I love running. I love running slow and I love running fast. Yet I think too often people miss out on the art of slow running. Slow running is sight seeing and coming alive again in nature. It has no purpose other than traveling. Not having a purposes is not the same as lack of benifits. There are a host of physical benifits gained from slow runs. Yet for me the most profound of all benifits are spiritual and emotional. A slow run allows me to, first reconnect with my surroundings and then to find myself moving with nature instead of through or against it. This in its self relaxes the mind and opens the soul to new insights and expereinces. It also invites inspiration. Many of my poems have been born in motion on these runs.
Fast is wonderful.
Slow is soulful.
Both are expereinces I treasure.
Peace,
Eric
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