It's a fine thing to get up and get out (on your feet) without any dilly-dallying. Pigeons do it, as do most wild animals: they energize the bodymind first thing so that the rest of the day can benefit from it. It's the most natural ritual in the whole animal world.
It's as natural as sleeping, this wakeful energizing, this galvanizing of the body-mind-earth. Indeed, many animals simply must do it in order to warm up and re-ignite their internal engines. And eat!
In the wild, the locomotive break-fast precedes all other breaks of fasts...
In the wild, the locomotive break-fast precedes all other breaks of fasts...
The problem with humans, or rather 'man', is that he has created all manner of artificial devices and external engines (that disembody and pollute us) to do this for him, so instead of going out for a cycle or a jog, he opens the fridge, turns on the heating, or jumps in his car. Gradually, man moves away from the source until such a point where he no longer knows what or where that source is. The result is a move away from natural ways, and from overall Health, with a corresponding move towards unnatural (mechanical-synthetic) ways, and towards disease.
Yet, it is only by re-turning to the source, to the Natural Ways, that man will ever regain his humanity... and the synergy that reveals the great Revelation...
So the next time you're tempted to turn up the heating, put on an extra sweater, or jump into your big gas-guzzling car, get out into the airs, and breathe! Re-wild your self... Wildness enriches the spirit...
Have a wild breakfast!
Wake and Bike!
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