Lengthy distance working generally creates a suspension of knee-jerk judgments and creates a way euphoria that’s generally additionally known as an “altered state of consciousness.” As an novice runner who averages solely about 10 to 12 miles every week, I nonetheless concur with that assertion.
Truly there are fairly a number of non secular orders which use long-distance ultra-marathon working (something over 26 miles) as a device to transcend the physique consciousness, to remove the psychological limitations and biases, and to open up the thoughts to a brand new “floating” consciousness which appears to be like on the world from a model new goal standpoint. There are literally stories of out-of-body experiences amongst some ultra-runners as effectively.
The Shri Chinmoy Order headquartered in New York Metropolis, for instance, is well-known for the incredible working feats it encourages its members to sort out with a purpose to transcend the thoughts’s ideas about “bodily actuality” and the “physique’s limitations.”
The Shri Chinmoy Marathon Staff commonly organizes and participates in 50K and 100K races.
The “Working Monks” current one other wonderful fusion of working ands non secular self-discipline.
In an effort to achieve entry to larger ranges of consciousness by way of working, a sure Buddhist sect in Japan allegedly run (are you prepared for this?) 100 marathons on 100 consecutive days!
Waking up at 1:30 a.m. within the morning, the monks pray and meditate for an hour. Then they hit the highway and run 26 miles. After the marathon they’re again to their regular each day chores and prayers, after which to mattress early within the night.
The subsequent day they do it over again, for 100 days straight.
The monk who fails within the process, is requested to “finish his life with the belt of his gown,” in line with the Shri Chinmoy web page.
I am all for pushing my physique a bit of with a purpose to attain a considerably extra elevated state of consciousness, humility and kindness.
However I do not suppose I am going to ever attain a stage the place I might be going for the belt of my gown simply because I can not run 100 marathons in a row. I hope not anyhow.
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