I don’t think that’s mediation.
I can get into ‘the zone’ swimming and cycling, but that’s great fun. Meditation is exhausting, hard work and often leaves me more pissed off than when I started.
Running also gets you the benefits of meditation if you do it right. You can easily empty your head and just exist on autopilot while you’re running.
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz 5 weeks ago
Lightfire228@pawb.social 1 month ago
Running makes me feel like I’m gonna die
Jiu jitsu on the other hand, i get both excersize and an excuse to choke people out
LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Understandable running feels like torture at first, got to push through until it feels good.
It’s literally a metaphor for life, “when life gets hard, work harder! And then you see the amazing results of your torturous hard work and you feel absolutely amazing.”
That’s why running is so healthy. It purges & cleanses out all the bullshit and takes you to a higher level where you are healthy again.
Mind becomes clear, feels exactly like the sun coming out after a good heavy rain. Outlook optimistic. Tolerance of other people elevated. Everything elevated.
Because it only feels good once you’ve worked hard enough to get to the next level where you’re achieving the runners high. That is true health.
Conversely, feeling like you want to “choke people out” is pretty much the opposite of health.
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
As someone who quit running not long after getting to the point I get runners high, you have a point, but also different people can thrive on different forms of cardio. When I ran i found myself rapidly overheating and just generally miserable until I was stoned on feel good chemicals. Bicycling on the other hand was fun enough from the start that I wasn’t struggling to force myself to do it.
When I bought my bike I was struggling to get myself out running every other day. Things like stopping for water made me feel like I was failing. By switching to a different form of cardio, one that I enjoyed, I was able to get into shape without the constant urge to give up. It also came with my knees not hurting.