Man primal instinct1/17/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() When you are keen amateur or average person on the street, you have the rest of live to contend with. When your occupation is an athlete all you do is train for your chosen sport and rest. Often the plans being followed are written by coaches for athletes who are in their prime. In most cases these people are in their middle age of life with family, careers and all the stresses that life throws at you. Literally destroying themselves physically and mentally because they won’t deviate from the system. It’s not uncommon for me to meet men and women who are grinding their way through a training plan for a triathlon, marathon, cycling race, fell run, white collar boxing or other supporting challenge. If your body is telling you it’s tired, it’s time to rest or sleep! If your are hungry, it’s time to eat! If you don’t feel good or feel strong from the training plan you are following, it’s likely to be the wrong and needs adjusting. Following a system can lead to success, but a drone like approach where you don’t think for yourself and ignore your natural instincts can lead to injury, failure and disappointment. Often people will follow a plan to the letter with no flexibility or movement. Society has conditioned us to follow rules and systems. When you train, whether it’s for aesthetics or getting in condition for a challenge, it’s easy to get absorbed in the plan or regime. How often do you listen to your instincts? How often do you access your primal power to help you make decisions? They have changed the world and millions of peoples lives for the better, but the pay off for this is that some systems have a negative effect and stop us thinking, feeling and engaging with the world in first person. Some of them are great and really help us. The world is full of systems and processes for us to follow, use and to automate our lives with. ![]() We are definitely living in ‘The Digital Age’. Being able to feel and listen to what our body is telling us becomes harder the longer we are plugged in. Childlike innocence and connection to our primal instincts are no longer common place as an adult. Even people who follow an ‘Alternative’ lifestyles have a uniform and social rules so they fit into their subculture. Rules, fashions, social norms, stereotypes and social conformity dictate how with live our lives. An overload of dogmatic systems and beliefs, a way of living that is dictated by the society and culture we live in. In this day and age it’s all too easy to get wrapped in the feed of information from the media. It’s a life of primal instinct and innocence I envy. For now he feels and absorbs the world and his environment. ![]() It’s then when he will rationalise his decisions and actions. It’s only when he gets older that his logical and social brain will take over. He has routine but this is what is put in place by us. He doesn’t analyse or overthink what he does or follow a system, he lives purely on human instinct. When he’s cross he shouts! When he’s upset or in danger he cries. My son is 10 months old, when he is happy he laughs and smiles. ![]()
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