Life Rest Days - Spiritual Rest Days

Good morning all! Did a short 3 mile ride this morning, with a misty rain in the air and some light basic exercises ( push-ups, sit-ups, wind-mills, jumping jacks)

Several people have questioned me as to what I mean by Life/Spiritual Rest days, so I figured I would write a little about that, while eating my oatmeal, a cup of yogurt and drinking some green tea.

Life rest days -I classify them as physical rest days from everyday life routines. Most people see these days as away from their regular 'day jobs' or schooling like as in 'the weekend' or 'my vacation' or maybe just a Sunday.

We all need these type days or else physical burn-out begins and soon stress builds and then BAM!, we're done for and nature forces us to take rest days by way of physical sickness and fatigue.

So it is when exercising - rest from doing everyday strenuous bodily workouts provides the opportunity for the body to repair its muscles and aid in their growth. As our body's grow older and if during this time period you are also active physically, rest and recovery are very important. Over training at any stage of exercise will not only kill the enjoyment but possibly you too.

So rest days from life's normal routine things and from everyday exercise is necessary and what I call my exercising rest days (not my everyday routine rest days) during June, will be Mon., Wed. and Fridays of each week.

Spiritual Rest Days -I classify these as times for me to kinda center myself mentally & physically with nature, others and the universe. I combine these days with physical rest days as well. I am not a religious person and by that I mean organized religion and all it's gatherings.

I am a spiritual person, I believe we were created by forces that we can't as puny humans, even come close to totally understanding, at least not yet. We are part of the natural Earthly environment. Our bodies are made up of 100% all natural Earth elements. ( except for them darn Hostess Susie Q's I eat, but I figure hey, my family will save insurance money because they won't need to embalm me) So part one of our make-up as humans is a physical Earth form made from parts of Earths elements, which is taken care of by physically resting it as wrote about above.

Our other part is the spirit part, some call this the soul, I call it the invisible mental part of our brain, (thoughts). Whatever human name you give it doesn't matter, what matters is that in reality it's a part of our being, it's the part of us that comes not from Earth physical elements but from invisible Universal elements (cause & effect) and just like our bodies we need to care for it.

Getting wrapped up in the everyday material world is a 24 hour job and we need to conduct ourselves in a noble manner towards other and other things, so that we can ascend spiritually to Divine Perfection. We do this by the choice and administering of right thoughts to our lives, (cause & effect). I take stock of these right thoughts by taking spiritual rest days.

I chose when my spiritual & physical rest days will occur by the moon phases, (full, quarter, new). If you look you'll see that most months a certain phase of the moon occurs anywhere between 6 to 9 days apart, so for me it make perfect sense to use Earth and Moon planetary cycles to attach my rest days to, as they are by nature perfectly spaced apart. (maybe by universal design for us humans?) Another part of my Spiritual rest days is what I call 'retreat days' which I do for 3 days during season changing time on Earth.

What I should be doing and what I have been doing on rest days has been highly changeable lately and starting June 1st, I will be trying to apply more of my being and thoughts into them. But I haven't minded the changeability too much, as that also is part of our human make-up, adapting to changes we might have to make to our plans in order to serve a better purpose for someone or something else. It's just that I now am feeling out of sorts lately and if I want to focus myself on achieving my MTBiking comeback than I am going to have to seriously take my spiritual rest days.

I will write more on what constitutes the make-up of my spiritual rest and retreat days later, but life's duty's are calling me...

Have a good day...

Knobby