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Running the Spiritual Path: A Runner's Guide to Breathing, Meditating, and Exploring the Prayerful Dimension of the Sport
by
Roger Joslin
Imagine achieving physical fitness and spiritual growth simultaneously. Roger Joslin's step-by-step program is an engaging exploration of the truth that spiritual well-being is as likely to happen while running, as it is within the more traditional settings of neighborhood churches, synagogues, or mosques. Through awareness, chants, and visualization, and through atte...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
June 1st 2004
by St. Martin's Griffin
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Joslin does a nice job of tying meditation to running. The book is hardly perfect. It's overwritten, overly personal, and isn't very well organized. But it's one of the few things I've read that really makes an effort to fuse sitting meditation to running. If you're willing to weed through the ideas, it's actually a pretty good book.
I actually plan on ordering a copy to keep around.
Worth noting: Jenny hated this book with a passion.
I actually plan on ordering a copy to keep around.
Worth noting: Jenny hated this book with a passion.
Intersting subject but not well organized. Mainly a random collection of the author's personal journal entries...
so far it's been an easy read, and i'm eager to try out the breathing and focusing techniques to see if they improve either the speed or quality of my runs. obviously the book is very god heavy, but he pulls from all the major religions for his mantras and meditation techniques, so it feels more scholarly than priestly.
I've tried numerous times to enjoy running, and truthfully I probably will never truly enjoy it. This book does introduce a spiritual approach to running which is inspiring, and I'll try to apply some of the methods mentioned in the book.
I'm not running now, but when I was, this was a good read.
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