Rejuvenating Your Mind and Your Body

I met a friend for breakfast this morning, a guy I meet once a quarter or so to talk about a common interest we have, building better lives and businesses through goal setting.  One of the things I'm learning to do more and more of is Think.  I know that sounds pretty simple.  After all the ability to think is something we're all born with and thinking should be something that comes quite naturally.  Not for me.  I don't know about you but I've actually had to re-learn how to think, how to step away from what I do every day, how to eliminate distractions and how to focus not on a task but on a ideal.  I feel good about the progress I've made learning how to simply Think.

While we're eating, Todd asks me if I've ever had a massage.  I said yes - once - and it made me very uncomfortable and I won't get into why here.  Anyway, Todd's a marathon / iron man kind of guy and I'm, well let's just say, not.  I can barely run a couple of miles and I don't care for any of it.  He goes on to tell me about the power of massage, how it releases lactic acid from your muscles, improves blood circulation, heals muscles and most of all, how it rejuvenates the body.  And as he was telling me this, it hit me.  This is just like thinking.  When you take the time to think, you release your brain's creative endorphins, you improve your ability to focus and you come up with new ideas that you probably never would have other wise.  Same, apparently, holds true for your body! 

I'm going to follow Todd's advice and start making massages part of my regular routine.  I'm hoping that I will experience the rejuvenation that he told me about but I was also thinking that the massage time might just be a great time to THINK as well!