Parvati Magazine December 2014/January 2015: Consequence/Beginnings | Page 14

YEM: YOGA AS ENERGY MEDICINE

FOLLOW THE WAVE
In Your Spine

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t would have been easy to feel sorry for myself when I became paralyzed from the waist
down due to a spontaneous spinal cord injury. Yet, as I share in my Positive Possibilities article “Consequence: The Great Teacher”, and my Wellness article “Healed by the Great Blue
Whale”, I know that there is nothing in life that is “against me”. All that happens supports my
spiritual growth in some way.
As I stayed in the notion of possibility, I got out of the way of nature’s innate healing power.I
started to notice small currents of life extending from the conglomerate of energy in the injured area, like shoots of grass arising from the soil. Little ripples of life started to wa ve down
my legs. Eventually, I could feel my toes and start to wiggle them.
That wave began to pulse up my spine. I could then roll from side to side, and eventually
onto my stomach. At no point was I able to do anything that was not in flow with that wave.
If I pushed, the consequence was searing pain. The wave moved me into pressing up from
my stomach, and then to crawling. I grew as though from an ocean molecule, to a sea
creature, to a land animal, to an upright human. Finally I came to walk and dance again
in joy. My recovery was deemed medically miraculous. I share more about this healing journey in my Wellness column in this month’s issue.
This wave exists within us all, at any given moment. It is the pulse of life itself. Yet because of
our habits and the way we often choose to perceive life stressfully, we hold tension in our
tissue, electrical and nervous systems. Over time, the juiciness of the wave, and the flow of
energy in our body/being, become rigid, causing illness and distress.