Train Your Brain

We've been addressing fitness with a twist here. Yes diet. Yes exercise.  But these are merely the actions we take to improve our physical body.

Let's go a little deeper and look at what some call our motivation: the reason we take these actions.

We all have beliefs about things, including exercise, our bodies, pilates classes, our time... the list goes on. Did you know that even if we are objectively correct about one of these beliefs, we can deliberately change them to make things go better?

For example, we may think, "I don't have time to eat healthy."

We can ask ourselves to replace that thought with "I enjoy eating healthy and delicious food at every snack or meal." or "I always have something healthy and satisfying available to eat whenever I feel hungry."or "I have boundless energy." or "I feel like a teenager."

When we repeat new beliefs to ourselves, our life takes the shape of them. Remember moving to a new town and feeling new? Well your experience over time caused your belief and feeling of being new (and maybe a little socially uncomfortable) to change to, "I fit right in here!"

We can even speed up this process by creating strong positive emotions like joy, hope, or satisfaction. What an absolutely fun and rewarding activity! It can be done anywhere, anytime like my classes!

At first it feels a little like work. You may not have the good feelings right away. As you repeat your new belief, let's say three times a day for a week, and see those small changes begin, you will start feeling better and believing more strongly until it feels like part of you; you begin to KNOW.

Yes, you can try this at home. Choose a new thought; a new belief that you really want for your body or health. You will feel good now.