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I think people overlook how much time they spend with their body in discomfort. Too hot, too cold, legs asleep, chair is too hard, back aches, hungry, full, itc
by encoderer 10y ago
I think people overlook how much time they spend with their body in discomfort. Too hot, too cold, legs asleep, chair is too hard, back aches, hungry, full, itchy sweater, dry skin, rash, sickness, disease, injury. I think, if you let yourself focus on it, it's rare to truly be comfortable in your body.
It's why it's so important to be comfortable in your mind.
- brian-armstrong 10y agoReading this comment made me itchy. You've implemented remote scratching over HTTP.
- skummetmaelk 10y agoJust wait until he makes you breathe manually.
- o_____________o 10y agoOk, but now you can feel your tongue in your mouth
- taneq 10y agoI never understood why this trips people up. Breathing goes right back to auto mode if you ignore it.
- contras1970 10y agoI'm pretty sure you're scratching yourself locally.
- Nav_Panel 10y agoI started weight training with an intent to modify my thought processes surrounding physical sensations (specifically to help with hypochondria). It seems reasonably effective: it provides a great "anxiety sink" -- I can blame any mild and transient feeling on weightlifting recovery -- and it seems to help with developing a deeper mind-body connection/synergy. I imagine yoga might have similar outcomes.
- encoderer 10y agoI totally agree. For me, weight training is about learning to sit with extreme discomfort and push through it. I think it's easier to deal with bad feelings if you look at them vs try to block them out. Training is practice for that.
- hutzlibu 10y ago"if you let yourself focus on it, it's rare to truly be comfortable in your body." I strongly disagree and think the opposite: if you truly let yourself focus on your body in general - then you might achieve a state to actually feel comfortable with your mind beeing in your body. But if your disconnected from your body, you probably live unhealthy without realising and then when you pay attention to your body you feel the constant discomfort and therefore trying to avoid paying attention to your body and making it worse. Because for example "back aches". There is a reason for that. And taking painkillers or ignoring won't make the reason go away. But paying attention to your body would make you move your body more and in a right way, so you will have enough muscles to not get back problems in the first place.