YoYo’s World

You get a very good feel for this book when you read what’s written on its cover: “A guide to mastering the body-mind-spirit connection for ultimate training and racing.” I don’t think putting this book in the running section does it enough justice. It was such a spiritual, self-help book that I was taken aback that I didn’t find it in the psychology section of Borders.

I bought this book a week before my Half Marathon and I only wished I found it sooner. I was initially looking for a fitness training book but eventually realized I should be buy this book instead.

After reading this book, which took only a week, I wished that through all of my years of playing sports (Tee-ball to baseball, then to softball onto soccer and tennis and now to cycling and running) that my coaches had talked about this body-mind-spirit idea. I read a bit of it in Thinking body, Dancing Mind, but I was too young to realize the wisdom and truth of it all.

Looking at the table of contents, here’s a list of topics the book covers:

“Building your body-mind-spirit foundation”

“Restructuring attitudes for true success”

“Performing with intent”

“Hurdling obstacles from within”

“Running beyond”

“Bonding with kindred spirits”

Of course this book uses centuries-old techniques to bring you success in running, but you can of course use these same techniques to help with every aspect of your life. That is really where the heart of the matter lies and why I am suggesting this book for personal development. Yes this book can help you with your running but to only look at it from that aspects means you missed on of the most important lessons Lynch and Scott are offering to us; finding happiness and using it as the key to our success.

I’m sure you are familiar with the expression success is the key to happiness. Take this phrase, switch some words around and you have, happiness is the key to success. That is the difference between the master and the student.

I paid $18.95 and it was worth every penny. This book was published by Human Kinetics and this wasn’t the first book I’ve bought from them. If you find you like and/or interested in reading Running Within, then you will surely find other enjoyable titles by those guys.

Add this to your list of summer reading and enjoy!

Take it easy.

-YoYo

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