Complaining isn’t just venting—it’s reinforcing. It’s like telling your brain, “Hey, turn this pain up to eleven!”
Your attitude can be the difference between pain that propels you forward and pain that holds you back. Let me show you why…
Complaining is the disrespect of your own experience. It reinforces the negative focus on discomfort.
By dwelling on it, your brain amplifies the sensation, ratcheting up the pain meter above what is actually present.
Attention intensifies pain signals in the brain.
Now you are creating a negative emotion loop, a cycle of frustration and helplessness.
That’s lowering your pain threshold and tolerance, leading you further into emotional distress. Now you’ve got resistance, victimhood, anger or anxiety, once again making that pain feel more severe.
Now your recovery is slower, and you are feeling like shit.
Optimism around your load is shown to release endorphins that naturally reduce pain and speed up recovery.
This is all about your morale dude!
So here’s the thing: this hurts, right? You intentionally put yourself here though.
So you have to make the pain constructive, not destructive...
There’s nothing wrong with validating your experience as long as it stays positive, then you can seek support and solutions.
If you make complaining chronic, it’s a fucken hard habit to break and complaining without action is like a car without wheels, you ain’t going anywhere.
So if you’re in pain at that moment, feel it, acknowledge it, but keep the focus on progress.
Solutions, your recovery, progress and development are all buried in the same place;
In your attitude!
Gilesy
