Underworld - Cowgirl (Everything, Everything)
Occasionally, the start of a run is about cooling the mind down as well as warming up the body. Dislodging the unsettled feelings, thoughts, unfinished business that we sometimes accumulate during the day. Running away the frustrations and annoyances. It is because we share our lives with other people, because we are sociable animals and need to share and communicate that inevitably we meet conflict or create it. If we live in a vacuum then it is unlikely that we will have to address issues that unsettle us.
I reflected on the words of John Trudell, "I am just a human being trying to make it in a world that is very rapidly losing its understanding of being human."
Second time round the fields I became aware that metaphorically I was dropping of these little packages of "excess baggage" and felt more settled and at ease as the run progressed. As an exercise I could have "drop off" points for these negative thoughts and thereby create space for something positive.
Keeping the rhythm of the run I considered another phrase that has stuck with me all day, " ...hope is like waiting to be served. It stops us activating our intelligence/gift, that will help us to find a solution to all these things." John Trudell
John Trudell on hope.
And so I let these thoughts run through my mind with the run and felt invigorated. My intelligence had been engaged and negativity replaced with enlightenment.
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