Daisy Entry #1

There are muscles in my body that I have forgotten about, muscles that I have not stretched in what seems like a decade. And how whole, and alive I feel when I stretch these muscles. It reminds me vividly of how a puma moves, or maybe when I was little and pretended I was a puma. I feel fast, and strong, and proud. As if I'm really experiencing all the parts of myself coming together to form my full potential. It makes me realize that the ones I use in daily life are really only one small portion of the amount I have- my full potential just a few steps away. And I ignore them.

The strongest parts of my back, my arms, and my torso lay dormant. When you type on a computer, when you lay on a bed, when you sit and eat- the most common motions of daily life- what strength do you portray? The answer is: that you don't. The mind and the body are balanced, you have to sharpen both to reach full potential, or at least that's what I've learned. It makes you remember that you are a whole, living being that has the drive of life pulsing through your every cell. I have forgotten this sensation more than once, and now I am addicted to it like a drug. I am always in motion, the most time I spend resting during the day is