No Pain, No Gain?

Have you ever watched people endure at the gym?

I retrieve one peculiar adult male who always reminded me of a medieval priest self-flagellating inch penalty for his sins. Drive himself into his sixteenth set of 85 repeats at a weight three modern times his own, he seemed to take a perverse pleasance in torturing his organic structure on a day-to-day basis. Every clip I saw him, he was wearing a new knee joint poise or elbow joint poise or cervix poise (at one point he showed up with his leg in a cast of characters to work his upper body)!

The myth of "no pain, no gain" is pervading in our society. Whether it manifests in your life at the gym, in the office, or in your human relationships (!), most of us happen ways of punishing ourselves for the best of all possible purposes - to assist us to grow, and to actuate ourselves to go "better" people. The lone job is it doesn't work. Oh, it might work for an hour, a day, or even a month, but over clip the hurting slices and we happen ourselves right back in the old form of behaviour. Or worse still, we penalize ourselves, experience bad, and then eat bar and take drugs and do things we'll repent later in order to make the bad feelings we've just created spell away....

Allow me to share my personal doctrine on the subject. I can summarize it up in a simple phrase:

No Pain, no pain!

It's not that I believe hurting must be avoided at all costs, or that we should give up on something we cognize we desire to make as soon as it acquires difficult. It's just that I've go aware that when we are pursuing our ends and life our dreams, some of what we make is painful, and some of it isn't. You don't acquire any other points for suffering, unless you make up the regulations of the game that way...

You can make today's experimentation at home, or if you prefer, at the gym. I utilize the illustration of sit-ups, but any exercising from jogging to the bench fourth estate to Yoga will do. As with all exercise, be certain you've taken expert advice, including your own, before attempting anything more strenuous than your usual routine...

1. Bash a few sit-ups the manner you would normally make them.

2. Stop, and make at least five sit-ups arsenic penalty for all the fatty nutrients you've eaten in the past week.

3. Now, make at least five sit-ups arsenic an enactment of self-love. Think about the astonishing miracle that is your body, and if it's not too bromidic for you, give thanks your tummy musculuses for keeping your trunk strong. (If it is too bromidic for you, acquire over it! :-)

4. Notice which experience was more than like your normal exercising experience. If you enjoyed the experience of exercising as an enactment of self-love, transport on with that mental attitude and wonder at the wages your organic structure will give you as your regular modus operandi is infused with a new energy and awareness.

Have fun, larn heaps, be safe, and remember:

No pain, no pain!