The Runners High And Why You Get It
The runners high is a myth. Most persons say it is formed and experienced because of endorphins that are released when the system reaches an exhaustive state of being. Mentally this great feeling and state is filled with feelings of euphoria and an intense pleasurable sensation. Most people equate this to sex and obtaining an orgasm during sex.
The runners high is not an objective experience you can duplicate at will. It truly is a hit and mss system that runners tend to get when they run more than thirty to forty minutes a go and that is why I write. I believe this state can be reached with the right understanding and tools
The runner’s high is achieved when you forget yourself, if you have ever achieved this state you will note that it is never noticed until it has passed. It is a bit like driving car when you are tired. You remember that you moved from destination A to B but you remember after the fact. You do not know how you drive, made the right lane changes and how you got to your destination. You drove but there was no driver
With this running state the same rules applies. You only know you had a runners’ high after the fact and not during and the reason for this is the absence of the ego or mind.
So to get this state you need to find ways to forget the ego. There is a contradiction in itself because the very act of forgetting the ego needs an ego. There has to be a forgetter who wants to forget.
So you need to find ways to make the ego weak. And this is done by becoming aware during a run. If you become aware you will forget the mind. Involving all the senses when you run will take out the mind and the runner’s high can be achieved
A fantastic way to do this is to concentrate on the sky; searching and concentrating on a limitless sky will involve the senses and allow you to lose your self. Do not concentrate on the clouds or on an object in the sky, just look through and into the sky applying all your senses to the act of looking. Should you do this the central observer which is the mind is going to be taken out and you will most likely be in a position to achieve this sough after high state that so many runners desire but can’t seem to achieve
The other common solution and answer is to meditate but once again meditation is usually a poor way of achieving the runner’s high since it involves the use of an ego to meditate
If you wish to discover how to get the runners high on demand you need to reads this blog it will show you simple ways to achieve the Zen like state
