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“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.”- Albert Einstein

Life is such a glorious gift from our Creator.

In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.Abraham Lincoln

Yoga is an enigma that bonds your mind and body.

“It is not arrogant or egotistical to feel good inside. You had nothing to do with it. It’s simply the honest response to clearly perceived Reality.”  ~ Erich Schiffman

Running exceeds your limitation.

“We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort.”
–Jesse Owens, 4-time Olympic Gold medalist at the 1936 Olympics

I am honestly not fond of expressing myself using words. But since I can’t always express all my ideas and obnoxious thoughts to someone, I started blogging. I thought, “Why not give it a try?” I have inclined myself towards adventure, making beautiful crafts, experimenting strategies in real life action, has a huge appreciation to ART, and sometimes I just want to keep singing all day or suddenly I start practicing a new dance. I expand my imagination and trying to experience the real deal about life and what it offers. After reading my DISC personality test, it all sink in, and I realized that I am, in fact, an introvert. But I am not completely an introvert. Based on my personality profile, I have the natural stability pacing, outgoing, and balanced towards people. My weaknesses claims that I am trusting too much on others, overly optimistic and worst is overly focused on being liked. I argued to myself and trying to sink in all these discoveries to myself and must say it is True. Over the course of my life, I’ve considered myself outgoing, witty, talkative and whole of an EXTROVERT person. My early 20’s was filled of colors, experiment, culture clash and overnight conversations. Eventually, as I grow old, when they say that people change over the course of life, I guess I am one of those girls turning into a selfish woman that had set her boundaries, focusing her own life and setting priorities. I must that admit I grew Tired. For what? For meaningless conversations and unnecessary interactions. In fact, I have been a type of person who’s always excited to go home and prefer the all Me time. I had been intervening of de-clutter my mess or past mistakes and trying to have a clear and stress-free happy life. I thought of myself like this tiny worm waiting inside her cocoon to be transformed into a beautiful butterfly.

(Soleus Run 2015. With my friend Arlene and my boyfriend Anthony.)

What makes me decide to start running? It’s all about my body.

What motivates me to be a runner? I just love being ACTIVE. I started liking wall climbing, badminton, biking and working out in the gym. However, I didn’t seem to enjoy doing it everyday.One time, my friend Arlene shared her passion on running and joining local fun-runs. She looks active and convinced me that it is her best way to stay healthy and fit. After few days, I discovered a place to start running. I started striking for few walks and luckily, encouraged my boyfriend to join me. After few months of willingness, part-time laziness and pushing for determination, I fell into running. I started off  my long runs with 5km run, then few 5km run and the 10km run was the farthest. I effect in my body after few damn days of running was visible. My calves and legs are obviously looking toned and stronger. I know how to managed my breathing, posture and pacing. My lungs keeps on expanding and my heart keeps telling that it is just right inside my chest loudly pumping. On my rest days, my heart seems like it’s not there but again when I get back on track run, while feeling the momentum of running, my heart tells me to keep on running. My heart tells me, “I’ll keep pumping to tell you that I am ALIVE.”

(my first downward facing dog pose: Sunday, 14 June 2015)

Yoga -the workout that you just don’t get in first try. Yoga just simply demands willingness and time to make it perfect.

The beauty of yoga is that it can be practice pretty much anywhere, on your own or with other yoga enthusiasts.

I used to work in BPO industry and most of the time, it is very unhealthy dealing with customers complaints. The stress grew inside my body and I became weary and tired. When I’m at work, all I think about is going home and sleep. But when I’m home, it seems stupid that I can’t sleep, just being lazy, watching movies, and munching my favorite comfort foods. Well then again, my fitspiration friend, Arlene, told me she has been fascinated with Pilates and  said she is a yoga enthusiast and it helped her overcome dealing with her imbalanced female hormones and definitely helped her gain strength that sometimes she has the except, “I just want to beat some ass.” Funny though but I was not convinced. Kicking off some butts sometimes what I wished to do. I started watching yoga videos. It never interest me at first. I kick it off with home cardio workouts, Pilates and abs workout. Though you can obviously see the changes in your body, it seems not enough feeling all the intensity. I just want to feel relaxed and confident. So I asked myself, Why not try Yoga now. When I first started my Yoga practice, let me tell the world that I have never been flexible.

(crowpose- one step at a time)

By the time you start your home yoga, happy feeling and relaxed body will take place. Just demand a time for yourself and yoga.

Here are the benefits I gained since I started Yoga:

• Increased flexibility.
• Increased muscle strength and tone.
• Improved respiration, energy and vitality.
• Maintaining a balanced metabolism.
• Weight reduction.
• Cardio and circulatory health.

Let me tell you. Yoga demands motivation. Just like any other exercise or workouts, one has to have the mindset to lift their butt off the ground , meditate and start Yoga. Your body and Spirit will reconnect. Probably you don’t know what this lalalala I am talking about Yoga not until you experience it. But anyway, when you feel like losing yourself, try Yoga. -♥keyef