Motion as Meditation

A weary soul cannot grow in a man's body if the body stays in motion. 

Aurelius Kadzius

Through motion, we can get lost in a way that releases us from the burdens we impose on ourselves. We stress the body to give the mind something physical to focus on. A way to remove yourself from pity and doubt is by physical labor. 

An intense movement repeated hundreds of times becomes meditation, a prayer. I focus on something simple to improve with each new repetition completed.

The search is for good pain, the pain of enduring physical work. The muscles ignite, and burning in the grip to the forearm to the point where the mind is telling you no more is necessary.  

Rigorous training, a meditation on the physical pain of growth on the body, so intense the body stress imposes the mind to lose track of time, space, past, or future. Often, it is what men feel after hard rounds in training jiu-jitsu or any combat sport. 

It is a stillness, a mind so still; it would be like seeing the surface of the Red Sea as smooth as glass. No longer water but a reflection of everything above it. That stillness removes the garbage where genuine self-reflection can happen. 

Exposure to fundamental truths about a man's fears as he sits and faces them in the stillness of no distractions. 

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