Use your feet to feed your mind, build your body

Wherever you go, there you are.

Or so we’d all like to think. But it’s actually possible to be absent your entire life.

We certainly take up space -- more all the time, in some cases. We function: get up, feed the kids, go to work, come home, feed the kids, think about exercising, watch “Seinfeld” reruns instead, feel guilty, stuff our faces with junk, feel guilty, go to bed.

We’re physically present. But mentally and emotionally, we’re often somewhere else: distracted, detached, lost in thought, lost in space.

“Where your mind is, is where you are,” writes Ron Rathbun in “The Way Is Within,”...