All right, have a seat. We'll have a little discussion. So the idea for me especially was always, you know, listening to it, it's the mind itself that controls the body and it is the um, it's, it is focus, it is concentration. But that is, we've gotten so much into just focus and just concentration. We are forgetting that the body has its own wisdom. We don't tell it to walk to the door. It does it on its own. It's got a system going on that we can direct sometimes but not always.
And it's just like what you were saying that if in fact I am saying all right, I need to, to the teaser, I'm telling my legs where they should be as opposed to allowing the body to find where it is that it's saying for me this system will work. Let me do it. So the body has this wisdom, this system in place that it is the conjunction of mind body. The fusion of not always just focused on the body, making it, do it, not always let the body just do what it wants to do. But it is the connection between those two systems that Mr [inaudible] was talking about in unity, harmony, balance. And that that is truly what he was directing us to do.
Now we have to think that when he was a child, he was very sickly, um, and he was bullied and it's been sad. And again, this is all conjecture that, um, he lost his left eye when he was five years old from bullies. Um, they threw a rock and, and he lost his sight in his eye and that, that had to be the certainly huge influence on who he became from there so that he was most likely directing his mind into his body. But at one point he was so developed physically that I think that it changed that back and forth so that there was a physical aspect. But there was this also driving mental aspect, um, bringing it almost to the spirit of the work that really took him to different levels with what he did. So if we're just thinking about the mind and we're just thinking about the body we're having, um, we are dividing the work. We have an a divided house falls. Um, it's, it's interesting and funny to me that um, back in the uh, 1980s, I was um, writing for the Los Angeles Times.
I was a fitness expert for the Los Angeles Times Syndicate for 10 years and I wrote articles on body lessons. So I always, always bringing polarities into this. And I wrote these wonderful, wonderful articles on the mind body connection and my editor from La called me up and said, Cathy, mind body connection. Have you lost your mind? Nobody's going to read this. You know, there's no such thing as mind, body, you know, you've got your mind, you got your body. Yeah, they work together. But, and then of course over the years as the research came really from the medical field, from the doctors saying, well, yes, our mind affects our heart rate, our blood pressure. We, if we are anxious about something mentally, it is going to affect all your physical systems. And they've made all of these connections into mind, body, so we've come all this way and now we're at the precipice of going, well, there really isn't mind body. We're taking it onto the next level. We're taking it into embodiment, what he's embodiment and we're taking it into what we need to have as not the division mind, body, but as the inclusion, harmony and the work of that unity that Mr [inaudible] spoke of of mind, body spirit,
I can't say anatomically what's happening in every body when we're lifting the leg up, but I can, when I say to you, find your core we are isn't, don't roll back two inches and lift your legs, roll back to where you are, feeling your body, where your body's telling you, I can do this. Let me do it. Not the other way around.
There was not one person who couldn't experience that movement because she taught them how to use their bodies. And it was a true mind, body experience and, and spirit. I mean, people were going like, ugh.
But I think also one of the things is that you have to get enough experience under your belt, um, both in learning and teaching and growing and being with the clients and being, um, frustrated. Um, to get to the place where you're going, okay, well wait a minute. Maybe I am, I know we have to have control and I know we have to have concentrations, but am I doing it too much? Am I not just letting myself experience the work to be joyful in it too, to say, okay, what did I just want to feel it? I just want to move with it. Let the body have its moment.
So that's why I don't think enough teachers are saying it unless I'm just not hearing it.
And thank God because
It's always getting into how can I experience this? It's about experiencing and the more that we do something in our bones, getting it into the bones, it is the way that we do it. That was from master teacher Bruce King. It has to go into the bones and he threw away so many exercises. He just said they were not necessary because people are doing them badly because they're not spending the time to get it in the bones.
Once the basic program is in the bones, they can do anything. I don't care what it is that they're doing. They can do a thousand exercises in a thousand movements. But until it is the, in the bones, the placement of the bones that determines, and this is what we were doing, the placement of your body determines how you're going to move. And so he just kept saying, you know, just go back to the very beginning, stay there until you just are not thinking it. Your body is experiencing and you go along for the ride.
I, you know, I needed as much as they need me. And, you know, and Eve, and Emil and Clara, Joe, I mean, all of them. Um, they, they brought it, you know, through their lives all the way through their lives. And I, I do think it is something that is so much more than exercise, which is what I'm really exploring now. I used to say it's a lifestyle, but now I'm even thinking of going on a deeper level with that and you know, and why has it survived, you know, it was, you know, when I started, it was almost a cult back in the late seventies. You're either injured or crazy
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