{"id":168,"date":"2014-10-27T11:59:23","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/?p=168"},"modified":"2014-10-27T11:59:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T11:59:33","slug":"be-your-own-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/be-your-own-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Your Own Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>\u201cTo me, if life boils down to one thing, it\u2019s movement.\u00a0 To live is to keep moving.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>Jerry Seinfeld<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><em>Consider if what you\u2019re doing is powerful enough to start a movement\u2026.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Starting a movement beats crossing things off your to-do list. Having a purpose beats motivation.\u00a0 Being of service beats doing a job and having a calling is better than having an interest (and especially if you never act on it).\u00a0 Movement, purpose, service and calling are heart centered and energize us more totally than having to grind through our daily issues with our thoughts as our primary resource.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fight-Club.jpeg\" alt=\"Fight Club\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fight-Club.jpeg 284w, https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fight-Club-250x155.jpeg 250w, https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/Fight-Club-120x74.jpeg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cFirst rule of your club is\u2026?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Be Bigger Than The Activity.<\/p>\n<p>If we reduce exercise to its parts, through weight training, we get increased muscle, strength, endurance, more bone density\u2026 you get the idea.\u00a0\u00a0 Bigger than these changes are how we feel moving around in our world.\u00a0 How does weight training as an example change, modify, invite or improve your experience of living?\u00a0 Bigger than being lean is feeling sharper.\u00a0 Bigger than being strong is having more gravitas in life.\u00a0 Bigger than being aerobically fit is staying the course by being stronger and more efficient.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Ask how your endeavors inform the bigger picture for you.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Connect the Dots.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Physical.\u00a0 Social.\u00a0 Emotional.\u00a0 Imaginative.\u00a0 Intuitive.\u00a0 We are multi-faceted beings living in multi dimensional realities.\u00a0 All of us show up to wherever we go!\u00a0 Eating well and exercising well literally flexes more of us into life.\u00a0 Having been educated with mind-body-spirit separateness we tend to compartmentalize our efforts into boxes.\u00a0 There\u2019s nothing more esoteric about yoga than there is weight training.\u00a0 You are the conscious force doing it!<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Tune in to how life changes as you deepen your practice, whatever that may be.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"253\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vlcsnap-2011-11-29-17h57m39-700x253.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vlcsnap-2011-11-29-17h57m39-700x253.png 700w, https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vlcsnap-2011-11-29-17h57m39-250x90.png 250w, https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vlcsnap-2011-11-29-17h57m39-120x43.png 120w, https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/vlcsnap-2011-11-29-17h57m39.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cYou really think that\u2019s cheese you\u2019re eating?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Oblique Spin-Offs.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Once we pay attention to our experience as fully as we can we often get great changes in seemingly unrelated areas.\u00a0 Less anxiety, more resilience through an MMA class. Social inclusion by joining a gym.\u00a0 More emotional flexibility from doing a dance class.\u00a0 More assertiveness at work from having more robust energy and a felt sense of your physicality.\u00a0\u00a0 Greater creativity from a meditation practice. While it may be hard to correlate exactly, we can be sure of our experiences.\u00a0 If we develop skills and traits, we see and take from our environment differently.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Stay alert for \u201cripple in the pond\u201d benefits and experiences you may not have planned for.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"248\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/water_ripple_j0402205_wide.jpg\" alt=\"water_ripple_j0402205_wide\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-174\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/water_ripple_j0402205_wide.jpg 700w, https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/water_ripple_j0402205_wide-250x88.jpg 250w, https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/water_ripple_j0402205_wide-120x42.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>\u201cGo throw some rocks at life.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Archetypal Energy!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wahoo!\u00a0 Warrior, healer, jester, teacher, rebel?\u00a0 Which bigger, greater energy floats your boat?\u00a0 If you were a hero in a film, who would you be?\u00a0 We\u2019re absorbing character, movement and concepts from films all the time, it\u2019s a social cultural engine to feed us ideas.\u00a0 We create meaning and story from our lives as much as we take from fiction each and every day.\u00a0 Get a sense of what informs you deeply, maybe there\u2019s an exciting new angle for you to consider.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Try different jackets on!\u00a0 Dare to get more of you into life, into the world!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u201cIt is the function of the artist to renew our perception.\u00a0 What we are familiar with we cease to see.\u00a0 The writer shakes up the familiar scene and as if by magic, we see a new meaning to it.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Anais Nin<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Starting a movement beats crossing things off your to-do list. Having a purpose beats motivation.\u00a0 Being of service beats doing a job and having a calling is better than having an interest (and especially if you never act on it).\u00a0 Movement, purpose, service and calling are heart centered and energize us more totally than having to grind through our daily issues with our thoughts as our primary resource.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudtag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}