09.06.07
Breaking Boundaries
Human potential is much greater than the majority of the population in our current era seem to know. A chiropractor friend of mine decided to put a new slogan on his office wall. It reads, “Quit complaining and start training.” I’ve come to appreciate this saying, because I feel it addresses the heart of what is needed to attain what is desired and break through self made boundaries–as they are all self made.
The body experiences pain and disease because of weakness. Exercise, good food, and a clear mental/emotional state are the basis for strength. Exercise should be sufficiently intense. I realize walking is a great form of exercise and very popular, but more also needs to be done. I enjoy taking walks through the park and often see many people walking around the paved loop that are overweight and all sweaty. When I see this, I ask myself, “Is walking really doing them any good?”
The muscles need challenged as well as the bones, ligaments, heart and lungs. This needs to occur on a regular basis, and it needs to be fun. If you don’t like exercise, change your mental state and really get into it. The more you enjoy it the more beneficial it will be and the less soreness, stiffness, or discomfort will it cause.
The mind experiences pain and mental distress also because it is weak. The mind needs trained. Through meditation and discipline you learn to master your mind. Your thoughts and emotions then no longer control you. Then, if you like what you experience on the mental/emotional it can be allowed to persist. If you do not like it, you make the necessary CHOICE and shift to a state of consciousness that is clear.
To further empower the full development of your potential what is most powerful is to give the results all up to the highest power. When you meditate, don’t do it to escape from problems. Do it for God (my word for the highest power). When you exercise, don’t do it to lose weight so you can look attractive in a swimsuit for the opposite sex or to impress the same gender, do it for God. When you make the choice to adjust your state of consciousness and demonstrate your will power don’t do it to please anyone else or even your self, do it for God. Doing anything for anyone other than God is a compulsion and therefore not liberating or free. We are not hear to further bind ourselves to conditioning.
