Daily Maestroism
DM #198
Wednesday, December 7th, 2016
DM #198: Change your mindset. One of the things that David Butler harped on at his Explain Pain course was figuring out how to look at things from a different angle and change a negative into a positive.
I always preach about how incredibly resilient the human body is, and the amount of dysfunction that we can survive speaks exactly to that. Morbid obesity doesn’t happen over night. Wearing a joint down to the point that it needs to be replaced is no easy task. Humans are REMARKABLE in their ability to compensate. As DM #94 states: The onset of pain often marks the limit of you compensatory patterns, NOT their first appearance. Translation: your body can take an absolute beating and still keep going…for a long, long time.
So, if we flip the script and look at things from the other way around, we suddenly see that we in fact have the power to be superhuman. If we were to spend less time mistreating our bodies with shitty food, excessive amounts of stress, and lack of movement, suddenly all of the energy that we were expending on compensating just to keep us alive could now be used for making us better…and better…and better.
We take our health and our bodies for granted. In all likelihood, you treat your car better than you treat your body. Good fuel, oil changes, tune-ups, avoiding potholes, rotating the tires; you get my point. But just why do we take our health for granted? Because we can. Because somewhere deep down inside we realize how incredible we are and the fact that we can bend it quite a few times before it breaks. But why go down that path in the first place?
Pain science, Whim Hof, neuroimmunology, gut health research…it’s all showing us that we have the potential to be absolutely incredible. Why not take that path instead? Your future self will thank you.
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