A morning glory on my patio this morning. Don’t forget to stop and smell the roses. Or morning glory. Any flower will do.
I greeted the morning by reading a lovely post by Moma Fauna that reminded me that I need to breathe a little and generally chill out. That’s one of the things I love about her blog. It seems like every post is written just for me, like one of those pictures where the eyes seem to follow you no matter where you are in the room (only not creepy).
I think it’s time to engage my Neshamah and disengage my Ruach. So I shifted my morning workout down a couple of gears and took a moment to walk around my yard and enjoy the flowers.
What’s a Ruach and a Neshamah? Well, in Qabalah there are four parts of the soul:
- Chiah – the life force, or unified cosmic soul
- Neshamah – the higher instincts, such as love, holiness, kindness, and so on
- Ruach – the logical, discerning, common sense soul
- Nefesh – the animal drives, hunger, thirst, sex drive, etc.
This is a useful way of looking at your spiritual self. If you want to be physically fit, you work out your whole body. If you want to be spiritually fit, you should work out all parts of your soul. Every day isn’t Upper Body Day, and every day shouldn’t be Ruach day.
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And now for your 2-part Cabal Fang WOD (workout of the day). Part 1 comes by way of the irrepressible Coach Mark Hatmaker. It was in this morning’s LEGENDS Newsletter email. If you want to get Legends in your email box, sign up here.
- Get everything ready so you can run through each part without breaks.
- Part 1: Select two dumbbells (#15/#20/#25 depending on your size).
- Set timer for :30 intervals. Do as many Push Presses as you can for :30, then “rest” for :30 with your arms locked overhead in the up position. Cycle through twice more.
- Complete 3 x 3:00/1:00 on the Heavy bag, all out.
- Part 2: Get on your bike and ride for 30 minutes (if you don’t have a bike, do something else aerobic like jumping rope or jogging). For the duration, keep your pace at “I can sort of talk but I definitely can’t sing.”
Robert Mitchell Jr. 