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Why You’ll Never Find the ‘Perfect’ Information (no matter how hard you search)….
Rules versus Understanding…
I love to read about health and fitness and, over the years, I’ve become aware that I’m seeking a ‘right’ way to eat: five small meals a day, low carb-high fat, intermittent fasting, meat, no meat, and so on.
It’s the same with fitness; for a long time I valued endurance exercise (I used to run), mid-distance with a reasonable amount of interval training, until (after injuries!) I switched to more and more low-heart rate endurance.
Of course, there are general principles which apply to fitness and healthy eating — we need to move rather than not move(!), we want to avoid processed food and eat more local food, fruit and veg, freshly prepared and seasonal etc etc.
But there’s a very subtle (and I think insidious) temptation to make something that feels right now, or that works now, into a system and so create rules for ourselves. And therein lies the danger…
Not so much of a danger of getting the rules wrong, but of believing that better rules are the solution to anything that we want to change or create.
This happened with a client of mine who was telling me how much she was getting out of her meditation practice.
