I have been pretty pissed off the last few days, which is not like me, after all I am always preaching positive thinking and all that mental malarky, so for the last two hours I have been sat here searching out the reason why, I needed to rectify it, because for a fact, one negative thought breeds another and another until you end up feeling down, and if you don't stop the rot, then things just keep getting worse, not only that, you actually attract events that you don't want to happen.
So I got to reading some paperwork on mental states and creating your own reality, something I read regularly, but just recently I have been so tied up with doing all the blogging and the website not to mention my work responsibilities, I have not kept on top of the mental work.
What I read got me thinking, and I now know what set me off on this short negative period, which has now gone by the way. It was all to do with a video that I put on You Tube on Saturday. Someone put a like against it and a positive comment. Someone else, A Pilates Instructor (God bless her) had commented to this person on facebook that he should be careful doing this particular exercise, because the person in the video (me) allowed one of his legs to come up off the floor when doing it, and he was using his hip flexors to do the rep and this could cause low back damage.(I agree that's possible if that is what you did all the time) Being a bit sensitive to the comment (I am sure that this instructor was only trying to help) I put my own comment on, which was, "I will bear this in mind, glad I don't do Pilates". Which was a bit petty I know. But looking back over the last couple of days, that single comment actually ruined them for me and that has lead to a negative effect on the people around me. Which is no good at all. So sorry to those concerned. The point is, if you identify the cause of your negative emotions early, you can save yourself and those around you a lot of grief. Why should I let someone else's opinion get me down like that, it's ridiculous. One person liked it, the other did not, so what? That is going to happen all the time. So I am over it.
Straight after this, I read an Article by Martin Rooney( A strength and Conditioning Specialist that I follow)
The Article read Run With The Outlaws, and it was basically about going back to some old school training, about the times when what you could lift and do was what mattered and not being overboard about form and what exercises you should and shouldn't be doing because they might hurt you. This doesn't mean ignore form in your exercises, that would be stupid, but don't get anal about it. In every day life and especially sport (which I participate in on a regular basis) physical exertion is not always pretty and straightforward, done in a neat and perfect way, sometimes you are off balance or under extreme fatigue, but you don't stop and say "please stop while I adjust my form or I may get hurt". to your opponent ,you get on with it and try to keep your technique as best you can. Keep your form when you can, but sometimes it goes now and again, accept it and that's it.
Well that's it, my rant and the pissed off mood is over and I am back on even track again. In my next blog I am going to write about getting more MENTAL in your thrust toward a Healthy Life. Meanwhile, I am still glad I don't do Pilates though.ha ha.
"He that will not reflect is a ruined man".
If I have any readers from the USA, I hope you had a good independence day yesterday.
Steve.
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