The Secret to Bodybuilding and a lot more!

The Secret to Bodybuilding and a Whole lot more. Steve Michalik in his book Atomic Fitness reveals a great secret.

A key to helping you to understand yourself. It blew my mind when I read it. It clicked a lot of pieces into place for me. Spiritual, fitness, psychological, many areas. Steve asserts that we are 2 intelligences and 1 person forming a trinity. Okay, I'll try to explain; keep in mind I am still sorting this all out myself. Most people know we consist of mind and body. I used to think the mind was me and I fought the body for control of myself. Steve writes, the body has its own intelligence. It breathes for us, keeps our heart beating, digests our food, feels and reacts to pain and pleasure, all apart from the mind. The mind is a seperate intelligence that reasons from past experience, creates and responds to emotions and stress, the mind creates our perceptions of the world and how we should live in it. I used to think the mind was really me, but according to Steve, the body and the mind intelligences are like 2 pets. They guide and help us operate in the world but they are not really you. Consequently these 2 intelligences can and do give inaccurate information about what we should be doing with our lives. Our body intelligence wants to lie around watching TV, eating cheatos, not going into the discomfort of exercising. Our body's mind, left on its own would make us fat, bloated weaklings good for nothing. Our Mind wants us to avoid stress like asking a girl on a date, public speaking, learning new things, experiencing new ideas. Left to its self the mind would have us doing the same old thing day in day out avoiding any possiblity of emotional hurt. The 3rd entity is actually you. It is outside of body and mind and can be hard to tease out. This 3rd entity has been called: your spirit, your soul, your higher self. This is the real you, your very essence, your perfect self yet unrealized in reality (whoa, that was a bit esoteric). This 3rd entity is the real you trying to realize/express its self through the world in the form of your mind and body. Here is my hallucination:(not what actually occurs but a useful construct/theory of what happens that helps me understand the information) My hallucination: you a start out as a disembodied soul/spirit floating in the ether. You want to get in on the fun down on earth (the material universe) so you are born with a body and mind. Your spirit controls both intelligences uses both to accomplish its purposes on earth (the material plane) Unfortunately because of our devolved culture the mind and body fight back each wanting to be in control. With all the noise in our culture (TV, ipods, books, School etc) our true self/spirits/soul's voice gets lost. The body and the mind winning most if not all battles for control. What is the voice of our true self? Our aspirations, dreams, our true passions, Love of all(not lust but the realization of all things being interconnected). Our higher self is what motivates us to exercise to have a better body; learn a new subject, step out of our comfort zone and try something new. When you meditate/day dream on what you want to do with your life, your higher self/soul/spirit speaks. Our mind stifles the ideas as silly or impractical, our body says it is to demanding or will take too long. Those people who tame or at least master mind and body (like a lion tamer or a horse whisperer) achieve amazing things. Arnold Schwartzenegger, General George Patton, Bruce Lee, Albert Enstein and many others are examples of people who have overcome mind and body to express their true selves. This knowledge makes a lot of things clearer in my life. I welcome your comments and thoughts.