Expressing Peace. Exercise. 61.
Exercise to Peace
Exercising is a sure-fire way to bring peace.
Exercise – from the most simple to the most rigorous – allows you to concentrate on some activity. That concentration allows your mind, your emotions, and your body to let go of whatever it was holding on to. That letting go lets in peace.
Consider taking a walk. Consider focusing on each step, letting your mind release the worry or the challenge or the stress it was carrying. Focus instead on each step.
Consider dancing (with or without a partner). Listen to the music. Allow the music to draw any “other thinking” from you. Allow your feet and hands, your legs and arms, to respond to the music and its rhythm. Your attention is all on the music, your movement, and their coordination.
Consider working out with weights. Feel the bar in your hand. Notice the weight and your muscle’s reaction. As you slowly lift or push or pull the weight, concentrate. Concentrate not on the weight but on your muscle and its action, its strength.
Consider the almost limitless ways you can exercise your way to peace: yoga, jump rope, swimming, water-walking, jogging, juggling, stretching, pilates, cycling, tai chi, karate, kayaking…..and many, many more.
Lots of benefits, yet the greatest one is the peace that comes to your body, mind, and spirit. Exercise has physically additive effects: muscles, strength, endurance, cardiopulmonary fitness.
Exercise also has the peace-giving effect that comes from exertion, satisfaction, accomplishment.
Powerful Exerciser,
you energize us with life
and love and joy.
You free us to be our individual selves
and create our own realities.
We sometimes wind realities too tight
and need your gift of exercise.
We sometimes want to let our muscles spend and gain
as our minds release and float,
as our emotions settle and rest.
Our breath is deep and full,
our gratitude is, too.
Remind us, Spirit, not to be still,
move and shake and jump and swing
that our bodies, minds and spirits
know the peace from being alive.
And so it is. Amen. Amen.
Enjoy Peace. Exercise Peace.
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