Some similar ideas to the post yesterday, taken from the excellent blog Medicine to live By!
It strikes me that for many of us, our “self-work” becomes a full time job and overtakes some of the rest of the naturalness of life. I know because I have long been a “professional evolver,” one who is in constant analysis of myself and what this or that situation in life has taught me. It’s taught me a lot, but when I get too stuck in “how to heal and perfect my own nature,” I become a white bread and mayonaise, boring, stiff version of my colorful, goofy, tender, insecure self–the one who’s a real human being.
I don’t know about you, but I find myself, far too often, responding to myself or to someone else in my life with these pre-digested strategies for wellness when the best medicine might be simply to go out and live fully and robustly, noticing the many dimensions of life and filtering a little less of ourselves. Seeking the “proper experiences,” whether the best meditation training, the most inspiring yoga class, is not the right prescription for happiness if we’ve failed to use it to give us flexibility in life.
Malynn Utzinger, “The Tyranny of Self Help” www.doctormalynn.com
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Oh Karl, Just stumbled on this site and what an interesting excerpt this is!
I wonder though whether sometimes, even if it ain’t broke, it can be bettered.
I am a flautist amoungst other things, and it taught me so much about how we assimilate new processes of any kind. The idea of conscious and subconscious really resonates for me here. Every new thing is stiff and a little awkward for a while, whether it’s a Bach sonata or a way of meditating. It takes a little living with the new process to make it familiar and our own. And somewhere in there, there is an evaluation process: this works for me, this doesn’t. At the end of all that, whatever was new is automatic, and it happens almost without thinking.
But that new stuff, it brings so much to my life.
Stumbled on your web site via bing the other day and absolutely love it. Continue the good work.