Wholistic Fitness

Noble Sangha,

This morning I awoke and started my day by taking the girls' big brother Benito for a walk.  There really is something magical about watching your dog rejoice in exploring our street as if for the first time on his walks, even though we've walked it hundreds of times.  Lesson learned.

I then came back and began getting ready for the day, shower, shave, etc.  Once I was ready I started stirring the girls to get them up and get ready for school.

As I ran through all the things I do in the morning I noticed that my beautiful wife, who leaves before the girls are up, leaves 'stuff' around.  Clothes in the bedroom.  Food on the counter.  Unwashed dishes in the sink.  Papers on the desk.  I started to think about the little tasks that she skips, probably thinking she's too busy and can come back to them.  The mundane task of putting clothes in the hamper, or putting the honey away, or rinsing a cup or bowl out, or filing a folder away.  Making the bed.   Mundane tasks that I rejoice in.  I find immense satisfaction in making the bed.  Something most people view with disdain, I relish in.  Same with washing the dishes, or cleaning the counters.

Then I started to think about the continuing struggle my wife has with mindfulness.  As a mom of twins who works as a pediatric physical therapist, she is busy.  But I can see her struggle to maintain focus on things, going the route of 'multi-tasking' in an effort to get things done, but too often not getting anything done.

Then it hit me like a brick.  The path to mindfulness is paved by the mundane.  The more we invest ourselves in performing these mundane tasks, the clearer our mind becomes, and the better prepared we are to take on the complex and involved.

And once again, this morning as I sat down at my computer and logged onto wf.com, I'm am struck by Coaches words….

All I can say is….awesome.

Here's to the mundane,

Yogi RC

No right or wrong, agreed.

But it brings to mind another mantra:  How you do anything, is how you do everything.

No truer words have ever been spoken, written, or otherwise.

Namaste

*liking this a lot*

head bowed in thanks for these, warriors