I have found a way to trick my brain into going for a walk :) Or maybe I should say tricked it into not building up a mountain of resistance to the idea. I have a tendency to plan pretty much everything wayyy ahead of time... there is not a single spontaneous bone in my body... hehe! So usually at the time of waking up, which is generally late because I am a late sleeper, I start thinking about my day's routines and that immediately makes me come up with excuses against a walk from too much work to feeling not quite up to it. For the past two weeks I have tried this idea of "not thinking" about the walk consciously and instead just following through with it as part of my routine. What this means is I don't get to build up resistance to the idea when I am most resistant to it, which is just when I am up, and because it's routinised my body just goes through the motions unconsciously. My conscious brain is not involved much and surprisingly it doesn't mind :) The thing is I actually enjoy the walk itself... it's the decision-making and actually getting out of the house where things get held up. I am trying to make the walk something of a solid routine like brushing the teeth... because I feel the softer the routine the easier it'll be to break it.

Today evening it struck me to apply this insight to another area of activity where conscious resistance makes things hard for me. For instance, I am feeling quite overwhelmed about this piece of writing I have to do. The whole thing seems like a mountain the more I think about it and the more I think about it, the more daunting the idea of scaling it gets. I can't but help think about the height of the mountain in the distance and get anxious just looking at it. I am working around this by telling myself to just focus on the bit I have to do each day as part of my routine and not think of the whole entire thing. If every day I make it through the little bit or section I am bound to reach the end. Instead of looking far into the future when the whole is done I am going to simply do what needs to be done every day as part of my routine. Not consciously think about it or resist it. Let's see how I get on ;)