Ain’t that the truth! Here in Cali I’ve missed random 3-4 days this month, still “moving” but nothing where my energy really gets moving. I NOTICE IT.
Hope it works out for you! Roll on!
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I’m not saying going for a walk will solve all your problems, I’m just saying there’s almost no problem that’s going to be made worse by going for a walk. @RyanHoliday
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Day 1468. Yes, some of the “morning miles” were 0.1 mile. Some were 2.0. And yes, some were skipped as a sacred decision following my body guidance.
The wisdom here from James is/was core. Make it EASY to do something consistent even on your “worst” (non-thriving, just-making-it) days.
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Yeah, today I did not really feel like it.
And…
- Changed my mood
- Had me walking and feeling more Upright
- Vital qi moving
Worked!
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Day 1600!
Drizzle rain and delighting and tender about how many days ago this started for me. I can feel at times the influence this devotion has meant to what I can do now that, perhaps, if I’d stayed more sedentary I couldn’t.
When I walk 2 miles and take it in stride… I know it is because walks are an integral part of how I move my life force energy.
Discovering the joy of walking sticks to change the energy expression and improv of movement (even “swimming”) down the trail has been an additional delight, surprising and welcome.
As I look forward to the autumn ahead, and delight with simple uplifts at the Sweet Autumn Celmatis flowers and Happy Fun-Guy mushrooms, I can feel the yearning for even more strength, mobility, and range. Stamina. It’s why we’re getting an elliptical machine for all of us to use – in ADDITION to the walks we’re doing individually and as a family…
Happy (soon) Birthday to me!
Rick
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Miss you Glenn. Hope you are very well 
Ok, so I am doing a lot more walking these days. I am piggy backing on your morning Mike and have for a while been extremely slowly building up to walking more often.
I really probably have been doing it most days for a while. Months. Years. I don’t know.
I am curious what it might be like if I actually KNEW what I was doing. If I actually knew how many days. Is this an important part? Would this change things in some way for me in a good sense?
I think I have mostly been walking for survival and maintenance but in that space I do benefit from my time in nature and my connection with the time and space and the natural world.
Putting words to my why and to my resistance is always hard for me. I hate commitment it seems. I hate saying something and it not being true because it could be wrong or not fully right and I just don’t want to say it because I actually don’t really know. Even if there may be a possibility that I know I feel like I just make things up. And then I look back at those things and say well that didn’t happen. Was that real and true?
I love your list of why’s. I’m sure I could put some of them in my list. But it is so hard to write a list.
Resistance:
- To commitment.
- To expectation.
- To responsibility.
- To failure.
- To disappointment .
If I never say I will, then anything I do is good, potentially great even. And I don’t have to criticise myself for failing and being hopeless. Because I never had a plan anyway so I can’t fail it.
So some whys would be:
- To love myself
- To see the sunrise that I love or the sunset.
- To see my beautiful trees and breathe with them.
- To stand still and hear the birds and feel my blood moving.
- To feel the fresh morning air on my skin.
- To connect with the energy of the people I love who also love to walk and who would walk with me if they could.
- To share this joy and love with my daughter.
- To intentionally connect with and allow movement of the energies I am challenged by.
- To open to change and possibility.
- To look forward to the unknown.
- To explore and see things I haven’t seen before and find treasures.
- To meditate and practice grounding.
- To listen to worksop calls.
- To start my day with choice and freedom.
- To give myself the gift of time and space.
- To be free.
- To walk funny or skip or jump if I want.
- To get my blood pumping if I want.
- To allow my body to flow and ease tension and pain.
- To listen to music.
- To create my own body temperature.
Hmmm there you go. I did it. In reverse.
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Yeah, reverse works for me too! Why I was attracting to tapping. I could be “reversed” as long as I needed tap tap tap until I started getting the intentions that actually spoke to my energy.
I hope your time away is sweet. I shall walk with you today, Adira’s 5th Birthday. Heading out soon. Heart hugs to you!
Rick
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Did you get out?
I did! And today was day 1677 and got a mile on the trail and ugh 2 miles blowing leaves!
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Day 1700… yes, missed a few with the hospital stay for Em. And… to walk and be with a path that has been a part of my life hundreds of times was sacred for me this morning. I feel Gus with me on such days, appreciating the Devotions List that started my energy moving in this direction… Onwards, step by step, morning by morning.
Thanks for being a part of this with me. Wonder what Simple Uplifts the next 1700 will bring…?
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I want to walk with you right now and writing this brought me tears. I love you. Thank you xxx
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It’s truly the hardest aspect of my life that those I most want to walk with are geographically so distant yet so close to my heart.
Merry Christmas, Dear Heart, and blessings to us all, even if Thriving Anyway at times.
Rick
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Re-visiting this to see what might help me to move today.
- Build inner and outer strength
- Improve and maintain the ability to move my body as my body changes and I grow.
- To support myself and move stagnant energy
- Because I want to
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One of those days recently where it will be “Day Didn’t” and all those would have been true for me today. With the storm coming, and other challenges, didn’t happen. Tomorrow I hope!
Rick
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