The Twenty-One Disciplines to Spirit Run

By Jody Perry

To Spirit Run is to chase your goals with one-pointed attention and live in the bliss from the success you find at the end. Spearhead your focus on one goal: making 90 percent of obstacles dissolve, showing 10 percent of obstacles exposed opportunity toward your true purpose and enlightenment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Mar 22, 2021
• ISBN: 9781664158528

Jody Perry

Jody Perry is a California Indigenous born in Santa Rosa, California, where he lives a wild and free-spirited lifestyle. Being raised isolated from his heritage, his people, he found himself running and getting lost in the company of nature all through his life, naturally over time manifesting a contemporary process to movement, to an ancient medicine, your Spirit Run.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Running in History

Chapter 1 Joy—Childlike Spirit Within

Chapter 2 Breathing

Chapter 3 Body Tempo—Body Language

Chapter 4 Physical Pain Tolerance

Chapter 5 Grit

Chapter 6 Recovery Patience

Chapter 7 Overall Goal

Chapter 8 Natural Runner’s Technique

Chapter 9 Trail Run—The External Sanctuary

Chapter 10 Medicine Run—Meditation

Chapter 11 Runner’s High—Sacred Temple Foundation

Chapter 12 Mental Pain Recovery—Self-Healing

Chapter 13 Disciplines Revisited—Pattern Recognition

Chapter 14 Advanced Running Technique Ancient Man—Essential Needs

Chapter 15 Mantrayana Running—Advance Running State of Mind (Transcendence Running)

Chapter 16 Breathing Mantras—Mindful Breathing

Chapter 17 Chakra Awareness—Spiritual Healing

Chapter 18 Wu Wei Running Spiritual and Physical Flow

Chapter 19 Sacred Running

Chapter 20 Sacred Temple

Chapter 21 Spirit Run

Conclusion

INTRODUCTION

A Sacred Process

For every step forward on this journey, for every action beyond this point, I will provide twenty-one disciplines, helping you find a closer connection to your body, mind, and soul. Information from your ancestors located and locked within you. An overall general sense of happiness throughout your human experience. All from three ancient instruments embedded in your DNA. Ancient instruments that can cause paradigm shifting, offer breakthroughs consistently, and give the confidence to conquer the impossible.

Many of these twenty-one disciplines are all common in our daily lives, and many more should be practiced daily. When these disciplines are layered naturally, your ancient instruments all will emerge organically, revealing where a state of flow begins and ultimately how to sustain flow through life. A connection to your Sacred Temple internally and how to consistently expand on its potential. Third, the ability to find balance in your own authentic reality.

This is your own spiritual practice, and it’s been waiting patiently to be manifested for you, your Spirit Run. Truly freeing the natural essence to a modern American indigenous wild spirit. Bridging the gap between divinity and the body’s most ancient movement, running. Find self-revelation behind every corner when you decide to seek a Spirit Run and take responsibility for the service being paved for you. I found my first medicine as an indigenous man in a run, giving me blessing in spiritual knowledge. Taking me further than I ever imagined in health, spirituality, and my ultimate wealth, love. These blessings shared to me from a place of internal bliss now lay on these pages for you. Recycle it and evolve it to another level, your own level, giving you that fresh rebirth of a childlike curiosity each time.

The twenty-one disciplines to Spirit Run have multiple trails to observe and learn from. Spirituality is the compass keeping your vision on the main direction in your sacred process. The main trail you want to be observing at all times is finding your true bliss and happiness, which will be found with patience. Your mental health as well as physical health will hopefully, over a small amount of time, become a secondary trail to your spiritual healing and not the primary focus among your sacred process. Your spiritual health is essential to the healing of the mind and body. Having the need to start off creating a joyful fresh perspective on the mental process behind running. Forgetting everything you thought you knew about your run and showing you a quest to enlightenment. Through the movement of America’s First Nation people. Eastern Indian and Far East Asian, ancient spiritual practices. These practices can easily be incorporated in your run. Some people have found a close connection to what I’m going to help you explore and maybe have even experienced this euphoria. This state of mind is only accomplished by some of the most disciplined runners and athletes alike, but every man, woman, and child can have this ultimate experience in movement when following a sacred process.

The twenty-one disciplines will help create a new perspective of mind, a new conditioning of body, and far more, a connection to the spiritual realm, helping gain access to what most people can’t fathom: a quantum field of all possibilities. Once you take on these disciplines, creating a universal bond between spirit, body, and nature with man’s most common and ancient movement, you will find a closer connection to everyone and everything, realizing your cosmic course even clearer, connecting you with your cosmic energy.

Deepak Chopra’s book The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success can be a great way to get a further understanding of how to create this energy and a place of untapped pure potentiality. He explains, The affluence of the universe—the lavish display and abundance of the universe—is an expression of the creative mind, and then you create the possibility of dynamic activity while at the same time carrying the stillness of the eternal, unbounded, creative mind. This exquisite combination of silent, unbounded, infinite mind along with a dynamic, blunded, individual mind is the perfect balance of stillness and movement simultaneously that can create whatever you want. This coexistence of opposites-stillness and dynamism at the same time-makes you independent of situations, circumstances, people, and things. When you quietly acknowledge this exquisite co-existence of opposites, you align yourself with the world of energy that is fluid, dynamic, resilient, changing, forever in motion. And yet it is also non-changing, still, quiet, eternal, and silent. Stillness alone is the potentiality for creativity; movement alone is creativity restricted to a certain aspect of its expression. But the combination of movement and stillness enables you to unleash your creativity in all directions—wherever the power of your attention takes you.

After years of spiritual research, Deepak’s knowledge in Ayurvedic medicine, yoga, and mind, body, and spirit integration has helped me bridge a prime essence in the spiritual relationship from Indian spirituality to American Native spirituality, helping create a strong state of flow within these twenty-one disciplines. I have found both American Native and Eastern Indian traditions are about showing respect to all living beings—trees, rocks, and even water. You lead a positive, healthy life, and each one of us in the world is put here for a purpose. That purpose is to be compassionate and to care for and love one another. These close similarities show the root of these spiritualities comes from one of the same love. Love is the ultimate spiritual emotion, the root to your choices and ultimately your purpose.

American Native spiritual beliefs and the wisdom that went with it have been fragmented and lost like many other ancient civilizations hit by colonial plague as Native people and others work hard on keeping traditions and culture alive. Indian spiritual beliefs like Buddhism can help stimulate new spiritual information from many of these indigenous groups, waiting to be discovered in the indigenous psyche and furthermore into the contemporary psyche. Creating a mission, bringing a medicine that will lift the veil, freeing the senses, and opening a gateway to a new heaven on earth for all of us to live in. Understanding this destination and the road map to it has given me foresight on the native impact for spiritual healing behind your run and one day will be the future to the spiritual development of modern man across the world.

These disciplines are special tools for you to experience while running, helping with realignment of the body and mind. This heightened experience overtime will become a natural process. Then a spiritual exercise will start manifesting into the practice, a spiritual practice. Instilled and embedded in the consciousness will be the ultimate spiritual journey waiting to be found. A journey that takes you to an understanding every day a medicine is being created for the people who want it and need it.

Now as you go on down a trail less traveled to the back of the mind, you will repeat these disciplines in a sequence consistently until a certain level of attention has been succeeded, creating an intuitive connection to the next. Once the goal at the end of each discipline is covered, you move on to the next discipline, stepping closer to a temple within, a divine focus, and ultimately your master reality, your Spirit Run, learning new advantages and at the same time creating the ability to run spiritually. Enjoy.

RUNNING IN HISTORY

Running hasn’t had the same reputation in modern history that it did with our ancient ancestors. Running two million years ago was cultural and helped keep communities together. At this time, man had to become more socially active as they had to hunt in large groups to take down large game and herds of animals, which became their running culture: a process that helped our cerebral cortex expand significantly. The expansion of the brain and our ability to run seem to have real close relations to how we developed from Australopithecus to Homo erectus. Let me give you a little breakdown of why this may have occurred.

At this time, man had adapted to wide-open plains where wildlife was in abundance. Climate change was in full effect, having our ancestors leave the comfort of the trees to hunt and gather. This blessed man with modern tools to help us survive—deeper arches and long thin toes, Achilles tendon, and the gluteus maximus—but this wasn’t enough. Man had to learn how to sweat. We are the only animal that can sweat through its skin, allowing us to cool down for long distances, which presents a major advantage for us to outrun our prey. As we adapted into plain hunters, we also developed our first hunting parties, which were large groups, organized by running status. The best endurance runners, who were leading the group, would outrun the animals. Our elders today are found to be the best endurance runners with more people over forty now holding the titles to some of the most grueling long-distance runs in history. The youth was the muscle coming from the rear to either help with the take-down process or breakdown of the essentials; they often carried the animal remains back to the weaker runners. Women would run with infants suckling from breast if needed to make it to a fresh kill. This running man theory gave me the best explanation on how we became such a strong running culture for a million years. In Mesoamerica, running culture stayed relevant for many generations throughout the continent. As running for persistent hunting became obsolete to many cultures around the world, running for sport and recreation was significant during games and events.

In ancient Egypt, 3000 BC, large festivals were held in honor of the continuation of a Pharaoh’s reign. Competitive running was the main event. Track-style races were held, and people attended the festivities. The gods and goddesses were the focus for the ancient Greeks, and they began the Olympics Games around 2,700 years ago in honor of the god Zeus. At the beginning, the games were only a day long, and one of the first recorded events was a sprint from one end of the arena to the other. Local competitive running, especially in rural areas of Europe, are also likely to have been started as a result of religious festivals.

These festivals such as the Tailteann Games in Ireland were originally funeral games held in honor of the deceased and the goddess Tailtiu. Traditionally, they were held in late summer and would finish on Lammas eve (August 1, 1800 BC). Ireland running culture was a way to squash tribal disputes and honor the dead. Fell running across the moors and hills of northern Britain is another example of religious festival games—for example, in harvest and Easter celebrations. The first recorded fell run took place in Braemar, Scotland, in AD 1040 and was organized by King Malcolm Canmore.

Sadly, as hunting and gathering transformed into an agricultural and industrial society, Ancient Man’s way of running soon became a distant memory; the new modern American approach included a negative connotation. Running was not deemed as essential for sustaining life and became a rare, unfamiliar sight. Consequently, convicts during the Victorian era in 1818 experienced many hours pumping water and grain through the use of a treadmill as it was seen as intense labor. This torture technique was later adopted throughout prisons in America. Individuals soon began to notice their cardiovascular fitness and endurance strengthening, so much so that the treadmill was instilled in a mainstream idea of fitness in 1968. The treadmill would be the start of a running boom.

Running has always helped us survive and stay close to our fellow man, but running has offered us more than that. It helps expand our brains and, even more so, our minds by helping us be more spiritually connected, organized, thoughtful, and one with the earth. We have lost this connection in modern running, and now we, as spiritualists, are starting to notice how essential it is to the growth in not only our human development but our spiritual development as well. But there are still some places where you can find this spiritual connection where they keep finding ways to hold on to this ancient knowledge, and running culture is still a way of life.

Hopi, a First Nation people from the Arizona plateaus, have a strong Spiritual Running culture that dates back over hundreds of years. Running in the Arizona plateaus is very hot, dry, and harsh but has its benefits when connecting spiritually. The Hopi have developed ceremonial runs to bring messages from elders to special springs around their villages. These ceremonies are called prayer runs and are held throughout the year to keep a strong spiritual connection with the earth. Prayer runs our ways to heal and give