New Discovery for Exercise!
I must tell you about my discovery! I could start with my long, sad story about how miserable I was because I didn’t know what I was here to do but KNEW there had to be something else! But I’m not going to go into it now – perhaps later if anyone is interested.
Instead, I’m going to talk about what I discovered in recent weeks…starting when I saw a picture of myself. I looked so old and tired out – not well at all! I knew I needed to exercise and get healthy, but one of my biggest “mind stories” was about how I hated to exercise…and was not the least bit athletic! I’ve dieted on and off, but with no real results. Of course, it probably would have helped if I had kept to a healthy regimine!!
But one good thing I was doing was meditating, during which I kept getting this message to exercise – that’s the secret!! But I didn’t understand this message…or didn’t WANT to! How could exercising be the secret I was looking for to help me? You see, I was also having financial issues – you know, money problems. More about that later.
I had a piece of equipment in the basement called a HealthRider and it kept calling me! I know it sounds strange, but if I passed it, I could feel a pull like it was calling to me! But my “exercise story” would run through my mind telling me it’s too much work, I don’t have time and I never succeeded in the past anyway, so why try? (Aside…this is what our ego-mind does. It provides us with a “reason” why we can’t or shouldn’t do something and our ego-mind is very clever at this!) So it was easy to ignore the machine…but it didn’t give up – it kept calling me.
Then one day as I passed it, for no apparent reason I suddenly climbed onto the HealthRider and started to exercise. I could barely continue for 5 minutes! What a struggle…what agony!! The next day was worse…my arms and leg were SORE! But I rubbed some Essential Oil on the muscles, which helped with the soreness.
And wonder of wonders a couple of days later, I exercised again! It was crazy! I can’t explain it…that machine actually was calling me back! Pretty soon I was even telling myself, “Oh, what’s 5 minutes!” and kept going back. But it really didn’t get any easier. Sure eventually I was able to add 30 seconds or a minute to my time, but it was still a struggle…and I still told myself I HATED it.
I have always been a student of anything spiritual or metaphysical and had recently been reading Vernon Howard’s book, “The Power of Supermind.” What he teaches is that we must overcome the “limiting stories” running in our head if we want to progress in life.
Suddenly I realized that the exercise and money issues I’d been having were tied together for me! I realized that my FEAR of FAILURE was at the base of both issues. If I could overcome this fear, it would help with both!
So my meditation concentrated on the cause of this fear of failure…I had to go deep within – back to my childhood. I had to ALLOW my Self to see and acknowledge the cause - feel the emotions as they came bubbling up from the depths where they had been buried for so many years. Then I had to accept how I felt, knowing it was OK to have these feelings, but also knowing they no longer were my TRUTH in this present time!!! And know I could release and BANISH this fear of failure! Because it was no longer part of my Life!
Here’s the biggest lesson I learned…when these “limiting stories” start to flow through my mind, I can banish them – not allow them any longer! Can you imagine how freeing this is!! And I learned there is NO TIME! Just this very Moment! We must really Live in the Moment…feel only what is in this one moment!!
I applied these ideas to exercise - There is NO TIME… I must focus on and feel my body and breath in each moment of exercise. NO THOUGHTS…not about what to cook, all the projects waiting for me, nor how to make some difficult decision. In following these concepts, TIME ceased to exist so I had no concept of its passing. Suddenly I was exercising without looking at the clock to see if I had completed enough time and could stop! And an amazing thing happened…I was exercising longer and longer each day because I was NOT watching the time clock - concerned about getting it over with so I could do something else!
I became concious of my body…how each muscle felt, my posture as I moved, my breath as it went in to feed my cells and out to eliminate the toxins. TIME disappeared…it didn’t matter! Now I exercise until my body tells me to stop!
The big BONUS – I learned I can do whatever I decide to do! It is my mindset that is most important – mindset is what stops me or motivates me. This is a huge breakthrough for me!
What a concept! Just think…Change your MINDSET and anything is possible…even exercise!!!
BTW…you know that money issue I was having…even that is changing! But that is another story!
Leave your comments – what was holding you back and what breakthrough you made by changing your mindset. It could help someone else achieve their breakthrough!
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