Exercise = Exorcise
Get the demons out, how? And world premier of first pages of the finished manuscript
Man I had this writing yesterday, tears fell onto the page. It was heart felt and from a raw place. It ended with me walking around hopeless. And I sat with that feeling for a while before realizing realizing the indisputable danger of - dwelling - and - festering
This is why a majority of philosophers, academics, writers even, are ugly.
Their thoughts consume them and they aren’t even original thoughts.
“what happens after we die?” “why does God allow kids to starve?”
Questions of this nature that everyone, at one point, has had cross their minds. But thinkers, the habitual chin scratcher, especially of a modern, pessimist type, lives here and makes a career of it. This is why theres little to know inspiration in any art being published today. Nothing that makes people want to leave it all out on the line today. Nothing to aspire towards. We’re fed melancholy and feel better about it. They dwell on what they can’t know, can’t do, and it becomes their entire being.
And so I burnt that paper.
Watched it flame float into the Atlantic ocean.
Drown where it deserved.
While watching it float under the surface it all sank in that these feelings, while human, while REAL, are attacks. We’re not meant to sit here in despair or to sit with our hands in our pockets while dwelling on all that’s wrong.
Some people still make a career of this. Not us. I vowed to never get cynical. We’ve gained a following from the opposite. From inspiring action, making people want to taste life! Chase it! Run it down and jump on it’s back like wild lion to gazelle across the grasslands!
And so I jumped into movement. The most pure form of ‘distraction.’ Hoping to get the blood going, push the memories out and onto the ground to be stomped on.
Exercise = Exorcise
This is the hardest part. When all you want to do is -feel.- Kick your feet up, take the day off, let your sadness win. And hear me… I value this: I value feeling every emotion to it’s full spectrum and witnessing how deep the human emotional field is. But when it takes you out of the game, when it sits you on the bench, too much power has been given to the debilitation.
Exercise the thoughts: Pour whats going on in your head onto a paper. Buy a blank canvas and start whipping the brush across it. Open a text editor and begin coding an algorithm that can take down The Citadel. Get out of your head. An addendum for this is ‘exercise your plans’ - pour yourself into that which you want to build and create. Channel that emotional energy into heartfelt progress. It’s the most rewarding, behind physical exhaustion.
Exercise the body: This is necessity. Sweat. Open ocean swim, fight, gym, run, lift, even sitting in the sauna. Get the demons out, detox the mind body and soul through voluntary effort.
Exercise your right to support: You have friends and family, ANGELS, that have been put on Earth to care for you. Lean on them. May be for a day or two, but do it. Give them a call, text them. Don’t even have to make it about you. Send a long ago friend, a friend from a simpler time, a heartfelt message. This is your community. Exercise your ability to strength it. The best time to do this is when you’re on the ground with dirt kicked in your face. Same with God, Nature, whatever you bend the knee too: We’re best viewed when we come groveling, so in need of help that God cries watching us.
Get the demons out!
Don’t allow them the time, energy, or space within your Holy Heart!
It all sounds simple. It’s not.
When you’re living it things can feel heavy. Like a dagger suspending over our heads kept in the air by a weak string and a hand in black gloves patiently holding scissors waiting to let loose the dam that is humanity.
The power is always yours to roll over and die or exorcise it all.
SNEAK PEAK AT FINISHED PIECES OF THE MANUSCRIPT BELOW
AND REGARDING EARLY ACCESS TO THE NEW BOOK
(accountants estimation says first edition will sell out in 2 days, I bet 1, God will let us know)
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