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Internal Sports™ represents the development of a set of qualities that help us to be successful, both materially and spiritually, in our everyday lives.
Life is for a Hermeticist what the Olympic stadium is for an athlete. It is a challenge; it is an opportunity to improve and model oneself on the events that happen in one’s daily life.
The attitude one needs to employ when facing one’s internal work, is no different than the attitude of an athlete. That’s why we call this discipline, Internal Sports™.
We invite you to discover in what way the development of these qualities could help you. When and how you decide to practice Internal Sports™ is your challenge. The effects you feel from practicing it in your daily life will be your greatest source of motivation.
Here are some of the qualities that you can cultivate:
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This internal sport concerns maintaining a continuous attitude of overcoming obstacles, of breaking barriers, of rising above difficulties, of broadening the horizon of our ability to do things.
The reason? The search for human excellence: responding to the challenge of living and bringing yourself to the highest level of development.
Optimism and pessimism are two different ways of looking at life which decidely condition the nature and quality of life’s experiences. Everything within Nature is dual. Life therefore offers us the possibility of reading it either positively or negatively.
To become polarized in either positive or negative aspects, generates corresponding causes and effects.
Discipline is an internal sport that has to do with a personal decision, that is, one’s decision to achieve a certain goal.
Discipline is also essential for overcoming obstacles that life puts in one’s path each day. Without discipline, paths deviate, objectives get lost or distorted, enthusiasm disappears, and one becomes weak, giving up on the path one had decided to follow.
It is easy to do the things you like to do or want to do. What is not so easy, is to do what you don’t want or like to do, what you don’t feel like doing, but that you know and understand you must do.
This is what real willpower is all about.
The creation and conservation of energy are of utmost importance for a healthy and successful life.
Each day we gather, spend and replace energy. If we did not replace it, we would feel drained and without the strength to face whatever needs to be faced the next day.
All of us are subject to the laws of Nature. One of Nature’s laws – the Law of Entropy - states that everything in life has a “natural” tendency towards disorder.
Disorder can be created easily; it is the path of everything probable; it is what happens when you “let things go.” On the other hand, order cannot be created by itself, one has to create it with purpose, effort, and consciousness.
There are many things we might admire in other people, but perhaps the best thing we could say about someone is that they “keep their word.”
When we keep our word, we respect ourselves. This act also attracts admiration from others.
The word “honorable” in this context therefore means to honor one’s word and one’s own commitments.
