Today I thought: This isn’t fun. Maybe I need a new swing thought. All this discipline is feeling merciless, militaristic, hair-shirty, and Stoic. I get it about hormesis, that idea that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger: Freezing in cold plunges, baking in saunas. I get it, I do.
Tag: Hormesis
A Fire Horse Meditation
The walks need to get longer, and the pace needs to be pushed a bit. The heavy things need to be picked up so the muscles will strengthen for the coming days of wielding shovels, pushing barrows, and circling kayak paddles in and out of heavy water.