Fitness Is in the Knowing

There is a kind of fitness that has nothing to do with mirrors or muscle, nothing to do with how flat your stomach looks or how many squats you can do.
It is the kind of fitness that lives inside knowing.

The Knowing

Fitness is in the knowing. But for you to know, you have to listen.
Knowing is more than having information about your body. It is that sacred awareness that happens when you begin to recognize what your body is saying.
When you begin to tell the difference between hunger and fatigue, between thirst and boredom, between needing to move and needing to rest.

And then there is the deeper knowing — the one that happens when your spirit and your senses meet.
When you feel the presence of God in your chest, in your breath, in your stillness.
Because your soul finds expression through your body.
That is how you know things.
That is how heaven speaks.

The Listening

Listening is the bridge between the two.
In movement, listening looks like slowing down enough to understand what each position should feel like.
It’s that moment when you stop rushing your squats or your stretches, and you finally understand how your body wants to move. Once you know that, you can move faster — but the quality of awareness never leaves.

In eating, listening looks like chewing slowly enough to taste your food, to feel the texture on your tongue, to notice whether you like it or not.
In everyday life, it looks like taking a deep breath while driving, or looking into someone’s eyes while they’re talking to you.

Listening makes the ordinary sacred.

You know you’re truly listening when you can name what you feel — when you’re not rehearsing what to say next, when you can remember what someone said because you were present for it.
Listening is not a performance.
You know the difference — one makes you anxious; the other makes you whole.

When You Don’t Listen

When you don’t listen, your body becomes a stranger.
You grow critical and harsh. You start judging its shape, its pace, its hunger, because you no longer understand what it’s trying to say.
You become tired, anxious, resentful. You might even begin to hate the very process of taking care of yourself.

Your body speaks, but you silence it.
And when the silence grows long enough, guilt and shame start to fill the space.

But the body never lies. It wasn’t built that way.

The Bridge Back

The bridge back is always simple:
A pause.
A breath.
A question whispered inward — What do I really need right now?

Not, “What will fix me?” but, “What will comfort me?”
Maybe the answer is a meal, a stretch, a nap, a walk, or simply to stop pretending that you’re okay.
Listening isn’t indulgence — it’s radical honesty.

Sometimes your body tells you hard truths. It tells you you’ve been neglecting it. It tells you you need to move, to play, to rest, to eat.
And you resist, because listening requires courage.
But when you finally yield, when you finally follow what your body is saying — that’s when healing begins.

Listening as Prayer

These days, listening to my body feels like prayer.
Prayer makes you pause. It makes you breathe. It forces you into stillness — into awareness of where your body begins and ends.
When you kneel, stand, or lift your hands, you feel your body.
You realize that self-expression is also body-expression — that the way you move, sigh, or breathe is all part of the same sacred language.

Prayer isn’t about leaving the body to reach heaven.
It’s about bringing heaven into the body.
And when you move, breathe, or sit in awareness, you are already praying.

Heaven in the Body

Your body was designed as a home for heaven.
When you slow down enough to listen — to your breath, your hunger, your heartbeat — heaven finds room to dwell.
And when body awareness and spiritual awareness meet, healing happens.

Healing is when heaven comes to your body.
When the spirit and the senses no longer argue but move together.
When your body becomes whole again, and your mind becomes gentle toward it.

Your body is the temple of God — not a project to fix, but a place to honor.
To care for your body is to worship.

The Ripple

And when you begin to live this way, the world shifts.
You become gentler — with yourself and with others.
You stop seeing people as objects and start seeing them as living, breathing beings — because you’ve remembered that you are one too.

It changes how you work, how you create, how you drive, how you treat strangers.
It shows up in the small things — the patience in traffic, the kindness at the market, the quiet joy that fills a room when someone truly feels at peace in their skin.

You start building a different kind of world — one where compassion is the default and creativity is abundant.
A community of whole, healed people.

The Return to Wholeness

Fitness is in the knowing.
But for you to know, you have to listen.

Because when you listen, you discover that your body has always known the way home — to balance, to peace, to God.
And once you begin to live that way, everything feels right again.
Everything feels whole.
Everything feels holy.