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Belgium & France


Beloved Europe

The European bike in the pic is a gift from my family in Belgium (Cat and Pepi at our home sweet home). This is what I use when I am in Belgium, right there near the border with France. I too use a lot, -- regardless of where I may be -- my two feet instead of the constant (and quite boring) vehicles. This old bike has given me a lot of joy. In the U.S.A I have a nice treadmill and a few elliptical machines at home. They are extremely useful in hot/humid weather like the one in Louisiana because those machines allow me to stay active in spite of the brutality of extreme high temperatures. This is to say that I do not have a single excuse for skipping some sort of structured exercise like my daily Taiji & Qigong plus the usage of the treadmill and ellipticals.

Structured exercise, of course, does not have to be exhausting to the point of doing it once and then never again. Whatever we do to keep ourselves active has to pass the test of sustainability. It has to become part of our routine without becoming tedious. It has to help us emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The one thing that will tell us how sustainable something may be is when we look forward to do it rather than coming up with depressing and unjustifiable reasons for not doing something that is supposed to help us at all levels of our life. Another important aspect of movement (exercising) is simplicity. Whatever you do, just keep it simple.

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