BrigidForged
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Prreviously Nanna Io - Old thread: https://www.community.darebee.com/threads/keeping-momentum.339
This thread should have been called Moulded by Water but as swimming is off the table for the moment that will be for a future name change.
Ok so now to explaining this new thread business, the following is a talk about spirituality rather than fitness and rather weird so if you are not interested feel free to skip to the fitness part below.
A couple of years ago, I dabbled in the world of witchcraft and paganism. No, I don't actually believe that crystals will heal me and unlike many who jumped on this bandwagon I don't cast spells trying to improve my life. What appeals to me is the ritualistic aspect of this practice. Something which I have noticed has helped me keep consistency in the past. This was also confirmed by my psychologist an year back and is apparently explained in a book called The Sacred an the Profane: The Nature of Religion Basically people need rituals to close cycles and they are, even if we do not realise it, a central part of our life.
I also realised that spiritually speaking, I connect much more to animism than a theistic religion or buddhism, which is a path I had tried to follow in the past. There is one exception though, I have found myself drawn to the figure of Brigid, a Goddes in Irish Paganism turned Saint following Catholic influence in Ireland.
I don't want to say I venerate her, that is not the point, but I appreciate what she stands for, a bit like I would look up to what Lagertha from Vikings stands for. I like that she has many aspects including healing, poetry and the forge - especially the last one appeals to me as challenging traditional gender roles. There is also a mother aspect which once again, appeals to me in contrast to other aspects. I also see her as a symbol for adaptation to the times, moving from a Pagan figure to a Catholic one as times changed (and a new religion was forced upon the population, but she managed to remain).
I am still a very pragmatic, down-to-earth person despite what I may have written above but a spiritual practice is something I have realised I need, and I want to link the fitness journey to it. I namely want to link my fitness practice to the forge aspect of Brigid, by forging my body if you want.
So... after writing this I realise this is a very unusual post for this site. I hope I did not scare anyone away with this and the rest of the thread will be much more conventional I promise. Unless someone is curious, I do not plan to share my spiritual practice but just keep it to the fitness part. I just wanted to explain what the hell happened to my account and share my change in the way I look at my fitness journey. The only exception may be Imbolc where I may do a short celebratory post.
I welcome questions on all this so do not hesitate!
Back to exercising:
I am currently on Vitality due to an injury while doing Fit December, I will do this until Sunday and then see if I do another week or if I keep it as a warm-up while adding a L2 program to it.
The keyword of this year is consistency, I have come to realise that my body does not bounce back as it used to and I really need to have a consistent practice and ideally move a bit every day - and what better than DAREBEE for that!
As mentioned in my old thread, I am not sure I will be able to connect again before the new year. I have a very intense two weeks coming up with Christmas and moving to a new country.
I will try to start updating regularly in the new year but it is not excluded that this thread will remain sporadic as the old one. I just have too many things on my plate.
So, in case I don't manage to check in before, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Happy New year, and a period of Holiday and Rest!
This thread should have been called Moulded by Water but as swimming is off the table for the moment that will be for a future name change.
Ok so now to explaining this new thread business, the following is a talk about spirituality rather than fitness and rather weird so if you are not interested feel free to skip to the fitness part below.
A couple of years ago, I dabbled in the world of witchcraft and paganism. No, I don't actually believe that crystals will heal me and unlike many who jumped on this bandwagon I don't cast spells trying to improve my life. What appeals to me is the ritualistic aspect of this practice. Something which I have noticed has helped me keep consistency in the past. This was also confirmed by my psychologist an year back and is apparently explained in a book called The Sacred an the Profane: The Nature of Religion Basically people need rituals to close cycles and they are, even if we do not realise it, a central part of our life.
I also realised that spiritually speaking, I connect much more to animism than a theistic religion or buddhism, which is a path I had tried to follow in the past. There is one exception though, I have found myself drawn to the figure of Brigid, a Goddes in Irish Paganism turned Saint following Catholic influence in Ireland.
I don't want to say I venerate her, that is not the point, but I appreciate what she stands for, a bit like I would look up to what Lagertha from Vikings stands for. I like that she has many aspects including healing, poetry and the forge - especially the last one appeals to me as challenging traditional gender roles. There is also a mother aspect which once again, appeals to me in contrast to other aspects. I also see her as a symbol for adaptation to the times, moving from a Pagan figure to a Catholic one as times changed (and a new religion was forced upon the population, but she managed to remain).
I am still a very pragmatic, down-to-earth person despite what I may have written above but a spiritual practice is something I have realised I need, and I want to link the fitness journey to it. I namely want to link my fitness practice to the forge aspect of Brigid, by forging my body if you want.
So... after writing this I realise this is a very unusual post for this site. I hope I did not scare anyone away with this and the rest of the thread will be much more conventional I promise. Unless someone is curious, I do not plan to share my spiritual practice but just keep it to the fitness part. I just wanted to explain what the hell happened to my account and share my change in the way I look at my fitness journey. The only exception may be Imbolc where I may do a short celebratory post.
I welcome questions on all this so do not hesitate!
Back to exercising:
I am currently on Vitality due to an injury while doing Fit December, I will do this until Sunday and then see if I do another week or if I keep it as a warm-up while adding a L2 program to it.
The keyword of this year is consistency, I have come to realise that my body does not bounce back as it used to and I really need to have a consistent practice and ideally move a bit every day - and what better than DAREBEE for that!
As mentioned in my old thread, I am not sure I will be able to connect again before the new year. I have a very intense two weeks coming up with Christmas and moving to a new country.
I will try to start updating regularly in the new year but it is not excluded that this thread will remain sporadic as the old one. I just have too many things on my plate.
So, in case I don't manage to check in before, I wish you all a Merry Christmas, a Happy New year, and a period of Holiday and Rest!
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) . Where do you move, if I may ask ?
But then again, I tend to be drawn to all figures which mix traditional and non-traditional gender roles. Strangely enough I have only found female figured that do that and no male figure. 
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