Steps to Exercise — Page 40
- 40 - AN EXTRA BENEFIT OF PHYSICAL EXERCISE Do not feel content if, because you do not take any exercise, you have just enough energy to perform daily tasks by utilising your total efforts. For instance, if you have to use all your energy to lift something, to move a bed or a cupboard or even support a funeral procession. You are wrong to think that you are all right because you can just about perform those tasks. The fact is that if you feel tired by using all your energy or feel cramps in your back and legs then you are like a car that is being driven at 90mph all the time and it has maximum speed of 90mph only. It is obvious that such a car will break down in a short period of time. As it is important to keep some reserve power in a car and not use it to its full capacity, it is important that the energy of your body is not used completely and some energy is left in reserve. The ofce workers, students or shopkeepers who do not take any exercise, use up 80% of their energies in their daily duties. As a result, they are left with only 20% of their energy to perform such tasks as eating and other essential chores. They get so tired that they just fall on their beds and cannot even say their prayers properly. Compared to that, a healthy person who takes exercise regularly uses only 20% of his energies for performing his daily duties and is left with 80% of his energies to utilise for the rest of his leisure activities. He feels light-hearted and even-tempered and performs his household duties with pleasure. Best of all, he can perform his prayers and supplications with ease. His body functions for him and allows him to concentrate in his converse with his Creator. It all goes to prove that physical health is a great ally of spiritual well being and helps to keep the daily life pleasant and happy.