What Is Your Plan Of Action When You're Feeling Pain?

Fundamental change in body and mind is an overwhelming challenge if approached as something that you intend to accomplish in one bite based on willpower. At first Korby tired quickly on the elliptical machine, but soon he was zipping along and covering several miles at a quick pace. Soon after, he began strength training with light weights. Not only did Korby’s strength increase rapidly, but the numbness also left his fingers. His shoulders strengthened, and with gradual stretching, Korby discovered that his flexibility returned. As his core got stronger, his back pain began to disappear. After only a year, he was heading back out into the waves with gusto once again. Confronted with the fork in the road, Korby abandoned the Frail Trail and took the StrongPath. The surfboard, the sun, the sparkling sea in the morning, and a big smile were his once again. And to think he almost gave it all up. Like Korby, you need to learn how to safely work your muscles. Don’t wait until you are falling apart in some way before learning how to strengthen your body in a balanced, symmetrical way.

Show Me A Smile

If you already have a bad back, for example, it’s not just your back muscles that are letting you down. Your core muscles in the front are weak, too, and those need to be strengthened so you can regain the balance in your physical system. As you do the work to strengthen your whole system, it becomes more upright. Your skeleton becomes realigned. All of this is possible. There is virtually no bad body part that will not improve with careful work and rehabilitation, unless a condition has proceeded to the point where the bones are actually degraded. At that point, it is no longer just a muscle and tissue issue. What is your plan of action when you’re feeling pain? Be willing to listen and work on what ails you. Reject the pain and weakness you begin with as an outcome, and be ready to transform the situation. You can grow strong again and resume physical activity once you have tackled your ailment. Over the long term, you need to make your body strong enough to support your entire system. In other words, you need to get on and stay on the StrongPath.

To The Ends Of The Earth

The truth is, within 2 or 3 months, most issues will improve significantly enough that you will become confident that it’s possible to change the entire trajectory of decline into one of improvement. Studies have found that just 10 weeks of weight workouts can dramatically improve strength, power, mobility, and agility, even in men and women in their 70s and 80s. Once you experience improvement in one area, you will start to become eager about making more progress. Your thoughts will shift to What can I tackle next? You will become psychologically ready to tackle challenges in many different areas of your life that once seemed to set permanent limits on what you could realistically achieve. The key will be to tackle and achieve success in small increments, so that nothing seems too daunting or unachievable. But you can do it, if you have a smart and simple plan of action specifically tailored to something you need to fix in your life that will really make a difference, like rehabilitating a bad back. Do that. Learn more about your body and your muscles overall and how any of them can be made dramatically stronger. Experience the liberating results of a focused effort. Then go on to another challenge and begin living a life of getting stronger and more capable as you age. For example, Fred is still doing this. He is currently working at becoming a faster, stronger skier than he has ever been before in his entire life.

Do You Feel Loved?

The truth is, within 2 or 3 months, most issues will improve significantly enough that you will become confident that it’s possible to change the entire trajectory of decline into one of improvement. It is an important skill. Your attention is the master control lever of your awareness. Attention places mind, and its focus determines your experience. In fact, you are only aware of the things that receive your attention, and you are largely in control. Watch and monitor what your attention is doing. You will be surprised to find that habit is largely consuming this most precious resource. You have probably been oblivious to this because habits are preformed virtually unconsciously, until you make it a point to pay them attention and consciously observe them. Instead of allowing habit to dictate where you spend your attention, learn to become an objective observer of it. Think of it as creating a new awareness inside you, a new self that is part of you but has an independent perspective of its own. Instead of allowing habit to dictate where you spend your attention, learn to become an objective observer of it. Take a moment right now. Begin by shifting your focus inward. Become aware of the thoughts and impulses flooding your mind, especially those that repeat themselves so insistently that they seem to be running on automatic. For now, don’t try to do anything about them. Simply create a mental space between you and them and watch. Simply observing your critical thoughts without judging them is a more effective way to tame them than pressuring yourself to change or denying their validity. In other words, the swirling thoughts are inherently a part of you. That is a misconception. It would be as if your system blithely assumed that everything within your skin was an essential part of yourself, not to be challenged. We know that immune systems don’t behave that way, and in fact recognize unwanted intruders for what they are. This is what you must develop as an inner observer. When you first look inside, what you see is not important. What’s important is to begin to recognize that the many things going on in your head are not an essential part of you.