Exercise While You Sleep: Develop the Habit
By Raul Gordillo T
hat is right. You can be as skeptical as you wish, but exercising while you sleep increases the possibilities
of exercising becoming a routine. You are correct - exercise is done with the body and when you sleep your body is resting, but let me ask you before you actually make it to the physical exercise, where does the initial step begin? Unless you thought about it, exercising will not take place, so even though exercise is done physically, it can be said that it begins with the conscious mind. Unfortunately, for the most part, the conscious mind alone does not determine what we do routinely, and in the case of ex- ercising the conscious mind determination can be very short term when trying to make it into a habit.
When a habit has been formed, the initial thought has gone from the conscious mind to the subconscious and sometimes we create habits that bypass our con- scious mind and become established in our subconscious without us having made a decision directly. Whether the habit is healthy or unhealthy, it does not matter. For instance, if you smoke cigarettes, the habit to do it has been formed, and even though your conscious mind tells you it is un- healthy, to quit will require extensive work because the habit has been formed in your subconscious and you do it automatically. Of course in this example the fact that nicotine is highly addictive makes it worse, but the principle is the same, your subcon- scious does not discriminate, smoking has been registered, and you simply do it.
If you have not been through the process of creating the habit of exercising in your subconscious, the chances of you exercising routinely are very low. Think of all those New Year’s resolutions that do not go beyond January, if that long. I can see the smile on your face. Exactly, you know what I mean, “I will lose thirty pounds, quit smoking, drinking...” what- ever the case may be; very seldom do these resolutions take place, including the one about beginning to exercise. The mind is a powerful thing, but more specifically the subconscious mind is the actual power. It is like a computer program; once it has been developed and installed, it will happen. The habits that bypassed our con- scious mind were programmed mostly through our childhood; if they were healthy, that is great, but if they were not, that is a different story. It is just as difficult to eliminate an established habit than to develop one. When we are children, our minds are like sponges; we are not con- scious yet - up until the age of seven our reasoning power is being formed, but guess what, all the information around us is be- ing absorbed by the subconscious. If, when we were growing up, we absorbed disci- pline, we would have the habit of being disciplined; this is nice, right? What if we absorbed the habit of being lazy? Hmm, not so nice. For an adult that realizes the habit of being lazy, the effort to change the habit can be monumental unless he/she works directly with the subconscious mind. If nothing else, even if you are not
ready to put an effort into exercising, you are becoming familiar with how your habits are formed. If you are disci- plined, it is because you were taught to be disciplined; someone during your child- hood showed you, talked to you about it, perhaps, rewarded you when you were disciplined. You learned the benefits of being disciplined and, most definitely, discipline is a good habit. Now, if you are an adult and are lazy, you can reverse the process and develop the opposite habit, but it takes some work. Let’s say you do not have the habit of exercising, but you’ve thought about it - actually you have been
thinking about it, and in your conscious mind you know it would be beneficial; it would increase your energy level, immune system, regulate your weight, improve your sexuality, etc., but up to this point you have only thought about it - the desire has not been entered into your subconscious mind. The subconscious mind is like your filing cabinet; it all goes there and it is retrieved automatically as you perform your daily life activities or by a reaction triggered by outside stimulus. If you exercise while you sleep, in a
sense you are bypassing your conscious mind and going directly to your subcon- scious where the habits are developed. How do you do it? Simple - exercise while you sleep and when you wake up, soon enough, you will have the desire to exercise. Is it like magic? It can be once you have gone through the process and you are enjoying the results of daily exercise. Yes, it begins
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