Being weak isn’t just about a certain level of strength. About not having big muscles, like Arnold Schwarzenegger, or NFL football players. And it’s not about combat, like a tough UFC fighter, or a competitive collegiate wrestler.
While those are all examples of strength, not being one of those things does not necessarily make you the opposite of strength – weakness.
Weakness is different than the opposite of strong. You can be not strong, and still be capable.
Weakness, however, brings the element of not being able to do what you want – or need – to do.
There is being able to do what you want. That is something that could be called ‘capability.’ When capability is developed well enough that it can become competitive – that might be a good definition of strength.
The ability to not only do something, but to do it under adversity, when opposed by others, or in a competitive manner.
Weakness on the other hand, is very different. When you feel weak – an old injury, a chronic limitation, or just some nagging constant weak spot – the challenge becomes solo.
Shoveling the driveway. Taking out the trash. Holding your own at work.
Rather than the connected relationships of competition – weakness can be isolating.
Competitiveness has relationship built in. Every competitive move is instinctively calculated. Actions and counteractions, anticipating the reactions of an adversary. Competition can be physical, but it is always mental.
But weakness takes those 1000s of mental gymnastics per minute and spreads them out over days, weeks or months. It is a game of wondering what will happen… not what you will do or should do… but what will happen to you.
Weakness becomes not wanting to ask for help. Feeling like a burden. Being unsure of participating with ‘everyone’ else. And wondering if your weakness will hold up to what you are asking of it.
So, the key piece to dealing with feelings of weakness in your body? Don’t go it alone. Ask for help. Find the right trusted resources. Ones that understand what it feels like to not always have everything go right the first time.
Reach out and communicate. Because instead of engaging in life – we all have something we want to accomplish, something that we will get a little bit fired up about doing, even if it means competing with others…
Feeling weak takes that away… and replaces it with a vague, fearful, wondering. “Can I do it at all?”
And that’s the worst part – is that can quickly become a feeling of being alone – or lost…
And the same way that so many chiropractors found chiropractic… seeing a loved one struggle and get turned around and find themselves – or even as a patient themselves. They know the process. They understand weak vs capable vs strong – and that you can even be weak and strong at the same time.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Your health can protect you from the over-commercialization of the holidays. More and more, we hear about how the holidays have turned into something different than what they used to be. Instead of the “true” meaning of Christmas and other holidays they have become about consumerization. Buying and selling and big online sales, they had taken over the season.
Has anyone told you you don’t need permission to be a superhero? Or that you don’t need someone to tell you it’s okay to help other people? There are some amazing stories of people that decided they didn’t want to wait to help the people around them that needed help. These were people that didn’t have advanced degrees or complicated certifications. What they did have was the sense of action and an overwhelming urgency to start making changes in the world around them.
It’s a classic phrase by Rene Descartes – one that is instantly recognizable. And it comes from a totally unrecognizable world – 1637.
Yet it is still true today. Descartes’ attempt to get to the very bedrock of what he was as a human being is worth looking at as we turn over into the new year. Especially as we examine the beginning of something new – a time when discussions turn to the entire idea of new, and what the idea of new creates – the vision of new possibilities.
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Take the aging progression above and expand it all the way. From the time we are very young, we grow, get bigger, stronger, smarter and generally better at everything as we go.
Here is the solution to understanding an ever-more common anxiety-causing malady. And how the key to solving it is getting two things – knowing what it takes to get healthy – and the power of understanding how to choose the quickest line at the grocery store.
