yoguh

I swore to myself that Sundays would be my long days, keeping it within the 8-10k range. However, I have yet to keep to this goal. So far, I have been running a consistent 6.6 k every Sunday, just a 10% increase over my normal runs, and with recent events, my mileage per week have dropped.

I made an effort, however to get back into outdoor running yesterday and I have to admit I was disappointed. An important lesson I learned was that I could not run properly with a heavy heart. No amount of motivation could make me finish the 7k mark. Too many thoughts swimming in my head made it almost impossible to keep running. By the fifth kilometer, I was sluggishly making my way back to the car. I made up for it by doing yoga at home and much to my surprise, my mood picked up.

I literally felt my apprehensions slowly lift away from me with every deep breath I took with the yoga poses. I emptied my mind of all negative thoughts and just let it rest for an hour. I felt pristine afterwards, unpolluted by the negative thought energies that were hounding me throughout the day. I ended the workout with an excerpt from the book I was reading: the Tibetan Art of Positive Thinking:

Success is not an ultimate conclusion in itself but the result of a series of steps made possible by creative thought. Success comes about through thinking it into action…. You need belief in your ambition and not to fear the possibility of failure. Your life must change in order to be successful.

Somehow this passage seemed so apt for such a thought polluted day.