Pain and Exercise and Parts
July 31, 2008
I have an internal conversation with my pain part about doing some exercise in the past two weeks. Generally I consider it uncomfortable to exercise. I have joined a number of gyms in the past 10 years and after a few months I just don’t go. The part of me that is concerned about my fitness and weight gets over powered by a group of parts including the pain part, the embarrassed part, the lethargic part, the part that tells me I have too much to do, and the part that tells me it is inconvenient. I do love to swim but to get to a good swimming pool would take a 20 minute walk, time to change, wait for a lane, and a 20 minute walk back as well as membership in in Gym. Can you hear all the parts talking to me.
When I was in Phoenix in November 2007, my nephew Brian and niece Michielle had purchased the Wii system and I was fascinated that you could play virtual tennis or other sports. Generally I don’t endorse products(especially ones that I don’t make) in my blog. In March they came out with an exercise board called Wii Fit and it was impossible to purchase one. I looked all over on line and in local stores including Best Buy. Finally I purchased one a week ago in Game Stop. I didn’t realize that you had to purchase the base system which is expensive…how dumb of me.
I purchased the base system a week ago and last Saturday I set it up(quite an achievement). It is
just wonderful. You use your television, the base system, the board on the floor and a controller in your hand. My intention is to exercise for 30 minutes every day(except when I am traveling) and to become fit and perhaps lose some weight.
The reason I could do this was because I had a conversation with my parts. I told the part that didn’t want to go to the gym that I agreed with him. Here was an answer that is so convenient that he didn’t have to be concerned. I told the embarrassed part that I would be exercising in our own home. And I told the part that has been very critical about my fitness and over weight that I need him on my team for now and that he could be very critical if I missed a day. I need his criticism or the concern about his criticism as a motivating force to continue.
I just completed my third day and I am looking forward to tomorrow.
posted by Ira Dressner, Ph.D.
Spiritual Coach
ADHD Coach
www.spiritualpainreliefcenter.com
Working with Parts
May 30, 2008
All people have parts. What I mean is a smart part, a vulnerable , a critical part, a spiritual part, and a pain part. Its the pain part that one needs to recognize and work with, if one is in consistent pain. But first you have to know about parts, your own parts and the parts of others. When you get good at understanding which of your parts give you difficulty your can creat strategies.
There is a part of me writing a book about parts, pain relief, spirituality. I was writing it in 2007 and the person who recommended I begin a blog suggested I put the book off until the blog was ready. It was probably a good idea as there will be a synthesis between the blog and the book.
