Can Meditation Really Help With Your Fitness Program?

We as humans naturally possess similar goals (to be strong and fit both in mind and body) and we also hold similar challenges.

A common challenge I’ve seen time and time again is motivation to stick with a program, practice, or routine. This challenge I’ve seen more often than others because we as humans have the uncanny ability to talk ourselves out of anything that can be good for us and talk ourselves into anything that is bad for us. “I can’t go to the gym today because I have a deadline.” Or “I can’t exercise today because I didn’t sleep well last night, and I really need a nap.” Or “I didn’t meditate today because my anxiety levels were too elevated to calm my mind.”

The problem with creating habits of procrastination or excuses is the ease in which we will allow these choices to become our learned behaviors.

I believe the first step in overcoming challenges is to identify the correlation that we have between the mind and the body. As you identify the main goal of what you are trying to achieve, you can easily start to see how the mind and body are related in order to reach that said goal.

So, instead of looking at a physical goal as being unobtainable due to physical barriers, we can look at how we can tap into our mindfulness practice to help us overcome the challenges.

What I suggest to my readers and my clients is to focus on the actual goal being the understanding of the mind-body connection, and the smaller goals will become segments of the larger.

And how do we achieve that? We achieve it through individually connecting with our minds, individually connecting with our bodies and then the natural connecting of the two falls into place.

For the purpose of this article, I suggest understanding that connecting the mind through the spiritual practice of meditation can elevate types of movement and helping reach the goal of connecting the mind and the body, I like to refer to as mindful motion.