Pending a trip to some places in Himalayas, I was wondering how should one really prepare for that. I don't do exercise. At best, one may enjoy nature and end up doing walking etc. Or end up playing some games. New borns and kids don't have to do exercises. Enlightned men don't do exercises...

Basically the point is, if you are a "design", then all the control processes can be perfectly healthy and running without special efforts. It is like, if you have a computer, it will not require exercise to deliver right results.

But then, with the real prospect of having to tone my heavy body and to be ready to go to long trekkings, I thought I have to break the rule. And when finding the experiences of other people, I found this. Walking with A Living Mystic

About halfway up, I could feel the air become thinner and despite being reasonably athletic, my legs had turned to rubber. There were at least four hours of steady climbing left. “I don’t think I can make it,” my mind murmured. Then I remembered the mantra Sadhguru told us about. “Shee-va, Sham-bho, Shee-va, Sham-bho…,” I began chanting quietly to myself. I plodded on with slow, baby steps, ceaselessly chanting. I was committed not to stop even if it meant arriving in the middle of the night.



Within an hour, something amazing began to happen. Although my body was now so tired I couldn’t even feel my legs anymore, somehow I was gaining speed. “SHEE-va, Sham-BHO,” I began to chant louder and a roaring laugh came up from my belly. “SHEE-va, Sham-BHO!” I yelled playfully toward a sherpa who was passing me on his way down. “Shee-VA!” he replied with a huge knowing grin. As the rooftops of Kedarnath village came into site, the buoyancy of my legs lifted me even more. To my surprise, they began to carry me like I was on wheels. For the last thirty minutes of the trek I was actually running—running and laughing with silly, uncontainable, giddy, childlike glee. All of this, in spite of me because my mind still couldn’t believe I’d made it at all.

So that's it. I knew that I can depend on something. There are indeed interesting processes inside of us, which will get "called" when right conditions occur. If you felt that "exercising is way to keep yourself in tone", then that would be the way. But the real techies and geeks should indeed experiment with these aspects of life.