Perfect Poise, Perfect Life
Bring your body into balance and revolutionise your life
By Noel Kingsley
Publisher Hodder Mobius
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Enthusiasm
Steve Irwin had enthusiasm
There was a day within the last year or so when I did not have any enthusiasm for anything. It was a grey day and without troubling you with any details, all I can say is that I am very glad I do not experience many days where my attitude to life is without enthusiasm. It is the fire in you that makes you bright, happy, successful and experience an enjoyable life.
F.M. Alexander, the originator of the Alexander Technique said, "You should always have something to look forward to." I suspect that his reason for suggesting this is that when we have something to look forward to we are ebullient, filled with anticipation of something good, and our happiness makes us buoyant, light and springy in stature; in short it helps your posture. If we are depressed, feeling low, tired or stressed with the weight of the world on our shoulders, we collapse in stature, shrink into ourselves which puts pressure on our insides that is detrimental to health and well being. There are health specialists who will tell you that a happy attitude will boost your immune system and ward off illness. Such a happy disposition may even cure you of sickness.
Having something to look forward to gives us enthusiasm. If we are able to find anything about our daily activities to be enthusiastic about, then we should endeavour to bring this to the fore-front of our mind and not let worries or negative thinking obliterate it. By looking at our day, our activities be it work or otherwise, see some aspects for which you are truly grateful, even if it is just the cosiness of your office, the regular income or if do not have that, the freedom that irregular work may provide! Enthusiasm is the bubble of positive emotion that will cause you to step out with a skip, that will lift your heart to smile, put a sparkle in your eye, that conquers depression, negates stress and will do more for your posture and health than anything. With enthusiasm you can achieve untold success, move mountains, build bridges and knock away troubles.
Henry Ford (1863-1947) the American Car manufacturer said, "Enthusiasm is the irresistible urge of your will and energy to execute your ideas... It is at the bottom of all progress."
