When I was younger you know quite a bit younger maybe 18 19 20
despite studying psychology and being I would like to think a relatively smart
person I did not think there was any connection between the mind and the body
I had this view on life that was so insanely analytical and don't ask me how
that happened being an ENFP but I had this insanely analytical view about our
actions our decisions and essentially how the body and the mind and all that
came together and to me it was all up in the head
it was just thinking about make a decision it's all logical and of course
we all know that's not how the world works that's not how people work there
is so much more complexity and it took me many years of travel of trial and
error of success of failure of relationships to figure out no that is
not how people work one of the most interesting parts of this to me is all
the research showing that our behavior can actually change our thinking that
what we do can change what we feel about different things so for example if
someone has a belief like in their head let's say they are for whatever reason
some kind of racist and then their behavior changes because they end up
assisting somebody of a different race they're actually going to change their
attitudes based on their actions so because they behave in a different way
their attitudes will change I thought this was really cool when I first learnt
this I remember when I was back in Vancouver I remember one day this is
when I was working as a mortgage planner many many years ago and I remember
feeling really like terrible I am NOT gonna use the word depression
necessarily but it was a few days or I was just feeling really like a lack of
energy I was feeling just down and I didn't like it and in my head I
didn't understand why I was feeling that way I was like what is going on here
right I was trying to think like is it a life purpose issue is there someone I'm
not happy with why do I feel this way and I couldn't figure it out so I
decided to force gump it and I literally got up this was in the middle of the
afternoon on like a Tuesday so the middle of the week got up and I just
started to run in Vancouver if you don't know it in the downtown area where I
lived it's surrounded by water so you can run around basically the entire city
and and that's what I did we have this thing called the seawall and I just
started running and I kept running and I think all in Ind up running 1819
kilometers now I was not a distance runner I did run usually on many days
but like three four or five kilometers and I just kept running and I think at
the end of it it was like three hours which is not a good time for any of you
who ran distant but I basically told myself I was gonna run until I would
feel good and that's what happened at the end of it physically I felt terrible
my joints hurt I probably should have stretched or worn special shoes or
something but despite the physical negative feelings mentally emotionally I
actually felt good again and it was ultimately just by going and running and
changing my behavior so I wanted to bring this up because us enfps and if
you're a subscriber of mine you probably aren't necessarily an ENFP but you fall
into some kind of personality where we do a lot in our heads
we're very emotional we're sometimes very intellectual we think about the
mind and sometimes and this isn't all of us by any means but I have noticed a
pattern of people of really separating the mind in the body and sometimes
looking at people who are fitness nuts and assuming like they're not an
intelligent person they're just about Fitness therefore they can't be really
intellectual or something and I think from my own first-hand experience this
is really dangerous that there is a massive connection between our mind and
her body between our actions and our attitudes and in understanding this we
can sometimes find a great shortcut to making change because I'll tell you this
it's a lot easier in many ways to change what you do then change what you think
it's something we're all capable of no matter how you feel you can get up and
go for a walk you can get up and talk to a friend and these sorts of actions can
actually then change our emotions they can change our attitudes they can change
how we think and so the next time you are struggling with something and you
find yourself kind of stuck up in your head I want you to think about getting
out of your head and think about doing instead of thinking and just try that
out and see how it works for you and let me know thank you for watching if you're
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