CST Plugs Into the "Innernet"

Did you ever have a flash of brilliant insight while exercising?  Was it as clear as day at the time, and then you had trouble recapturing the vividness of the idea afterwards?  It has happened to me on numerous occasions.

Earlier today, while perusing Brickhouse Bodymind, I was led to this Ted.com clip about the right brain / left brain dichotomy.  As you probably already know, the right brain is where the really interesting, insightful and holistic stuff happens.  If you have time to watch the clip, it's worth it.  The speaker is a little bit "out there" at times, but she is very insightful and extremely entertaining in her delivery of the subject.

The problem is, at least as far as I can see, that our left/linear/logical brains makes so much noise in Western civilization that we can barely "hear" the right brain.  I have never been big on meditation or relaxation.  But I am generally pretty good at seeing problems from a global perspective and thinking in holistic terms.  So I got to thinking on what mechanisms I have to tap into my "Innernet" as it is sometimes called.  And it dawned on me that one of the only times that I manage to live absolutely in the present is during my training.  Of course, this does not happen all the time, but on occasion I "wake up" to the chronological world while exercising.  In other words, I had been living completely in the present moment, not worrying about the past or the future.  I was in the zone.

This happens especially with more rhythmic movements like jogging (in my former training life) or FlowFit from the CST System.  I realize that for me, that has been my "meditative outlet."  I do want to explore more targeted meditative work, especially using very pragmatic methods such as what can be found in the RESET program, but exercise does a pretty good job of it as well if you ask me.  High intensity work can do it too I think, but in a different way.  I find the intensity forces me into the present by making me extremely aware of my body in the moment.  There is no past or future, just the effort in that instant.

Now, I just need to remember to right down those brilliant insights I get while training... ;-)