Workout Meditation

What is a Workout?

A workout is 25% perspiration and 75% determination. Stated another way, it is one part physical exertion and three parts self discipline. Doing it is easy once you get started.

A workout makes you feel better today than you did yesterday. It strengthens the body, relaxes the mind and toughens the spirit. When you workout regularly your problems diminish and your confidence grows.

A workout is a personal triumph over laziness and procrastination. It is the badge of the winner, the mark of an organized, goal-oriented person who has taken charge of his destiny.

A workout is a wise use of time and an investment in excellence. It is a way of preparing for life's challenge and proving to yourself that you have what it takes to do what is necessary.

A workout is a key that helps unlock the door to opportunity and success. Hidden within each of us is an extraordinary force. Physical and mental fitness are the triggers that can release it.

A workout is a form of rebirth. When you finish a good workout, you don't simply feel better: You feel better about yourself.

-George H. Allen

Breathing Meditation

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in.

Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

In/Out.


Breathing in, I see myself as a flower.

Breathing out, I feel fresh.

Flower/Fresh.



Breathing in, I see myself as a mountain.

Breathing out, I feel solid.

Mountain/Solid.



Breathing in, I see myself as still water.

Breathing out, I reflect things as they are.

Water/Reflecting.



Breathing in, I see myself as space.

Breathing out, I feel free.

Space/Free.

lloyd dobler was right

kickboxing did become one of my 'sports of the future'. Raging on a punching bag is blissful. my knuckles are bruised and scabbed. I should have been doing this for years. thank heavens i'm doing this now!

milestone!

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...stumbling upon greatness!

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Seeking: a kinder, gentler world, and a kinder gentler Gleek.

metanoia

The little spirits have 'star wars fever' like you can't imagine. It has permeated their play completely! The play almost always has something to do with them hunting down each other with "lifesavers" or building ships and weapons with the manip toys. They speak of the mythology incessantly. Some have seen parts of the saga and some not at all but they collectively piece their information together like a jigsaw puzzle, carefully filling in all the gaps. Sometimes I correct them when they are wrong or confused but most often I observe/listen and try not to feed with my perceptions.

I notice the little spirits have more difficult work deciphering the saga than those of us who grew up with episodes 4,5 and 6. The central theme of Luke becoming a hero and battling evil is compelling. The story twists as Luke finds out Vader is his father but the trilogy ends with Anakin finding his way back to the 'light side'

We had a genuine hero story to savor.

These kids have grown up with the challenge of coming to some sort of terms with episodes 1,2 and 3: a sweet child's metamorphosis into a cyborg whose heart is darkened by pure evil and hatred.

Joseph Campbell described star wars as a 'Monomyth'

"The stories speak to something inside us that wants to know how our world lives, that wants to make order of it and find some meaning. Myths fulfill that in a way that science and facts don't always do, because science and facts don't always give us meaning."

These days I'm thinking of star wars as a child's first tasty lick of 'ultra-violence' which serves to prepare the palette for all the other feasts to come (both imagined and real). How yummy!

I wonder if you study a myth from a different starting point if it totally effects your perception about what that myth means? Does that question make sense? I wonder what meaning the children are savoring? Meaning is such an evolutionary process, always shifting as our knowledge base grows.

It sure is interesting to study the saga(s) through children's perceptions. Yoda said it best, "truly wonderful, the mind of a child is." I'll keep listening/observing.

May you be touched by it's noodley appendage

I can't believe I just found out about the Flying Spaghetti Monster. I must be living in a fallout shelter.

i finally figured out that Luke Skywalker and Scott Hamilton are different people

just classic!

As usual...

...i've taken another one of my passions to the 'silly level'. I've purchased a heart rate monitor so I can see how jacked my ticker gets as I move about my routines. $30 is worth the curiosity right now. I researched what's out there pretty well and this model seems like an suitable intro that meets my wants but I still feel strange buying it. I'm slowly turning into Lobot with the rest of ya's. This digital world is fascinating and deeply troubling. What the hell could be next? Can I get an ipod implanted into my temporal lobe yet?

me neither (I think)