Gym alone?

Many people ask me how can I like gymming alone? They themselves have to push themselves for doing it. Firstly, something as boring as exercise and then that too alone!

I had always liked gymming alone. Even though a couple of times some friend would be there but eventually you have to do your own stuff and just maybe talk to each other once in a while.

Gymming or exercising alone brings to me a chance to get in touch with myself without any other distractions. If you see rest of the day- in office, at home- you are surrounded by voices. of people, from television, laptop, even the appliances! Slowly, I think most of us have become unused or are even scared of a noiseless, quite and lone time alone. We depend on an aid constantly- a TV, music, book, laptop, mobile…to give us that comfort feeling that we are not alone.

I can agree that one cannot be alone for too long but at least a couple of hours in a day should be there when one can retreat back inside oneself and just talk to one’s mind, heart, soul & body. The 1.5 hours I spend in gym does that for me. Surrounded by strangers- nobody to talk to- I am on my own. While exercising I focus not only on the actions but the thoughts. I assure my body that I do not take it for granted, that I want to take care of it in return of the services/ capabilities it is providing me. I know it will sound weird but lots of articles and studies do say that most of the modern day illnesses are stress related and can be taken care if we just focus on ourselves, take sometime out to care for our body. It is kind of a meditation.

There are interim periods when I am irregular and stop exercising and over a period of time I get to see the repercussions not only bodily but also mentally.

Its always a good feeling for me to shut everything out and just be with myself, think about things which are perhaps occupying my mind- many times even sorting them out., be thankful of this life, good health, stable mind :) and then I am back again, to have conversations and get in touch with my friends & loved ones.

It’s a way for me to have a balance.