Thursday, September 17, 2009

Spiritual Dispersal and Spiritual Running: Two Posts

How to Lose Your Worse than Useless Thoughts: Dispersal
By Paul Martin

If you’re unable and unwilling to take action on a particular matter, then your negative thoughts are worse than useless no matter how well justified…

Read full article at Quest for Balance.

Running as Spiritual Exercise
By Paul Martin

Finding exercise that you love to do makes it easy…

Read full article at Self Help Daily (Scroll down the page a little to get to "Running as Spiritual Exercise.")

Thanks to Lisis at Quest for Balance and Joi at Self Help Daily for these opportunities to guest post ---

6 Comments:

Vincent said...: Coincidence, Paul. I am planning a post on theme of the yoga of walking, after previous posts on the yoga of imagining oneself a contemplative nun (without taking the 3 lifetime vows), and of being a dandy for at least an afternoon. Actually they are as much as anything posts on the different personalities existing within oneself, which reminds me that once you used to post somewhere as a foppish poetic aesthete. What happened to him?; 1:32 AM
Lisis said...: Paul, thank you so much for your guest post at Q4B today. Getting rid of my worse-than-useless thoughts is definitely something I need to be practicing right now.

Thanks!

Lisis; 7:59 AM
Paul said...: Vincent - I've noticed that many people seem to get from walking exactly what I got through running - it's a meditative, creative experience for them.

Lisis - And thanks for having me. It's interesting how different tools seem to help at different times.; 10:35 AM
tuti said...: in a less glamorous way, i adore your analogy of the poop in the park.
totally constructive. thanks.; 10:22 PM
Paul said...: Tuti - And I like your King James rendition...; 2:53 PM
tuti said...: it's now appropriately linked, i think.
-luv, pooti; 3:35 PM