Fitness - Rewrite Your Stars
And you can give your body - and yourself - the
opportunity by believing in yourself.
Believe that you are special.
Help yourself and this belief by allowing fitness to sing through you.
How many times have your eyes been drawn to the words: Know yourself
through your stars? Ah, how such a headline tickles your
curiosity, beckons and seduces you' in its wily clutches! It is
irresistible. It is a treasure chest divided into 12 neat compartments
to pigeonhole people according to the star signs they were born under.
Packaged by cosmic psychologists, they help us poor, miserable human
beings to 'know' what we are. So, an aquarian believes he has a
far-sighted understanding of human behaviour and relations. A piscean
sees himself as a poet with a musical ear. An arian: creative and
spiritual. A taurean: energetic and business minded. A geminian:
practical and realistic. A cancerian: independent and painstaking. A
leon: self assured, a born leader. A virgo: understanding and
sympathetic. A scorpion: dignified and reserved. A sagittarian: bold
and optimistic. A libran: highly imaginative, avoids arguments. It's
fascinating, isn't it? To delve into oneself and see the image that's
been so conveniently built up. But it's self defeating too - in this
format. It's isolationist. You pick up all the stray strands and tie
yourselves into knots. What you may fail to realise is that if, for
example, a capricornian keeps behaving like a capricornian, he will
continue to encounter the same problems. The fact remains that
each of us possess all these qualities, and more. It's just that we
have allowed only a stream to trickle through instead of that vast
waterfall of powerful energy locked into our personality. It's been
confirmed by a scientist who reports that the average man uses only
twenty percent of his brain power. But, it's human weakness to
underestimate oneself - the result of self ignorance which, in this
case, is not bliss, but distress. Non-belief in oneself is like
slamming a door. It isn't difficult to sort yourself out. Just
sit down for a few minutes and ask yourself: why on earth should I not
believe in myself? You will find that there is no reason. It's only
you. Your perspective of yourself. Even the most timid, most
self-effacing person has gone through one glorious moment when he has
experienced a sudden, sharp feeling of happiness, of knowing that he
has everything, that he can do anything. Then, it's gone. Why? Because
just for that instant, the veil of non-belief lifted and a chink of
sunshine peeped through before timidity took over and dropped the veil
once again. The trick is to hold on to this chink of sunshine and
allow it to widen, until you are flooded with light. Down the ages,
sages have seen 'the light of self-realisation'. But because it doesn't
happen to every one of us, it's been packaged as a cosmic experience, a
visit from god, etc. But you need not become a rishi to unlock
the sunshine within you. Being fit will automatically do it for you.
Exercising and eating right picks up all the loose untidy strands
within you and meshes them together to serve you at an optimum level.
This sharpens your sense of appreciation of not only the outside world
but the limitless potential within you. Remember, nobody can appreciate you the way you can. Others
only mirror what you project. So, if you are awed by this Goliath
world, see yourself as a David. Unconquerable. Standing at the
epicentre of the universe, as Dostoievski puts it: "a citizen of
eternity". Listen to the words of Dr. Alexis Carrel, a Nobel
prize-winning scientist: "Man is made on the scale of the terrestrial
mountains, oceans and rivers." It is you he is referring to. We
know of a highly placed executive. Once, he was on drugs - a defeated,
hollow shell of a man. But while at a meeting where the discussion
ranged from the eternal man, god, life, he suddenly came alive. He told
us. "I don't know what it was, but I felt light, as though if i flapped
my arms like wings, I would be able to fly!" The veil of non-belief in
himself, had indeed, lifted. He has not let it fall back. It's
like a professor of psychology put it: "The average man fails because
he does not learn to find and consolidate his powers. For example, the
rays of the sun falling upon a piece of paper have little effect. But
if they are drawn by the magnifying glass to focus on the paper, they
create an intense heat to burn a hole in the paper." Fitness is
the magnifying glass that allows the rays of the sun to pass through it
and into you. This way you will recreate you own world. Be in control
of yourself, your actions, and in doing so , you'd have rewritten what
is in the stars.
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