I know I repeat myself. It’s not just because I’m a mom. It’s also because we often need to hear things a few (or a few hundred) times before they sink in. Today’s repetition: we work out with the body we have today.
Today’s body is amazing, all by itself. It breathes! It digests! It feels! It thinks! It even moves us around!
However, today’s body may not be the body we happen to want it to be, in this moment. We may find it to be more tired than we’d like. Or surprisingly flabby in places. And when did that exercise get so hard? Have our ankles always done that? Maybe we remember some other day, when we were younger/thinner/stronger/more flexible. This is not that day. We are not going to do what that body did. We are going to do what this body can do, which will make this body even more awesome for next time.
While we are working out with today’s body, we need to focus on what we are doing. That phantom body of the past is just a distraction. Even that ideal body of the future is not a useful thing to keep in mind in the moment. We need to be present, to do this work on this day to the best of our ability right now.
Go play. And don’t make me tell you again. (Just kidding: I’ll tell you again.)
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