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Recently while running it occurred to me why I do such a crazy sport as strapping shoes to my feet and hitting the pavement for anywhere from ten to sixty minutes several times a week. Perhaps others who exercise or have some other diversionary hobby can relate to my recent revelation.
Simply put, running is for me a centrifuge of my soul.
For all the busyness of life, I need some settling and separating activity, something that will jar my mundane loose from what is sacred and central in my life.
Its not for cardiovascular well-being that I run--it is not health per se--unless you consider sanity health, which is perhaps safe to suggest in our holistic age of three-dimensional fitness.
No, it is more like prayer. I commune with God and myself and discover again what is important from my day, in my week, and in my life.
As a centrifuge, then, running takes on a maintenance-character for me. It has a centering, settling effect.
In this centrifuge, I remember things I've forgotten, and I forget things I've been burdened with remembering for too long.
To use what is perhaps the most current image attached with the centrifuge, I have access to the information molecules of my spiritual helix, my soul's DNA. While the rest of the parts of the cell, useless in this endeavor of psychic processing, spin to the top and away, that which is profound and heavy settles and is safe.
