I believe that every crisis we face individually or collectively holds a hidden gift – the opportunity to look deep inside and re-asses how we live our lives and how we desire our lives to be.
In thinking about everything this past year has brought to the surface, my belief has been strengthened: feeling great in our bodies is more important than simply having good posture and looking great, being active and enjoying the things we love to do.
Feeling great while living active and physically engaged lives changes the very quality of our interactions with everyone around us and increases the positive impact we can have in our immediate communities and our world.
Like the ripples created by a stone hitting the water, being strong, agile and fit propagates positive ripples all around us.
Being strong on our feet and having great balance translates into strength and balance in our lives. With strength and balance we are capable of more patience and more compassion for ourselves and for others.
Feeling great in your body has more meaning and more power than looking good and aging gracefully while staying active.
Feeling great about the way you move and optimistic about your body’s abilities changes the way you think, live and contribute to the world around you.
Focus and attention to one thought or idea bring more of the same to be considered, so I was not at all surprised when I found (again) these words written by Joseph Pilates in 1939.
A quote from 1939 that holds the present in its palm!
“This world of ours is in a turmoil and no one is positive of the outcome, and it is now, more than ever before, more practicable and sensible to be in a perfect state of health, both in body and in mind, in order to more successfully confront the problems continually arising. The lack of knowledge of general health on the peoples’ part is largely responsible for the world conditions today, responsible for combat, discouragement, crime and premature death, because a healthy body – which most of them do not have – makes for a clean and healthy mind; it gives strength and decision of character and a directness of purpose, a love of refinement, purity, goodness, honor, justice and morality; the mind, when housed within a powerful healthful body possesses a glorious sense of power!” – Joseph H. Pilates, September 1939
A strong, agile and capable body creates strength, resilience and compassion.
Today, as we are at the beginning of the second year of this world-wide crisis, my wish for you is the glorious sense of power that comes from the mind housed in a healthful body!
We can make the world a better place, one small movement at a time, one joint at a time, one empowering thought at a time.
With love,
Rucsandra
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