I’m not a doctor, but I am a yoga teacher – and I know that it’s almost impossible to run, jump, and kick, but that doesn’t mean it’s impossible to be aware. Yoga is one of the most powerful ways to self-recognize and practice awareness of your own body.
So really, if you’re training for a marathon, you want to be able to run, jump, and kick. When you’re doing any of those things, you’re always aware of your surroundings, of your body. You’re aware of your breathing, you’re aware of your body’s position and position of the feet, you’re aware of your mind.
The problem is, we tend to run, jump, and kick in a way that is not very aware. This is probably why so many people end up in the hospital. Some people just run, jump, and kick, but it doesn’t mean that they are aware. The ability to notice and track movements is what lets us know we’re moving. When you’re aware, you can control the movements. When you’re not aware, you can’t control the movements.
There are a lot of different kinds of awareness that we tend to think of in the world of sports. We can look to the players for clues, we can look at the scoreboard or scoring, or we can look to the referee for clues. We dont have to. And by “we,” I mean “you”. The athletes in sports are not aware of themselves. They are not aware of where they are going, where they are, or who they are.
But, there are athletes who are aware. This is why it is so interesting when people talk about “the awareness gap”. We need to understand that there are athletes who are aware, who see themselves as athletes, but who are unaware of themselves. They are aware of the ball bouncing and they are aware that the ball is coming toward them. But they are not aware that they are jumping rope.
In all sports, there is a “gap” of awareness. We all know on some level that we are aware of where we are going and where we are going. We probably all think that we are going to the next race and we can predict the outcome of many races, but we all know that we are not really able to know if this is the next race.
In reality, we are not really able to know if we are going to the next race because we are not really able to see where we are going. Rather, we are not able to see where we are going because we are not really able to see our body from the outside. We are not able to see because we are not really able to see ourselves from the outside.
And we don’t know where we are going. We really don’t know what we are going to do when we get there. We can’t see ourselves from the outside, but we can see what we are doing from the outside. So, when we race, we are not really able to see that we are running. We are not really able to know that we are going to fall over and hurt ourselves.
Shin splints is a term that’s been used to describe the pain of injury that many runners feel when they take a sharp turn. Many of us have the same problem. But the reason it’s so common is because we can’t really see where the pain is coming from. It feels like it’s coming from the inside of our leg, but our inside is completely devoid of light and we can’t see anything other than the pain.
