Search for Techniques
Tuesday, 1. August 2006, 17:20:48
Iae gurizada, um texto muito bom sobre técnica e esforço, como eu não pude traduzir eu vou dar um resumo bem simples do que trata o texto, só pra ajuda... Este texto fala sobre andar de pés descalços, mas pode ser aplicado a qualquer atividade que exija técnica e esforço...
O texto nos diz que não adianta melhorar o físico para se superar se a técnica estiver incorreta, esse esforço será em vão, primeiro se preocupe em naturalmente conseguir o melhor, ou seja, teste as formas que achar que podem ser mais eficientes, até achar a técnica que tenha o melhor desempenho para você, para apartir daí treinar o físico com o objetivo de superar o limite.
Espero que estejam gostando ae dos textos, e que eles estejam ajudando bastante, obrigado a todos que visitam o Blog.
Search for Techniques
by George Kerkhoven
RunningBarefoot.org (Wednesday, October 05, 2005)
The search for techniques itself is the problem where you are looking for a solution.
I notice that a lot of people are looking for techniques, before they see and feel themselves running barefoot the way they (would) like and enjoy. It's never a technique the first though!
A technique would be an answer to "How? and it's a pitfall." (How can I reach this or that goal? How can I get a better running technique? How can I get faster? How can I recover from this injury?
.... a very good book about that is: "The answer to how is yes! Acting on what matters" by Peter Block)
It's more effective to have first a vision about running (barefoot), coming from the heart. Then techniques will find you! The techniques that belong and fit to your vision. It's like Stephen Covey says in his famous book: "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People": First see the end. *(See for an important note on this at the end of this message). That's why there are so many different techniques and not the only one right technique!
Barefoot running made me feel again and listen to my body instead of only listening to my mind. And the mind may be influenced by so many theories and the mind may even picks up ideas that not fit you at all. So the mind may pick up ideas like: compete with that guy, or run a 10 k race in 35 minutes and/or show off. That's almost our fate.
The heart wouldn't ever pick up ideas that don't fit you or ask should I run barefoot? So when I am not fit enough or when my body would get hurt, the heart doesn't want me to race in an inappropriate time, or it wouldn't let me run too long. It tells me to run as long as I enjoy running. And maybe as a result of this all, my body runs faster than last year.
Now that I listen to my body, it goes like: suddenly my body decides to accelerate, well I suddenly become aware that I run fast. I didn't do that because I should be doing some interval training. So I won't be in my body's way, and I enjoy.
Now the mind may say the next day: "Yesterday was so fine, run again that fast". Well and then one might get injured. But if you would have listened to the heart, the body would have maybe let you run quite differently or not at all! Running from the heart is not a means to achieve a future goal but a way to fully live the present moment going nowhere .
The search for techniques itself is the problem where you are looking for a solution!! Again: The search for techniques itself is the problem where you are looking for a solution. More general: the problem is not the problem but the way how you try to solve the problem. So: Looking for techniques and methods to heal the injury, IS the problem. The solution is on a different level and unthinkable for the mind. That's why all kind of paradigm shifts in science come from people outside that specific science.
One ALWAYS needs a paradigm shift and that could be to run with your heart in stead of with alien ideas picked up by your mind. (Like doing what other (elite) athletes do). So can you stand to be unique? Or do you like to be like the crowd and get confirmation by the crowd?
The problem is that we have old habits and they tend to be very sticky. A method to free yourself of this, is the "Power Pause" developed by John Harricharan. And it's a great way to dis-cover (the "-" is intended) your dreams and realize them! (See for a article on this: www.powerpause.com . A very simple and yet powerful method if and when you apply it).
* Note: And I would add: Feel what you feel when you would run optimal in the future. This vision and "future" feeling work as a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's NOT positive thinking, it's not "New Agy" manifesting, it's filling your body with a creative force, which helps to create the feeling and the actual way of running in reality. So I see and feel myself a few times a day running barefooted like a cheetah over the vast planes in Africa. Now, as a result all kind of techniques and advice come to me. Feeling the "as if feeling" already now (before it actually will happen) makes you may feel it in reality later! (Which is by the way very healthy for your body and immune system in contrast to negative feelings as a result of mental ideas that don't belong to your unique you).
updated 2005 Oct 7, 10:35:43 am
O texto nos diz que não adianta melhorar o físico para se superar se a técnica estiver incorreta, esse esforço será em vão, primeiro se preocupe em naturalmente conseguir o melhor, ou seja, teste as formas que achar que podem ser mais eficientes, até achar a técnica que tenha o melhor desempenho para você, para apartir daí treinar o físico com o objetivo de superar o limite.
Espero que estejam gostando ae dos textos, e que eles estejam ajudando bastante, obrigado a todos que visitam o Blog.
Search for Techniques
by George Kerkhoven
RunningBarefoot.org (Wednesday, October 05, 2005)
The search for techniques itself is the problem where you are looking for a solution.
I notice that a lot of people are looking for techniques, before they see and feel themselves running barefoot the way they (would) like and enjoy. It's never a technique the first though!
A technique would be an answer to "How? and it's a pitfall." (How can I reach this or that goal? How can I get a better running technique? How can I get faster? How can I recover from this injury?
.... a very good book about that is: "The answer to how is yes! Acting on what matters" by Peter Block)
It's more effective to have first a vision about running (barefoot), coming from the heart. Then techniques will find you! The techniques that belong and fit to your vision. It's like Stephen Covey says in his famous book: "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People": First see the end. *(See for an important note on this at the end of this message). That's why there are so many different techniques and not the only one right technique!
Barefoot running made me feel again and listen to my body instead of only listening to my mind. And the mind may be influenced by so many theories and the mind may even picks up ideas that not fit you at all. So the mind may pick up ideas like: compete with that guy, or run a 10 k race in 35 minutes and/or show off. That's almost our fate.
The heart wouldn't ever pick up ideas that don't fit you or ask should I run barefoot? So when I am not fit enough or when my body would get hurt, the heart doesn't want me to race in an inappropriate time, or it wouldn't let me run too long. It tells me to run as long as I enjoy running. And maybe as a result of this all, my body runs faster than last year.
Now that I listen to my body, it goes like: suddenly my body decides to accelerate, well I suddenly become aware that I run fast. I didn't do that because I should be doing some interval training. So I won't be in my body's way, and I enjoy.
Now the mind may say the next day: "Yesterday was so fine, run again that fast". Well and then one might get injured. But if you would have listened to the heart, the body would have maybe let you run quite differently or not at all! Running from the heart is not a means to achieve a future goal but a way to fully live the present moment going nowhere .
The search for techniques itself is the problem where you are looking for a solution!! Again: The search for techniques itself is the problem where you are looking for a solution. More general: the problem is not the problem but the way how you try to solve the problem. So: Looking for techniques and methods to heal the injury, IS the problem. The solution is on a different level and unthinkable for the mind. That's why all kind of paradigm shifts in science come from people outside that specific science.
One ALWAYS needs a paradigm shift and that could be to run with your heart in stead of with alien ideas picked up by your mind. (Like doing what other (elite) athletes do). So can you stand to be unique? Or do you like to be like the crowd and get confirmation by the crowd?
The problem is that we have old habits and they tend to be very sticky. A method to free yourself of this, is the "Power Pause" developed by John Harricharan. And it's a great way to dis-cover (the "-" is intended) your dreams and realize them! (See for a article on this: www.powerpause.com . A very simple and yet powerful method if and when you apply it).
* Note: And I would add: Feel what you feel when you would run optimal in the future. This vision and "future" feeling work as a self-fulfilling prophecy. It's NOT positive thinking, it's not "New Agy" manifesting, it's filling your body with a creative force, which helps to create the feeling and the actual way of running in reality. So I see and feel myself a few times a day running barefooted like a cheetah over the vast planes in Africa. Now, as a result all kind of techniques and advice come to me. Feeling the "as if feeling" already now (before it actually will happen) makes you may feel it in reality later! (Which is by the way very healthy for your body and immune system in contrast to negative feelings as a result of mental ideas that don't belong to your unique you).
updated 2005 Oct 7, 10:35:43 am
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