We work on
our strength every day, work on our resistance and skills, but do we work on
our mind? We know we need a strong mind if we want to become better athletes.
Sometimes people let their mental wellness be just a beneficial outcome of
working out and taking care of their body.
What if we
are not in a working out mood, if we
feel frustrated practicing a
difficult skill or if we feel stressed about something that happened at work or
just having a bad day? We feel bad
about ourselves and think that we are
not good in something. What are we supposed to do then? We have a life
outside the gym and it affects our training, so everything has to stay
balanced.
An option
is to wait for the problem to go away, but that is like doing nothing about the
“injury” up there in our minds. Doing nothing to
confront those feelings will make our mind trick us in the future. Another day
will come when our mind will tell us, during a difficult workout, that we cannot
do it, that it is too hard, and soon we will stop trying to overcome those
obstacles. It will be so easy to convince ourselves that is how things are and
it will be hard to get out of that mindset.
We have to STOP
that thinking process as soon as we become aware of it. Let’s practice a new habit:
thinking or listing all the positive
things that are good in life. Try to think about how far you’ve come, think
about all the times you were STRONG and used your mind to focus on what you are
GOOD at, all the things that made you learn new ways to get out of difficult
situations. Be kind to yourself, do not repeat to yourself all the things you
cannot do right now, do the exact opposite and take action. Can you imagine all
the things you could do if your mind trusted everything your body is able to
do?
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