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Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Vote for Iris!
posted by Iris Tuomenoksa
Every Friday until November 7, 2010 you will find entries from a series written by Iris about her training to run the New York marathon in 2010. It is something she never aspired to do; she has never run a distance of more than two kilometers in her life. In this series she describes her adventures and how she works on her beliefs to transform her challenges and successes into one great experience.
It is amazing! I am running again. At this moment still on the treadmill so I can stop if needed, but for the last week and a half I am running again without reinjuring the weird inflammation in my leg. It seems that taking rest has been working. The inflammation disappeared and every time I work out I can do a little bit more.
Just in time, because upcoming weekend I have my first 10K run. The run will be around the coastline just below Boston and I am really looking forward to it. While pushing through the miles, there will be a beautiful view of sea on my left and dunes on my right. Circa 1700 people will join me running this beautiful course, so it will be quite a spectacle.
When I said I would run a marathon this year, I knew that I had to work on my beliefs to make it work, but over the last months there was more then beliefs I had to deal with. Building condition has to do with more things then just having your thoughts in line with your wants!
I had no idea that my cardiovascular condition would grow faster than building my muscles, so that I could over train my muscles and then injure myself! I had no idea that I would end up looking for and implementing a diet that helps prevent possible inflammation. (Want to know more, read this book: Inflammation Nation), I had no idea that I would start looking for new running shoes just a couple of weeks after I bought new running shoes!
I would not have wanted to miss the learning opportunities I had in these last couple of months, and I would not have had these experiences if I hadn’t decided that I wanted to make something I hated so much something really fun! And I must say this whole experience is fun!
Vote For Iris Tuomenoksa!
It is amazing! I am running again. At this moment still on the treadmill so I can stop if needed, but for the last week and a half I am running again without reinjuring the weird inflammation in my leg. It seems that taking rest has been working. The inflammation disappeared and every time I work out I can do a little bit more.Just in time, because upcoming weekend I have my first 10K run. The run will be around the coastline just below Boston and I am really looking forward to it. While pushing through the miles, there will be a beautiful view of sea on my left and dunes on my right. Circa 1700 people will join me running this beautiful course, so it will be quite a spectacle.
When I said I would run a marathon this year, I knew that I had to work on my beliefs to make it work, but over the last months there was more then beliefs I had to deal with. Building condition has to do with more things then just having your thoughts in line with your wants!
I had no idea that my cardiovascular condition would grow faster than building my muscles, so that I could over train my muscles and then injure myself! I had no idea that I would end up looking for and implementing a diet that helps prevent possible inflammation. (Want to know more, read this book: Inflammation Nation), I had no idea that I would start looking for new running shoes just a couple of weeks after I bought new running shoes!
I would not have wanted to miss the learning opportunities I had in these last couple of months, and I would not have had these experiences if I hadn’t decided that I wanted to make something I hated so much something really fun! And I must say this whole experience is fun!
Vote For Iris Tuomenoksa!Now a couple of months into my training, I want to ask your help for the next part of my journey:
Tomorrow is the New York lottery and I thought to ask your help in getting me into the marathon. Do you belief that the power of the mind can change situations? Maybe even can change the world? Wouldn’t that mean that you could help me to be one of the lucky winners tomorrow, which would help me to show later this year during the marathon, that if there is something you really want, you can do it by focusing your mind on it?
So, please, vote for me by sending a positive vibe to my registration so it will be picked out of the thousands and thousands of names of people whom signed up. The drawing starts at 12 noon Eastern Daylight Time, and you can follow the drawing live on the web at http://www.nyrrvideo.org/lottery.
Thank you so much for your support!
I want to run the New York Marathon on November 7, 2010. I will know if I am in this group tomorrow after the drawing. I will keep you posted about the results!
Love,
Iris
Tomorrow is the New York lottery and I thought to ask your help in getting me into the marathon. Do you belief that the power of the mind can change situations? Maybe even can change the world? Wouldn’t that mean that you could help me to be one of the lucky winners tomorrow, which would help me to show later this year during the marathon, that if there is something you really want, you can do it by focusing your mind on it?
So, please, vote for me by sending a positive vibe to my registration so it will be picked out of the thousands and thousands of names of people whom signed up. The drawing starts at 12 noon Eastern Daylight Time, and you can follow the drawing live on the web at http://www.nyrrvideo.org/lottery.
Thank you so much for your support!
I want to run the New York Marathon on November 7, 2010. I will know if I am in this group tomorrow after the drawing. I will keep you posted about the results!
Love,
Iris
Labels: all blogs, iris tuomenoksa, make belief, marathon
Thursday, January 7, 2010
Informative dreams
posted by Iris Tuomenoksa
Yesterday evening I got the message that Faith will post her article tomorrow instead of today, so decided that I would write something for today. I sat myself behind the computer to write this article, but nothing happened. My paper stayed blank, blank, blank. In the end I decided to get some sleep and create some inspiration.
During the night I had in my dreams a long conversation with a cousin that I haven't seen for a long time and who sent me a Facebook invitation earlier this week. I also visited some old classmates and did some other dream stuff. But then my dreams changed into a lecture!
My brain's lecture
My brain explained to me how it stores the memories from the different moments I experience. It told me that I chose to store things in black-white pictures or in colored pictures, and that I chose the resolution of the picture. The higher the resolution the more details get captured. It told me that can store a lot of pictures behind each other (like a movie) or that I could decide to save things in one snapshot. My brain showed me examples of pictures with the size of the file written next to it and zoomed into some of the pictures to show me the difference in quality and detail.
The most two most interesting things about this lecture were:
During the night I had in my dreams a long conversation with a cousin that I haven't seen for a long time and who sent me a Facebook invitation earlier this week. I also visited some old classmates and did some other dream stuff. But then my dreams changed into a lecture!
My brain's lecture
My brain explained to me how it stores the memories from the different moments I experience. It told me that I chose to store things in black-white pictures or in colored pictures, and that I chose the resolution of the picture. The higher the resolution the more details get captured. It told me that can store a lot of pictures behind each other (like a movie) or that I could decide to save things in one snapshot. My brain showed me examples of pictures with the size of the file written next to it and zoomed into some of the pictures to show me the difference in quality and detail.
The most two most interesting things about this lecture were:1. I realized that the most detailed files were the files where my emotions had not blocked my observations. All the big emotional moments were small black white one-picture snapshots.
2. There were no words captured with the images. When I played back a picture or movie, no words were subtitling this event. Everything was to be interpreted from what could be seen.
Could it be that our brain by design saves less detail of the heavy emotional stuff we experienced? Could it be that if we go into our memories there is a lot more detailed information about the moments we were really present? I still can vividly remember the early mornings as a young child where I would go outside and walk through the wet grass without shoes, and I can still feel the experience of the water tripling over my feet.
Barry Neil Kaufman (alas Bears) talks regularly about "make believe" in his programs at The Option Institute. So we could do this: make believe that our brain is asking us to make believe that it has millions or even milliards more memories stored about moments we were totally present than we have stored of stress-related heavy emotional periods of our lives. This would mean: we make belief it easier for our brain to replay wonderful experiences in detail then it is to recreate an heavy emotional situations.
What do you want to make belief?
Could it be that our brain by design saves less detail of the heavy emotional stuff we experienced? Could it be that if we go into our memories there is a lot more detailed information about the moments we were really present? I still can vividly remember the early mornings as a young child where I would go outside and walk through the wet grass without shoes, and I can still feel the experience of the water tripling over my feet.
Barry Neil Kaufman (alas Bears) talks regularly about "make believe" in his programs at The Option Institute. So we could do this: make believe that our brain is asking us to make believe that it has millions or even milliards more memories stored about moments we were totally present than we have stored of stress-related heavy emotional periods of our lives. This would mean: we make belief it easier for our brain to replay wonderful experiences in detail then it is to recreate an heavy emotional situations.
What do you want to make belief?
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