Intuition and Flow

My brother, Ronn, wrote an interesting blog post last month:

http://graciejiujitsuhawaii.blogspot.com/2012/12/increasing-intuition-and-flow.html

...to train light and smooth with a giving and taking of positions. This is achieved by finding a perfect balance between waiting and acting such that flow is achieved: a flow-like dance between two individuals that will open up every possible movement and familiarize the user of this style of training to the myriad of situations otherwise unavailable.

It reminded me of a post I wrote about the "dance of the chiropractic adjustment" a few years ago.

Intuition and flow.  We chiropractors need more of this as we adjust and align and help others maximize their healing.

Brotherhood

My brother Ronn just posted a tribute of sorts to me on his blog:

http://graciejiujitsuhawaii.blogspot.com/2011/02/watching-and-learning.html

I am overwhelmed.

I never knew.  Never knew how much my little brother watched, learned... and still remembers.

Life flows.  Fast and endless.  Water.  Right, Ronn?  

So we keep fighting.  You got my back.  I got yours.

And if this is indeed our Dagobah, here and now-- a place and time set apart to train and prepare and face our darkest fears, know this: "Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter."

And that distinction, that difference, is everything.

Love you, too.

Ithaca

My brother Ronn, a Relson Gracie Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt instructor, shared with me a poem today-- which is strange cuz neither of us are really poetry guys.  But it was pretty good, deep and thought provoking.  Check 'em out:

Ithaca

by Konstantinos Kavafis (1911)

As you set out for Ithaca
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of discovery.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
angry Poseidon - don't be afraid of them:
you' ll never find things like that on your way
as long as you keep your thoughts raised high,
as long as a rare excitement
stirs your spirit and your body.
Laistrygonians, Cyclops,
wild Poseidon - you won't encounter them
unless you bring them along inside your soul,
unless your soul sets them up in front of you.

Hope your road is a long one.
May there be many summer mornings when,
with what pleasure, what joy,
you enter harbours you're seeing for the first time;
may you stop at Phoenician trading stations
to buy fine things,
mother of pearl and coral, amber and ebony,
sensual perfume of every kind -
as many sensual perfumes as you can;
and may you visit many Egyptian cities
to learn and go on learning from their scholars.

Keep Ithaca always in your mind.
Arriving there is what you're destined for.
But don't hurry the journey at all.
Better if it lasts for years,
so you're old by the time you reach the island,
wealthy with all you've gained on the way,
not expecting Ithaca to make you rich.

Ithaca gave you the marvelous journey.
Without her you wouldn't have set out.
She has nothing left to give you now.
And if you find her poor, Ithaca won't have fooled you.
Wise as you will have become, so full of experience,
you'll have understood by then what these Ithakas mean.

There's a chiropractic interpretation in there for me (among many others).

When under chiropractic care, what is the Ithaca?

Pain relief?

An optimal spine?

Total, perfect health?

Unlike the traveller who finally arrives, who stands on Ithaca's soil and knows that he has made it with a complete certainty, can the chiropractic patient ever really know when he or she has reached the promised land?

And who defines the chiropractic Ithaca?  Does it come from the promises of the doctor or the expectations of the patient?

Does it even matter?

Chiropractic does not represent the vehicle to the destination, but is the journey itself manifested-- with all of the benefits received along the way, riches to the mind, body and soul.