Archive for August, 2008
Olympic Lessons - More Than Keeping Score
There is so much to enjoy about the Olympics. So much to witness - so much dreaming, competition, parity among competitors, so much drama. There is so much excitement there that I can feel it here. I’ve been wondering if there could be even more than meets the eye, and than is felt inside when we watch “our team” compete.
It is easy to cheer on the American team if you’re American, or the Brazilian team if you are from Brazil.
That’s easy. In our minds and hearts we “feel” connected to our home nation’s team, and then our bodies create physical feelings that register in our minds as excitement, anxiety, fear, jubilation. So yeah, it’s easy to - in fact - it takes no conscious effort to cheer on our favorite…
