the phagos blog

‘An unexamined life is not worth living.’ - Socrates
This line of thought finally coalesced Saturday night while doing my food prep, and it was a phone call I received at lunch on Friday that triggered it.  It’s something I’ve been thinking about and and off for a while in bits and pieces.  I’m not talking about the big ‘Why?’ that spawned the fields of religion, philosophy, and science, but rather something a little closer to home.   My question is this: why do I do the things I choose to do?

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The martial art I practice has a healing art associated with it.  It goes by various terms - seifukujitsu, Okazaki Restorative Massage, Dan Zan Ryu Restorative Technique.  Whatever you choose to call it, it’s a form of Asian based body work.  Three years ago I was fortunate enough to go through the first of four modules and learned the fundamentals of Traditional Chinese Medicine, anatomy and physiology, history, ethics, and of course, the basic form.

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