In the off time when I find myself again slowly, timidly coming out of the cave that my soul gets banished into every week until Friday . . . I found myself on my yoga mat gtting out the cracks in my back. A thought comes to the forefront of my mind: that it is a full time job in itself to fully take care of the body - to FULLY take care of yourself well and to know how to do it - to have time to do it fully, complete, well. (I understand this well when I am at Bates. Taking care of yourself there (and anywhere) is a fragile balancing act because squeezed out by the end of the day and you have to understand how to maximize yourself to optimal functioning for each of your responsibilities). Then I got a flash of hospitals and how many people go there to get treatment - for some reason I saw Cook County in my mind. The thought about so many people getting treatment while still trying to breathe on my yoga mat - made me have a revelation:
...what
if we taught preventative care of the mind body and soul starting from
early childhood, as part of the curriculum, as contextualized in the
curriculum, as THE curriculum?...
What if people learned to be better, smarter, kinder to themselves at an early age?
Why does this not happen enough?
Also: what would the world look like if we were not self-conscious.
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