"The mind gives up long before the body ever will"
I have found this quote to be very true on many occasions. It is most obvious when I am out on a run. While I'm running, I feel my body slowing down, telling me to stop or to take it easy. Yet, I know that I have run harder in the past so it doesn't make sense that I should be tired already. This is simply my own mind attempting to convince me that something is impossible even though my body has already shown me that it is possible.
I think we make our greatest improvements when we push past this mental blockade and force ourselves to keep going. I think many of us suffer from this problem and it can be a difficult one to overcome continuously. Do your best to overcome this thinking; push past the barriers that you know can be broken. If you find that you are telling yourself that you can't get something done, do yourself a favor and do it anyways.
What other situations do you all find are the most difficult to overcome mentally?
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Well actually, the mind is one of the least understood entities that exists. We know more about outer space than the thing that lets us understand that we know about outer space. People have overcome nearly every illness in the book via nothing but mindset. In fact, a man who severed his spinal cord at his neck focused on the idea of walking again. Now he walks.
ReplyDeleteIn fact, if you had the right mindset, that exercise probably could feel enjoyable.
Some people even argue that consciousness is primary in the world, more so than matter. http://www.sprword.com/videos/primacy/
I am reading the speaker, Peter Russell's book From Science To God. Interesting stuff.