Inner Program – Mind Over Matter

Mind over Matter – Goal Setting Life Change Transformation Product

How does anybody achieve success with their life and their personal health? Where do you begin, at the beginning or do you start at the end with the goal and develop a plan and go backwards from the goal? So you start where you are, look forward to the goal and just start making strides of what ever length and move in that direction? What should you do when an obstacle appears or occurs, how do you start back up if you stop?

These were the questions I wanted to answer as I began my personal quest for excellence and develop my 31 year (so far) fitness professional career. Did I set out with the intention of excellence? No, it’s just evolved as my understanding increased and interests have deepened along with my desire to quench my thirst for this endless goal.

The definition of mind/body connection is simple and complex at the same time but in its simplest form it’s the connection or resulting from the interrelationship between one’s physical health and the state of one’s mind or spirit and overall effect on one’s health.

“But I just want to get lean, drop some fat!” some of you are saying and you will…some of you. Some of you however will be trapped by the demons, monkeys, excuses or whatever term you want to give them that reside in your minds and will act as a gatekeeper forbidding your successes until you learn to manage the little trolls.

Historical perspective on mind and body connection

From the worlds shift and mankind’s evolution from old to the new world, the basic “software” of what it means to be human hasn’t changed, but the external world has definitely changed rapidly in comparison. We still feel, think and react to the same as we did thousands of years ago to external stressors.

From the Greeks and Romans, through the Renaissance period to early Colonial American humans are pretty much the same internally…same bones, same muscles and brain.

The changes externally going from an extreme need for physical survival skills and abilities have all been in recent times outsourced from the more prosperous in society to the lesser and knowledge work has replaced physical work. With this shift, a less physical body has evolved and an overstressed mind fueled with poorly engineered food has created the beginning of the end. Is this a possible shift back to the dark ages? Can we rebound? Some will…many will not.

This is what “Mind over Matter” is all about, developing the mental disciplines to handle life’s challenges while also juggling all the balls in the air without dropping them. Possibly having to have a life changing situation event occur usually does it for some…a death, a divorce, job loss, jail term, war, violent crime…puts them over the edge and nothing brings them back. Sometimes because the tools to do this or get back up after getting knocked down and dust one’s self off were never put in place. Do you want to discover how to get these tools or just “try” to figure it out on your own…how’s that been working out so far?

Managing to eat, sleep, work, train and have a fully functioning life with challenging accomplishments to help each of us achieve a level competency for a strong mind body connection with “Mind over Matter” disciplines can be taught, practiced, refined and learned.

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