Exercise Routine or Daily Practice: Is There A Difference?

photo credit: Mar­shall Astor — Food Pornographer

Some­times a friend or fam­ily mem­ber asks, “are you still doing your morn­ing exer­cise pro­gram?” The choice of words sort of shocks me. Such a def­i­n­i­tion of what I do in the morn­ings seems remote indeed from what I call ‘my daily prac­tice.’ In my mind there is all the dif­fer­ence in the world between the two, the exer­cise program/routine and a daily prac­tice. To me, the two have very dif­fer­ent objec­tives.

In an exer­cise pro­gram we gen­er­ally do a daily fit­ness rou­tine (a good thing, for sure) for exter­nal rea­sons. We exer­cise to look good, to be healthy, to slim down, to build mus­cles, or coun­ter­act calo­ries, etc. In other words, we do an exer­cise pro­gram because we want to accom­plish cer­tain, con­crete results.

photo credit: Nancee_art

In a daily prac­tice, phys­i­cal move­ment is used, not so much for the pur­pose of “stay­ing fit,” “los­ing weight” or “stay­ing strong,” but to facil­i­tate phys­i­cal align­ment with the pri­mary source of life energy for the pur­pose of receiv­ing more of it. The goal is to res­onate at a higher and higher vibra­tional fre­quency towards achiev­ing union with Uni­ver­sal Source Supply.

Whereas an exer­cise pro­gram is likely to be moti­vated by exter­nal causes, inner motives are what drive the daily practice.