Monday, July 20, 2015

Minding Your Body

 
In addition to knowing your mind-body type and its requirements, it is also important for your mind to know how to listen to your body. We have heard the phrase, “Listen to your body!” for years, only no one has ever told us how to do it. In the past, we have been taught to listen to our body by jogging at a pace that allows us to hold a conversation with our partner. To me, this technique sounds more like listening to someone else’s body rather than your own.
 
Inadvertently, many of us have been conditioned to distract our mind from our body during exercise. Oftentimes, exercise is found to be too boring unless we have a TV to watch, a book to read, or a magazine to flip through.
 
It seems we have resigned ourselves to the fact that exercise is mindless and boring, so we engage our minds in one activity while our bodies do another. High-tech distraction devices have emerged on the scene as virtual reality workout centers and TV-ridden cardio-theaters fill health clubs. People can now exercise beyond their tolerance without boredom and without feeling the pain. “No pain, no gain” has been replaced with, “If we distract you, you won’t feel it.” But when we are distracted from the pain, you miss the lesson it's trying to teach you, and sooner or later, you pay the price with injuries.
 
 
In order to be efficient, exercise has to be enjoyable to the practitioner. Move your body daily in a living way. Choose effort over violence. Learn the difference. When you listen and respect your body, it loves you back!
 
 
Transcend Mind-Body Counseling Center
 

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