Becoming fit for life

Quote of the day:

There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrain of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter.
Rachel Carson

These past few weekends, I have been accompanying T. to his health club. I am not usually a fan of fitness centers. Mostly I love my own personal work-out regime that I have created in the cozy confines of my home, and treasure my alone times. It usually takes me just about two hours with the treadmill walk and jog, free weights, yoga asanas, and pranayama, and while I might not always be in the mood or muscles particularly achy, most of the time I love every minute of it.

However, this past month I decided to pamper myself a little bit more than usual and went along as T's guest to Fit Life down the road aways. And me oh my, what a great time it has been. I think I might just have to become a weekend member. The treadmill is large and sturdy, weights and stretching areas are comfortable and inviting, but most of all down stairs there is a pool and hot tub. My body relishes the warm, strong laps in the spacious swimming pool and when I immerse myself in the swirling waters of the hot tub, all those pains, old and new, are exorcised from body, mind and heart. Down there, in that little aquatic sanctuary, soft, gentle music plays in the background and a water fountain tinkles in accompaniment. My breathing exercises never felt so good right after a soak in the hot tub when all the muscles are supple and relaxed.

This month turned out to be more of an emotional challenge for me than I had expected, what with one thing or another, and T's friendship and support has been of exceptional comfort. I must admit it has been fun to look across the room as I march along on the treadmill and wave to T. moving along up there on his own equipment. It has felt friendly and comforting. After our showers and when we get into the car to return home we seem even more connected, my emotional wrinkles ironed out, and good humor all around. We invariably create a healthy, tasty meal together afterward, and relax into the evening.

A year ago at Tamarika: Denver bound

Comments

[tamarika]

sushil_yadav,
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your article.

[sushil_yadav]

Tamarika,

In the beginning of your post you have mentioned a quote by Rachel Carson which is about the healing effects of Repetition/Nature. Repetition is the key - there is repetition in yoga asanas and pranayama. There is so much stress in modern culture because repetition has been replaced by change, transience and impermanence. Mental work[Desk jobs] have only come up in the last 100 years. Prior to this most people used to do hard physical work - which used to be quite meditative in nature because of repetition. In this context I want to post a part from my article which examines the impact of speed, overstimulation and industrialization on our minds and environment. Please read.

*The link between Mind and Social / Environmental-Issues.*

The fast-paced, consumerist lifestyle of Industrial Society is causing exponential rise in psychological problems besides destroying the environment. All issues are interlinked. Our Minds cannot be peaceful when attention-spans are down to nanoseconds, microseconds and milliseconds. Our Minds cannot be peaceful if we destroy Nature.

*Industrial Society Destroys Mind and Environment.*

Subject : In a fast society slow emotions become extinct.
Subject : A thinking mind cannot feel.
Subject : Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys the planet.

Emotion is what we experience during gaps in our thinking.

If there are no gaps there is no emotion.

Today people are thinking all the time and are mistaking thought (words/ language) for emotion.

When society switches-over from physical work (agriculture) to mental work (scientific/ industrial/ financial/ fast visuals/ fast words ) the speed of thinking keeps on accelerating and the gaps between thinking go on decreasing.

There comes a time when there are almost no gaps.

People become incapable of experiencing/ tolerating gaps.

Emotion ends.

Man becomes machine.

A society that speeds up mentally experiences every mental slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A ( travelling )society that speeds up physically experiences every physical slowing-down as Depression / Anxiety.

A society that entertains itself daily experiences every non-entertaining moment as Depression / Anxiety.

Fast visuals/ words make slow emotions extinct.

Scientific/ Industrial/ Financial thinking destroys emotional circuits.

A fast (large) society cannot feel pain / remorse / empathy.

A fast (large) society will always be cruel to Animals/ Trees/ Air/ Water/ Land and to Itself.

To read the complete article please follow any of these links :

http://www.planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_simpleboard&Itemid=75&func=view&id=68&catid=6

http://www.ephilosopher.com/bb-topic-244.html

sushil_yadav

[tamarika]

Hello David,
Thanks for your interest in my blog. Welcome. I appreciate the offer to exchange links. I'll be visiting your site soon!
Smiles.

[David]

I love the blog that you have. I was wondering if you would link my blog to yours and in return I would do the same for your blog. If you want to, my site name is American Legends and the URL is:

www.americanlegends.info

If you want to do this just go to my blog and in one of the comments just write your blog name and the URL and I will add it to my site.

Thanks,
David