Fit Soul: Tools, Tactics and Habits for Optimizing Spiritual Fitness - Softcover

Ben Greenfield

 
9780999722732: Fit Soul: Tools, Tactics and Habits for Optimizing Spiritual Fitness

Synopsis

Do you sometimes feel that no matter how much wealth you accumulate, toys you own, friendships you make or physical and mental mountains you conquer, you’re still at the end of the day unfulfilled – with a gnawing deep down inside that something is “still missing” or that you’re meant for something greater than what you’re doing right now? You’re not alone. That loss of direction, purpose and deep, fulfilling meaning is absent in the lives of some of the most successful or fit people you’ll ever meet. As an author, speaker and consultant in the realms of health, fitness, nutrition and body and brain optimization, Ben Greenfield is perhaps most well-known for his teachings on biohacking, fitness, muscle gain, fat loss, nutrition, supplements, longevity, cognition and beyond. But for much of his life, he did not focus upon building his spiritual muscles in the same way that he prioritized physical disciplines such as caring for his metabolic health, growing his physical muscles, or tending to the neurons in his brain. However, after years of pursuing body and brain optimization, Ben grew to realize that the relatively self-obsessed or carnal pursuits of a lower body fat percentage, finding the perfect diet, climbing your own personal Mount Everest of a triathlon, Spartan race, or CrossFit competition, learning a host of new languages and musical instruments, increasing the health of your blood and biomarkers or “reversing the aging process” are all ultimately unfulfilling, and can often leave one standing at the top of the mountain of physical and mental achievement, yet feeling disappointed and extremely empty inside despite having accomplished what might appear to the world to be lofty and admirable goals. See, most of us inherently know that caring for our soul is important, but we somehow shove it to the side because, let’s face it: life gets busy and it just seems far more practical and immediately useful to go hit the gym rather than sitting cross-legged on the

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