June 2006

Nia Community

From Our Mailbag

Nia Aids in Healing Bipolar Disorder, Brings Joy

My name is Nicole. I've been doing Nia by video for quite a while now. I get your weekly tips and I really, really enjoy them. So I am writing to say thanks.

Nia has been an interesting part of my journey for many years. I know who I am and what I think, but I have always had trouble finding the ways to express. It is not that words are so tedious. It is instead that the core postulates that we humans use to filter knowledge are so flawed. If I say I am plus size and like my body, they will hear something totally different than what I mean. They hear I take pride in giving up on myself or have some emotional investment in underachieving, or have some strange delusional worldview that embraces lack of health. No, no. None of that. But, if I just go into a room and dance around with them.… soon… they will know what I mean.

I am having fun now. Because I get to be a teacher and that has always been my nature. I am not a teacher of Nia (yet :-) ). But for now, I get to teach physics. (Which is not so different than doing Nia as you may imagine.) I personally have begun to believe that the universe is one thing. One word. Many languages. Many representations.

Nia is, in a way, a little chapter in my life that makes me sad, because I left it unwritten. I started to get involved in the Nia community and met many nice people. But at that time, I had an undiagnosed illness called bipolar (It used to be called manic depression. It is a mood disorder, a chemical imbalance in the brain.) And so I got very sick. And had to leave the Nia community to put my energies into healing and staying alive. Well, I did that. But Nia Global Unity was there, through and through. Kind of like a trusty friend. I do not know how to describe what it is… but there were days where to choose to get up, to get dressed, and to choose to stay alive that day were all I could manage. And somedays I did it with a Global Unity tune playing in my head. But, I knew I had to stick around. Because if I didn't I would never get back to my communities. I would lose physics. I would lose Nia. I would lose my chance to express all I was put here to do.

Things are much better these days. My brain is mostly healed. (Good enough for me!) I have trained and trained (…training regimens… sheesh!) And am rehabilitated in terms of my physics developement. I will be going to start my PhD in the fall. I really love teaching. They let me help teach the first year courses. I am still a newbie. :-) But I LOVE it!!! I love students!!!! Of all kinds!!! They rock!!!!

… So I as I continue to heal (these pesky life threatening illnesses take a few years to overcome. ;-) ) I think I will start to say "Hi" to Nia more. I miss my body terribly. It is time to "train" (…heh heh. Yeah right. PLAY!!) a bit and rehabilitate in this arena as well.

Are there ways I might contribute? I do not have large sums of money right now. But if I did, I would certainly be happy to pay for an official certification because that is what your life's work is worth. I understand these things. But since that option is one I must save up for, are there other ways to contribute? I am not quite at my old strength. I will have to start small. (I don't suppose anybody wants help with their Quantum Mechanics homework. ;-) ).

Well, hope you all have a lovely weekend. I am going to ponder how I can help Nia, who has been a trusty friend to me while I healed.

Nic

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