In order to have a highly effective workout, you must first be in the right frame of mind. High performance meditation is the most beneficial exercise for a person to do. What High Performance Meditation entails is a thorough amount of thinking and relaxing. The more relaxed and confident you are, the more likely you will be to perform up to your potential, to learn from your mistakes, and to have a more positive experience.
Before the Workout:
The main thing to remember is to believe that the only thing you can control is your own performance. By meditating, you essentially are thinking about how well you are doing and how well you will perform. During this sequence you should look for mental stumbling blocks and think about how you will not stumble this time. How you will overcome your fears of possible pain or your fears of failing to meet one of your goals. Face your fears of failure and accept them, but identify that if these fears are found when you are starting your regimen that it was expected and it is not a big problem. This meditation prepares you for the workout to come.
During the Workout:
During the workout is the most important time to use High Performance Meditation. In this instance you will meditate by listening to your body, and accepting what is happening as known beforehand with the before workout meditation. Essentially what you say to yourself when you feel tired or unable to continue is, “Okay, I knew this feeling would hit, just hang in there and it will pass. It’s not so bad.” Training yourself to constantly think this way during your exercise will help you defend your body from negative thoughts.
The failure of many people from ever reaching their potential is the fact that the brain does not cooperate. Mind Over muscle must work in tandem in order for you to be successful in your physical activity pursuits. Another element in high performance meditation is to remain focused. In order to fully benefit from your exercising you will need to ignore other activities around you. Ignore the talk and sounds of others around you. Concentrate and focus on the issue at hand. First do your counting. If you are doing 8 repetitions, for instance, then do your counting as though you are only doing 2 repetitions.
I call this the “Two-Step-Rep”… Count in twos, but do this four times. This will make working out easier because you are actually playing a trick on your mind. This can only be done by focus and meditation, because otherwise you will not be able to trick your mind. If your mind believes that only 2 repetitions are to be done then you more than likely will be able to succeed at the 2 repetitions, then you can continue with another set of 2 repetitions, but also think to yourself in your meditation that these next 2 repetitions are the first set.
Soon you will be done with 8 total repetitions. Soon 8 repetitions will be too few and you will increase your repetitions and you will do the same meditation technique. Together with focusing and identifying your pain and setbacks you will be prepared for any obstacle that may come before you.
Tomorrow I will tell you all about your High Performance After the Workout Meditation
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