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Cannabis Fitness

So you've won the Cannabis Tryfecta with its payoff of intent, set and setting. You also know and fully understand your individual rights and responsibilities concerning No and Yes and the power they represent. You've undertaken a study of history and ethics. You're a full-fledged adult. What next?

In Depth Psychology and Transpersonal Therapy

As shamans have done for ages, and as a number of modern-day explorers and healers have been doing since around the mid-20th century, cannabis can be utilized as a tool to get to know yourself. By whatever mechanism, cannabis somehow taps the subconscious mind thus allowing access to information otherwise unavailable or hard to get to. It's akin the act and function of dreaming, yet with the benefit of waking awareness still intact. In this way cannabis is a key that opens windows of understanding and perspective.

If you find yourself inclined in this direction, at the very least I recommend you start journaling and recording your thoughts, ideas and perspectives. This in itself, with or without cannabis, is a powerful tool and catalyst for healing and health. Depending on where you're going and how you're doing, consider getting a professional therapist or counselor who will help you. Bring your journal along. Don't hide your use of cannabis from medical professionals. Share your reasons for using it.

An Adjunct to Other Work

What about combining cannabis with other therapies, practices and exercises such as meditation, tai chi and yoga? While this is not unheard of, I imagine some purists might find this offensive. Yet their caution is warranted. I think it depends on how it affects your practice and your desired outcome.

Cannabis can be a powerful catalyst to other practices as it heightens sensory awareness, facilitates the mind-body connection and opens channels of information and energy flow. On the upside this may enhance focus, feeling and healing. In my own experience, this acute awareness of the body's energy flow during yoga practice seems to allow an enhanced willful control of my body-energy. On one occasion, I took advantage of this to release an injury that had haunted me for over a decade. During the release I felt this fist-sized bundle of energy move from my thoracic ribs to my midline and down my spine. By the end of my practice I felt I'd passed a baseball out my tailbone.

On the other hand, cannabis may interfere with other practices. Sometimes the intensity of the heightened awareness can be overwhelming and distracting, diverting attention away from your mat. This may challenge your focus and balance. Remember too, cannabis tends to expand time perception, so your 30 minute routine may seem like 90. If you decide to step into this frontier territory, gain some good experience first and perhaps consult with your instructor.

Other practices aside however, I do recommend you get to know your body both physically and energetically, study its anatomy, learn and understand the chakras, their function and relation. This alone may enhance your cannabis experience and the benefit it can bring.

A Feather On the Funny Bone

Common experience proves it...

Laughter is the Best Medicine!

What more do I need say here? If mind is medicine, better mind is better medicine. And few things make the mind feel better than good humor.

Resting assured in this self-evident fact, I've decided to simply compile a little list (with some editorializing of course) of my favorite things comedic:

Most recent discovery, the Annoying Orange as seen on You Tube. Great expressions and smartass wisecracks and, for those inclined to such humor, a sure-fire way to eye-watering belly laughs...

Dr. Stranglelove...Peter Sellers...Blake Edwards...The Great Race...Jack Lemmon and Peter Falk, the best evil dynamic duo ever...hilarious!...push the button Max...

Monty Python's Flying Circus and The Holy Grail of course,

the Life of Brian and The Meaning of Life...pure Python genius!

Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder, especially together as in Young Frankenstein, and the rest of the crew in that one too...together proving the synergy of hilarity.

Same goes for Blazing Saddles. Harvey Korman's performance at best. Yes!

And the genius of Wilder in Willy Wonka, Perfection in that one!

Who can resist The Stooges (besides most women I've met). I like Shemp. But any way you slice this trinity, the holy joke is always up front with these white kachinas.

Same goes with the Spinal Tap triune---Guest, McKean and Shearer---and their mockumentary offsprings.

Speaking of Tap, there's the Reiner's of course, both father Carl and son Rob, whose many productions, from Dick van Dyke and All in the Family to Princess Bride shows the genius of family tradition (by the way, Rob Petri had quite the job. Imagine "working" with Morey Amsterdam and Rose Marie for a handful of hours each day, "working" on skits and jokes just for schticks and giggles...and then going home to the pretty likes of Mary Tyler Moore...man, what a gig!)

I grew up on sixties sit-coms I'm proud to say...yep, raised on the Beverly Hillbillies, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island and I Dream of Jeannie...put a smile on my face every time...I'm still dreaming of Jeannie...and Mary Ann...

And who could forget the bit character actors appearing here and there, sitcom to game show...goofballs like Paul Lynn, Charles Nelson Reilly and on and on...

Speaking of characters...The original Saturday Night Live crew Aykroyd and Belushi, Chase and Murray, Garrett, Radner, Curtin and Newman, I grew-up with those greats...awesome show Lorne...

Memories of comedic hours...The Carol Burnett Show...The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson...the Dean Martin Roasts...Phyllis Diller to Foster Brooks...unforgettable characters, masters!

The 70's, the decade of the great sitcom, Barney Miller, Bob Newhart, Mary Tyler Moore, Sanford &Son and others as well. And let me not forget that pioneering comedy-drama M.A.S.H.

Then in the 80s there was Cheers...and what else...Seinfeld in the 90s...and Frazier... and many others I can't recall now...

I stopped watching TV in the late 90s, though towards the end I always got a kick from Bill Mayer and John Stewart...as well as other Saturday Night Live characters here and there...Phil Hartman, Chris Farley, Dana Garvey and others...

Mike Myers...Austin Powers and all his other characters, Dieter to Dr. Evil, Lothar and Fat Bastard...

Jim Carey...absolute gems in Unfortunate Events and elsewhere...silliness at its finest!

Can't leave out that one-of-a-kind amalgam of Larry Sanders and Gary Shandling...clever humor...

And then there have been cartoons throughout...Bugs Bunny to Ren and Stimpy...Doctor Katz to Spongebob Squarepants...great stuff!

And finally those wonderful quasi-cartoons from that Pixar bunch with all their whiz-kid stuff, Toy Story...The Incredibles...Cars...an artful mix all around, tech and down to earth, nostalgic past and hilarious present, spanning generations, reaching young and old...touching the kid in all of us...yep, an artful mix for sure. More synergy in action!

In Prayer

Hmmm...humor, in the end, what a savior, this funny reminder of life's greatest gifts...the simplest offerings right before us and inside us...good friends and family...good company...good times in good places...good food and drink...herbal refreshment...these make life worth living as these simple pleasures are what life is all about. Money...power...fame...in natural proportion to individual taste of course, I grant these may be somewhere on the best ten list, but never on top.

Once, in a state of extreme crisis, I expressed to Doc my inescapable frustration with all the troubles in the world present and past, and no matter how smart I was, I saw no solution in sight, no way to reconcile the inconsistency of humanity and suffering before me.

Doc just smiled a sympathetic grin, and said, "My genius son, when you find yourself in such a condition, just say this little prayer to yourself...Screw You...Thank You...Love You...say it over and over as much as you need to...Screw You...Thank You...Love You. Go out in the middle of nowhere if you have to and scream at the top of your lungs...Screw You!...Thank You!...Love You!...and you will for sure, somehow, some way, move up and along the Great Dream Spiral."

When asked for an explanation for this prayer, Doc said it might be interpreted like this: First, think of it as releasing sick and stagnant energy from the body, exiting throughout yourself from base to top. Next, think of it as absorbing good healing energy into your body, directly into the root and crown and through your skin. And finally, think of it as incorporating this good healing energy throughout the rest of your body and balancing it in the heart.

When pressed how this prayer moves one up and along the Great Dream Spiral, Doc chuckled as he told me: The Great Dream Spiral begins with Screwing, we all do it to each other in various ways at one time and another. And though it might not be perfect, we must be Thankful, otherwise we would not be here at all. As for Love? Well, the more we incorporate Love into the Great Dream Spiral, the more enjoyable and pleasurable the Screwing gets!