With that said. I'm incredibly proud to announce: I FINISHED A BOOK! For Christmas an employee of mine gave me my very own copy of the Alchemist, and I read about 3/4 of it aloud to my mom, Jack, and Pete on our way to Osseo Christmas eve. I had about 40 pages to go, and I finally finished yesterday morning. As the cover of the book states, once in a great while, a life changing book comes out. The Alchemist is definitively one of those pieces of literature. There are several passages that are quite profound, and honestly I'm still digesting them all.
You will have to read the book yourself to really get a grasp on the deep meanings, but much of the context deals with following your heart, and finding your Personal Treasure. I found the following passage incredible. (Santiago, the main character in search of his Personal Treasure, suddenly felt the urge to stop his journey)
"....Naturally it's (your heart), afraid that, in pursuing your dream, you might lose everything you've won." "Well then why should I listen to my heart?" "Because you will never again be able to keep it quiet. Even if you pretend to have heard what it tells you, it will always be there inside you, repeating to you what you're thinking about life and about the world."
I think that we all have that voice inside of us, that holds strong our beliefs, desires, and dreams. The more we try to ignore or silence these voices, the further we drift from our Personal Treasure. I recently had my first experience with Energy Work, which basically consists of tapping into our bodies energy, chakras, and balancing our force centers. After my session, my practitioner revealed to me many truths that she discovered during our session.
She stated that I have an enormous energy field, and also that my energy is easily shifted. Meaning, she had no problem balancing my chakras and force centers, but because of that, I'm easily influenced by negative energy and basically other peoples negative attitudes. Which could explain why I've been feeling incredibly kiddywampus lately.
She also asked if I feel as though I'm highly intuitive, as she felt as though my third eye chakra (function: direct perception, intuition, imagination, visualization, Self-Mastery) is quite larger than normal. Being that I'm an INFJ, it is said (and I agree), that I have uncanny insight to people and situations, and get feelings about things, and intuitively understand them. So I have always felt very intuitive. Its hard to explain, but I just have feelings about things, and freakishly am often dead on and right about them or specific events. Okay, back to my point. Listening to your heart, and those voices inside of us. Although we ignore them or stubbornly refuse to listen to them from time to time, they are always there. And as a result, leave us feeling kiddywampus. Yuck. Might have to work on that one.
Another passage that I love, from The Alchemist is the follwing:
This passage brings me back to my Bodybuilding Journey. I found that in that journey, when I was pushing myself towards that specific treasure, I learned and discovered things about the world, about relationships, and about myself that I would never have seen had I not had the courage to try. And because of that, life felt luminous. I have never felt more alive. I think that by listening to our hearts, and searching for our Life's Treasure, our lives and beings are ignited and truly alive.
Good stuff maynard. Okay, I'm way past my deadline for getting to the gym this morning, but I was in need of cranking out a post. So, my parting words..if you haven't read The Alchemist, please do. If you want to borrow my copy, I'd be happy to get it to you.
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