Physical Intelligence - Day 19

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A "job" mindset or a habit is still mechanical. We mechanically substitute one habit for another because we are habituated. It is a habit to create definitions of existence. That is not what FLOW is. The flow experience is not a habit but an interruption to our daily habits. If exercise became a habit, I would not need to resort to think of it as a job because I would have removed a justification for engaging exercise but replaced it with a pattern. That is not physical intelligence - until I am completely in flow with this action we call exercise it does not even begin to be called a lifestyle - which is still another habit. When I lose sense of time and I am engaged in action which neither requires definition or a result, then that is a flow experience. Is flow experience all good? Not so. Habit can form from over indulgence of flow experiences and this habit is called addiction. For me physical intelligence becomes intelligence when health is a flow and not a habit but I am far removed from that and so exercise is not a flow experience for me, it is work. That I call this work a job simply relegates this work to the mundane. I can envisage physical intelligence, but I am far away from living it. Could turning habits into a stairway to heaven move me closer to living physical fitness as a flow experience? That has not yet proven itself to be true and this mechanical view is not liberating, it is a reminder that physical fitness is a climb and not a flow. Yet I have seen in a few people it be a flow, so in that regard I don't have what they have but there is the possibility of a tipping point between where this is habit to where it is a way and that way is a flow experience. Reply