TURN THE PAGE

I don’t know about you, but when someone tells me “it’s all mental” as the key to unlocking a challenge, I only find about 0.01% of that to be helpful. You know the eye roll emoji? Yeah. Accurate depiction of how I really feel about it.

That being said, I’m not here to just criticize what I find to be an unuseful, generic saying. 

What I’d like to offer instead is a specific visualization tool that I use every time I find myself uncomfortable in an ice bath. You could do the same, or apply to any uncomfortable situation. 

What I imagine is a book. Turning a page with each breath. Continuing to turn pages until I arrive at a blank page, or a more comfortable part in the “story”.

“It’s all mental” is only as useful as the tangible applications you have access to employ. Turning pages is a simple exercise in reframing. 

Uncomfortable can become less uncomfortable. Or more comfortable. Or even, comfortable.

Your mind, your rules. But why suffer when you can savor?

 

Kimmy Moss

@kimmy.moss