--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "tomandcindytraynoratfairfieldlis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Curtis writes snipped: > I wonder if many movement people have any issues with BP? I would > think that with a health conscious group this would be kind of a non > issue. Certainly not enough to spend this much time on. Eat well, > exercise, and hope you don't have a genetic pre-disposition for high > blood pressure. Of course I could be way off with our aging > mediators, maybe some of them have this problem now.
It's interesting referring to ffld meditators as a health conscious group. When you observe the sidha group in ffld, it's certainly a real mixed bad, with an above average number of campus-types looking not so great. There is certainly an intense awareness in sidhas of the importance of the body in their desire for evolution, though that's mainly expressed in terms of "purity" of the physiology, balance of the doshas, eating organic vegetarian food if possible. OTOH, many sidhas while obsessing on their food purity, are clearly not getting enough protein and B-vitamins and an overamount of sugar/carbs. Many of the mental breakdowns in town are associated with an obsession over purity which leads to not eating properly or avoiding life in general. Lack of exercise is my main complaint about sidhas lifestyle. MMY's recent ban against it is horrible in my opinion (for those not knowing about this - MMY said earlier this year that "exercise is not in our tradition" - Bevan later clarified that leisurely walk and talks were okay). I've known so many ffld sidhas going through physical and especially mental/emotional difficulties that cleared up with just the addition of a little vigorous exercise each day. Meditating may be helping sidhas' BP a little but lack of exercise then undermines it - the heart is a muscle that needs exercise. There are still lots of sidhas waiting for program to cure their lifelong tendencies toward depression, OCD, paranoia etc. and refuse to accept that it's not that good a program for those types of disorders and eventually a lack of attention to these issues can cross over into health issues. Of course there are lots of very healthy sidhas who basically don't go fanatic about anything and but just incorporate meditation into their otherwise normal lifestyle which is a good thing. PS - very curious to see what happens to purusha and MD as they all enter their 50s and 60s now and start to have health issues with no health insurance, no money, often no family support, and they get kicked out if they get seriously sick.
