03/30/2026
This morning’s practice, reading, writing, & quiet reflection led me to a place of scanning the horizon of my life…. Seeing the journey unfold piece by piece… the gradual nature of the healing at times coupled with the drastic messages, guidance and pummels to my system.
When we begin the journey of awakening, a lot of times it begins in the physical. The body is a giant storehouse of not just a lifetime of accumulated memory, but generations. Our DNA is encoded with the imprint of our ancestors, of all life before us. All of this memory within us causes unrest, anxiety, angst… and it is meant to be that way. That is the beginning of The Ache; the beginning of the journey back Home.
We were never meant to live disconnected, distracted, separate, or apart from our Source…. From each other… from Truth. This unnatural state of being causes a disruption in nature and a disruption in our beings.
We fill our lives with plans and tasks, actions, habits, cravings, additions, desires, pursuits, and longings. It seems to fill the innate void for a bit… until it doesn’t. If we ignore that disruption; that ache, many times it will present itself as a physical imbalance or state of dis-ease. When our body is loaded with processed chemicals and booze and lacking nourishment, the liver and digestive organs will cry out. When we ignore the natural instinct to move and breathe and sweat and choose sitting behind a desk and in a car and on the couch, the inflammation and aching of the joints are the body’s way of speaking to the soul.
True healing involves a rehaul of our entire system; mental, energetic, emotional and spiritual. The science of yoga is a systemized path to do just that. To be fair, it is not a quick fix. Anything that is, usually doesn’t bring lasting healing. It is a science that is meant to be LIVED. It is a remembering everyday through your being, the Truth of who you are and what this life is.
As the small parts of our lives serve to distract us from the true endeavor of what life is truly about, if we get still enough, we can recognize the ache… and thank God for it. It is the first traffic sign directing us back Home. It