Day 240: On Separating Yourself From the Pain

第240天：关于将自己从疼痛中分离出来

Elite runners feel pain and discomfort during their hard workouts, but they react differently. Rather than panicking, they have a calm conversation: “This is starting to hurt now. It should. I’m running hard. But I am separate from this pain. It is going to be okay.” Like meditation, choose how to respond to the stress of a workout.

精英选手在艰苦的训练中同样会感到疼痛和不适，但他们的反应却是与众不同的。

他们不会惊慌失措，而是能够平静地和内心对话： "现在开始疼了。这是正常的。跑步很辛苦，但我能够摆脱这种痛苦，一切都会好起来的。"

就像冥想一样，选择如何应对锻炼时的压力。

—Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness

Pain isn’t you, and you aren’t your pain. Separating yourself from temporary pain is a crucial ability if you want to put yourself in uncomfortable situations for the sake of bigger and better rewards in the future.

痛苦不是你，你也不是你的痛苦。

如果你想在未来获得更大更好的回报，而暂时让自己置身于不舒服的环境中，那么将自己从痛苦中分离出来就是一种至关重要的能力。

Whether it’s exercise, dieting, work, or virtually anything else requiring effort, pain is sometimes inevitable. Depending on how you react to it — with panic or a calm inner conversation — you’ll either let it hinder your progress or you’ll defeat it and progress further.

无论是运动、节食、工作，还是其他任何需要付出努力的事情，疼痛有时都是不可避免的。

根据你对疼痛的反应——惊慌失措，还是能够平静地进行内心对话——你要么让疼痛阻碍你的进步，要么战胜疼痛，取得更大的进步。

For example, when I’m climbing a particularly difficult route, my forearms burn like hell, I can barely breathe, and my grip is so weak that I’m mere milliseconds from falling. Whenever I’m able to do so, I try to disassociate myself from the pain and try to advance my position further, even if I fall right after grabbing the next handhold. This way, I get to train my mental toughness and strengthen my ability to perform despite pain .

例如，当我攀登一条特别难走的路线时，我的前臂就会火烧火燎，几乎喘不过气来，此时我的抓握力太弱，离掉落只差几毫秒。

每到这一刻时，我就会试着把自己从疼痛中解脱出来，并尝试进一步提高我的位置，即使我在抓住下一个扶手后马上就会掉落。

通过这种方式，我可以锻炼自己的心理韧性，增强自己不畏疼痛的能力。

Whenever you feel temporary pain or discomfort, remind yourself that you can make the pain partly fade into the background when you mentally refuse to associate yourself with it. Obviously, make sure that the pain you feel isn’t a sign of an impending injury or that it can lead to an accident.

每当你感到短暂的疼痛或不适时，就提醒自己，当你在精神上拒绝将自己与疼痛联系在一起时，你就可以让疼痛在一定程度上在不经意间消逝。

显然，要确保你感觉到的疼痛不是即将受伤的征兆，也不会导致意外的发生。