Mind over matter 心靈勝於物質

Believe in yourself

We exercise for different reasons. Some enjoy the physical challenge, while others aim to be fit or healthy. Then, we do have professionals and enthusiasts who wish to go above and beyond to understand and cultivate their being and learn more.  

Whoever you are, how you see yourself, and how you believe yourself to be, you are. If you see challenges and obstacles and believe that they are overpowering for you, they are, and they will be. If you see the same challenges but change your view from obstacles to opportunities, your entire being will respond accordingly. That stressful reaction that easily turns into disappointment and even anxiety could turn into excitement and enthusiasm to look for new ways and opportunities. By changing how you receive that reaction and the feeling it awakens within you, your brain will also change its approach and address the matter accordingly. 

Mastering anything requires practice and repetition. All learning will have its own progression curve. Nothing is linear. One day, when you are well-rested and feel good about yourself, your training routine can be smooth sails and sunshine, and the next day, for some unknown reason, nothing seems to work, and you feel like taking two steps backward. 

How you experience training these days will impact your success. If you put more weight on that successful training day and accept the bad as part of the inevitable but do not get stuck with it, you will progress faster. If your mind gets stuck with the bad day, it will be harder to continue learning. 

A positive approach and excitement will give you lighter energy, and after a successful day, it is easier to find the motivation to move on. Unfortunately, setbacks in the form of bad days are inevitable, and we need to find resilience to continue. As human beings, we are resilient by nature. However, when mastering any skill, that resilience will be tested over and over again. 

Disappointments in our abilities are normal. In the early stages of learning, we tend to have more faith and belief in our skills and abilities than when we start knocking on the doors of internalized success. The more we learn, the more we often find out there is much more to learn. Then, we need more resilience to continue after we feel like failures. 

When this happens repeatedly, we should pay more attention to what we are going through. Sometimes, that overwhelming disappointment tends to happen when we are just about to push out of our comfort zone and evolve to the next level with our skills. We should pay attention inward and feel what part of our execution is lacking in its efforts. In any way, this is the moment to push through and move forward because the next level is very close. 

You can see that your mind plays a vital role in this. Having a growth mindset will give you the tools to climb that mountain you need to climb. However, having a closed mindset will make you search for excuses to save you from those negative emotions failure might bring out. It is the time to put mind over matter and push through that uncomfortable state to find that new level of success and skills you aim towards. Believe in yourself! You have what it takes.

Translated in Cantonese with AI

相信自己

我們運動的原因各不相同。有些人享受身體挑戰，而另一些則希望保持健康或健身。此外，我們還有專業人士和熱衷者希望超越自我，理解和培養自己的存在，學習更多。 

 

無論你是誰，你如何看待自己，以及你如何相信自己，你就是這樣。如果你看到挑戰和障礙，並認為它們對你來說是不可逾越的，那麼它們就是，並且將會如此。如果你看到相同的挑戰，但將你的觀點從障礙轉變為機會，你的整個存在將會相應地反應。那種容易轉變為失望甚至焦慮的壓力反應可以轉變為尋找新方法和機會的興奮和熱情。通過改變你接收那種反應的方式和它在你內心喚醒的感覺，你的大腦也會改變其方法，並相應地處理問題。  

掌握任何事物都需要練習和重複。所有的學習都有自己的進展曲線。沒有任何事物是線性的。有一天，當你充分休息並對自己感覺良好時，你的訓練過程可以是順風順水，而第二天，出於某種未知的原因，什麼都似乎行不通，你感覺像是退後了兩步。  

你現在的訓練體驗將影響你的成功。如果你更重視那一天的成功訓練，並接受壞的一面作為不可避免的一部分，但不會被其困住，你將進步得更快。如果你的心靈被糟糕的一天困住，繼續學習將會變得更加困難。  

積極的態度和興奮會給你帶來輕鬆的能量，而在成功的一天之後，更容易找到繼續前進的動力。不幸的是，壞日子的挫折是不可避免的，我們需要找到韌性來繼續。作為人類，我們天生具有韌性。然而，在掌握任何技能的過程中，這種韌性將會一次次受到考驗。

   

對我們能力的失望是正常的。在學習的早期階段，我們往往對自己的技能和能力有更多的信心和信念，而當我們開始敲響內化成功的大門時，這種信心會減弱。我們學得越多，往往會發現還有很多東西需要學習。然後，在感到失敗之後，我們需要更多的韌性來繼續。  

當這種情況不斷發生時，我們應該更加關注我們正在經歷的事情。有時，當我們即將走出舒適區，並提升到下一個技能水平時，那種壓倒性的失望往往會出現。我們應該向內關注，感受自己在執行方面的不足。無論如何，這是推進和前進的時刻，因為下一個層次就在眼前。  

你可以看到你的心靈在這其中扮演著重要角色。擁有成長心態將給你提供攀登那座山所需的工具。然而，擁有封閉心態將使你尋找藉口，以逃避失敗可能帶來的負面情緒。是時候將心靈置於物質之上，克服那種不舒服的狀態，找到你所追求的新層次的成功和技能。相信自己！你擁有所需的一切。