body image, accepting and motivation to exercise

I didn't serve this morning. I've stayed in my room. It's a nice thing

and yet I have all this energy within me to reconcile to this solitary

time which is used to intense chanting and reading and conducting

the services.

I've been thinking about exercising as a way to engage that energy

and I do need to start to do it as a) I am getting older and need to keep

things in shape, and b) I am getting to be a hefty heffer. LOL.

When I focus on my body I don't havr great motivation. I began to ask why

this morning. Here's what I found. Focusing my mind just on my body

I think revealed my place in society. Am I not feeling supported

by the folks around me here in this monastery etc etc to 'work out' - is it a real step out

into individuality in the world? Surely that's something I ought not to just

accept and remain passive about. So I do think that it shows me

again what I have been learning about Blue and life and the thinking in icons.

These major slogans and movements we have in our culture - have to boil down

to the individual and how we really are in the world -EXERCISE is good - but not everyone will be or is built to be

an adonis - but rather a maximized and fit version of their own individual animal (self.)

It turns on a 'lightswitch of excitement' for me. :) i will exercise!

have a good day folks!