thenaturalone’s BodyBlog

Most of us work hard to take care of our bodies and are very regimented in doing the right things to try to make them stronger and healthier. We nurish our bodies with high quality nutritious foods, we take top quality supplements, we keep putting good things in our bodies so that we can get the most out of them while at the same time we cut back on refined and processed foods loaded with chemicals, saturated fats, sugars and sodium, ya know all the bad stuff. We drink alot of water and take in plenty of dietary fiber to help remove waste and toxins so that our system’s are more efficient, but what about our minds? Are we nurishing our minds as well as our bodies? Our mind is the single biggest thing that holds us back from meeting our goals! Consider this. We live in a society full of stress and lots of bad news. Often times when we are exposed to negative and unpleasant situations these negative thoughts and feelings begin to fill up our minds, polluting them. As these negative thoughts fill our minds, any pleasant, positive or ambitious thoughts get shoved out leaving us with minds full of negativity and doubt. Its seems so easy to put good thing in our bodies and keep bad stuff out of them by why is so hard to do that with our minds? After all, aren’t we trying trying to be as efficient as we can possibly be? I rembeber dealing with all these horrible injuries and disease. My body was seemingly defeated, I had top of the line medical specialists tell me that because of my health problems and also the extent of the injuries to my body that I could never be a bodybuilder or even lift weights again! Talk about mind pollution!  Hearing these negative words really depressed me and got me down for quite some time. Yes my body appeared to be defeated but my mind was not! I desided that I wasn’t gonna be just another lame medical statistic. I desided I was gonna beat these health problems, overcome them and become a bodybuilder just like I had always dreamed! Apparently my body didn’t know that it wasn’t supposed to get better. Through positive thinking I was able to filter all the bad and negative stuff the doctors had told me out of my mind and fill my mind with positive thoughts, knowing that all things are possible and my body could and would heal and I could look forward to that day that it was and be able to persue my dreams. It was the great Arnold Schwarzenegger that said " The mind controls the body, the body doesn’t control the mind." I couldnt agree more! if we can just take time each day to really focus and create a filter in our minds that remove those negative thoughts about what ever they may be, like thinking, gee.. I’m so far in debt I’ll never be financialy stable, or this illness has the best of me and there’s no way I will get better or even, I have the worst genetics, I’ll never be able to lose weight and have an attractive body. We need to then fill our minds with positive thoughts like, I know I can find a better career and make more money so I’m financialy stable, I know my body is sick right now but it’s only temporary and I know I’m gonna get better, and yeh I’m overweight now but I know I can find the right resources to come up with an effective game plan to lose this weight and be healthy and have an attractive body! So as the saying goes "you reap what you sew." I know that this changing the way we think can be difficult in a world where there are so many things that are wrong. However, I believe everyone of us can be much better off and get much more fulfillment from our lives if we make a conscious effort to rebalance our mind so that they filled mainly with positive thoughts while the bad ones that hold us back are filtered out.