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Exercise at home
Filed under: diary, exercise, yoga | Tags: exercise, jogging, running, thai boxing, yoga
Leave a Comment I started with 1 hours and 10 minutes of running . it is like an Obstacle course with all the people who are out walking and I tried to be as close to the beach as possible. Sometimes the sand is wet and at other times it is more dry. Sometimes I need to jump up on stones and almost all the time there is an inclination combined with small stones in random patterns. The fresh air from the sea and the sound of waves hitting the beach is really calming for the mind. In general jogging have a tendency to become a bit boring and there are some ways to avoid that. Challenge yourself ! jump up on that low concrete wall and try to get as much variation in as possible. For inspiration watch this video Strength training for Parkour .
After the run I tried to do my whole yoga routine in the bathroom just to challenge myself in the limited space there is in there. I find that when I do yoga in different places and with different people I do it differently and I remember poses I have not been doing for a long time.
I also did a few clap push ups today inspired from the book ” train a quarter of an hour a day” with Paulo Roberto. Even if you can find a lot of training videos on youtube and on podcasts for example I recommend one book that gives you some exercise patterns, how to eat and how to put together routines.
Earlier today I was watching “Scooby’s Home Workouts” and he have done a series of videos about training at home and I really recomend them. There is no advertisments on the page and if you like it you have the possibility to donate money. he gives a lot of useful information on how to use a back pack when you do pushups to intense the training for example.
In general I am amazed how many different training exercises you can find on youtube. Today I was watching a special variation of pushups that thai boxers do as well as some guy doing push ups with his whole body in the air.
love and violence
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: anger, death, fight, fighting, hockey, love, lust, sex, thai boxing
Leave a Comment Our fascination with violence and love is pretty interesting and do they have something in common ? I happened to see one of Oshos lectures where he said love and hate are the opposite sides of the same coin and that started my thinking. Today I got totally absorbed when I saw the Finnish player Ruutu tackle people in the NHL and just out of curiosity I looked up “NHL best” on you tube to see what the best is from nhl. I have to admit I was a bit surprised when a big fight came up instead of some Gretzky goals which would have been my first guess ( ” Unbelievable Hockey Fight” with close to 12 million is beating Gretzky almost 12 to 1 ). I am a fan of hockey and what really gets the emotions going is the tackles and the roughness. I watched the young Swedish team get beaten by the Canadian team in the world Junior Hockey Championships just some weeks ago and I was totally caught in the moment and I really thought that Canada did not play fair at all and the referee was bad. Now I look up some clips and I can clearly see that the Swedish goalkeeper really fell over easily. My emotions totally took over and sound judgement was put aside.I can just imagine how it is for the players on the ice. Almost all of us have come in contact with the fight or flight mechanism when we are in dark back alley and suspect somebody is following us or we see a horror movie on TV. the fight or fight mechanism is wired into our brains and our logical thinking is totally shut off when it comes into place. When our fight or flight response is activated a lot of chemicals ( for example adrenaline, noradrenaline and cortisol ) are released into our body and you could say that we get an altered state of being where all our daytime worries disappear and our only focus is on the object that caused this reaction. I cannot help but to find similarities to what we normally call love . the love between two persons which causes all our daily trouble to disappear and we focus only on the object of our love.
from wikipedia
“Lust is the initial passionate sexual desire that promotes mating, and involves the increased release of chemicals such as testosterone and estrogen. … Recent studies in neuroscience have indicated that as people fall in love, the brain consistently releases a certain set of chemicals, including pheromones, dopamine, norepinephrine, and serotonin, which act in a manner similar to amphetamines, stimulating the brain’s pleasure center and leading to side effects such as increased heart rate, loss of appetite and sleep, and an intense feeling of excitement. Research has indicated that this stage generally lasts from one and a half to three years”
Now both fight and flight and love states will disappear after some time and we are left with Withdrawal symptoms.
With this in mind I think it is rather confusing to say “you should love everyone” because it is something you will only do for a period. Maybe that is the reason why Buddhists use the word compassion instead ?
At an early age I got interested in Buddhism and the prince who left his kingdom in the search for truth. How can I apply this story to my own life ? to be able to sit I took up the study of yoga. Is there a contradiction between yoga and science ? Sure we can get a theoretical understanding through books, but without the experience we are stuck. Why is it so hard to practice non-violence when the mosquito is landing on my neck ?
