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| Blog Name: | Field Notes |
| Url: | http://highmesafitness.blogspot.com/ |
| Language: | English |
| Topics: | Fitness, Health, Spirituality |
| Description: | Welcome to Field Notes, the online journal of High Mesa Fitness® and its creator, Coach (Sensei) Joseph Sheader. One of my 'teachers', Henry David Thoreau, said while contemplating his life at Walden Pond that “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.” I planted those words deep within long ago and have been tending them since. They guide me both in my life and my coaching. The intent of this journal is to serve as an occasional spring on the High Mesa that you and I together might share rejuvination in our fitness training and live life deliberately. Remember however, as Morihei Ueshiba, founder of Akido said...“Instructors can impart a fraction of the teaching. It is through your own devoted practice that the mysteries of the Art of Peace are brought to life.” |
| Popularity: | 4 Followers |
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The Contemplative
The contemplative within me still asserts. Fall becomes especially potent.Contemplative or warrior? I feel each is enclosed in the other. The ambiance of autumn light, the timbre of crickets or a bugling Wapiti, the revelation of true pigment, the rush of one's heart on a trail or cross country run, the essence o
The contemplative within me still asserts. Fall becomes especially potent.Contemplative or warrior? I feel each is enclosed in the other. The ambiance of autumn light, the timbre of crickets or a bugling Wapiti, the revelation of true pigment, the rush of one's heart on a trail or cross country run, the essence o
A Challenge
next time you go to the grocery store... attempt this (and in your mind imagine what might be left):•eliminate all and any foods which have transfat/hydrogenated oils•eliminate all which have high fructose corn syrup•eliminate all which have MSG (anything autolyze, like yeast, is the same as MSG btw.)•eliminate anything in which sugar is in the first 10 ingredients•eliminate anything in which enriched flour (wheat) is an ingredient•eliminate anything in which salt is in the first 5 ingredients•eliminate anything with additives or preservatives •eliminate anything that likely has pesticide residue •eliminate any meat or
next time you go to the grocery store... attempt this (and in your mind imagine what might be left):•eliminate all and any foods which have transfat/hydrogenated oils•eliminate all which have high fructose corn syrup•eliminate all which have MSG (anything autolyze, like yeast, is the same as MSG btw.)•eliminate anything in which sugar is in the first 10 ingredients•eliminate anything in which enriched flour (wheat) is an ingredient•eliminate anything in which salt is in the first 5 ingredients•eliminate anything with additives or preservatives •eliminate anything that likely has pesticide residue •eliminate any meat or
The Weight and Karma of 'STUFF"
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David ThoreauThru the entirety of my life I have found less is more, that material possessions, clutter, all the stuff and things people surround themselves with to be burdensome, confining, and profoundly wasteful; that the accumulation and retention of possessions reflects psychological and even spiritual insecurities, not to mention a disharmonious relationship to the social and environmental realities.It is a pathology folks. This past month as we again purge our own household a little deeper I am struck by a couple insights. One is that we really have been all deluded by this
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone. ~Henry David ThoreauThru the entirety of my life I have found less is more, that material possessions, clutter, all the stuff and things people surround themselves with to be burdensome, confining, and profoundly wasteful; that the accumulation and retention of possessions reflects psychological and even spiritual insecurities, not to mention a disharmonious relationship to the social and environmental realities.It is a pathology folks. This past month as we again purge our own household a little deeper I am struck by a couple insights. One is that we really have been all deluded by this
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