Perhaps the most powerful prayer is the simple phrase: I am. What follows these words is no less then the declaration of our existence. We may claim our freedom or bind ourselves to conditions that no longer serve. The prayer is impartial to all but intent. A runners prayer is motion. Yet often it is clouded with statements that don't serve our purpose. Fear, fatigue and discomfort are all observations of passing a phenomenon - they don't exist outside the mind. Note them. Correct them. Release them. Honor the body and its message yet believe in more then a temporal truth. As a runner, as spirit residing through a body - we are grace and ease and fluid in thought and motion. Before each run we pray: I am...and then give ourselves to truth our existence.
Peace,
Eric
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