How it all began dun dun dun…..
Well, my thirst for it all began in 2001. I wanted a whole new physical me. Of sound and mind me spiritually was already ok. So I set out. I didn’t know what the hell I was doing!! I tried different workouts and I started to give up, I had no motivation. Workout after workout nothing really worked, I didn’t realize at the time you had to break yourself down before you build back up.
So it took a while before I got in the habit of things correctly. I gave up on it for a while. I had started college and was working I thought I had no time for it. I was more consentrating on my Art degree than anything else (which I am still working towards) and focusing more on spirtuality.
It wasn’t until 2003 that I finally grasped the concept. Military broke me down and then built me back up more ways than one. But it was only endurance that I had. Well time past, came and gone. My routine was only what I was told to do, nothing extra. Still wasn’t eating exactly healthy either.
I went back to school and being a Soldier at the same time, I saw other doing it so why not me right? Took more art classes and some General ed that I needed. But as I was doing this I noticed I was gaining weight because my pant size went up 3 x in 1 1/2 months. I said wait one minute, I just bought these sob’s this is fbs. Started reading more into the whole system of being and got really focused and balanced. Started to act upon what I needed to do and set goals.
I started just lifting my body weight doing physical training twice a day. For about 9 months I did this in 2007. I started hitting the weights in the gym just as of November 2007 and loving every minute of it. Every now and again I lose my center though and must regain my balance and ground. I find it again every time though. But now my goals are to achieve a 300 lb bench and gain 25 lbs of muscle, so I am now traveling down that road, however long it may be and continuing to keep sight everything.
July 2, 2008 at 7:42 am
Balance between mind/body/spirit is so important!! Thats awesome that you have done all of this and figured out the basics!
I know for me finding balance has always been an interesting challenge. I either neglect spirit in pursuit of mind knowledge, or I neglect the physical doing the spiritual…now I have learned to move threw all three in harmony!! Trance dance! Yoga! Belly dance all move with the spirit!! And even lifting weights you can be very mindful!! Or use your breath and breathe into the muscle your focused on!!
And I love ‘walking meditation’ or what I call ‘deep and profound’ days where every thought I have is so connected to my spirit that the whole day ends up being a mind/body spirit awakening!!
Its been almost 2 months since I’ve been able to experience that…but its coming back again!!
I cant wait to see more of your art Brandon!! You are very talented!!