“Developing a strong “spiritual backbone” alongside physical exercise involves aligning your inner resolve with outward action.”
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I like this quote about aligning physical exercise and inner resolve and feel when they align one can really shine.
“It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.”
George Matthew Adams:
I’ve written quite a bit in my essays about first beach walking and then swimming laps in a pool and recently my main exercise is walking to the pool after a short bus ride and home from the bus stop and swimming laps in the pool. I feel exercise is one of the best ways to build a stronger spiritual backbone.
However, my favourite thing about swimming at the pool early in the morning five days a week is the socialising. Mum taught me not to play favourites but I have a soft spot for my great grandmother friend Gwenda. Her conversation and advice on any issues I have is sage.
However today as I write this, I am in the emergency room of the local hospital as I had chest pains and my doctor said I should come in to have it checked. I am just waiting on the results of some checks an ECG a chest X-Ray and blood tests. Now the day after this they let me come home after being in the hospital over six hours with nothing serious. But today I slept in until after lunch time and had many lucid peculiar dreams. So that’s a relief and I hope to get back to the pool tomorrow.
I think another way for me to attempt to build a stronger spiritual backbone is my daily ten drawings a day project usually as early as I can in the morning. Quite often I draw my favourite saints Mary MacKillop and Saint Francis which is like single sun beams driving away many shadows.
“It is impossible to make a clear cut between science, religion, and art. The whole is never equal simply to the sum of its various parts.”
Max Planck
I love this quote about the connection between different fields and distinguishing them into sperate parts doesn’t make an understanding that everything is interconected.
In conclusion I feel if I keep up my art and exercise then eventually my spiritual backbone shall eventually strengthen.
