Whether we know it or not, we spend time each day taking care of our bodies and minds. There are certain activities we know we need to do each day. These include; eating, sleeping, drinking, going to the bathroom, brushing our teeth, cleaning our bodies. Any of these can be skipped for a day without too much negative effect, yet miss more than one day and you really will feel the effects, (of course there are exceptions). At the same time, the more we do think about the quality of each of these the better we feel.
What I have found is to develop a long term discipline to practice we can add two other things.
1- Purposeful movement
2- Quieting the mind
So with the same attitude we take toward our basic needs, we take toward our practice. It is simple, each day just as we will eat, sleep, and go to the bathroom, we also will take time to become quiet and take time for purposeful movement. In this way our practice becomes integrated into our daily life and not just another thing to do that is separate from our lives.
We are not taking care of our body and mind simply to maintain, because nature and time are always slowly degrading us. With bringing our practice into the every day we are actively engaged in the practice of renewal and rejuvenation.
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