Special Tribal thanks to New Online Student Elizabeth for sending this in …
If you can start the day without caffeine …
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains …
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles …
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it …
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time …
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment …
If you can conquer tension without medical help …
If you can relax without liquor …
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs …
Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!
These teachings are the "Rasas" or "sap" of Wholistic Fitness. You’ll find insights to ponder, student chi to keep your own chi topped off, and plenty of proven training techniques to test on your own body, mind, and spirit! Also, you’ll find my very popular Race Reports, and news of our Sangha’s (community’s) latest transpersonal fitness adventures!
Funny, because it’s true. We humans have to work so hard to simply do what animals do by nature. I keep telling myself that sometime I’m gonna spend a whole day crawling around the house with our cats, just to see what it’s like …
Ditto Mike, the basic needs of eat, sleep, listen and exercise escapes us all too often…….
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of course, where this delicious offering from Student E was Apache…my chi-ldhood black wolf which was my mentor, guru, best friend for 6 years growing up in the wilds of Durango. to this day, the techniques and principles and chi of WF vibrate at the Level they do in large part thanks to my years with Apache. Blessed Be All Four-Leggeds…
They may not be dogs but I watch my two cats very carefully……..looking for pearls of wisdom. For they seem to have an ease about them that I sometimes do not!