Whole-body Blog

I take off my shoes, my jeans and my coat. My body is gently pressed by comfortable heavy blankets into a warm table, sinking into it like sand; dried-out tired knotty muscles loosen beneath slow deep strokes of hot lavender-rose oiled hands—now drifting and scattering into the chirps of birds. I disappear into the high clouds of oblivion.

But now it’s over. The massage ends—the bliss fades into a din of children asking for video games, a boss that wants thirty new animations by tomorrow, a spouse nervous about the cluttered closets and how there is not the time for all that needs doing.

The Healing Moment

Has it ever happened to you. . .

That in that moment of deep relaxation, as your ego lets its guard down, you catch a glimpse of your life—the unedited version—and are walloped by the realization that it is not joyful and thereupon vow to change it?

It would seem that such a vow marks the beginning of a life suffused with love.

Those Who Live Cheerfully Do So For What They Love

Of course no one can escape the claims of old age, sickness and death—but the free ones meet these challenges more gracefully than others. Maybe it could be said that those who live cheerfully do so for what they love.

What, for example, would you as a mother or father not suffer for your child’s happiness?

When you connect with your highest purpose, your highest potential as a human being, aches and pains don’t go away. They become less significant in light of the love for which you live.

Try This The Next Time You Are Cranky and In Pain

So try this—the next time you are cranky, in pain, deeply troubled or suffering, ask yourself: what is this all for? Then dig deep until you find that within you which cannot be broken.

That Within You Which Cannot Be Broken

If that is not possible, get help; because guaranteed, that within you which cannot be broken is there. It is your home—your real home—and you must find somebody somewhere that can help you to recognize it.

You cannot lose, and you cannot escape the innate health and vitality that is always with you—this is the standpoint of Rolfing.

Debilitating pain in your back, joints and nerves is usually effectively addressed with Rolfing, but this is just the first step in a process of radical transformation. The path of a truly happy person requires a shift of attention from pain, suffering and scarcity to creativity, courage, and generosity.

Rolfing and many of the healing arts available here in San Francisco are breathtaking opportunities.

Rolfing is certainly a way to feel better, but it also provides you with a map of inroads to your highest potential as a human being.

The Logic of Rolfing

The logic goes like this:

Shifts of your fascia, muscles and bones = shifts in your heart and mind = shifts in your spirit, which brings you closer to love—the vital ingredient: available to anyone who is willing to work for it, essential to our happiness; paramount to cultivate for the survival of our race and the planet’s health.

Is Your Life A Reflection Of That Which You Love Most Deeply?

So take a moment to reflect and write down–what is it that you live for? What do you love most deeply? Is your life a reflection of that? If so, how could you serve it better? What does your love demand of you that you cannot fulfill? And if your life is not a reflection of love—what is getting in the way?

If you can’t figure it out give your local Rolfer, healer, Zen Master, priest or shaman a call. They are there to help you. Their job is to cultivate the practice of love.