We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.
~ George Eliot
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Hi-tech locals, innovative equipment, technologically advanced machines, all can get us there and/or inspire us to be more physically fit. Or can they? Sometimes the missing piece to the puzzle of physical fitness is mind fitness as well.
In a recent article, Smart Move: The Workout for Thinking People by Anthony Stoechert (U.S. 1, 12/7/11 issue) it intrigued me that getting back to the basics was the fastest, simplest, and a more secure way for a thinking person to become fit. When on a treadmill, an elliptical, stairmaster, or cross trainer, it becomes a monotonous bevy of repetition without thought, movement without concept, and push and pull without the ying and yang of your mind also being in motion. What if we had to use our minds as well as our bodies to truly get fit?
Via the Crossfit mantra, “…I will give everything I have. And then I will find more within myself” lies the essence of mind power as always present. The concept of utilizing a gym with no machines or exercise bikes of any kind is the strategem of New Jersey married couple Tracey and Andy Mahaney to encourage everyone to utilize their inner strengths to succeed and not rely on machines but their own bodies as the vessels to success, http://www.transformcrossfit.com/.
Not only are you exercising your body but you are exercising your mind utilizing, “constantly varied, functional movements performed at high intensity”. Machines don’t do the counts and repetitions while you look on at your progress. You, the exerciser, the performer of these acts, count out the push-ups, pull-ups, squats, and timed rhythms to a blaring red timer on the wall as the class tries to maintain its unison. Owner, Tracy Mahaney simply stated it best, “…more than a workout regimen, it’s a way of life that results in people doing things they didn’t think they could do.”
Can technology assist our bodies in becoming physically fit, perhaps, but the mind is a terrible thing to waste and if the possibility is available to exercise both in poetic harmony…why not seize the opportunity and see where it can take us.
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With the coming of the new year often comes many resolutions. But sometimes it is the simplest ones that keep us in tact, on track, and connected to all.
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this — To rise above the little things.
~ John Burroughs
You have done what you could — some blunders and absurdities have crept in. Forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
~ Emerson
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called “Opportunity” and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.
~ Edith L. Pierce
If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.
~ Confucius
Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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During this holiday season it isn’t just one quote or musing that can be inspirational, remind us of times past, or put us in a positive frame of mind that will last long into the new year. There are many things that can act as holiday reminders to us all that ’tis the season’ should be all year round. Here are just a few…happy holidays to all.
If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important.
~ Bertrand Russell
I wish we could put up some of the Christmas spirit in jars and open a jar of it every month.
~ Harlan Miller
Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!
~ Amanda Bradley
To many people holidays are not voyages of discovery, but a ritual of reassurance.
~ Philip Andrew Adams
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As we struggle with shopping lists and invitations, compounded by December’s bad weather, it is good to be reminded that there are people in our lives who are worth this aggravation, and people to whom we are worth the same.
~ Donald E. Westlake
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