Be Silent and Your Heart Will Sing
Be Silent and Your Heart Will Sing
One of my 2024 goals is to read more books. Not articles in magazines online, but physical – PAPER – books.
Recently I finished Rejuvenation: A Wellness Guide for Women and Men by Horst Rechelbacher, the Austrian born founder of Aveda. Over the years, I’ve read many spiritual and wellness ‘manuals’, but this was the first written by an entrepreneur.
By 2024 standards, I didn’t learn that much, but when you consider this book is from the 1980s, you see how revolutionary it was. He discusses aromatherapy at length, as well as yoga practice, breathwork, facial and body massage, the chakra system, and goal setting/career management; the latter of which I’ve never seen covered in wellness guides. As a life coach, this chapter delighted me and speaks to the many dimensions of our lives which comprise WELLNESS.
There are illustrations, photographs of yoga postures, and the book is well organized and efficiently written. Overall, it is a great wellness guide for the beginner. Heads up–there is little coverage of nutrition except not to eat in excess.
I found this passage to be a good summary of Eastern-based movement arts and philosophy (yoga, tai chi, qi gong).
“Eastern philosophy and psychology teach that the human psyche is veiled with many layers of ignorance that obscure our ability to see the Divine within us. However, at the deepest levels of being, we search for ways to re-establish our connection with the eternal truth, or God. For this reason, according to Eastern wisdom, we take on a human form, or body. Our activities while on earth help us to work through the layers of ignorance, one by one. Finally, after much time and experience, we come to understand the true meaning of Self. In the moment of self-realization the ego is made free–free from the weight of all its illusions and free to reach its eternal destiny, or home.
In this context, the body is a temple and also an instrument that allows us to experience life. A musician regularly tunes his instrument to improve its performance, cleaning and preparing it in a series of movements that look to use like little rituals. Similarly, taking care of the body is a ritualistic tuning by which we grow and perfect ourselves.” [p.66]
Listed in the back of the book, in the chapter ‘Quotes from Masters of Life’ is this Taoist poem I really like.
Close your eyes and you will see clearly.
Cease to listen and you will hear the truth.
Be silent and your heart will sing.
Seek no contact and you will find union.
Be still and you will move on to the tide of the spirit.
Be gentle and you will need no strength.
Be patient and you will achieve all things.
Be humble and you will remain entire.
-Anonymous Taoist Poem
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Catherine Tingey
Entrepreneur, yogini, designer, award-winning filmmaker, personal trainer and former marathon runner. She left a career in finance to start her own business and along the way, became a yoga teacher. She has been practicing yoga for 31 years and teaching privately for 11 years.
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Catherine Tingey+ Entrepreneur, yogini, designer, award-winning filmmaker, personal trainer and former marathon runner. She left a career in finance to start her own business and along the way, became a yoga teacher. She has been practicing yoga for 31 years and teaching privately for 11 years.
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