There are seconds
Posted: March 21, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, Demons, exercise, free range, freshly pressed, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, meditation, natural, paleo, passion, perspective, pilates, running, whole foods, WOD, yoga 1 Comment… They come only five or six at a time, and you suddenly feel the presence of eternal harmony, fully achieved. It is nothing earthly; not that it’s heavenly, but man cannot endure it in his earthly state. One must change physically or die. The feeling is clear and indisputable. As if you suddenly sense the whole of nature and suddenly say: yes, this is true. God, when he was creating the world, said at the end of each day of creation: ‘Yes, this is true, this is good.’ This . . . this is not tenderheartedness, but simply joy. You don’t forgive anything, because there is no longer anything to forgive. You don’t really love — oh, what is here is higher than love! What’s most frightening is that it’s so terribly clear, and there’s such joy. If it were longer than five seconds — the soul couldn’t endure it and would vanish. In those five seconds I live my life through, and for them I would give my whole life, because it’s worth it. To endure ten seconds one would have to change physically . . . .
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Demons
Notes:
To 2000+ “followers” of CultFit … A sincere Thank You, to each and everyone one of you. Be well today.
It’s Time
Posted: March 13, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: acceptance, blogging, exercise, fitness, free range, freshly pressed, gluten free, happiness, health, hippie, hipster, hope, life, love, lululemon, meditation, Mindfulness, minimalism, minimalist, motivation, natural, paleo, passion, peace, pilates, running, Surrender, whole foods, WOD, yoga 16 CommentsNothing like being scolded by a hippie-
The idea of acceptance, mindfulness, minimalism are so trendy of late. You can see this trend growing with the popularity of meditation/zen/whatever blog-o-posts, green this and green that folks, yoga-moms/dads from far and wide. You can read about it here, on this blog-o-thing if you pay attention for just a few weeks. People are being asked to come into better contact with the present; to be less attached, entangled by social media and humble; focusing more on purpose and meaning. All of these changes raise an interesting question (so I think).
Why now?
None of these topics and approaches to living authentically are new. Neither are single speed bikes, fedora’s, Pabst Blue Ribbon and black rimmed glasses for the sake of argument. Just like you, these ideals have been puttering along, kicking cans down the road for eons …
Why the sudden resurgence of popularity?
Hippies?!? New research studies and science!?! The inter-webz?!?
I suspect acceptance, mindfulness and minimalism are trending of late because normal folks are yearning for something remarkably simple right now: That acceptance, mindfulness and minimalism may help nourish and guide them in their busy lives.
How many of you read a yoga magazine while watching “reality” tv? Watch a streaming TV show while working on your computer? Heck, watch a TV while running on a treadmill even?!?
And what substance is in the gush of media and connectivity we have unleashed on ourselves? Everything imaginable in the world is available, for us to consume, all at one time. Although if you slow life down and actually seek? Through seeking you will discover the images of courage, bravery, unconditional love and connection that surround us are simply being overwhelmed by the pain and judgment we stream into our minds endlessly.
Acceptance, mindfulness and minimalism are immensely important right now for a simple reason. In order for us to prosper inside this modern bubble, that each one of us have created. We need to learn how to relate to our own minds in a different way. There is no retreating, unplugging or escaping … I implore you to move forward in life, just in a slightly different way.
Notes:
I’m not leaving until you surrender, peacefully.
A Dream Within a Dream
Posted: January 30, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: crossfit, Dreaming, Dreams, exercise, fitness, free range, freshly pressed, Freshly Pressed is Overrated, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, meditation, motivation, natural, pain, paleo, passion, pilates, recovery, running, Sacrifice, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, yoga 5 CommentsInside myself is a place where I live all alone and that’s where you renew your springs that never dry up-
Pain, injury, surgery, pain, injury, surgery, rehab, surgery, rehab … Before I injured myself, over and over again. I was rarely quiet or still long enough to notice, or care what was happening to my body. Through all the pain therapy and bio-feedback sessions, I was merely following instructions from those who wanted to help me, I never felt alone during these times … “the springs never dried up”. Now, when I’m alone. When I lie in bed at night, surrounded by the quiet, still night air, I feel these springs renewed.
In these personal moments, I find myself content to watch how life will unfold. Mindful of how I was before.
Notes:
Time to Medivate
Artificial White
Posted: January 15, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, England, exercise, family, fitness, freshly pressed, friends, happiness, health, hipster, His Dark Side, hope, kettlebell, life, Loss, love, lululemon, marathon, meditation, motivation, natural, NHL, passion, pilates, running, snow, trail running, walking, weather, whole foods, WOD 17 CommentsLove is the absence of judgment-
Do you Need to do __________ or do you Love to do __________?
To be fully free is to live in blissful happiness, daily. Full freedom creates the space for every happy experience to creep in. The punishment (<— Key Word) that we can subject ourselves to, is the withholding of our unconditional love.
Unconditional love never withdraws itself, this is what loving fully means. One does not have to practice what one is … Just be yourself. Love learns over time to let go. Have you ever thought about how much energy and effort it takes to hold a grudge, to be angry at a friend or loved one?
What we call Need is often confused with Love. Need holds on, Need has a firm grasp on so many of us. There is a rather clever way to tell the difference between Need and Love: Love let’s go, Love sets your mind free and places your heart at ease. Need on the other hand, never let’s go.
Let go of your expectations, for today, let go of the requirements, the so-called “rules” and regulations that you would otherwise impose on yourself and others …
The Workout-
A Walk in fresh snow, listen to your breathing, the sound of surrendering snow under foot. Watch your breath as you walk long … Walking Meditation, Bliss.
Notes:
Remember: Choices are not restrictions. Nurture, Love or Punishment?!? Bundle up and be well.
I Wish You Would
Posted: January 10, 2013 Filed under: Random Workout | Tags: blogging, blogs, exercise, fitness, free range, freshly pressed, gluten free, happiness, health, hipster, hope, kettlebell, life, love, lululemon, marathon, motivation, passion, pilates, Promise, reading, running, trail running, walking, whole foods, WOD, writing, yoga 30 Comments…
Promise Yourself
To be so strong that nothing
can disturb your peace of mind.
To talk health, happiness, and prosperity
to every person you meet.
To make all your friends feel
that there is something in them
To look at the sunny side of everything
and make your optimism come true.
To think only the best, to work only for the best,
and to expect only the best.
To be just as enthusiastic about the success of others
as you are about your own.
To forget the mistakes of the past
and press on to the greater achievements of the future.
To wear a cheerful countenance at all times
and give every living creature you meet a smile.
To give so much time to the improvement of yourself
that you have no time to criticize others.
To be too large for worry, too noble for anger, too strong for fear,
and too happy to permit the presence of trouble.
To think well of yourself and to proclaim this fact to the world,
not in loud words but great deeds.
To live in faith that the whole world is on your side
so long as you are true to the best that is in you.
― Christian D. Larson, Your Forces and How to Use Them
The Workout-
Introspection and Contemplation … Balance through thought. Oh, it’s a Rest Day in case you were wondering.
Notes:
We have been at this blog-o-thing now for a little over two years, over this time we have met quite a few amazing peeps to say the least. If you are new to CultFit, please read the work above, again, in a more personal way. Allow the words to find meaning within you. In essence, the splendid work by Christian D. Larson embodies everything we are here at CultFit.
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