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Road
Rage, SUV's, Yoga and the Mind
by Patricia Burke
In the epic Indian tale of the Bhagavad Gita, Arjuna the warrior faces a
terrible conflict in which his friends, former teachers, and relatives are
divided in battle. Casting away his bow and arrows, Arjuna sinks down on
the chariot, his mind overborne by grief. Kripalu yoga teacher Christopher
Baxter, providing commentary on Chapter One: The Despair of Arjuna
explains, “Arjuna finds himself on the battlefield, preparing for a
conflict between all his relations, all of whom are parts of himself. The
soul finds itself on the battlefield of the body, preparing for a conflict
between the life of spirit and the domination of materialism, held in
place by the polarities of fear and desire."”1
Modern philosophers echo these same ancient teachings through many
contemporary interpretations. According to Pamela Eakins in her book Tarot
of the Spirit, the challenge represented by the major arcana card, The
Chariot, is to allow the potential of the universe to manifest through us.
The human personality is a vehicle of expression, and the human body is a
vehicle of spirit.2
Approximately 2,500 years after the Bhagavad Gita was written, the despair
of Arjuna serves as a metaphor for the American driving experience. What
would the ancient Hindu philosophers tell us about vehicles the size
of armored tanks and road rage?
According to Dr. Roy Matthews in The True Path: Western Science and the
Quest for Yoga, yogic philosophy acknowledges the existence of both
prakriti (manifest life) and purusa (life giving force) in considering all
things.3
Consider the difference between the brain and the mind. The brain, as
prakriti, or manifest matter, is essentially lifeless. For the brain to
function, it needs something to bring it to life. The mind, or purusa, is
transcendent and non-material — the life giving force. It is the
interplay of purusa and prakriti, the seen and the unseen, which
fascinated the ancient Indian philosophers. Hatha yoga poses were
practiced to balance and harmonize the brain so that it could serve as a
vehicle, or chariot, for the divine. This was accomplished by
harnessing purusa, in part by harmonizing the 2 brain hemispheres.
Disconnected Thinking: Homolateral Brain Patterns
Paul and Gail Dennison of Edu-Kinesthetics have compiled extensive
research on the way movement in the physical body helps integrate the
intelligence of the mind.4
These potentials have been compiled into a curriculum known as Brain Gym.
Laterality is the relationship between the right and left hemisphere.
The person who is not laterally integrated is homolateral. Examples of
homolateral processing include dyslexia, stuttering and seeing a person's
face but not being able to remember their name. Controlling and fearful
personalities are often homolateral. Challenges attributed to aging such
as lack of balance are homolateral conditions.
Dr. Dennison explains, "The homolateral person is limited to
one-sided thinking because he has access to only one side of the brain at
a time. He can become adept at parallel processing, but will always have a
coordination problem at some level. He can't use two sides of the brain
together. Walking, swimming, running and jogging all require increased
conscious effort and control and cause him to switch off part of his
brain. Instead of relaxing and energizing him, these activities bring
frustration. The individual will either avoid large muscle activity or
place high demands on his body through competition or goal setting, as
opposed to experiencing the pure intrinsic joy of these activities."
Dennison continues, "The homolateral person moves in space so that
the spine, cranial bones, and sacrum do not move together. This results in
blockage of cerebrospinal fluid which should nourish and cool the whole
brain from back to front." Therefore, lack of integration between the
right and left side of the brain also affects the energetic relationship
between the front and back of the brain, further inhibiting purusa.
Bilateral integration is considered to be the foundation of whole brain
learning.
We know that some humans are right and some are left-handed. We also have
a dominant eye, ear, foot and side of the brain. Additionally, the left
brain controls the right side of the
body and the right brain controls the left side of the body. Carla
Hanneford PhD. of the Brain Gym organization has identified a myriad of
dominance profiles in her book "The Dominance Factor", with
strengths and weaknesses of each combination. For example, a person can be
left brain dominant, left eye dominant, right ear dominant, right handed,
and right footed. If this driver has taken their right hand off the wheel
to hold a cell phone to their preferred ear, their response in the case of
an accident will be similar to that of a drunk driver. The brain will not
be able to direct the left hand properly, which has been left holding the
wheel.
Lack of lateral integration is a state of the energetic flow in the body,
not a disease. It is sourced in energy and not in matter, and can be
corrected by guiding the direction and flow of energy through movement.
Bilateral integration begins when we start to crawl, and is supported by
activities such as walking and swimming the crawl stroke, where the right
arm and left leg function in opposition, as they were designed. Games such
as pat-a-cake and alternate nostril breathing practiced in yogic pranayama
improve laterality.
Classical hatha yoga, kundalini yoga and Breathwalk technology, recently
synthesized by Yogi Bhajan and Gurucharan Singh Khalsa, are examples of
integrative exercise practices.5 We can increase our energy, control our
moods, refine our mental quality, and experience connectedness in our
lives using very simple breathing techniques combined with focus and
gazing exercises for the eyes, lateral movement, and sound. Because
these movements recruit all the quadrants of the brain, they are
integrative systems.
The Human Aura and SUVs
In addition to looking at brain function and body movement as they relate
to intelligence, the yogis had a very sophisticated way of understanding
an emotional component of purusa through the study of the aura. The aura
is a field of energy that surrounds and protects the physical body. It has
been scientifically verified by measuring electromyograph wave patterns
and can be photographed. The aura of a person's body can be compared to a
yard that surrounds a house. Like a yard, an aura can be in a state of
grace or in a state of disrepair. Whether a yard has a fence or a garden
is indicative of the energetic field. A person's aura may be welcoming or
inhibiting. The health of one’s aura affects all aspects of living,
including driving behavior and car purchasing habits.
When a person's aura is chronically collapsed, it traps energy and
prevents a person's life force from connecting with the world. Because the
person's energetic body does not feel protected, the person feels
vulnerable, fearful and adopts a rigid stance. Armoring the body only
contributes to further alienation, separation and risk of injury due to
lack of flexibility.
Curtis Rist, in the April 2001 issue of Discover Magazine summarized
some of the leading research regarding the safety statistics of SUV's.6
1. SUVs are three times as likely to roll over as passenger cars and
accounted for over 10,000 deaths in 1999.
2. When two vehicles of about the same size collide head on at the same
speed, their momentum cancels out and the cars stop. When a larger vehicle
hits a smaller vehicle, the smaller car will be pushed backwards,
producing a severe change in velocity and greater risk of injury.
3. SUVs have been designed with a ladder frame that acts as a battering
ram. Instead of crumpling and absorbing shock they slide over other
bumpers and punch into the other vehicle's passenger compartments.
4. University of Texas engineer Kara Kockelman and her students determined
that passenger cars took 1.73 seconds from the moment they entered an
intersection until the next vehicle entered. SUVs took 2.44 seconds, in
part because the vehicle is slower and more sluggish, but also because the
second car would hang back, presumably because the driver’s vision is
obscured. If a driver's time is worth $10 an hour, Kockelman calculates,
than an SUV driven one hour a day in congested traffic will cost an
additional $4,000 to $7,000 in delays over the life of the vehicle
compared with a passenger vehicle.
5. Hundreds of thousands of guardrails along the nations highways will not
help an SUV. The vehicle will most likely either go over the guardrail or
flip.
6. Because SUVs are square rather than rounded and because of their
weight, they land with a very hard thump rather than rolling. This results
in much more serious injuries to passengers and property.
A common reason why drivers purchase larger vehicles such as SUVs is
that they want to feel safe. We live on a planet that is subject to
certain physical laws pertaining to gravity and momentum. Physicists tell
us that SUVs would have to be twice as wide as they are now in order to
balance their mass and height to prevent roll overs. A person who
"feels safe" in a vehicle that is inherently unstable may be
challenged by an unhealthy aura and a desire for armor.
Having compassion for other drivers on the road also requires whole brain
thinking. The drivers of larger vehicles may experience a feeling of
invincibility, but the individual driving behind that person is visually
impaired. Because of our level of fine motor skills, human brains have
evolved to support focused awareness at the center of our field of vision.
Fish have eyes on the sides of their heads, humans do not.
As the back end of vehicles such as SUVs and minivans has become higher,
larger, and in some cases darker with tinted glass, a person driving
behind cannot integrate their field of vision from both eyes.
When that driver cannot overlap data from both the left and right eyes at
the midline, the fight or flight response is triggered due to its
association with peripheral vision. The flow of purusa is restricted and
we are not able to serve as vehicles of the divine. Road rage results when
the forebrain disconnects from the autonomic nervous system. An individual
does not have access to the reasoning or sympathetic part of the brain
during this disconnect, because the body's energies have shifted into a
defensive alarm mode. Purusa again loses its pathway.
A similar mechanism occurs when one driver tailgates another, blocking
much of the field of vision, especially in a larger vehicle. The driver in
front does not have sufficient visual perception to be able to see if
there is room to change lanes, while at the same time the trailing vehicle
is bearing down and exerting a demand for the driver to move. The Fight or
Flight response is associated with primitive reflexes associated with
territoriality.
The physical body has an ancient emergency response system. When
activated, it is preparing to save the life of the organism using muscular
strength, speed, and large motor movement. Under stress, the body shuts
down certain non-essential functions such as digestion and immune system
functioning. Our bodies have not adapted to the point where they can
compensate for the fact that all we have to do is steer or hit the brakes.
When the fight or flight response is triggered, powerful chemicals flood
the bloodstream. The forebrain is depleted of blood flow, and the
instinctual primitive parts of the brain take over. We become hard wired
for aggression — and the stage for road rage is set. In addition, these
stress chemicals eventually create wear and tear on the organ systems of
the body. Repeated triggering of the fight or flight response and ongoing
stress result in digestive difficulties, lower back pain and tension
headaches, already so prevalent in this culture. These chronic conditions
eventually manifest as disease.
We have the capacity to both think and to feel. When we develop the
capacity to notice how and why we move from one brain state to the next,
we have greater mastery over our minds. When we are able to engage the
full potential of all our emotion range with our capacity to reason, we
begin to experience the potential that is our birthright.
We live in a time of opportunity. We have chosen to be born in a time when
the battles are being waged within the psyche of each individual. The
current political administration, by not protecting the environment, has
created a context for many individuals to accumulate good karma through
their own individual actions.
The type of vehicle we drive and the body we inhabit does matter. The
yogis recorded these words 2,500 years ago in the sacred text of the
Bhagavad Gita: "The soul finds itself on the battlefield of the body,
preparing for a conflict between the life of spirit and the domination of
materialism, held in place by the polarities of fear and desire."
May the warriors find peace within, so the healing of the earth can begin.
Namaste.
Energy Testing for Cross-over Patterning
Have a friend test your cross-over patterning, based on this protocol
provided by Donna Eden in her book Energy Medicine.7
You should test strong for one of these indicators and weak for the other.
1. Stand and face your friend.
2. Extend one arm out to your side, parallel with the ground and slightly
forward toward your friend.
3. Have your friend hold up a piece of paper with two parallel lines on
it. Look at the two lines.
4. Have your friend push down on your arm, near your wrist, using just two
fingers. (Touch for Health technology recommends two fingers, two pounds
of pressure, push for two seconds, down for two inches). Try to resist the
push with your energy but do not lock your muscles or stance to resist.
The tester is looking to see if your arm has a slight bounce or if your
arm drops readily.
5. Next have your friend hold a piece of paper in front of you with the
large X on it. Look at the X.
6. Let your friend test you again by trying to push down on your arm while
you hold it up.
If your resistance response is strongest (slight bounce to arm instead of
dropping) when you look at the parallel lines, you are homolateral. If
your resistance is strongest when you look at the X, you are bilateral. If
you get similar results for both tests, you may be stuck somewhere in the
middle. If you test very strong for both tests, you are not successfully
measuring your body's subtle energies, but utilizing brute muscular
strength.
Footnotes
1. Ken Baxter, Yoga of the Bhagavad Gita. AtmaYoga Educational Services
2. Pamela Eakins, Tarot of the Spirit. Samuel Weiser, Inc.,1992
3. Dr. Roy Matthews, The True Path: Western Science and the Quest for
Yoga. Perseus Books, 2001
4. Paul Gail Dennison, Personalized Whole Brain Integration and Switching
On and Brain Gym. Edu-Kinesthetics, Inc., 1998-1999
5. Gurucharan Singh Khalsa Ph.D. and Yoga Bhajan, Breathwalk. Broadway
Books, 2000.
6. Curtis Rist, "Roll Over Newton," Discover, April, 2001.
7. Donna Eden with David Feinstein, Energy Medicine. Putnam Books, 1998.
Donna's work is credited in part to the book Touch for Health by Dr. John
F. Thie, D.C. Please note: Energy testing is a bio-feedback technique that
can be used to answer a number of questions about your own health. Test
results can vary based on whether you are dehydrated, whether or not your
muscles are working properly, whether or not your polarity is balanced,
and other variables. For more information or to learn how to remedy the
conditions described look for a practitioner in your area who teaches the
testing technique. Energy Medicine also contains protocols for testing the
aura and the chakras.
_____________________
Pat Burke, a dyslexic, has trained as a
Kripalu, Svaroopa and Kundalini Yoga teacher and is a student of the
medical intuitive Donna Eden. She directs Earthsong Yoga in Marlboro, MA.
As a dyslexic she has been on a lifelong quest to connect the right and
left sides of her brain.
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