Shut up legs!!

It seems more normal than not to have limited thinking on what we are capable of doing.  It effects every area of our lives. Mainly it effects things that could make us better people. Things that get in our way of achieving our goals, dreams and God given potential.  Tonight at my MK meeting my Director and mentor asked us; if any of us have been involved in something physical, like a sport, that we had the choice to stop but we pushed thru and kept going when we didn't think we could? And in results of that pushing through did more than we expected.  I thought about my top 3 moments I listed in my Races in Review. Each of them are a direct result of me saying Shut up legs and shut up brain! Overpowering the thoughts that are screaming at you to stop. The ones telling you that you can't do this, reminding you that you've never done this before.  And yet you push through! You accomplish something that 30 seconds ago was impossible to you.  Why then can we break through belief barriers in certain areas of our lives but not in all?  I then realized that the same process I take when I am pushing for that fastest mile is what needs to happen to get me past all these other areas that have me hung up in life.  I almost had to pick my jaw up off the ground.  Being involved in sports and being very competitive, needing the extra push for anything physical is something I understand needs to be done. Weight lifting is where I learned the most about it.  I learned that my body is more capable that my brain tells me it is and I can and will make my muscles lift that weight. 

I've had a beliefe that everything from eating right, sticking to my spending, to getting up early was all a emotional battle. I over ate and over spent because I was in a bad mood, etc..  But it is ALL just as much a physical battle as running my 10K was.  My brain tells my legs they need to stop, this is to far, I then start to look for reasons to validate the need to stop running. I start feeling pain in places I really hadn't noticed a few seconds before, my chest tightens and I start to panic a little. I then have to take a breath and tell my legs they are fine and my brain that I am not listening and clear my mind.  If I took this same process when getting up early, eating right, not spending money and so much more, I could have the same amazing results.  My alarm goes off I think Oh it is to early, I am tired and my brain starts to remind me of how late I stayed up, if I took the breath told my mind to shut up and my legs to move and get out of that bed, I would be up early. Literally EVERYTHING can be approached and conquered with a shut up brain and move command. Whether that is to move away from the fridge, onto the treadmill or out the door to conquer your tasks for the day. 

Because of my struggles with anxiety and depression my mind has always been a war zone between crazy illogical thoughts and the truth. This battle keeps me trapped and non motivated to do things.  I've always enjoyed exercise because of the ability to push through things. I've always seen my mind as Fragile  and always try to proceed with caution.  Now my bodies limits I have always viewed differently. Thanks to previous training w/ personal trainers I know my body can take more that I think it can and that is how you get stronger.  I need to start treating all this stuff I've always labeled as emotional as a physical event as well and treat it accordingly. Knowing full well that my body is able to do the things I want it to do.  The key will be to not fall back into the belief that they don't have anything to do with one another. Both need to be address to have success and go outside of your comfort zone.  If you conquer the mental with out the physical  you maybe motivated to work out but never actually do it. If you address just the physical you may get up and move toward your goal but will stop way before you are where you could be just because your brain has come up with an excuse for you to stop.  Everyone take a deep breath, clear you mind of the reasons you can't and tell those legs to move and run towards your goal.