One of the things I do in my copious spare time (ha!) is to watch Pilates videos. Some are fabulous and full of useful insights and some not so much. Recently, however, the discussion I watched included the idea that many of us are “chasing health.”
What the speaker meant by that was that we work out, we eat our vegetables, drink our water in pursuit of some abstract idea of health. Our doctors threaten us or we read some magazine article about the hidden dangers of [insert random aspect of modern life here]. Off we trudge to the gym in order to avoid something Much Worse.
This is not sustainable.
Maybe we aren’t at a place where we love going to the gym, but we want to try to go because of how it makes us feel good in our bodies. We want to enjoy ease of movement. We want joy in our lives.
Fear doesn’t give us that.
Find the joy.
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