Body Training with the Mind

It's Thursday. Just another Thursday in the middle of June. I awake, not in a negative frame of mind this morning. Hurray! Instead I am rested and feeling a bit heavy because I did a weight workout yesterday and my killer Personal Trainer is into pain big time. No, just kidding. Karen Anderson, from Body Maintenance (http://www.bodymaintenance.com.au/) has been one of the best gifts Australia has brought to me. Even with her casted broken leg (from jumping out of an air plane!), she's willing to haul around 20kg weights and throw them onto the leg press while I shiver thinking my legs won't be able to handle the weight.

Seriously though, yesterday in my workout we were discussing body mechanics, pain thresholds and how much of physical fitness is actually training the mind. Yes, we have physical limitations, HOWEVER Karen has helped me hear the belief systems I carry around in my head around what those body limits are, because I actually vocalize them.

Yesterday when she gave me a new weight for some arm exercise she caught me saying to her:"I'll probably be able to do 5 reps with this one." She immediately jumped in to correct me by saying that if I put a concrete number on my expectation then the mind will only go to that number and not beyond. She said why don't I re-frame the language and say to myself let's see how many of these I can do. So with that guidance I did just that, I said "Cancel to the previous thought" and I re-framed and declared instead "Let's see how many of these I can do." I managed to push out 13, one over the number that she had hoped for. My mind had first said I couldn't do it, then with the re-training of it, my body followed.

I am in the business of helping others not only becoming aware of the belief systems they have and the internal negative voices they allow to continuously speak to them. Well I've been caught out. And I'm completely up for the re-training.

When I returned from Canada in early May I set myself a new challenge, to dilligently focus on my physical fitness. I set the goal, and I am here declaring it as well that I will run/walk, I will FINISH, as Karen helps me re-frame the languaging, the Bridge to Brisbane Run on August 28th.

The challenge for me, of course, is the physical one, of every other day lacing up my running shoes and getting my tush out the door to do my 25-30 minute walk/runs so that slowly I build up and can continuously run for an hour or so. But I believe even more than that, the challenge is changing my BELIEF SYSTEMS around what my physical capabilities are.

I am wanting to achieve full balance in my life: emotional, spiritual, intellectual and physical. I have been humming for quite awhile on three of the four quadrants being strong. It's now that I face the final leg holding up this being.

How are you doing with Balance in your life? With being aware of and then challenging your Belief Systems? Are your beliefs serving you in every area of your life? Are you as satisfied on a daily basis as you'd like to be with your efforts and outcomes? Where are you at with your Physical Fitness? I'd like to know.