Kevin Secours was here in January for a great seminar - 3 days of Systema. While here, he quoted Konstantin Komarov: ”If I have a choice in any situation between surviving and living, choose living. Take your least favorite thing and learn to find joy in it. Find the sweet smell in the most horrible odor. Find some beauty in the ugliest sight. Feel some goodness in the worst pain. Don’t allow yourself to refrain from it and to convince yourself that this is horrible, I hate this, and I’m going to avoid it. Tell yourself, I’m doing this to make my health better, to make my combative capacity better, to control my emotions, to control my brain. Everything is good about it, except focusing on how painful it can be. As soon as you focus on the good things, you suddenly start to laugh, you start to chuckle, you collapse, you make fun, it doesn’t matter, and it’s not that bad. It really is not that bad.”
Reading this today got me out of the chair and out on the road for 7.1 miles.
Watch the video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGa_SCfkaHw&feature=player_embedded
