Mindset for mind and body as partners in performance.
Mike is an executive coach, a speaker and an author of the book: The Myth-Guided Mind: Unleash Your God-Given Genius at Work and at Home . His book is both practical and personal. He worked as a psychotherapist and saw that there were flaws in the system. He came to believe that there was a problem about the way “the system” thinks about mental illness and mental health. Now he works as a coach to help people look forward to create the life they want to live and unleash their inner genius.
He says that the real point is to become conscious at some point in life and rewrite our own story or become architects of our own future. We get to do that based on what is around us, so those stories are on the outside and then they make their way into our inner self.
Embrace the power of fear
One of the things he loves to talk to people about is how their fears are serving them. Fear is powerful resistance. But when you push past that resistance, it’s like lifting heavy weights. It makes you stronger. When you cultivate curiosity you begin to see exceptions to the “rules” your mind holds on to. Part of what your brain tries to tell you is, ”I’m keeping you safe. I’m keeping you from dying, as long as you keep doing the same thing over and over again.” But there is something inside of us that wants to push beyond this safety zone and be more and do more.
Mike says that when we really take charge of these things, not only do we change our mindset, but we change our whole body and that it is as if our real energy, the energy that we exude, also changes.
When Mike started this journey, his body was riddled with injuries. He had spent most of his twenties sitting, working as a psychotherapist, and he ended up with back problems. And he tried to get back in shape through strength training, but he ended up injured. He said that was a huge mindset opportunity .
Mindset to heal your body
The connection between mind and body can help your body heal, but you have to look into whether you are using your body the right way. For runners, get a gait analysis or a running form analysis. You have to ask yourself if the mechanics are working right.
But the mind is powerful in its ability to heal the body. We hear about the “placebo effect” when drug studies are done. People who receive sugar pills often will recover just as well as those who got the “real” drugs. This effect has been known in medicine for years. People take “fake” pills and still get real results.
But it’s wrong to think that a placebo isn’t “real” in the results. Mike says why would you discount something that, 20% of the time, is going to cure you? And a lot of what he talks about in his book is this point: if you have the right mindset, you can activate the placebo effect.You can act consciously, it’s not something that you have to be tricked into believing.
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