The game your mind play with you.

alberty111 | Aug. 22, 2021, 11:09 a.m.

Have you ever experienced a scenario like this? 

You were doing something difficult or uncomfortable, you were suffering and there was this voice in your head:" come on, why you hang in there, it's difficult, it's too painful, it's ok, you can stop right now, why you bother making yourself miserable."

I have this voice all the time. I bet you have too. What did you do then, did you give it up, or did you reply to your own mind:"go fuck yourself, I'm not going to give up." 

This voice is the typical game you mind plays with you, man are born to escape from pain and suffering, because in acient times, pain and suffering means danger to life, it is vital to our existance, it is coded in our DNA to avoid pain. But it is the process of suffer that makes one to grow. Everyone wants to go to heaven, but no one is willing to die. Arnold once said in the documentary:"The last two or three reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion." These last painful reps are crutial.

How to deal with it?

There is no magical answer to that, the only way is to overcome it by yourself, tell yourself, it is ok to suffer and it is normal. Your mind is like a musle, you have to train it to be comfortable in uncomfortable environments.

There are some tips:

• ask yourself why you are doing this?
• shift your mind from pain to something else: enjoy the view when you were runing, counting your breath, sing something

Enjoy the suffering.

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