Stay young at heart.

 

linda kirby wrote:

 

>

> Sat Nam to All,

>

> What is going on in the person that does not have

> rhythm? A left/right brain thing going on? What

> about

> the psychological significance? I see this alot in

> older people which is not a surprise, but also am

> seeing it more in younger people as well.

>

> Kundalini Yoga and Meditation I know will help in the

> long term picture, but is there anything specific to

> help with coordination of movment and finding an

> internal beat so to say? Cross Crawls come to mind.

>

> Thanks.

> Linda

>

>

>

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Dear Dharam,

 

Thank you for your indepth response! Let me see if I

understand what you are saying, because humans

are so busy, busy with life they are unable to feel

the

natural universal rhythm resonate within them

rendering

them out of sync in their inner world. And the

prescription

is to slow down, breathe deeply and surrender to the

powers beyond you. This makes sense, however,

not always consistent with what I encounter.

Sometimes

there seem to be people that have wonderful

coordination and rhythm physically, but are mentally

and spiritually deadened and of course vice versa,

very

spiritually connected people living in the present,

that are dead to the rhythm in the body, I suppose

there are exceptions to all theories.

 

Never knew about the secrets. It certainly seems that

keeping secrets would contain your energy by

living in fear of exposure.....but i never connected

it to lack of rhythm. Oh, and eating slowly, yes,

doing everything more slowly seems to be a good habit

to start in this fast track world.

 

Oh, most of my students are working on that one minute

breath, but it will be awhile. Interesting most

students

with breathing problems, upper respiratory ailments,

asthma, etc. seem to have a lack of rhythm.

 

Thanks again, you got the beat!

Linda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Guest guest]

inner tension, mental absoption with the various inner rubbish, meditation

constantly on the problems of the life , etc, amounts to a tight gut, bad

breathing , shallow breathing; no rhythm .amen. cant beat deep breathing.

peace, alan

 

linda kirby <assortedbeings wrote:

 

Oh, most of my students are working on that one minute

breath, but it will be awhile. Interesting most

students

with breathing problems, upper respiratory ailments,

asthma, etc. seem to have a lack of rhythm.

 

Thanks again, you got the beat!

Linda

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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