Breaking Into Reality

Breaking Into Reality

Breaking the marathon 3 hour barrier is like breaking into reality.   I broke the 3 hour barrier a few months ago and would like to tell you about it.  I thought a lot about it and the more I wanted to share the experience, the more I realized everyone already does this without even realizing it.  So, I switched from wanting the share the experience of the marathon 3 hour barrier, reviewing my training and all the elemental contributions with the premise of breaking into reality.

Consciousness is unreal

What a bold statement, to suggest consciousness is unreal.  No individual standalone entity wants to hear that.  Everyone wants to feel they exist independent of the dependencies of the earth, sun, water and air.  Yet if you really try to grasp the moment, there may be some bumps that stir your sense of reality.  You attempt to control by finding that balance, pushing yourself to get to that equilibrium. Then you check yourself not realizing, that moment you tried to grasp is over.  For the next moment, you tell yourself that the homeostasic sensory systems are in check, you've established yourself and feel a part of the reality around you and then invest into the very next few moments ahead of you.  At a greater extent, you feel comfort in that investment of the next moments ahead, and even more ahead of that.  You then brace your entire consciousness to tangle all moments ahead, your entire reality into the future, forever and ever.  All the while, not realizing, you are already setting your consciousness to an unreal state because you cannot forge yourself into any given moment since it is a continual balancing act.

Do you agree?  Let us please test this out to validate.  For the next few moments, let's see if your consciousness is unreal.  Are you ready for it?  okay great!  So, all you have to do is one single activity... RUN.

Get it?  Run?  See, try it, just go out there and run.  That very activity challenges your complacent consciousness in more ways than needed to describe.  The idea is exposed, I put it forth, and if you don't know what I am talking about, then let's explore it through feelings.

The Feel of Running

Why do you enjoy running?  To stay in good shape, to maintain health, to get faster, strong, more efficient...  Those all are great advantages however, none of them explain the enjoyment in the moment whilst.   It has been suggested that endorphins plays an important role in the experiential enjoyment of running.  Did you realize that endorphins, being inhibitory, play a role in a sense of depersonalization and derealization?

Quite possibly that sense of depersonalization and derealization may force your you to re-evaluate and appropriate to a new pattern, which may mimic the pattern you thought you were aware of in a previous state.  If you are well acquainted with the new pattern and not impose any stress reactions, then you integrate yourself seamlessly.  You feel that the previous state of consciousness and the new state of consciousness are the same since it is independently aligned with all of your faculties.  That alignment of your faculties is essentially the value of great training to understand how to handle yourself upon establishing your new sense of reality post the derealization phase.

In other words, if you develop the capability of breaking into reality seamlessly during intense moments that simulate a race, then you can achieve the same capability to push your limits for your race competitions.

The Sub-Three Hour Catalyst

For a moment, we can step away from the concept of breaking into reality.  Rather, let's explore reactions and the observable results.  This helps us realize all of the possibilities that are out there beyond our known conscious capabilities.  Starting off with acknowledging what the catalyst will be that will help you attain the favorable result.  It is then the catalyst that is the additional substance which increases the rate of a reaction that we feel will allow us to maintain our sense of reality.  So you would think the catalyst is something you add at the end?  For a marathon, and more so, for a sub-three hour marathon, adding that magic touch or special trick to get your through doesn't fly so well.  Therefore, the catalyst for a marathon is most likely the worst to search for and maintaining your sense of reality is at risk.  However, your feeling after running is much better than before you started, in most cases, if you took it safe and with care.

It is the complete acceptance of the training which is required.  And finding motivation to endure that training is key.  So without a catalyst, all we are left with is ourselves.  And with our own self, we need to endure a training plan and lead ourselves to a state in which we are able to control ourselves in a very demanding activity to the extent of completing the challenge in a timely fashion.

We all know training is key.  But I am taking this a step through another pathway to suggest that the training and the commitment also provides something noumenal.  Explained through the concept of breaking into reality or another way said, the connection between conscious states broken by the derealization phase experienced during running.

This blog entry has delivered the introduction to this concept and I will continue to write a continuation blog which will further explore my training and engagement to break the 3 hour marathon.   I won't bore you with the training, but rather share a very deep insight into the human psyche to which I feel everyone is capable to leverage to achieve.

For the next few blog posts, I will explore this through my training and race experiences.

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