Overcoming Pain, Motivating Yourself to Stretch, Focus, and Exercise

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The motivation to relax into and overcome pain, stress, fear, fatigue, and difficulty physical and emotional.

It is not pain, but fear of pain that I'm afraid of
Only now exists, and I could live like this forever
I am only the summation of my actions. Make them good
The only way out is through doing this action. "The only way out is through me"
Asking myself the question: what would it be like to just do everything right for once? Attain perfect posture
In every direction there will be pain
The thought progression: why should I do this? It is difficult, maybe I should stop. But then why should I do anything? Because there is something there, something redeeming, something positive about these actions, and I will walk through walls to achieve it.
Death is inevitable but mediocrity is not -- some risk, even of death, is okay
I must not fear, fear is the mind killer, fear is the little death that brings total obliteration
"If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come -- the readiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is't to leave betimes, let be." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet
Do not trouble yourself with those who are failing, but instead figure out how those who are succeeding do it.

Just because other people are getting by without doing this thing does not mean it is okay -- do I want to end up like them?
Consumerism -- blinding and single-minded focus on the procurement of means coupled with a fear and lack of skill at searching for ends. I do not want to become Tim Ferris's "fat man in the red BMW"

For the sense of Chi
For memory -- pain in the present makes it easier to return to earlier places in your memories, because suddenly doing so, dwelling fully in your past, is the path of least resistance
For the nascent will power centers in my mind
For the sense of lightness that comes the next time I will try the same action
For a person
For myself, my own health