If you are a person who enjoys exercise, who plans a daily or weekly routine of diet, exercise and rest, it is very possible that this which brings you so many good results, that makes you feel better day by day, is currently running on autopilot. It's time to reconnect your mind with every muscle fiber in your body.
Activating our muscles is not a task that requires many complications or subtasks to carry it out, it is enough to give the instruction in our brain and the neural connections will take care of the rest of the work, whatever the exercise: from writing or reading, to running and lifting weights. Whatever the activity, you can involve in it certain steps that will help you not only have better results, but have a change of attitude that will make you feel more relaxed, strong and capable.
Exercising, going to the gym, jogging, mobilizing on a bike to your workplace, any form of physical work allows us to feel better, be in better shape and carry our days in a better way. In addition to all those benefits, any physical exercise is also a window that opens to have a new practice of mindfulness.
The first step to reconnecting with your body and muscles is to be clear about what you want with your routine. As with many life purposes, without knowing what you really want from a process, finding the motivation to help you get up early, to discipline your diet and your rest, will be an additional task on your shoulders, and this you really do not want, in fact it is from this that you get away when you exercise.
Disciplining the process of muscle training also includes warm-up. Reconnecting your mind and body starts here. A simple exercise that you can do to comply with it is to breathe at the pace of your warm-up, as you move and breathe rhythmically your brain activity, heart rate and nervous system align and stabilize. Finding that step is usually a bit difficult, but to make it easier focus on breathing first, eventually the body will find how to pair with it.
If you have been in social circles similar to the ones I have integrated, you will surely have heard that without pain there is no gain or that the repetitions that count are those that you do when you can not do more. This challenge can work in different ways depending on the exercise you are doing, but the concept is the same and allows you to enter a state of self-demand that mentally will require a lot of attention.
Finally, break is a perfect time to feedback your routine: what could have been done better, how I could and can demand more, how I am feeling after exercising. Within the moment of rest after a demanding routine you can start to include breathing exercises that will help you reoxygenate your body in a better way, and will give you a space for meditation to appreciate the symphony of sensations that cross your body.
"The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean so that the soul lives in it"
B.K.S Iyengar
Therefore, a good idea to start enjoying more and get more out of the process, is to define why you do it and what for. After this, consciously perform every movement, every breath, every contraction, every elongation. All this will allow you to perform a routine much more effectively, mentally and physically.
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