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Posted
9:33 AM
by freelance radical
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DO YOU HAVE
A
LONG COMMUTE
?
Yesterday, as I was driving to the next town over, which is about an hour's ride, I was thinking about a friend of mine who commutes twice that distance to work and how, when you're driving, your right foot is stuck on the gas pedal without relief.......how your hand or hands are stuck on the steering wheel without relief.......how your left foot is stuck doing nothing, without relief, and how the entire rest of your body is stuck in one position, without relief. No wonder, I can barely walk during the first few moments when I've finally reached my destination and get out of my car! So I gave all of that a lot of thought, and came up with a couple of ideas that should make a long commute more pleasant for your brain and more healthy for your body:
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Life is about moments - not destinations.
Meditate on this, if it seems silly at first, because it's really true. So if you have a long commute, add another 30 minutes to the time you allow for it, find a good place (halfway there) to stop off in, and do so, each and every time. In the morning, you could stop off to treat yourself to a really good breakfast. In the afternoon, you could stop halfway back to either get a good dinner, do some food or fun shopping, or get to know another town. If you force yourself to do these things twice each day every single day you'll suddenly realize after about two or three weeks, that your body is more energized, and that your entire outlook on life has improved dramatically.
I guarantee that!
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Sitting immobile for long periods of time
deprives your body of oxygen
OXYGEN = LIFE
Therefore, to prevent your body from becoming depleted:
-------> SING! <-------
If it comes naturally, that's fine -- just do it very loud (loud is important, because that makes you inhale ten times as much oxygen!)
If singing has never been your thing, get yourself a bunch of karaoke CD's of your all-time favorite songs (google for your particular taste) and you'll be surprised how much fun you'll have with those! You will literally be able to feel the oxygen pouring into your system when you're doing that........ while at the same time preventing yourself from being victimized by poor eye sight, muscle spasms, oxygen-deprived blood, headaches, and all kinds of other commuter-ailments.
---3---
For just in case you get tired of singing........buy yourself an easy-to-use recording device that can be left "on" in the seat next to you, so you can simply talk into it whenever you have an idea or a thought that needs to be saved. Alternatively, use it to tell a story. One short story each trip. Start it with a sentence like, "She walked over to him and smiled....."
or
"He had never imagined that he'd be.........."
or
"He suddenly felt himself wishing that he had........"
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I'll probably get some additional commuter ideas, but until then........I hope you'll try and enjoy the above.
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