Spirit and the Personal Trainer
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Can working with a personal trainer not only improve your health and body image but also contribute to spiritual development, leading to continual peace and happiness?
“Oh, absolutely,” says personal trainer, Holly Margl, who trains at Flex Appeal in St. Paul. “The key is to be in the moment, while you’re running or exercising…not to dwell on negatives but to be aware of the good things going on in the present, like how good your body feels or your beautiful surroundings. That’s when those moments of enlightenment come.”
But for many people, it’s hard to get started on the path to physical health. Motivation is lacking even when we recognize that we’re not happy with our present physical state. Our society suffers from chronic low self-esteem and lack of confidence, says Margl. A lot of us think that we don’t deserve to feel good about ourselves. Many of us are overly critical of ourselves and never feel we are good enough. For many people, Margl recommends therapy to jump start motivation. To be overweight, chronically ill and unable to enjoy physical activity is not merely a physical problem, but it has deeply rooted causes in hurts and habits just below the surface of consciousness.
Margl’s education, training and personal history qualify her to make these observations. She was not a physically active child in her youth, being the skinny kid who got picked last in team sports. She hated physical education until she was 14 years old and had to take a weight-training class at school. That activity awakened a new confidence in her. From then on, she continually sought that feeling through exercise, taking her weight training to competition levels.
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