Physical Intelligence - Day 17

There is a nice feeling after the sweat has poured away and a nice refreshing shower removes the last of the stickyness.  It is at times like this one see's new meaning in the term "sweat-shirt".  What we don't capture in the process of this sweating and showering is the after-feel from the body.  That sense of feeling utterly refreshed, and one's body being grateful. 

This gratitude of the body is often disguised by an overzealous attitude to gym work, which produces aches and pains of doing too much and pushing ourselves beyond natural limits and physical sense.  The idea of no pain, no gain is not a physical intelligence, it is a physical exertion.  The physical intelligence is the responses the body gives back and if they are felt-healthy then we have tuned into that intelligence and if they are felt-injury, we have done something stupid to ourselves, and body tells that to us too.

What I feel after 17 straight days is a thankful breath and a posture that feels stronger.  I can feel gratitude in my leg muscles and I can feel mental strengthen in my torso - I can hear my body talk and it is a healthy feedback.  I have not down some extreme sports action, I have simply given my body something that it physically needs to enable it to do its daily autonomic practices.  Perhaps it could be my own microbial constitution that is sending a gratitude signal into my body, but who knows. 

This is a feeling that will be gone by the first new light of tomorrow.  The interesting thing is that when I checked on the corresponding log from last year, there was a similiar kind of expressions from last year.  These also only came back into conscious awareness when I re-read these accounts as I was saving these comments to .png file as a picture.  To this end I listened today to a couple of TED Talks

TEDTALK: Why some people find exercise harder than others | Emily Balcetis

Her point about how our minds eye views physical fitness fits with my own experiences today, except in my case it was not my minds eye perceiving what I engaged today, but literally my body talking because I could feel the difference within.  I can understand her waste-to-hip ratio perception between motivated and non-motivated people but I don't identify it as a generalization for people whose bodies I know nothing about - how can I know what their bodies are telling them - only they know that.  Where we agree is that we all see things differently in our minds eyes, but what Emily's video did not explore is the felt-experience.  Now to the next video :

TEDTALK: Your body language shapes who you are - Amy Cuddy

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