A few days ago it was demonstrated how the mind has fundamental power in our sports performance. For those of you who love to run but are sometimes thwarted by your brain, it may be time to move on to runfulness. This practice seeks to maintain harmony within us and train to the rhythm of emotions.
It is possible that the name sounds like the psychological practice Mindfulness, so you should intuit that physical training is combined with mental. Are you ready to run thinking of you?
Train body and mind
The creator of this method, Pilar Amian, explains in the websites dedicated to the Runfulness that we are facing «a different way of approaching activities such as running. No we exercise to run faster, to cross the finish line in less time or to push our heart rate to the maximum. Running is the way, the means to transform our lives and be able to achieve everything we want to propose«.
He is not without reason that we should practice certain physical activities for pleasure, and not to achieve a sporting goal. Perhaps most people we understand training as something physical rather than mental, and it is just the opposite what they want to teach us with this method.
It is well known that sport provides us with physical and mental benefits, such as reducing stress and depression. Therefore, staying active throughout our lives helps to cope with many extreme emotions since the cognitive deterioration of our organism is stopped.
Runfulness to run with your emotions
Changing the physical objective for the mental one is a new way of training. Runfulness is based on a theory developed by Henry David Thoreau, an American philosopher, and collected in his XNUMXth century work. Walden, or life in the woods.
There are five elements that make up Runfulness: breathing, mindfulness, harmony, the Walden technique and visualizations. Just like in Yoga, it helps us create a close bond with our body and take complete control of it.
If you are not looking to achieve a distance or time goal, why don't you dare to run to order your mind and know the movements of your body?