Sparklinpunk379’s BodyBlog

Working out is the golden opportunity to focus energy your on your body and you-nothing else!  its a good time to be selfish!  Call it working out, maybe even working through the tough times, but whatever you call it is pure indulgence to me!  Right now i am depending on training to keep me emotionally sane because at this time in my life i seem to have more demands on my time than ever before.  The answer for me is always get to the gym, girl!…and that is exactly where i go.  I know what emotional and mental pain can do to ones health; how it can leave you without passion, motivation, or confidence.  This is when i find working out to be most usefull because it reminds me that i can contribute in a constructive way to my own well-being and that i have power over my choices and the outcomes, particularly in the gym.  Breakups or failures tear away chunks of our happiness.  Failure reads like a bad script with a plot suggesting we could somehow not deliver what it took to make things work.  It has taken a lot of leanring and experience to know that life is simply like that.  There are certain things in life that simply cannot be fixed.  This does not mean to give up.  I try to take failure as a jumping off point, instead of a fall.  The gem in it is that you discover a wonderful opportunity to take a look inside yourself, wake up that little voice and build a strong, confident new you.  The gym can aid in rebuilding the new you because when you see yourself in the mirror lifting those weights, or when you have sweat dripping down your face and it is beet red from exhaustion, there is nothing more empowering.  That image is literally a symbol of the strong person you are trying to build- trust me, you will belive it.  Seeing defined curves, lean muscle, and once baggy skin replaced by firmness can make you proud to be who you are, retuning some self-respect and love to your once neglected body.  You will see all of your hard work and effort caused by time not thinking about negative parts of life.  It is a blatant display of your dedication, motivation, and passion to pick up all the messy bits in life and make something beautiful out of it.  Things are only beautiful if you love them.