Have you ever felt trapped in your own skin? Like you just can’t quite reach that next level, or can’t ever loose that last 10 pounds, can’t seem to achieve that which you want so desperately? You’ll be sparring and you can see what’s happening, figured it out on the fly, having never seen this exact sequence unfold before and know how and where to react, but can’t the body is incapable of responding at the rate you require it. You long to be able to let the spirit rip apart form this slow heavy flesh and act to be able to do at the speed of thought not the encumbered speed of meat covered bone held in a skin sack. But we all know how to overcome that one, either train harder to make the physical body meet the requirements we are forcing ourselves to, or train smarter and learn to adjudicate scenarios faster and farther ahead of time. But not all problems are so easily overcame. (I physically heard the groan of everyone thinking about how hard either of those options are, yes I understand I do it every day) Some issues are more intangible and not so easily effected by training.

I’ve found that so much of training and what comes out of training is mindset, I’ve also heard it called perspective or mood. More than just happy or sad, more like content vs turbulent.