Part 1 of a 4-Part Series: How to Condition Your Mind

If you haven’t listened to the Fit4Life Radio show that aired on Tuesday, please do so now so that you’ll have a preview of what this series is all about.

To get you up to speed, let’s review what I presented. Pleasure and Pain, as suggested by Anthony Robbins in his “Personal Power” program says that these two emotions drive all our decisions and experiences each and every day. As I listened to him speaking, I realized that he certainly spoke the truth. Every decision you make involves an effort to either seek pleasure from it or avoid pain because of it.

This revelation struck a chord in me, as I realized that if you apply this theory to weight loss and control it, you can just about guarantee your success on your weight loss journey.

So that’s how this series came about. I’ve broken it down into 4 digestible parts so that you’ll be able to not only truly grasp it, but put into motion in your life right away.

In this first part, you’ll learn How to Condition Your Mind. You condition your mind by thinking of your mind as a muscle.

How do you condition a muscle? You train it to do what you want it to do, the same as your muscles when you’re strength training.

The science of gaining strength and building or sculpting your muscles is pretty simple. You start by lifting a weighted object and forcing your muscle to move it. In order to move the weight, your muscle begins to tear (microscopically) under the strain. The cells repair themselves using the fuel or food that you eat and during sleep or resting periods. Afterwards, something really neat happens, during the repair process, your muscle becomes bigger, stronger and better so that it will be able to lift that same weight the next time, and then some.

So what do you do the next time you workout? You don’t lift the same weight, the same way, you change something. This shocks the muscle and again makes it compensate for this change, starting the recover-repair- growth cycle all over again.

In the end, what you get are beautifully sculpted, strong muscles that burn calories 24/7.

Now, let’s take this same scenario and apply it to your mind. Each time you do new things or put new routines and processes in place, you force your mind to grow and expand. Doing the same things the same way makes your mind become stale and stagnant. But filing it with new images, patterns and sensations causes it to explode and want more new sensations.

The best part is the more that you challenge yourself and your mind, the more you get out of it and the more you grow, from the inside out and shrink (physically) from the outside in.

Conditioning your mind is equivalent to conditioning the other muscles in your body. Remember, if you don’t use it, you WILL lose it!

Check back next Wednesday for Part 2: How to Exercise Your Mind

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