Lift up from the bottom of the heart!
/The recovery from open heart surgery continues to go well. 5 weeks later and my whole rib cage is, not in acute pain, but it is very sore. My lungs are sore. My heart is sore. This is normal.
Fortunately, I have been a yoga practitioner most of this lifetime. I know how to get out of the avoidable pains that are added on top of the usual suffering. The most important alignment for this operation is “Lift up from the bottom of the heart,” the center of the diaphragm. Relax the shoulders.
This allows me to breathe easily, with less rib pain. This lift makes space inside for the healing heart. It brightens my disposition.
If I allow my heart to sink inside, my chest to slump or collapse, sharp pains arise in the chest. My mind sinks and my mood plummets. All of these alignments are ordinary mind body teachings, and yet in order to practice this, it is an all day long awareness.
Lift up from the bottom of the heart!
I continue on a beta blocker and blood thinner. My resting BP is 96/63, pulse 60, which is beautiful.
I have returned to broadcasting everyday, but only part of the broadcast is live. Because my ribs are so sore, I do an introduction and closing, and use one of the “greatest hits” of which I have many hundreds of recordings.
I will go back to full live classes, but Now is not the time. Love to you all!