And so the trainer becomes the therapist. It must be one of the things that separates good trainer, from bad trainer, from evil trainer (which would be the one that understands these things and uses it to manipulate rather than enlighten). Its very cool you can do this; I've found many people don't have a clue what their values and beliefs are. I spend a lot of time navel gazing and get labelled "wierd" for it. Haha.
I've always been interested in the psychology. I suppose the 'hunger' for it started when I began working with some very obese individuals who were obviously frozen in contradictory thought patterns. I began studying things like neurolinguistic programming, cognitive behavioral therapy and the like.
Truth be told though, I don't subscribe to any particular method or science. I've taken bits and pieces from everything I've researched and sort of go with the flow with each client.
Everyone responds to different things and some clients don't need much of any push in terms of the mind.
Many do though.
And things like this where you almost force people to stop and think about what's really going on 'upstairs' almost always leads to some sort of improvement.
Guilty (sometimes). This is where cultural conditioning comes in. A good percentage of people (certain "types") automatically trust authority so this should work. I think its going in that direction but at some point it just won't be acceptable anymore. I do think we're wired to be lazy but the fact that we may be wired to cheat on each other isn't an excuse anymore so we can get past the lazy thing too, I think. We kind of have to.
This is a conversation unto itself.
There's certainly no right or wrong as to what will happen in the future but it's certainly interesting to me. Not so much the idea of when will people start owning up to themselves and taking action for personal betterment. I'm more interested in the, "Where will obesity go in the future in relation to evolution.
I mean, our society is fat for so many reasons. Primarily though, our society and technology has allowed for changes in the availability of food and lifestyle requirements far faster than our genome has been able to adapt to them.
As far as our physiology is concerned, we're still living without any food surplus, in a situation where it's actually an advantage to store fat whenever possible. Throw such a conservative system into an environment where such a scarce resource becomes absolutely plentiful...
Well, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the net outcome.
From this baseline, you can get into the idea of how we all have a choice. Yes, our genome has not caught up with our culture and advancements, but that doesn't mean one doesn't have the choice to be fit and healthy.
So is the obese person responsible? I'd say both yes and no. I think 'blame' is a more complex concept than just saying the obese person is lazy. I don't think a great many people understand how relatively easy it is to be not-fat; but at the same time it's an outside context problem. The problem isn't hard, it's just that people aren't thinking about it in the right way, and even once it's explained to them, they have trouble wrapping their heads around the idea. Or simply don't want to do it.
So in one sense, the obese person certainly is responsible for his/her own condition. After all, the obese person is the one that took in 7000 calories a day and did no exercise. For years. Though in another sense, people that have been in that state from childhood might simply have never thought any different.
On the other hand, the physiological situation and a simple lack of information or concern (see the correlation to the poor and uneducated) can make it more than simply a matter of "lazy".
Where will it go from here though, is the million dollar question. Who the hell knows.
Depends on the day huh? It shows though
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