第三本是网络推荐的,很喜欢它的蓝色封面。
作者陷入焦虑与抑郁时,跑步为她带来了新的生命。最重要的是,她迈出了第一步,并且坚持了下来。
—— the so-called runner’s high
但我发现有两点不足:
①阅读这本书可能会让你产生焦虑,因为作者一开始非常焦虑!②作者描述的感受和变化过于强烈,我们不一定全部感受得到。
Jog on
这本书主要讲的是——跑步治疗心理创伤,书的全名:Jog On: How Running Saved My Life
There’s a moment in The Catcher in the Rye2 when Holden Caulfield runs across the school playing fields and explains it away by saying: ‘I don’t even know what I was running for -I guess I just felt like it.’ Maybe I was just fed up with feeling so damn miserable, or perhaps I already knew that I had to try and do something differently, but that day I just felt like running.
After this unwelcome realisation, you see the future quite clearly: you’ll stumble through this moment. But it takes such a long time. Heartbreak is brief. The way out of it is interminable, and sometimes you resent even having to try.
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Learn to detach. As Buddhists say, don‘t cling to things, because everything is impermanent. But detachment doesn’t mean you don’t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. That’s how you’re able to leave it. By throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. You know what grief is. And only then can you say,‘All right. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.
But two things were becoming clear to me. The first was that when I ran I didn’t feel quite so sad. My mind would quieten down – some part of my brain seemed to switch off, or at least cede control for a few minutes. I wouldn’t think about my marriage, or my part in its failure. I wouldn’t wonder if my husband was happy, or out on a great date, or just not thinking about me at all. The relief this gave me was immense.
The second thing, which was even more valuable, was that I noticed that I wasn’t feeling so anxious. Soon enough, I was reaching parts of the city that I hadn’t been able to visit in years, especially alone.
That an hour or so of energetic movement a day might fix our stressed and gloomy heads is understandably alluring, especially to those of us who’ve struggled with depression or anxiety for a sustained (read intolerable) period of time.
But when I headed out in the morning to run, I didn’t feel alone. I soon found that I was setting myself little challenges – go two minutes further today, run down that busy road that you’ve avoided for years tomorrow. The more I did it, the more I found that I was rediscovering the city that I lived in and yet barely understood – for so long a place fraught with imagined danger for me.
这本书中还含有一些心理方面的专业术语——为了展示跑步的“疗效”。
Having meaningful connections with other people is a big part of sustaining good mental health. I’ve always felt that it’s the physical act which is key for me, because I get kind of addicted to the physical sensations, but actually I realise now that without that key friend I might not have managed to get that far!
Your twenties are a time for experimenting, having fun and enjoying everything that life may offer you, or so we’re told. Instead, for many people, I think they are a time of massive insecurity, debt, and a sense of displacement-a decade of worry and fear.
不足是,消极词汇有点多
intoxicated by the sunshine on my skin, and I ran into Parliament Square, thronging with the usual tourists and vendors and honking cars.
而且有些感受get不到。
When you do something that allows you a respite from misery, it can be hard not to get addicted to it.
I kept going, like a neurotic Forrest Gump, until I physically couldn’t go any further.
Once you’ve found something that makes you feel halfway to normal, why would you not step it up? After all, exercise is healthy – we’re constantly being told to do more of it by our doctors, the media and now increasingly by Instagram stars and vloggers who preach about clean eating and physical exertion. But for someone who is looking for a crutch, or a way to feel less lost, exercise can move quite quickly from enabling you to dominating you.
Running was something that allowed me to have a life – a real life, with friends and new experiences and even risk. It was a wonderful means to an end, but it was never meant to be my whole life.
You should not fear real sadness, nor try to shy away from it.
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附(作者的跑步建议与注意事项)
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