Have you jumped onto the fitness bandwagon?…or you are still walking by its side…

Last one month has been very painful for me. Two months back, I sprained my back and had to discontinue my exercise routine (however inadequate and irregular it was, at least it was there!). Finally, last week, I got the clean chit from my doctor that I could now continue and it will be best if I join a gym to shed the extra kilos that are in no way helping my back.

So I decided that it was high time I took some time out from my busy schedule (getting up late, going to office, coming back and vegetating in from of TV/reading a book, phew!...its VERY tiring, I tell you!) to at least back to the much manageable body-shape I used to have. Now guess what was my first step once this ground-breaking (ahem! ahem!) decision was made? Did you say looking out for a gym with proper facilities? Contacting a nutritionist? Talking to hitherto invisible, so-called fitness freaks? No silly! I went shopping! After all, a girl’s gotta look good when she sweats and huffs and puffs, right? The shoes have to be Adidas, the tees cannot be anything other than Reebok, and bottoms better be Nike. So thus armed, I went in search of a proper gym. My brother suggested the one he goes to, but then the cosmos finally accepted that I was really serious this time – a gym opened in the same premises as my office and today, two weeks and 9000/- later, I am the proud member of this fitness asylum for six months. Do I hear applause, ladies? Well, thank you!

But along with all this, something else happened. Till now I was being told fro people all around the world about all the severe diets I need to undertake and the torturous exercises I must incorporate in my routine, and I WAS trying to do it all. I have exercise routines pasted on my mirror, I do a vision exercise to see me this everyday and I have all sorts of recipes stuck on my kitchen wall. But all this was not helping. I had even dropped out of my last gym after one month, that too after taking a personal trainer, because I just could not get up and go there! So what changed now? This time, when I went shopping I did not take myself so seriously. So I have a few extra kilos, big deal! If it was not for me, this entire billions-of-dollar worth fitness industry will be non-existent! So I made some not-so-smart choices and gained weight, now I am going to loose it. Simple! No explanations and depression needed!

As I started out with good humour, the salesmen and women became extremely helpful and non-judgemental. The gym people said all I need to do is follow some basic guidelines and stick to working out 5 times a week, one hour a day. Nothing special was needed. No personal trainers, no working out 3 hours, and eating sensibly and giving into some treats so that you don’t binge. Now this seems something that I can handle. For the first time in years, I am looking forward to working out. So you see when feel you now have to be on the fitness bandwagon, you can also choose to climb its steps, if you are not that good at jumping.

Just took a cool quiz...

What's Your Healthiest Habit?

My Result: Staying Zen

Ommmm ... no matter what comes at you, you usually manage to stay cool! Though maybe you aren't meditating every moment of the day, it can sure seem that way. You know there's nothing out there worth losing sleep over, and you aren't going to let anything keep you down. After all, every cloud has a silver lining, right? All that composure is surely doing wonders for your body and your spirit.
Of course you do find yourself stressing out when things get really tough — who doesn't? What sets your apart is your talent for getting back on track and not losing the plot. Just make sure to have some crazy fun from time to time!

What are you?
http://web.tickle.com/jumpto?test=healthiesthabitogt&c=50652

The paradox descends...

Returning after almost a month to write something worthwhile...

I have discovered, after knowing for a long, long time, that I have all the time in the world to do all the things I want to do (or to postpone them!) and on the other hand time is slipping like sand from my fist and I am not sure if I should hold it even more tightly or just let it all go in one swift movement of opening my fist.

I understand this complimentary opposite things now. Both are true. There is no hurry, but is not much time left either. In fact, no time is left. Only this very moment is available - and there is no hurry to spend it or use it. Can you imagine? I don't even know whom I am addressing!

But I am sure this is it! The key to this quest I am on...to flow and know and yet keep flowing....

Lots of courage and deep faith is required. I am up to the task....Because I am waiting - I have been waiting for a long, long time - I am waiting for a happening...I do wonder when it will manifest, but somehow I am not in hurry, I am relaxed and at the same time I understand that time is running out.

I will not edit this post...Something written in the moment with least interference from my side...

May this flow continue.....

Perspective....

Isn't this pic awesome?

Taken from here: http://good-times.webshots.com/photo/2066900530045724542nQSGpA

Can love be stifling?

Is it possible feel as if you are suffocating inside someone's love? So much so that you start feeling like there is a net around you...I suddenly do. Or maybe I have started feeling like this only now. Why can't I live my life my way? Why do I have to have a stamp of approval?

Why am I scared of leaving it all behind? Am I scared of leaving the ground behind?

If best things in life are free, why do we settle for less?

I have believed since long that the best things, the things that can give me joy, stuff that makes me really happy, is available freely...if not exactly for free. All I have to do is really believe that I deserve it. Today, I have come out of this "believing". I now know! For sure! Everything is available, provided I can look at it without being judgmental. And I mean everything! If the judgment is there, even a beautiful rose will seem unaffordable...its price will be unbearable to pay!!

I drop my judgment today.

The world we weave...

Imagine a world where there is no need to improvise, become efficient, be conscious, continuously be on your guard…

Why does it sound like a dream and nothing else? Is it even real? In fact, is it even nice to think of a world like that? So then what is nice? Who will decide? How about each one for himself/herself?

Lets shut off out logical sides and just give into imagination and see what is possible and what is not.

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Some date, a typical day in office

No body is asking you how much you have done today…there is no question of productivity. Everyone has unlimited resources, so there is no need for the bosses to exploit each employee to the fullest.

Understand the scenario….

Every person on the Earth has now the capacity to ask for any service/product – there is no charge! Therefore, as the whole concept of profit has vanished, why bother with who has worked how much? There is no cost price, there is no selling price, so obviously, no profit! Everyone is getting their due in the world – according to necessity, according to desire…Now of course there might be an argument that desire is unlimited, well, so the resources here.

I can imagine the deepest sensibilities of people reading this being offended. No profit? No cost management? What are we to do – charity? No, you are nothing to do. You are to flow…just let go. But that’s difficult, right? That’s damn difficult!!

But why is it so difficult? Isn’t it obvious? There is no competition!!! You need not compete with anyone to do better or earn better. So now, how to do prove to the world and yourself that you are better than the next guy?

The idea behind this thinking is if I am not more, then I am less. This very thought guides and governs most of the efforts we make to improve and better ourselves. There is no harm in working on your Self to become more evolved beings, but usually we tend to do more scheming and plotting to ensure we come up on tops as compared to others. So basically, we are just living out lives through others!

What a tangled world we weave for ourselves!!