I feel it necessary to say that I am enjoying life a great deal more than I did before 10 years and one among the several important reasons for my happiness is the positive improvements that I have incorporated in my way of life.
I will not go into the gory details, but feel it sufficient to say that the work I’ve done to be in good physical shape, fit and vibrant has been more than valuable, and that it’s also made positivity and joy a whole lot simpler and produced great results in other areas of my life.
During this I’ve also learnt a lot about the function of the mind in the quest for health.
Unfortunately, for a lot of people, self-sabotage is a regular companion!
Almost all of us know someone who has bought a gym membership, visited twice and somehow “forgotten” for the rest of the year. “I’m too busy”, some of them say, but not too busy to go to the pub, spend the afternoon window-shopping, or fill their daily TV quota. As a way of life (perhaps as a species?!) we’re conditioned to use justifications when we notice a gap between a given intention and what we actually do, and we act as if on some level this works fantastically well for us.
But how will it be if all our cultural conditioning told us to say instead “Oh dear, I don’t seem to be going to the gym. There seems to be a contradiction between my conscious and unconscious mind! I’d better get it fixed!”? A bit like “Oh look, we’ve run out of milk. I’ll just visit the shop and get some”, instead of the elaborate and unproductive socio-linguistic averting ritual that is the trend.
I have to let you know that I am frequently going to the gym and I am free from any form of guilt. That’s not to say that there aren’t any areas in my life where I’m making excuses and getting bad results (I wish!) But many more years ago I decided that healthiness was vital, and I looked for and discovered tools that would get over my tendency to opt out of my own wellbeing.
Luckily this isn’t something that requires “determination” (which is in reality rare, and very difficult to cultivate) – modern coaching technology bypasses the need to grit your teeth and sweat blood to accomplish objectives 🙂
Of course Unused Gym Membership Syndrome isn’t the only health concern where the unconscious mind gets in our way. How many overweight people feel – rightly – that they’re missing out on a lot? How many people who smoke would love to be liberated from the financial and self-esteem burdens their addiction brings them? (Not to mention all that tedious health stuff they inform about on the packets, of course.) How many people would like to live in a universe where real food tasted as nice as Maccas, and was just as convenient? Many people do in reality inhabit that universe.
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