How Keeping Your Motor Running Can Create New Vitality
December 11, 2025
Article Highlights:
- The challenge to your momentum and vitality
Today I’m sharing a writing that comes from my personal messages during my morning musings, my daily spiritual practice. I think this one might delight and inform your moment as it did mine.
I often ask for a guiding star for the week or a month, something that I then keep in mind, pondering it, finding ways to apply it, deepening into or expand it and integrate them each day.
This message came about as I pondered the difficulty that I and others seem to have these days in keeping momentum going. By this I don’t mean difficulty keeping busy. I’m referring to days or period when it feels flat, sluggish, or as if a peculiar fog makes it harder to keep my “oomph” up. So I asked for a message about that. Here is what came. It’s interesting that it’s correlated with resistance, isn’t it?
Motion is Life — Life is Motion
Yes there are circumstances currently that foster resistance. Resistance energetics can create the same effect on you that “drag” does on a vehicle such as an airplane or car. It makes it less efficient, requires more energy, and makes operation sluggish.
The antidote is to do what it takes to keep your energy active. Vegging out, procrastinating, avoiding… these lead to inertia. Inertia is a pulling back from your life and the danger is that your energy starts sliding down toward neutral. When feeling on-going drag, it’s best to keep the motor running and in gear. Rather than shifting into neutral because there stress implicit in that. Momentum will not happen and it can be hard on the body. Idling is not good for prolonged periods. That’s because Life = Motion and Motion = Life.
Your physicality requires activity to foster your vitality. When you are inactive frequently or over time, that sends a message to the body that you are moving onto the downhill side of life — in other words it triggers aging. It’s the equivalent of saying you are losing interest in life and are ready to have less of it.
So stay vital, alive and alert to the opportunities of movement. Your body gives you subtle calls to activity. Notice them and act on the impulses and nudges that come. These might be as varied as a sudden urge to clean a closet, or an inspired impulse to call someone that stimulates your interests. Many many such moments are you life right now. Keep your eye out and stay in motion. And when you feel resistance to that, press through… the action will facilitate the cure.
Motion is life and life is motion. Staying in motion means feeling and being active in your cells, having flow in your vitality and good movement in your mind and emotions. It gives your body the message that you are invested in continuing to live with vigor and health. And in fact, in the moments you feel least like it — when you feel confused, grumpy, foggy, resistant, out of sorts — motion is actually your antidote.
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Are you finding it hard to be fully engaged? This happens to be a time when it is best not to give in to the resistance at play in our world right now. We can’t really afford to let the physical slip toward inertia.
Despite not feeling like it, we are best to take a positive action, however small, to get up and get going, to shift into gear, even if the resistance is profound. It won’t be but minutes before your engagement brings improvement. Try it with real commitment and see. For me, not that I love cleaning house, but I’m finding that small house projects are doing that for me. Along with making art.
I wonder if you’re feeling this resistance sometimes too, and what works for you.
Dedicated to less couch time,
♥️ Mayet

A short but fun message today. One of the funny things I do around my house is make little impromptu altars all over the place. You probably do that too? This one happened when my flowering anthurium plant fell over and one of the stems broke. These flowers last a loooooong time, both live and cut. So I popped in a pretty shot glass someone gave me, added a couple other items and created a contemplative mini-altar tableaux. It’s cute, isn’t it? When I pass by it makes me smile and a smile is such a great meditation.