Mind versus the body

The mind is like water, necessary for survival and productivity. But can just as easily drown out that likelihood of success.

I can confidently tell you you’ve never seen your body’s limitations; what you’ve seen is the limitations of your mind.

When you’re tired or uncomfortable, weak or unsure, these things start as fear being planted in your brain and attempting to grow roots. Looking to acquire the real estate that exists between your ears. It is a powerful source. It can manipulate you, your reality, anyone and everyone around you, but it only exists with your permission, and we’re not always cognizant that we’ve opened the gate and let it in. That’s the crazy part. Oh, but we do.

Subconsciously or not, it’s the reason you haven’t gone as far as you can go, pushed as hard as you possibly can because, at some point, fear stood between you and what you want. At some point, you started asking yourself if you have gone too far.

Look it doesn’t matter if its athletics, or rugby or business or anything, when things become uncomfortable or it hurts fear always shows its face. It’s not because you're dragging your leg on the floor or your knee gave out, it’s not because you can't go on, it's because those thoughts trickle into your mind about being unable to finish. What if I can't handle this? I don’t usually go this far. Am I pushing harder than I usually do? Is this right? Is this dangerous? Is it over the top?

These thoughts are the seed of destruction. A virus.

There’s a saying in Naval Special Operations that when your mind tells you you're done when you feel maxed out, you are only at 40% capacity. You haven’t even scratched the surface. Value isn’t obtained until, in one way or another, you can realize this and push the panic and the anxiety back underground.

You’re not stopping because you can't go on; you're stopping because of the “what ifs” and the worst-case scenarios. You're stopping because you're preconditioned to stay within boundaries. That seed has grown into concerns about the world conspiring against you, but the body does not control the mind; the mind dictates what the body does.

The thing about life is that we all have narratives; we all have stories that we believe in, and that's why it’s crucial. Everything that happens to or around you will be moulded into your narrative. If you see something as crazy far-fetched or impossible, life will be nothing more than evidence of that belief; the pain will be a wall 10 feet high.

The old saying is: seek, and you shall find. What you look for is what you get. Expect greatness, and the body will listen. Your world will conform. That’s why believing is being. The body it executes. Loyal to every belief. You’ll always be what you decide to be.