04/17/2024
Monkey Muffins!!!
In Yoga, we often hear the term "Monkey Mind" used to describe the more impulsive dynamics of the mind. Whether it is rooted in trauma, youthful impulses, chemical deviations, an undisciplined focus, or any other myriad reason, the Monkey mind is rarely a beneficial presence. It can be very disruptive to our lives and relationships.
In the ancient roots of Yoga science, it has long been understood that the ego-mind (our individual sence of self) can exert tremendous disruptive influence to the overall health and balance within our bodies and spirit. The ego-mind is a net positive in the reality of our existence. It keeps us alive by bringing us to what we need to survive and thrive, when it is healthy and disciplined. In our modern Western lives, the ego-mind is often left unchecked to run rampant, constantly seeking more of what we do not actually need. It ever seeks more sources of stimulation and self validation, to the point of inventing stories. Fictions centered around our nature, our relationships, everything we interact with in the external world of our existence.
Whether experiencing events in reality as stories projected onto others or circumstances, or experiencing them as imagined remembering, hopes, or altered reviews of past events, these experiences of the mind become stored within the body as energy blocks. The energy of our physical bodies, within our autonomic nervous system, follows our attention. Our bodies do not know the difference between mind and reality, so what the mind invents, the body experiences. When the attention of our mind is centered on unhealthy objects or fictitious projections, that energy often does not find a healthy avenue of release. It's unlikely that we possess the awareness of how or why to engage is such activities of energetic balance, when we are unable to witness the source of the imbalance as it actually exists.
As our energy repeatedly follows our unhealthy attention, it begins to become stuck within the body when there is no healthy means for it to release and balance. We call these "energy blocks." They can present as stiff muscles or fascia, increasing restriction of normal physical movement, emotional imbalance linked to a physical location in the body, disease, or neurological imbalances.
The Monkey Mind infects us with Monkey Muffins.
The longer these Muffins have to bake within the mental processes that invent them, the more dense they become. They can be difficult to overcome and release without awareness, but the actual process is fairly simple.
Meditation, prayer, mindfulness practices, consciously directed exercise practices (like Yoga), anything that brings the mind into stillness, our thought patterns into awareness, and our body into a better sense of active balance will begin releasing these nasty Muffins.
To learn more or to find out how you can step out of your own hectic kitchen of the Monkey Mind, DM me! And if my particular brand of tea doesn't compliment your Muffins... I have lots of highly qualified friends who might!
Jai Bhagwan, Friends
Give yourself a break, don't eat the Muffins! 🙏❤️
