Real Resolution/Real Revolution
December 30th 2006 11:27
Of course, it's time for the whole New Year's thing. You decide that your life patterns are not taking you where you want to go and determine to "make that change", to quote Michael Jackson. I am going to do my part and help you get a proper start on the fitness resolution you are inevitably going to make.
What you need most is a true revolution based on a true resolution. That is a true mental and emotional break with the past and a strange new set of actions. A quick history lesson. The world revolution is a Latin world based on a Greek concept. It literally means to roll back. The Greeks were deep into the idea of everything revolving around in a pattern that was inevitable and immutable. That reminds me of the New Year's pattern. We get convicted about our inadequacies, make an inadequate resolution to change, act in accordance with this weak commitment and end up back at the same spot in a year. That's not what we are working for.
A real revolution involves a real resolution. Resolution is a Latin word which means to free from some bind and even to return again to one's constituent parts. A resolution is thus an unbinding of all the habits with which we aren't satisfied. You really have to say good-bye to bad habits and that is not pleasant. Without a plan to attached your resolution you are playing some time of emotional game with yourself.
You make New Year's resolutions about the habits you don't like, don't you? They've got to be out the door and its got to be never to return. That's where the Roman concept of revolution comes in. Unlike the Greek determinism which lies behind the term revolution, the Romans defined revolution as "novae res," new things or a new situation. A political revolution to Romans meant change. Not change that reverts to form, although that is a possibility, but change to something different or even strange. (The Latin word "novae" means both new and strange at the same time.) Resolution is thus to abandon the familiar but bad and revolution is to bring on the strange. When you resolve to change, you face the strange and the uncomfortable and you must accept this. You really have to get excited about the strange and uncomfortable.
Fitness? You have to express your will and stop a number of bad habits like couch sitting and eating poison in massive quantities. You have to replace the bad with the strange
pending time in the gym and eating healthy. That will not be easy,indeed unpleasant and uncomfortable at first. In fact, you will feel like you are lost in a strange land. Its got to be that way.
Here's my advice. Accept on a volitional level that change will not be a fun riot and get on with it. Start your new life and try not to think for about three weeks. Avoid situations which will bring back the old habits. Focus on the "novae res" that lie ahead and how much fun they will bring. You'll look better, feel better, be healthier, have more self- esteem, and be envied by slugs everywhere. That situation will be "novae et bonae"(good). More soon on the how of fitness resolution and revolution. Your servant, as always.
What you need most is a true revolution based on a true resolution. That is a true mental and emotional break with the past and a strange new set of actions. A quick history lesson. The world revolution is a Latin world based on a Greek concept. It literally means to roll back. The Greeks were deep into the idea of everything revolving around in a pattern that was inevitable and immutable. That reminds me of the New Year's pattern. We get convicted about our inadequacies, make an inadequate resolution to change, act in accordance with this weak commitment and end up back at the same spot in a year. That's not what we are working for.
A real revolution involves a real resolution. Resolution is a Latin word which means to free from some bind and even to return again to one's constituent parts. A resolution is thus an unbinding of all the habits with which we aren't satisfied. You really have to say good-bye to bad habits and that is not pleasant. Without a plan to attached your resolution you are playing some time of emotional game with yourself.
You make New Year's resolutions about the habits you don't like, don't you? They've got to be out the door and its got to be never to return. That's where the Roman concept of revolution comes in. Unlike the Greek determinism which lies behind the term revolution, the Romans defined revolution as "novae res," new things or a new situation. A political revolution to Romans meant change. Not change that reverts to form, although that is a possibility, but change to something different or even strange. (The Latin word "novae" means both new and strange at the same time.) Resolution is thus to abandon the familiar but bad and revolution is to bring on the strange. When you resolve to change, you face the strange and the uncomfortable and you must accept this. You really have to get excited about the strange and uncomfortable.
Fitness? You have to express your will and stop a number of bad habits like couch sitting and eating poison in massive quantities. You have to replace the bad with the strange
pending time in the gym and eating healthy. That will not be easy,indeed unpleasant and uncomfortable at first. In fact, you will feel like you are lost in a strange land. Its got to be that way.Here's my advice. Accept on a volitional level that change will not be a fun riot and get on with it. Start your new life and try not to think for about three weeks. Avoid situations which will bring back the old habits. Focus on the "novae res" that lie ahead and how much fun they will bring. You'll look better, feel better, be healthier, have more self- esteem, and be envied by slugs everywhere. That situation will be "novae et bonae"(good). More soon on the how of fitness resolution and revolution. Your servant, as always.
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