Some concepts just keep recurring in my mind. They are the ones I keep turning back to when I get in a rut or get sidetracked. One of those is Beginner’s Mind. It’s a concept from Buddhism about working on something as if we’ve never done it before, clearing our mind of preconceptions and habits and distractions. It’s a fresh start.
All of us have times when our fitness goals get obscured by other stuff. We have actual lives and everything. Fitness is supposed to enable us to live the rest of our lives better, but the life part is the important bit; sometimes we need to focus on that instead.
When it’s time to come up for air, fitness is still there. We take some deep breaths and we begin again.
When we do that, we have to let go of how our body worked before we got sidetracked and how we used to work out when we were in college and how annoying that person was just now in the locker room. We start where we are. We pay attention to how the weights feel today, or the way our feet impact on the treadmill, or the angle we use when our arms enter the water as we swim.
Today is a new day. We are new humans today. We can make today a good start.
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