Showing posts with label Reflect. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reflect. Show all posts
Friday, February 24, 2012
Friday, February 25, 2011
Reflect: Embrace the journey of life
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Connect: Bonds of trails, trials + triumphs
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Focus: Sage wisdom on presence + stress
How often do you push away what's going on right now?
At times, doesn't is seem we expend an awful lot of energy flailing away in our brains rather than fully embracing, enjoying and submitting ourselves to what's happening around us?
Sometimes even in the most perfect moments or places, we can work ourselves up into a negative state so easily. We spin over something that's already happened in the past. Or we worry about tomorrow, next week or next year. We even agonize over what others are thinking!
Our incessant internal chattering can be such a stressor.
Now, a good session of mental mulling-over can and is useful (for plotting out future goals and reminiscing over good times we've had, for example). But, deep in thought, if we're not paying attention, we toss today away. We devalue our current experiences.
At the very least, we fritter away today by focusing more on the past or on a coming day that we may never be given by the fates to spend.
It's a dance that's as old as time.
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Reflect: On flexibility and resilience
Monday, February 14, 2011
Run: Get out of your comfort zone
A quote from author Anne Lamott sums up my feeling about my recent application to be a part of dailymile's Team 2011: “It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.”
I'm not the swiftest runner. Or the sharpest tool in the shed. But, I ♥ dailymile and the community built around what I believe *is* the sharpest tool for tracking and honing your exercise progress.
Thanks, dailymile, for the chance to flex outside of my comfort zone on this, and every run I log. And kudos to those chosen for the team.
Everyone's a winner at dailymile.
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Reflect: Before us is only possibility
Monday, February 7, 2011
Reflect: Stoke your inner light + power
“In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer.”
~Albert Camus
How refreshing, what a joy to run outdoors in wintertime; it tops lacing up in sweltering August, that's for sure. (Here's a shot of me having a ball on Long Prairie Trail last month.)
When I run outside on a really blustery day, that's when I most sense my internal power and light. Maybe it's the contrasts in sensations -- the frigid air blasting your motion-warmed face wakes up every cell in your body.
Whatever it is...it is magic.
Note: Thanks to dailymiler Mary N. for turning me on to this quote.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Share: Welcome to Stressing Fitness
"The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no [one]. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called the present." -- Alice Morse Earle
Hi again, new and old friends.
After taking a long-needed break from blogging in 2010 (except for some sporadic updating of the now-retired PTSD Combat), I'm excited to begin a new journey. And I'm hoping you'll once again join me.
The thrust of Stressing Fitness isn't an entire departure from what I've been reporting on over the years -- it's more a broadening of focus, actually. But everyone needs to regenerate and refresh themselves every-so-often, and that was certainly the case here.
February is a time of new beginnings for me.I began PTSD Combat back in February 2006 (although I'd been researching and blogging elsewhere on the issue consistently starting in September 2005). And today my husband and I celebrate our wedding anniversary, too.
Creating this space this particular month should shower this little blogling with good luck.
