No pain, no Gain?
By Claudia Burdick ©2009 Burdick Insitute LLC all rights reserved.
Is this true? - and other myths.
No pain, no gain. How many times have we heard this statement over the years? But is it true? Or is this just another example of our clutching the belief in suffering?
Let’s say you are a runner. You really want to run but when you run, you come back feeling like you have been beat up and what about that shortness of breathe you are struggling with. Just press on? Or could there be a better way?
Could it be possible that a good majority of the pain you are experiencing is coming from one or more of your beliefs, possibly the one that says no pain, no gain?
Could it be from one of your beliefs that says you are not strong?
Could it be from one of your beliefs that says you cannot get what you want because your body is not an athlete’s body?
Could it be the one that says you are meant to suffer?
One of my girlfriends was going to the gym everyday and couldn’t get beyond 5 minutes of exercise without feeling like she was going to collapse. She was totally out of breath and sweating, actually feeling like she was going to die.
She would look around and see other people working away and had been for 20 minutes or so and looking like they were just out for a stroll. She asked me what is wrong with me? Is it my heart? Something wrong with my lungs?
What we found however was that it was her beliefs that were holding her back. One of her beliefs that was holding her back was that life is morbid, or in other words, what’s the use we are just going to die anyway.