Let me pose question. Why can a young child run under a table and not have to grunt and groan? There is a reason for his agility, you know, and this reason infects the martial arts...and all of life.
Go on, try it yourself...grin. Find some low hanging limbs that are as low to you as a table is to a child. Try running under them without groaning from the weight on your joints and your back and all the other body parts.
Well, the first and most important thing that happened, that actually caused your body to go into groan, is that you forgot to laugh and smile and have fun like a child. See, a child is smarter than you. A child knows how to have fun.
Now, to get back to that state of mind where you laugh and have fun and giggle incessantly just because it is fun to giggle incessantly, you should do a couple of things. First, get rid of all the grouches in your area. Second, stop listening to the news, or watching TV, or partaking in the doom and gloom that the media is.
Second, you are an eye of awareness in the greater awareness that is All awareness. Since the universe is nothing but objects in motion, you have to make your whole life an object in motion. You need to find all the potentials of motion that you lost when you grew older and, uh, wiser (snicker).
So, first sit in the zen posture and and let your imagination run amok. You don't have to do anything, just let your thoughts go. Have a party all in your own mind, and realize that you are all you need to entertain you.
Second thing to do, try learning some yoga. Delve into the various positions, and send your awareness through the potentials of your body. Understand those points where your potential of motion has stopped.
Third, try learning some martial arts. Start moving through various movements, and explore your potentials of motion. Start moving in all the ways that are possible, and understand that life is motion, and if you have stopped motion, you have stopped life.
Exploring yoga and martial arts and things of those sort is just a start, but it is a good start. This is where you take control and enjoy your life. This is the end of those situations and bad decisions which stopped you from really enjoying life.
Go on, try it yourself...grin. Find some low hanging limbs that are as low to you as a table is to a child. Try running under them without groaning from the weight on your joints and your back and all the other body parts.
Well, the first and most important thing that happened, that actually caused your body to go into groan, is that you forgot to laugh and smile and have fun like a child. See, a child is smarter than you. A child knows how to have fun.
Now, to get back to that state of mind where you laugh and have fun and giggle incessantly just because it is fun to giggle incessantly, you should do a couple of things. First, get rid of all the grouches in your area. Second, stop listening to the news, or watching TV, or partaking in the doom and gloom that the media is.
Second, you are an eye of awareness in the greater awareness that is All awareness. Since the universe is nothing but objects in motion, you have to make your whole life an object in motion. You need to find all the potentials of motion that you lost when you grew older and, uh, wiser (snicker).
So, first sit in the zen posture and and let your imagination run amok. You don't have to do anything, just let your thoughts go. Have a party all in your own mind, and realize that you are all you need to entertain you.
Second thing to do, try learning some yoga. Delve into the various positions, and send your awareness through the potentials of your body. Understand those points where your potential of motion has stopped.
Third, try learning some martial arts. Start moving through various movements, and explore your potentials of motion. Start moving in all the ways that are possible, and understand that life is motion, and if you have stopped motion, you have stopped life.
Exploring yoga and martial arts and things of those sort is just a start, but it is a good start. This is where you take control and enjoy your life. This is the end of those situations and bad decisions which stopped you from really enjoying life.
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