Pole Compression is a big thing in Nordic Ski Racing…I like to use the heaviest boots, skis, and higher cut poles during the roller ski pre season so when ilg finally transitions onto the super fast gliding snow with way lighter equipment it makes me feel strong…like, I’ve done the heavy lifting now it’s time to fly!
Worry, anxiety, stress?
usually they are the Three Sisters born in the future
yet have no solid footholds in our Present M(om)ent
if our Practice is strong.
When ilg fishes, it’s not Fish Beings that ilg is truly after..
it’s about reMolding my feeble overthinking mind to calm
its restless nature.
This thing called “fishing” is not dissimilar to that thing we call,
“Meditation”…
the skills of fishing and sitting zazen are the same:
they cultivate living in the m(om)ent…
which is living itself.
Outside the M(om)ent = not living
Within the M(om)ent = living; being…as in being a Human BEING
not a Human Doing.
pic: when Unattached to Results? Results happen
Ilg loves my brother fr(om) another Mother here in Durango; Chad Cheeney…
co-founder of Durango Devo which has produced an insane about of cycling champions per capita in our little town…
he has inexhaustible chi to chronically reGift to the generations of kids like Sepp Kuss that grew up through Devo…
yet, his whole approach is zero competitive/zero structure… just have what ilg calls “cultivation of focused fun,”…
he says the ongoing long list of Durango cycling champions who were bred through Devo are, – and ilg LOVES this sm –
“Accidental Champions”…
AND THEN
his whole coaching maxim about cycling to his kids?
“Never Forget The Feeling.”
OMG… this is sooooo Wholistic Fitness® and that’s why ilg did what it took as an unexacting, totally unprepared sudden Daddy at age 48 to sell everything I had
and move the Chi-ld that s(om)ehow inexplicably chose ILG as Her father this time around!?!?
yup, had to get Her back beneath my own Chi-ldhood sacred peak and Diné Sacred Peak of the North; DibéNitsáá…
when a kid c(om)es through you!?!?
as a Conscious Parent or Co-Parent (like ilg)???
you DO WHATEVER IT TAKES to create the most loving, nurturing to the Soul environment for your kid…
Chase whatever it is that is wholes(om)e to your Soul … I mean, EACH DAY! even baby steps matter (often? they matter most!)
If our mind keeps worrying about the future? Fish for the Present!
Tomorrow? Prioritize what is actually happening in the M(oM)ent and mine the joy and gratitude and loving-kindness that inevitably arises!
Blessed Be Thy Sacred Sweat,
Blessed Be Thy Practice…
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