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title: "Running & Being: The Total Experience"
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# Running & Being: The Total Experience

**Brand:** george sheehan
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- **What is this?** Running & Being: The Total Experience by george sheehan
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Running & Being: The Total Experience

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Wonderful fusion of body mind and spirit
  

*by D***X on Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2017*

I stopped running a little over 15 years ago. Lately I've picked it back up, overcoming a number of chronic injuries to do so. And I've also started racing for the first time in my life. This book was exactly what I needed right now. It's buoyed my spirit and my confidence and most importantly  affirmed my experience of the more transcendent aspects of running. I'm a long time meditator, so Dr Sheehan's observations ring very true for me with respect to the soul-sharpening mind-heightening virtues of running. It's 100% my experience. This man has successfully channeled his deeper life experience into this distilled format with beauty grace and much candor. I'm so grateful. This was an awesome read and if your heart beats, it will nourish your soul as a runner and an aspiring human being.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    This book is motivating, spiritual, philosophical, yet simple to understand and very relatable.
  

*by D***2 on Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2022*

I love love love this book and am a great admirer of George Sheehan. I can't run anymore, but I walk and swim and in my heart I'm an athlete, a 61-year-old athlete. I have an old copy, full of highlighted passages and notes from long ago. Now I have a fresh copy, and I'm ready to read it again. It's autumn and I am planning to hit the roads in the morning.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    guess who's back
  

*by P***D on Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2019*

Besides watching pro wrestling, the more serious thing that I spent my teenage years doing was runningcross-country and track. And yet as this author and book show, it was fun, in a way that you either getor you don't. I began in 1992 and soon got a subscription to Runners' World. While it featured a numberof contributors, the one who was esteemed above all was Dr. George Sheehan. If I remember correctly,his columns were recycled as "The Best of Sheehan" or something like that. After my freshman year ofcollege I retired from competitive sports, but after my sophomore year I came across this book, whichintegrated my philosophical studies with how I spent my teenage years.It was a pleasure to re-read this book after many years. I got many of the author's literary, philosophicaland social science allusions better than I did the first time. But to be honest, I didn't enjoy, and didn'tfeel the book as much, because I haven't been living it recently. Hopefully I will again. The past few monthsI've been battling Lyme disease and switched to lower impact activities. Fortunately, I was able to feelthe final chapters more immediately. But even the opening is of value, where Sheehan talks about beingan ectomorph, hungry, more interested in ideas than people, being cheap and low-maintenance buthigh-maintenance for everybody else, in a funny and self-deprecatory way. And naps are one of themost underrated things in civilization. There's a dark Irish sensibility to the spirituality that I thinkmost runners will get, as they have for the past five decades.The author himself had a rejuvenation from a midlife slump through running. Whatever the reader'spassion or lack thereof, hopefully you can find some inspiration here.Here are some passages that I found to be key.p. 20 The runner does not run because he is too slight for football or hasn't the ability to put a ball througha hoop or can't hit a curve ball. He runs because he has to. Because...he is fulfilling himself and becomingthe person he is.Note-for women and others who don't like the "he" language, Sheehan gets to that issue in anothersection.p. 65 It is not running, but running that is play, that is necessary. Exercise that is work is worthless. Butexercise that is play will give you health and long life. Exercise that is not play accentuates rather thanheals the split between body and spirit.p. 100 Yes I can see Christ the football player. Just as I can see Christ the plumber, the artist, or thecarpenter. The Good News he brought two millenia ago is that the body is holy, the world is sacred,and nothing human is alien to me. When he became man, we became men. The message of Bethlehemwas not simply that all men were created equal, but that all men were created unique. And theywould succeed or fail in the same way they fulfilled the possibilities of this uniqueness-the oneauthentic life each one should lead.p. 194 Everything is vanity and chasing the wind, said Ecclesiastes. Driving race cars, runninggovernments, amassing wealth, building cities: all this is vanity and chasing the wind. But,said Ecclesiastes in an about-face, whatever you put your hand to, do it with all your might.p. 242 A very small life, you say. So was Emily Dickinson's. Yet so full I can but envy her. Others,of course, see it so empty they can only pity. She saw no moor. Saw no sea. Saw few people. Thefew she loved died. But all the while, she played her game with God.253 I told them of the beauties of our bodies, and how we needed play. I told them we were allto be heroes in some way, and if we were heroic enough we would see God.Final note-I tend to be inspired by the religious sections, but there are large parts of the bookthat are spiritual and philosophical in a more generic sense, relying heavily on social scienceand the author's background as a cardiologist.

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