Run Your Life

Some runners even said that running could keep your mind away from daily life, and consequently, it is hardly imaginable for us. Michael Murphy,who set up Aisa Lun Association, pointed out that many sportsmen would experience special life during competetions. Aisa Lun Association sports dean Mike Spino described that people could find a larger himself by running. And I found that normal people and super stars always touched the elements of inner mind at the most unexpected time.”

When I write this book, John Walker, who comes from New Zealand, becomes the fastest person in 1-mile race in the history. And he described the matter of the triumph in a 1500 km race of the Olympic Games with some excellent words. He said, “When I rushed to the finishing line, a thought that I must win flashed in my mind. Even no looking back, I could felt I was chased by somebody. I know he was the United States’ Rick Wall Huett, even though I could not see him. I bet it must be him. I tried to exert all my energies, while I was managed by subconscious. I met this situation before, but I cannot explain this. And the result was I winned”.

Not long before, I reread William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience, and to my surprise, runners’ words were so similar with the words of many mystics. As mentioned before, matches on Sunday are more than other time. Is it just a coincidence? Maybe it is. However, it is not difficult to find words that mentioned the religious characters of running. A runner from Arizona who was 30 years old said that in 1976, her faith was altered and she became a believer in running. After that, she said, “In my mind, it is reasonable to put my experience and the changes of my faith in the same way”.

We run in the outer world, but we become in the inner world. We want to make achievements, and we get progress day by day on the way to triumph. Inspiration helps us run – far, farther, farthest. During the the process of striving, it seems that whatever we plan to get is possible. But today’s Goal is only the starting point for tomorrow’s new dawn. In a word, spiritual energy could bring us surprising result when we are running. Don’t be hesitate, get ready to run.

What significant is that nobody had ever made entire survey on the spiritual changes led by running. In spite of some attention from several writers, we could never find an entire introduction on the spiritual matter related to running. We have to say it is quite a big pity.