Try waking up late, even as you slept late, as I did today, and you'll find the day get groggy. You become somewhat irritable and the body and the mind coordination goes awry. You tend to be somewhat curt and short in your responses. Overall, the day simply seems to be disjointed. Although I slept only early morning and I have some hectic travel ahead of me this week, they were weak excuses for me to sleep till mid-morning. Mind you, I didn't oversleep. It was just one of those nights when things just didn't relieve to my anticipation and left me sitting up to finish some unfinished work, which eventually didn't finish either. One of those nights, I assured myself. But this is not about the night before. After the usual set of yoga exercises got finished I could feel the heat, air, water, and energy circulations get warmed up and regularized. Freshness in the body brought about freshness in the mind. Yet, it took a while to start feeling my usual rhythm.

When we buy a washing machine they give us a user manual. When we purchase a television we get a user manual. So is the case with almost any product nowadays. Why is that there is no user manual for our body?

Each of us have to invent our own way of managing our body. When someone asks us, 'How are you today?' we mechanically reply 'I'm fine.' Are we really fine? What do we mean by felling 'fine'? Is the body feeling fine or feeling heavy?

A relative of ours was once was asked how she felt, she replied, 'Only one problem I have. The body is coming wherever I go.' She is no more now. What would that feeling be? Or, would we have any feeling at all? I do not know. No one who experiences this feeling ever comes back to explain to us or write a user manual of how to feel fine when we live. Thankfully that is not a serious threat to a comfortable feeling.

Each of us have a natural rhythm. Our mind will provide necessary feedback if it is feeling fine. Our body is the vehicle of the soul. The mind is the dashboard. Master your body, you master your life.

Exercise everyday.

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I Am New,
Krish Murali Eswar.
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