Overcoming Mental Blocks

Recently I’ve been pondering how our mind’s expectations often block us from experiencing more richness and possibility. Even when we set goals and invite new desires, we can easily stop ourselves from taking accessible actions to advance. This month I ran into my own personal example of this phenomenon. One aspirational goal that I set months ago was to eventually do an hour-long group training session at my gym called UltraFit. That class looked intimidating from the online videos I’d seen of it. You can see the description on the UltraFit web page if you’re curious, with lines like “Our most intense workout yet. Get ready to challenge your mental and physical limits.” Here’s a 2-minute video preview of UltraFit: The video includes such inviting phrases as: “We created UltraFit to serve our high-intensity fitness fanatics.” “UltraFit is advanced. It is no joke.” “helps our competitive athletes stay in peak physical condition” “We help them get through the hard work, the type of training that people don’t want to do on their own.” Am I competitive athlete? No. But I loved the idea of building up enough fitness to handle this class – eventually. I’ve been doing GTX group training sessions with a few different trainers at this gym since Summer 2022, with some breaks for injury, illness, and travel. GTX stands for Group Training eXperience....
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