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Mindgym. Let’s get serious about mental fitness.
Are you sitting firmly in your chair.
I, who never ever took any learning seriously, am now declaring myself as a serious buyer of learning!
Yes, you heard it right.
I stopped picking the teachings apart and stopped making cynical remarks and I have opened myself up to absorb what they are saying.
As a consequence of this declaration, I am now seeing how unfit I am to shape my life!
By seeing this very low level of fitness, I am now seriously going to apply the learnings of the last few years after having so thoroughly enjoyed Victoria Castle’s ‘Embodied Abundance’ course and being so very excited about Trek Education’s ‘Leverage & You’ course.
I am also aware of what Wallace D.Wattles said so eloquently;
“There is no labor from which most people shrink as they do from sustained and consecutive thought; it is the hardest work in the world.”
The operative words I pick up here are ‘hardest work’, ’sustained’ and ‘consecutive’ and as I said before that reeks of gym.
However I firmly have come to the conclusion there is no way out if we want to shape our lives.
Read this post again if you have forgotten how much we shape our lives with thoughts .
The secret to a great physical shape is doing proper and regular exercises to build muscle tone, and the secret to a life that is in great shape is no different.
Darn, drat, bugger, whatever you feel; get over it!
I have!
Ladies and gentlemen accept it; regular mind exercises that reek of gym is the way to shape a great life.
To explain what I mean I will use the analogy of the physical health and fitness industry.
In a series of posts on this blog I am going to address the different areas of BE-DO-Have using this mind/muscle tone analogy.
We create with our thoughts and the mind is the muscle with which we create thoughts.
So we are going to tone the mind to get our lives into shape, just as we tone the muscles to get our body into shape.
We are also going to include nutrition, what you feed your mind is important.
So if you are ready to get serious about the shape of your life…..
Here is mind gym exercise number 1 …….drumroll please……
1. Commit to doing this week’s practice and be serious about it. Don’t indulge in
weak excuses. Turn up at the gym!
2. This exercise is to catch your thoughts every two hours. So if you start at 9 am, be
still and gather your thoughts and do it again at 11 am. I don’t want you to do it
more often as I don’t want you to go into shock at finding out how unfit you are.
Start slowly.
3. Check where your thoughts and your mind have been. Here are some exercises
from a previous post how to do that. In itallics is what the trainer tells you
to do, the other text is an example of my bad mind posture that needs to be
corrected.
“All is well”
Oh is it?
Yes! – do your mind stretch-
But it is already 4 pm and I haven’t done the shopping yet and now I am too late to avoid traffic.
Will you stop it. Do your mind stretches and all is well. Then get on with what you are doing.
Ouch that mind stretch hurts.
Repeat after me; “I am doing enough of the right thing”
Oh do I?
Yes!
But I should have started the research into classic boats for the article about Steadfast by now.
Will you stop it, all in good time. Do your mind stretches and all is well. Then get on with what you are doing with intent.
Ouch, that mind muscle can hurt.
“Be in the now; where are you right now?”
Oops I am miles away, see I cannot do that thoughts stuff, I never get it sassed blah blah blah.
Will you stop it, do your mind gym right now.
All is well.
Now get on with what you are doing with intent and trust that it will happen.
4. Re-energize, let the mind indulge in a very positive mind set. Now you have cleared
the muck enjoy the beautiful view.
5. Continue with your work until 11am or the 2 hour period has passed.
Remember this is a gym and in my experience my mind sees gym as a necessary evil and it will do all sorts to avoid the gym.
Be very alert and catch those moments and stop it immediately.
Don’t argue as the mind is very skilled in coming up with very good reasons why this won’t work.
Just say “stop” and do your exercises.
So let’s get on with it together and cheer each other on as we get mentally fit to have a wonderful shaped life!
Be a good sport and declare in the comment box if you are going to play or not.
If you even want to be a bigger sport, share some things with us in sport cafe fashion. Your comments don’t have to be mind shattering, just let us know you are there in the gym with us.
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i am in of course ….wonderful…i got gifted 2 vouchers to dinner at bracs….and i got gifted you were born rich seminar and the book how to be wildly wealthy fast….have already begun saving all coins ….and 10% of income….plus a 3 month contract to see me safely over xmas/new year…my heart was closed off to life for fear of repeat hurts….i asm now open…j’adore….bless my french friend….
Looking forward to seeing you on Saturday – tho’ I’ll be alone again, naturally !
Have tuned into an Earlytorise model and I AM TURNING OFF THE RADIO more often and have only watched TV for the news and Shortland st for years… Your leadership is a great model, more infectious than you’ll know..
Bestest,
Beth.
Pat, welcome.
Who could we have better in the gym amongst us than a joyologist.
Loosening the muscles also allows for less injury!!!!!!
Hi Wilma, thanks for the inspiration. If I can take my “no jet lag” tablet every 2 hours, I can do this as well. It is a reminder that little steps is good and also to take one step at the time.
Thanks again. Love Bertie
Just noticed that the clock is 1 hour behind. On my computer I replied at 9.41am, on your blog it says 8.41am.
It’s a squirrel thing..
@Bertie, you good detail person, you.
The time is now corrected.
And yes, small steps at the time will get us there.
However I so sometimes want to rush to the top of the mountain to see where I am going…..and what I am letting myself in for…
Patience…arghh I also do my physical, pilates exercises fast and not always correct.
Now with an audience that might change, thanks for being here with me.
@ Beth.
Nothing wrong with your natural self, you make noise for two anyway!:)
It will be lovely to see you on our annual bash on Saturday.
am with you Wilma (of course!)
Hey Fiona, welcome, cool to have you sweat with us….
The mind is indeed a tricky beast, as with everything you want to make sure it serves you and not the other way round! I will play mind gym with you, love ,
Andy.
Cash. Free Time. Luxury Travel. Are you getting yours?
@Andy, of course you are game, I know you know how to play!
Luxury travel, yes, Holland and Vietnam and my breaks in NZ.
Free time, not yet without pings of guilt.
Cash, hmmmm, very weak muscle there.
Hmmm – Im getting a fluttery feeling of oh no not another thing for me to do!! BUT only every 2 hours I can manage that! Just like my gym session amd my running…discipline…so do I just stop every 2 hours and reassess? ok I will do it!
@Karen. Cool, you are in. At least you don’t have to change into your running gear for this one.
@everybody.
How are you all going?
I have had my challenges with my busy life at the moment.
Got grumpy a few times when I put what needs to be done all on a heap. Then it looks like such a big pile that I cannot see how I will get it all done.
And I get mad at John for putting me in this position??????
Luckily the gym gets me out of that nonsense very quickly.
Although I sometimes like to hold on to my grumpiness and feel I have a right to be grumpy??????
So the result is that with all the tight deadlines and work that needs to be done I am mostly cheerful and I am hardly grumpy. Things seem to flow.
So far all feels more like fun than work!
I think I understand what you’re saying – catching your thoughts when they start spinning off. One way I’ve found that helps is what I call “uni-tasking.” For me it’s a path to mindfulness. I posted my first Blogher post about it on Jan 2.
I’m going to try some of your exercises.
@Donne, great to start 2009 with an intent like this and yes you are right it is definitley a path to mindfulness and being aware.