I love David Goggins - he’s a symbol of what it means to not follow the mind and not to be dragged around by the 5 senses.

A symbol of what it means to be connected to the body and living through it. (Albeit a little extreme)

Regardless of how you feel about him:

The Misuse of the 5 Senses & The Misuse of the Intellect are two of the root causes of disease according to Ayurveda.

They both create disconnection from the body and lead us to making choices that affect our digestion, and lead us down the dis-ease pathway.

Goggins has a really clear message:

“Stay hard motherf**ckers”

I may have taken liberty on the last word (excuse my French - why do we say that?).

He also points out the idea that there’s too much softness in the next generations (he quotes his old man saying it about David's generation too).
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I get it.
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To a degree, we’ve become creatures of pleasure and comfort and have followed the mind and senses into a state of softness, and beyond - that has led to weakness / illness.

Although part of this has been very healing. (read on)

In Ayurveda we use 10 pairs of qualities to understand how disease develops, and the path to healing (along with a lot of deeper assessment).

Soft and Hard is one duality spectrum.

Too far either way and disease will manifest.

These qualities are called the Gurvardi Gunas (we’ve talked about them once before).

On another view of the emotional spectrum of the qualities of soft and hard - what do they mean?

Soft - in healthy amounts - accepting, receiving, empathy, compassion, flexibility, flow.

Think of the qualities of water.

Hard - in healthy amounts - resistant (to fear), stable, supportive, confident (in a way), assertive.

Like the qualities of rocks (earth).

Maybe the successive softening of generations has been for us to connect with those qualities, because the hardness of the previous generations didn’t quite embrace them - or offer us the appropriate experience of them?

Or maybe the excess structure created by the "hard generations" meant that it could only grow when the soft quality was brought back into balance.

What we’re seeing (in some aspects) is the balancing of extremes. ☯️

The more the polarity grows, the greater the tension that lies in between.

The old adage is:

“the water will always wear away the rock.”

We need both qualities.

We may need to experience extremes of them, to some extent, so we can learn to feel how they come up in our bodies and minds, and be able to bring them into each moment as life requires us to.

David Goggins is guiding us to balance that softness.

Just don’t go too hard.

It’s a dynamic dance to find the middle way.

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Peace

Kosta Gee

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