Exercise & Mood

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The verdict I now confirm.
Exercise improves mood.

And it improves productivity, meaning,
there is more energy available,
and more inclination,
to be productive,
(even as simple as getting to create this post.)

And I am confident that there are other benefits,
meaning results that are worth pursuing.
Like improved sleep.
Which in turn makes for improved wakefulness.

And life is just better,
and one imagines that it facilitates more of a good life.
Less sickness, less pain, less discomfort, more energy.

But I am also alert that one may be easily sidetracked from exercise.
Other things frequently push for priority, and often win.

Part of the solution I think to reconcile these competing interests is
to find ways to mix exercise with things that you might be doing otherwise.

Tasks like dishes, or brushing one's teeth,
might just as well be accomplished
standing on one foot, with tiptoes every once in a while.
That's exercise.

And while there are surely better approaches,
the key is not to seek perfection,
rather just to get the exercise 'in', get 'er done.

And so that's my plan....

M

Paradox - All Right & All Wrong

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It seems I am sometimes motivated to resolve conflict.
Not infrequently the conflict is within my own head.
There, competing notions do battle.
And the background meta guideline is that the preferred path is a logical and rational one.
And logic and rationality do not take easily, or sometimes at all,
to mutually exclusive notions simultaneously holding sway.

Consider this example.

It occurs to me that everything is All Right.
It occurs to me that everything is All Wrong.

And it further occurs to me there is a case to be made out for each.
More or less at the same time.

ALL RIGHT

As a proportion, or ratio,
how
do the number of properly working subsystems compare
to the number of all such sub systems
in order for me to command, as quickly as I do,
my fingers to tap out on this keyboard,
(think human body/mind electro-chemical subsystems, for openers)
the precise movements that allow me to communicate with you
through these images of words?
And the answer is !
a huge proportion; Gy-normous; 99.999999+ percent.
Virtually everyone of those sub-sytems has to be 'working'
for me to do what I have just done.

Now, mind, it could all come to a screeching halt if,
that is if, just one of those sub systems started messing up.

I'll save examples of some of those good working subsystems till later on.

ALL WRONG

Today it seemed as if I had about a dozen conversation connections
with a dozen folks
all doing separate  tasks
and more often than not
when I was paying the freight (as customer or employer).

And in virtually each of those encounters
I felt like ranting
near to the point of raving.

There had been some flaw, or goof up, or unmet expectation
in each situation.
At my expense.
And the flaw typically was at some core or fundamental level,
hardly trivial in many plausible imaginings.

And I came to thinking: dang,
the snafus are simply too numerous, too frequent, and involving too deep a gouge,
to allow the whole system to cope.

It can not hold, I surmised.

Again examples will have to be deferred.

RECONCILIATION

That is now I reflect on
how to resolve these apparently competing and
dare I say, mutually exclusive notions,
into a sensible whole.

 But alas the clock nears its irrelevant time.
And that resolution will have to await another post.