REST / BODY

Running gives us access to deep rest. Actually, to clarify, intuitive running (Borden) gives us access to deep rest.

And to be clear, running is just the doorway– the vehicle– for us getting there. And there are millions of doorways– though I think running is my favorite, and the one that comes most naturally to me.

Running gives me space to disentangle myself from the script of how I am supposed to be. It asks me to connect to my body, to the landscape, to the rhythm of my own breath. Running helps my mind quiet. The thinking part of my mind. Not the being or noticing part, but the part that is rattling off endless chatter, usually in the form of judgements, qualifications, and binary thought patterns.

Running gives me rest in that it provides freedom in the form of quiet. A tiny microcosm where I do not have to understand anything rationally or logically.

And isn’t it funny– I think all I’m describing is living in the present moment? Perhaps it is just presence that running gives us access to. Presence through connection to breath, to body, to spirit. Presence through noticing the world, the sky, the birds, my own footfall. Presence feels deeply restful.