Why you're not progressing...

"Brainy What-Why-How"

Your weekly nibble of brain-based tips to help you move and feel great!

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What:

Repetition builds mastery. 

Even when you're doing the wrong thing, or an unwanted thing.

"But what if I'm TRYING to do the right thing, or the desired thing, and I get it wrong?" 

You're still creating neural pathways for that thing you're ACTUALLY DOING, even if those patterns include an opposing desire.

Why:

Your brain is a pattern maker. A prediction machine. 

And so let's say you're working on kicking up to a handstand, and 99.9% of the time you're HOPING to get to vertical and find some hang time, but what actually happens is a prompt fall back the way you came:

You will learn to do the unwanted thing EASILY 

and the thing you desire to do will become more and more difficult. 

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How:

Stop simply HOPING, and change your actual BEHAVIOUR.

1️⃣  Awareness: notice your patterns, when you keep failing in the same way:

🤸🏻falling out of handstand in exactly the same way every time,
🥔 or eating the entire bag of crisps
👩‍🦱 typing a litany of insults at a family member every time they send you xenophobic Facebook posts 

2️⃣ Change it!: even if it's not what you want to do, simply doing something OTHER than the unhelpful habit will help break that pattern

🤸🏻kick up with the intention to fall from too much force.
🥔 eat the entire bag of crisps EXCEPT FOR ONE crisp at the bottom of the bag.
👩‍🦱 stay completely silent with no reaction at all to your family member's shares.

3️⃣ Find the desired path: now you have experience in more than just that one way of doing this thing! This is empowering to find what you really want to do.

🤸🏻find the sweet spot between too little and too much force in your kick up to handstand
🥔 work with the familiarity of being okay with leaving some crisps in the bag for later to reduce your crisps consumption to what feels like balance to you.
👩‍🦱 you kindly point out the positives of multicultural societies as a response to your family member.

Let me know if this was helpful for you!

Go get 'em Goldilocks,

Adell