High on my list of most inspiring people is Bill Hubert, a Wichita, Kansas, English teacher and martial artist who developed a truly amazing method of exercise for school kids that combines Brain Gym, juggling, and vision therapy. Studies show that when children learn Bal-a-Vis-X (his funny name for it), their reading scores improve.
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Ascent, the magazine that promises "Yoga for an Inspired Life" in each quarterly issue, is different from any yoga mag I've seen.Ascent: When you were in space and had that sense of the unity that underlies the universe, what did it feel like to be back on Earth and see how humans can treat each other and how we treat our planet?
Mitchell: Part of my epiphany in space was recognizing that beneath the blue and white cover of Earth, we humans were behaving like juveniles. We are a juvenile species. By and large, we are so consumed with greed and self-service that we miss the larger point. This is what the great mystics in all religious have tried to get us to see...
The problem is, those who have not had those transcendent, transformational experiences continue to operate just like we're seeing the world operate right now--ignoring the message of unity and the greater good. My life has been devoted since that time to pursuing the issue of helping move global civilization toward a sustainable future. Clearly we are not there yet.
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"In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot--and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainity. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice."
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I like this idea from the blog Fatfree Vegan Kitchen: fresh corn on the cob with lemon juice and seasoned pepper--instead of butter.
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Thanks to faithful reader Kathy for this marvelous link to a 52-question test that tells you which of your chakras is under-functioning! It caught my weakness in the root chakra. Younger Chattering son took the test also (it only takes ten minutes), and was happy to find that he is firing evenly on all cylinders (as you'd hope a kid would). Try it--especially if you have no interest in chakras and don't know what all the fuss is about! Ways to understand other mind-body systems are on the site, and I intend to explore them.
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