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<\/p>\n“Kindness” was the focus of class on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
In Nia, once we set the focus, we step into the practice. \u00a0We can step into kindness again and again as our practice. \u00a0Kindness is always present. \u00a0The body is your cocoon of kindness. \u00a0Kindness is inside the body. \u00a0The body’s own kind. \u00a0Your kind of kindness.<\/p>\n
Cultivate the strength to move toward kindness and away from fear.<\/p>\n
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Kindly hold your body in your arms. \u00a0Touch the body with kindness. \u00a0Touch kindness itself. \u00a0Pour kindness into your body and your heart. \u00a0Offer kindness to your head — kindness to the thinking mind and kindness to the physical head. \u00a0Consciously carry your own kindness. \u00a0You can choose how to carry kindness.<\/p>\n
Let’s offer kindness to the past. \u00a0Kindness to the future. \u00a0Kindness to the parallel universes. \u00a0Kindness to right now.<\/p>\n
Let’s become warriors of kindness! \u00a0Kindness is on the march! \u00a0Sometimes it takes courage and ferocity to sustain kindness in this world. \u00a0Let’s band together in kindness, with the beauty of our ancient, indigenous selves shimmering, to love the hell out of this kind of world and that kind.<\/p>\n
Splash in the infinite pool of kindness. \u00a0Splash and make a a giant mess with kindness. \u00a0Splash yourself, splash each other. \u00a0Kindness can make a ruckus! \u00a0 Kindness can be playful.<\/p>\n
Why is it we call our species humankind? \u00a0Partly, it means we’re the kind of being that’s the human kind. \u00a0It must also be that the kind of human that we are is kind.<\/p>\n
Here’s what the Oxford English Dictionary says:<\/p>\n
kind <\/strong> Exhibiting friendly or benevolent disposition. \u00a0From Old English cynde, cunde.<\/em><\/p>\n kind<\/strong> Birth, origin, descent. \u00a0From Old English\u00a0cunde, kunde.<\/em><\/p>\n kin<\/strong> A group of persons descended form a common ancestor. \u00a0From kun<\/em>, Aryan, “to produce, engender, beget,” related to Latin, genus<\/em>, Greek genesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n This tells us humankind is descended from a common ancestor — Kindness.<\/p>\n Breathe kindness into your bones — the marrow bone. \u00a0Breathe kindness into your belly — soft belly, merciful belly. \u00a0Breath kindness into the heart, the lungs, the skin, the endocrine system, nervous system, reproductive system.<\/p>\n Fill the alchemical cup of the body with kindness, that body who has been kind enough to bring us to this very moment, this very spot.<\/p>\n Receive kindness from the body. \u00a0Kindness from the skin kindly enveloping the body. \u00a0Receive kindness from the heart kindly \u00a0beating the drum of love throughout our lives. \u00a0Receive kindness from the lungs who bring spirit into and out of the body. \u00a0Receive the kindness of the nervous system, little lightnings that make it possible to think and feel and be and go and do and rest. \u00a0Receive \u00a0the body’s kindness, kindly accompanying us and every step of our journey since conception.<\/p>\n Receive kindness from\u00a0the food you ate and will eat today, sacrificing its own kind to kindly become the human kind. \u00a0As life we are destined to eat other life. \u00a0Kindly metabolize the grief \u00a0of eating other kin into a kind of beauty for all kinds.<\/p>\n What kind of sensation does kindness bring to the body?<\/p>\n Look into the eyes of Kindness. \u00a0Look into your own eyes.<\/p>\n Look out into your own life. \u00a0Feel the river of kindness flow through your body and carry you forward, again and again into your kind of life.<\/p>\n “Kindness” was the focus of class on Tuesday. In Nia, once we set the focus, we step into the practice. \u00a0We can step into kindness again and again as our practice. \u00a0Kindness is always present. \u00a0The body is your cocoon of kindness. \u00a0Kindness is inside the body. \u00a0The body’s own kind. \u00a0Your kind of kindness. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nia-class-focus"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1893"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1960,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1893\/revisions\/1960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/synergy-pt.net\/niablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2547\/4078879557_4284c19ff9_m.jpg\" "\\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2547\/4078879557_4284c19ff9_m.jpg\\"")
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