HOW WE PREPARE TO RECEIVE LOVE (for #menwhogiveashit ) *...We certainly need more love. The question is how do we get it? Yogi Bhajan essentially said, "If you want love, you have to prepare your mind and body to give and receive it."* (Guru Rattana) We fully receive love only when we are ready. As the group of men who are part of the Basic Six introduction to the Yoga for the Sacred Masculine program are experiencing, we prepare by building a strong energetic foundation. This includes daily practices that change the body, and more importantly, change the nervous system so that we are more able to receive the tender (and terrible) gift of love. Wherever we are, most of us can say that our best thinking got us here. Unfortunately, I love about John Wineland's approach to these kinds of problems: change the body to change the mind. This is a yogic approach. The first time I heard John say this, all of my years of practice made sense. By disciplining our body we change our chemistry, we change our nervous system, we become physically and energetically and emotionally able to hold space. For ourselves, and the for others. And that's why in this Basic Six program that these men are working on, we invest considerable attention on what is called the "lower triangle" of our body's energetic system. Our pelvic floor. Our sexual organs. Our navel. Only when these are strong are we really able to fully appreciate love, fully able to swim in its challenging currents, fully able to enjoy the beauty of this ocean of love. Until then, it is too often too frightening and we are too unskilled to know how to receive it. Our best thinking cannot help us if we do not have the nervous system training to sail these deep waters. ps. I offer the Basic Six every quarter (next one starts October 1). You are, however, welcome to start whenever you are ready to go further than your best thinking can take you. DM me or email at [email protected]. 🔥 #men #menshealth #mensmentalhealth #pathofthesacredmasculine #authenticrelationships https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg7kOODuc4e/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
