It’s a big club and much of the whirld (world) is feeling this way.
At the same time, there’s a psycho-physical reason you are feeling out of sorts. And that reason is because you’re not moving enough.
The fastest way to make yourself feel weak and useless is to stop moving. When a horse is cooped up and not allowed to go outside and run, it gets stir crazy. Same thing happens to dogs. And human beings.
We aren’t designed to be plopped in front of a tell-a-vision set all day long, watching schnews programs that manipulate our emotional state with fear-based hypnotic suggestions.
This does not mean you should ignore all advice and take no precautions. Get the main idea of what is going on, then turn the telly off and move your body.
Realize that exercise is not physical, even if we call it that.
Exercise is psycho-physical.
When you move you feel better. When you don’t move, you feel worse. Plain and simple.
Doing the bodyweight squats, pushups and bridges I teach in Combat Conditioning does wonders for your emotional state. You go from feeling bad to feeling much better – or from good to great.
Normally I would tell you about the physical benefits of the exercises I teach, such as burning fat, building muscle and increasing strength-endurance. But during these challenging times, it’s more important to understand the psychological advantages these exercises give you.
For example, last weekend a stir-crazy guy I hadn’t heard from in two years, wrote and began calling me names.
His comments made me smile.
Because I was in an elated psycho-physical state, due to the exercise routines I follow, I was able to easily brush off his idiocies.
If I hadn’t exercised in days, though, I wouldn’t have experienced the same positive response. I would have found myself embroiled in a meaningless spat.
Yesterday, when I got up, I wasn’t in as good a mood as I was last Saturday night. So what do you think I did?
I did what is natural. I started to move.
And in less than 60 seconds, I was feeling better.
What you’ve probably realized is that we are surrounded by and bombarded with negativity each and every day. There appears to be no escape – yet there is.
You can attempt to diffuse the negativity with purely psychological or spiritual practices. But the most effective way, and the quickest, is a combination of physical exercises that make you psychologically immune to the craziness of others.
That, my friend, is what the exercises in Combat Conditioning can do for you. They can give you greater physical strength as well as an invisible type of psychological immunity.
They can help you ward off and repel other peoples’ fears.
And that, in and of itself, is as good a reason as any, to make sure you’re following what el Furecat is teaching.
Yessir. Let’s get it rolling.
Matt Furey
P.S. If you have children and they are acting a bit “nuts” lately, then my book, Combat Conditioning for Kids, which comes along with a cartoonized deck of playing cards, will do wonders for them.
