So what exactly is a runner’s high? In this post I want to briefly discuss what getting this phenomenon means. For many people it simply happens by accident. The usual occurrence happens as follows- you are in a race or are running in a long run and your legs and body feel like they just won’t stop and you are feeling as light as a further and with endless energy.
Other elements that identify this condition consist of possessing the feeling that you are simply invincible whiles running. It feels like your legs wont stop and that you just run for miles on end without having the feeling of getting tired. In short, individuals say runner’s high is like getting a sexual orgasm followed by continuous bliss. Runner’s high might be equated to a Zen like state or Zen running, where your running seems to become effortless. It usually feels like you are soaring through the air and that you have become one with the wind and there is often a deep measure of exhilaration. In brief it has been described as being as intense as an orgasm.
The runners high for most people tends to happen after thirty to forty minutes of continuous running. It is rarely found in the beginning of a run.
It should be noted that many people equate the runners high as a physiological phenomenon and as such it can’t be duplicated. That’s why some days you get it and other days it is impossible to accomplish. It is false to believe that the runner’ high is a physical phenomenon. The fact is that it is not a physiological phenomenon but rather it is a mental phenomenon. In reality this runners high is actually the complete absence of your thoughts. At that point, the concept of time is forgotten and as time ceases there may be the total absence on the self or ego. This is the runners high.
Self forgetfulness removes the limitation on the mind and so there may be no runner just running and the run. This really is why you don’t feel tired when you are having the runners high. This is so, simply because with no ego there is no runners (the ego), so the run and running also cease to exist. You will be in the Zen like mode.
So how does one achieve the runners high? It really is merely attained by quieting the mind, ego and your thoughts. There are multiple ways of quieting the mind, one of the most well known is chanting, chanting is not the way to go because to chant you need the ego or the mind and this ego or mind is what stops the runners high from manifesting itself. The runners high can only be achieved when are running in the moment and now. At that moment there are no objectives and no mind to obtain those objectives.
It goes even deeper that this, because when you forget yourself, the “you” who wants to achieve this high is also forgotten and the run, the runner and running become one.
Some people use meditation to help achieve this state but it is incorrect. Meditation requires the presence of a doer or the ego to perform meditation and this doer prevents the occurrence of self forgetfulness.
In short if you forget yourself, you will be able to achieve the runners high at will, almost effortlessly. There will be no goal to achieve in your run and before you know it, you will be running with the wind and the run running and the runner will become one.
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