Taking my own diabetes management up close and personal amid all this movement and change has been a huge challenge. I’ve had some highs in the months since I contracted Covid, but I’ve also experienced some pretty hairy lows that are completely out of left field. Living in the outside world and managing my diabetes was serious. I didn’t feel like talking about it.
Everything science does in relation to the body is to try to explain what it does. But what I realized by studying the deeper aspects of yoga is that no one really knows what the body does or is capable of. We are born with a body, but we don’t know how it works or what keeps us alive. Yes, the heart pumps and the lungs breathe, but what makes the heart pump and the lungs breathe? What makes us conscious and conscious of being conscious? The big question is…what is consciousness?
Caught up in the frustration of eating 3.5 units for 72 carbs, when everything goes wrong, I find myself wondering, “Why?” I feel better prepared knowing that even the biggest questions we have as humans are unanswerable.
rachel