How important it is to change our state.

Yesterday, should have been a good day by all accounts, but I got into a mental funk that took me out of the game. The worst part about being in that funk is that I knew I was there and I new that I had the power to change my mood, but I could not seem to find a way,at the time. Looking back on it from a clearer perspective now, I see that there was at least one quick and easy step that I could have done to keep a down hour from turning into an unproductive afternoon.

I know that what I needed was a powerful state change or a good kick in the butt. From my training and experience I now that my mental state, my emotional state and my physical state are all linked together. Therefore if I change one of them, the rest of them are effected whether I want them to change or not. The easiest state to consciously change is our physical state. What I should have done and what I will do in the future is get up out of my chair, put on my running shoes, and hit the street for a few miles. That would have changed my mental state enough to save the rest of the afternoon and a little needed exercise too. What actually happened what I slugged around the office trying to think of what I should be doing and who I should be calling and consequently burned off a whole afternoon being and did not accomplish anything of note.

We are all in the state of mind that we allow our selves to be in and we all have the power to change that state if we desire. Sometimes the answers to how to get to the state of mind we desire is not through that mind directly, it is through changing the state of our physical body.