Now For Some Hedonism

It’s been a hard-working month of vacation here in Bangkok… culminating in yesterdays 5 hour seminar– which rocked!  I had a fantastic time and thoroughly destroyed my voice (singing teacher won’t like that– gotta learn how to speak powerfully without killing the voice)!

Now it’s time for some well-deserved hedonism!  Tomoe arrives tonight, and the rest of the SF gang arrives later this week.

Then it’s down to Koh Payam for a birthday party on the beach, and some diving!  I’ll also be getting in a nice long run there.  It’ll be nice to finally run somewhere that isn’t choked in smog.   Next week’s long run will clock in at 2 hours.

In fact, the running paid off beautifully yesterday at the seminar– giving me the fuel I needed to go all out for 5 straight hours (with no lunch).   This is, after all, the reason we “exercise”:  health = energy.

Our sick (literally) culture equates health with longevity only–  it’s something you do so you can squeeze out a few more years when you are old and tired.. that’s the message we are sent.  We’re also sent the message that health is difficult and inconvenient… or even “weird”  (thus the term “health nut”).

In my mind, sedentary, tired, overweight people are “nuts”.  Why destroy your happiness, vitality, and most of all– ENERGY?

I’m happy to report that my Mom, after a lifetime of being obese, has finally gotten the message (in large part thanks to a Tony Robbins seminar we attended).   She’s become a vegetarian, is exercising everyday, sucks down “green vegetable drinks”, and drinks lots of water.   During my whole lifetime, I have never seen her so focused.

I think she’s finally understanding that the benefits of health occur RIGHT NOW.  Once you taste that sustained energy and peak mental state, you never want to go back to lethargy!

And so, my hedonism on the beach will include plenty of running, swimming, diving, and soccer playing!