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“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired…You’ve always got to make the mind take over and keep going.”

“Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter whether you’re a lion or gazelle - when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.”

Being a BIG fan of ChiRunning, I’ve dedicated one column in ||Nirvana Living|| for articles from Chirunning.com.Chi Running This column will contain some of the best articles from ChiRunning.com, written by Danny Dreyer himself.

The Process of Evolving into the Correct Shoe
Source: ChiRunning.com
Whether you’re a walker or a runner, there are several factors in choosing a shoe:
Your BMI (Body Mass Index):
Your Body Mass Index is a measure of your body fat based on your height and weight. If you have a high BMI, the additional weight you […]

Years ago, when I was living in San Francisco, I went into a local martial arts supply store to buy a pair of t’ai chi shoes. When I asked the little old Chinese woman behind the counter for a pair, she stepped out from behind the counter, looked down at my old running shoes and […]

Most runners that I talk to would like to run faster. I don’t blame them. It’s fun to run fast. To some it’s a burning desire…to others it simply falls somewhere on their general wish list. But in order to get faster, we have traditionally been told by running experts that we need to train […]

Lots of people ask questions about pronation: what causes it, what it does and how to get rid of it!  In fact, both pronation and its functional opposite supination are necessary adaptations to allow the body to respond to the act of walking (and running).  Everybody pronates and supinates to some degree with every step.  […]

Relaxation is what we all say we want, to be relaxed, without stress, without tension. However the reality is that relaxing can be very difficult for many people. Many are not aware of the tension that they carry, especially the tension in their bodies. Then perhaps you get a shoulder massage and WOW, just the […]

Yoga, Pilates, Tai Chi — kinder, gentler exercises have made a splash with the Baby Boomer set. But what about the Boomers who aren’t ready to hang up their running shoes just yet?
Well, there’s ChiRunning. Chi what? ChiRunning, a technique that combines the smooth, flowing moves of […]

T’ai Chi is considered the Mother of Martial Arts. Many serious practitioners even hold it to be the single source from which all martial arts were born. It dates back over 2500 years and is practiced by millions of people in China every day. T’ai Chi is interesting in that it has two faces. It […]