Lessons that apply not just to muscles but also to most of our lives
First of all, remember that the brain thinks in patterns not individual muscles.
Secondly, the brain learns from failure.
Third, manual muscle testing is most effective with light pressure.
Fourth, Neurology rules the roost.
Fifth, it takes repetition to change a dysfunctional pattern into a functional one.
David Weinstock, author of NeuroKinetic Therapy: An Innovative Approach to Manual Muscle Testing
When you catch yourself thinking, ‘I’m such a failure’ or ‘I’m so enlightened,’ just laugh.
It’s all just more thinking.
The ego loves to dramatize itself, but it’s just a passing show.
Ajahn Sumedho, The Sound of Silence
I didn’t need to understand the hypostatic unity of the Trinity;
I just needed to turn my life over to whoever came up with redwood trees.
Annie Lamott, Traveling Mercies
The trees don’t rush to grow their leaves.
They wait for the right light, the right warmth.
And so must we.
Katrina Kenison, Winter Lessons
In a life properly lived, you’re a river.
You touch things lightly or deeply;
you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it…
Jim Harrison, 1937 – 2016, American poet, novelist, and essayist.
The meditation instruction is simple: just sit down, allow yourself to sit with dignity, and pay attention. That’s all.
You don’t have to regard this as some exalted activity you’re doing. It’s just ordinary and profound = being present with yourself.
Pema Chodron, The Wisdom of No Escape
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