Let your Soul Catch-up
While in Yoga Teacher Training at Kripalu, I remember one of the wonderful people I met was Native American, and she told me something that has stayed with me since then…
Although I do not remember how the conversation came up, I remember her telling me some Native American Wisdom about how the Soul needs time to catch up with the body. The way she explained it to me was that the soul can only travel so fast and sometimes needs longer to catch-up to wherever the body has traveled.
So, as an example, if the soul travels at 1 mile per hour and the body has traveled in a moving vehicle going 50 mi/hr for 90 minutes, then the body has traveled for a total of 75miles in 90minutes. With this example, it would take the soul 75 hours to catch-up to the body.
In today’s ever-changing and fast-paced world we are not only so consumed with busyness, but also we have the ability to travel so quickly — like hundreds or thousands of miles, timezones, continents and countries, within hours! It is really pretty remarkable, buuuuuut how does this affect us? How does it affect our bodies and souls? How does it affect our metabolic processes (including digestion, respiration, and detoxification), hormones, rhythms (like the circadian rhythm — sleep cycle), etc.? How long can this list of questions and possibilities be?
To top it off, we are often so busy and not tuned-in to ourselves, how easy is it to ‘get lost?’ How easy is it for our souls to become lost and/or confused?At what point do we decide to slow-down, and allow for our souls to ‘catch-up?’
Perhaps this is one reason why meditation is so very powerful?!?!?!
During training in Touch For Health, another wonderful holistic modality that perhaps I can write about sometime, is this concept of travel and how it affects the body, came up again. This time, it was about how to help the body adjust to new time zones by kind of ‘resetting’ your body’s clock through techniques acquired from Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) & Applied Kinesiology — to keep it simple, for now. ;p
I love how many ways there are to look at things, including time. As I sit outside and watch the Honeybee hop from flower to flower, carefully going in and out of each, I am grateful to have the time to just BE.
A wonderful book that speaks to the mental benefits of taking time for yourself, meditation, and being outdoors is Chatter. Although it isn’t about the soul catching up with the body specifically, I believe it demonstrates how we can be more or less connected with ourselves and our surroundings. I also found it especially helpful maneuvering my way through emotional trauma and the healing process.
As I try to find some history on this Native American Wisdom I find some other articles that reference a book and I have included them below.
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