意志力和自律
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感觉文章不错，用自己的理解，翻译如下。
意志力和自律
有时候，你想去外面走走，你也知道走走有益健康，让你感觉良好，但是，你还是因为太懒惰而选择了看电视。
你也一定意识到需要改变自己的饮食习惯或者抽烟习惯，但是你没有内心的力量去坚持。
这些听起来是不是很熟悉？曾经多少次你对自己说：“我希望我有意志力和自律”，又有多少次你去尝试新的活动，却只有五分钟热度。
我们都有类似上面的经历。
每个人都有一些习惯和嗜好他们想去克服，例如吸烟，暴饮暴食，懒惰，拖延，缺乏自信，沉溺游戏，手淫。
强大的意志力和自律能赐予你强大的内在力量去战胜任何坏习惯。
强大的意志力和自律能真的能让你的生活大有改变。
强大的意志力和自律能够让你做任何事情都得心应手。
那么，什么是意志力和自律呢？
意志力是一种忍着，憋着，不去做那些 不必要，不重要的事情 的能力。
意志力是一种战胜懒惰和拖延 的能力。
意志力是一种坚定不移的达成目标的能力。
意志力是一种内在的动力，他助你战胜那些 不必要且无用的 习惯。助你克服自己感情和精神上的抵抗情绪，并采取行动。
意志力是成功的基石，精神上和物质上都是。
自律是意志力的伴侣。
他助你做任何事情都有毅力，能坚持。
他助你 抵抗 艰难困苦。不管困苦是在 身体上，情绪上还是心理上。
他能让你 为了更好的未来，拒绝 眼前的及时满足。
人类充满了无意识和略有意识的 冲动。人有时候对自己说过和做过的事情后悔。更多的情况是，人在说和做之前压根不去想。
通过锻炼意志力和自律，你就能察觉到自己潜意识的冲动，并且当潜意识的冲动对你无益时，你有能力抵抗。
意志力和自律帮助我们选择自己的行为和反应，而不是成为潜意识有害冲动的奴隶。
不要认为这样会让你的生活枯燥无味。相反，你会感觉自己很强大。
掌控你自己，掌控你周围环境，最终你会得到更多快乐满足。
你一定有很多情况下，对你自己需要做的事情 感到无力，懒惰，害羞。有了意志力和自律，你就得到了内在的力量，
帮你在任何情况下，决定行动和反应，或者拒绝行动和反应，
相信我，锻炼这两种能力并不难。如果你是真心的，你会变得很强，你会成功的。
在文章的末尾，你会发现很多的练习和技巧去锻炼 意志力和自律。你可以在任何时间，任何地点去锻炼。
慢慢的，你的力量就会增加。并且在不断的锻炼过程中，能够加强你的自律。
在公众思想里面，有个对 意志力的错误意识。他们错误的认为 意志力很费劲，很难。
他们认为做事之前，都要想一下利弊的话，会在自己身体和思想 想要表达什么的时候 过于紧张。
这是完全错误的观念。 这就是为什么人民避免使用意志力的原因。
既然他们察觉到了意志力的好处，他们就要承认意志力在他们处理日常生活时候大有帮助，并且加强使用他。
但现实情况却相反。
在你憋住了那些不重要，不需要，不健康的 思想，感觉，行动，反应的过程中， 意志力就加强了。
意志力就像个电池，能满足你不时之需。 要像肌肉男那样不断的加强意志力锻炼，当你锻炼了你的意志力，你也能加强
你的自律，并获得内在力量。你越锻炼，你就越强大。
锻炼意志力和自律
锻炼意志力和自律的方法之一，就是试着去做你日常生活中不想去做的事情。
你的内心一定会很纠结，不要管它，做就是了。通过做一些你不喜欢做，或者懒于去做的事，
你就战胜了你的潜意识的抵抗，锻炼你的内部能量，获得了力量， 哑铃能够让肌肉强壮，
内部力量的获得要通过 内部的抵抗。
下面是一些练习：
1.当你坐公交或者火车，看到老人妇女或者孕妇，主动让坐。这样做不仅仅是礼貌，因为你在做一件你不愿意做的事情。通过这样，你就战胜了你的 内心抵抗。
2.这里有一些碗筷没洗，你想拖延下。 赶紧起来，马上洗了。不要让你的懒惰战胜你。
3.你工作回家，准备背诵英文，但是你 首先开电脑准备爽一把。你要憋着，不要打开电脑。因为里面有毛片。你打开一看，就背不了英文了。
4.你感觉自己 要去锻炼下，但是你却打开电脑看电影，赶紧出去走走，做做运动。
5.有时候你想说一些不重要的事情，闭嘴。
6.有时候你想看一些八卦，打住。
7.有时候你感觉要吃撑了，少吃点。
8.有时候你有些 不重要的，不健康的，不必要的，消极的 思想，避开它，想想它的危害，说服自己不要想这些。
不要说上面的这些你做不到，你可以的，你一定行。无论如何你都要坚持。想想，再想想，这样做对你有好处的。
这些练习能帮助到我，同样也可以帮助到你。
别妄想一口吃个大胖子，这会让你失望的。先从小事做起，慢慢的增加难度。在练习的过程中，你会很爽的。相信我。
记住了，这些练习可以锻炼意志力和自律，意志力和自律是 互相影响的，意志力强了自律也强了。
大多数练习都是可以在 任何地方任何地点去做，你不需要特别的安排。相信我，这很有效果。锻炼会让你做任何事情都如有神助。
另外一点要重点强调下。 就是不要锻炼的太过分了，那些损害你身体健康的锻炼，就不要去做。 你要抵抗的不是你的身体健康。
而是那些 有损你健康的 坏习惯。 那些无关紧要的锻炼，不要过于纠结。 比如你喜欢吃西瓜。 你要换个你不喜欢吃的水果。
后来发现吃完后 很不爽。 这就没必要了。 锻炼不是这么锻炼的。 记住了，锻炼意志力和自律不要有损你的身体健康。
意志力和自律的优势。
你需要意志力和自律 来成为你思想的主人，意志力越强，你就越能控制你的思想，最终你也更能集中精力。
当你是你内心的主人，你就能获得内在的安宁和幸福。外在的事物不会打搅你，周围环境影响不了你，
这对你来说是不是像梦幻小说啊， 但你如果真的这么去做了，你会自己证明，上面说的都是真的。
意志力和自律 是自我成长的必要部分，也是你精神精进，冥想入境的必要部分。他们是改变你习惯的力量，他们是你一切成功的关键。
意志力和自律助你控制你的日常生活，帮助你发展你的内心强大力量，他们帮你走入正轨，直到你梦想成真。
如果你认真的，虔诚的锻炼你的意志力和自律，你真的可以走得更远。
Will Power and Self-Discipline
By Remez Sasson
Sometimes you wish to go for a walk, knowing how good it is for your health and how wonderful you feel afterwards, yet, you feel too lazy and prefer to watch TV instead. You may be aware of the fact that you need to change your eating habits or stop smoking, yet, you do not have the inner power and persistence to change these habits.
Does this sound familiar? How many times have you told yourself, "I wish I had will power and self discipline"? How many times have you started some new activity and quit after a while? We all have had experiences like these.
Everyone possesses some habits or addictions they wishes they could overcome, such as smoking, excessive eating, laziness, procrastination or lack of assertiveness. Developed will power and self discipline bestow the inner strength to overcome any negative habit. They make a great difference in your life. They can make you a winner in whatever you do.
What are Will Power and Self Discipline?
Will power is the ability to control unnecessary and harmful impulses. It is the ability to overcome laziness and procrastination. It is the ability to arrive to a decision and follow it with perseverance until its successful accomplishment. It is the inner power that overcomes the desire to indulge in unnecessary and useless habits, and the inner strength that overcomes inner emotional and mental resistance for taking action. It is one of the corner stones of success, both spiritual and material.
Self-discipline is the companion of will power. It endows the stamina to persevere in whatever one does. It bestows the ability to withstand hardships and difficulties, whether physical, emotional or mental. It grants the ability to reject immediate satisfaction for something better.
The human being is full of inner unconscious, or partly conscious, impulses. People sometimes say or do things they later regret saying or doing. On many occasions people do not think before they talk or act.
By developing these two powers, one becomes conscious of the inner subconscious impulses, and gains the ability to reject them when they are not for his/her own good.
Will power and self-discipline help us to choose our behavior and reactions instead of being their slaves. Don't think that life will become dull and dry in this way. On the contrary, you will feel more powerful, in charge of yourself and your surrounding, and consequently much more happy and satisfied.
How many times have you felt too weak, lazy or shy to do something you needed to do? You can gain inner strength and the ability to decide whether to act or react, or refuse to act or react in any situation. Believe me, it is not difficult to develop these two powers. If you are earnest and are willing to become stronger, you will certainly succeed.
At the end of this article you will find some exercises and techniques to develop these abilities. You can perform these exercises anywhere, and at any time. Go slowly and gradually and your powers will increase. The desire and ambition to practice these exercise will develop and strengthen your self-discipline.
There is a misconception in the public mind regarding will power. It is erroneously thought to be something strenuous and difficult, and that one has to exert and tense the body and mind when expressing it. It is a completely wrong concept. This is one of the reasons why people avoid using it, though they are conscious of its benefits. They acknowledge the fact that the employment of will power in their life and affairs will greatly help them, and that they need to strengthen it, yet they do nothing about it.
Will power gets stronger by holding back and not allowing the expression of unimportant, unnecessary and unhealthy thoughts, feelings, actions and reactions. If this saved energy is not allowed expression, it is stored inside you like a battery, and it becomes available at the time of need. By practicing the exercises you develop your powers the same way as someone who engages in bodybuilding builds his muscles. When you exercise your will power you strengthen your self-discipline and gain inner strength. The more you exercise, the stronger you become.
Developing Will Power and Self Discipline
One way to develop and improve this ability is to practice doing disagreeable things in your daily life. Your mind and feelings may oppose this action, nevertheless, do it. By doing something you do not like or are too lazy to do, you overcome your subconscious resistances, train your inner powers and gain strength. Muscles get stronger by resisting the power of the barbells. Inner strength is attained by overcoming inner resistance.
Here are some exercises:
1) You are sitting in a bus or train and an old man or woman, or a pregnant lady walks in. Stand up and give up your seat even if you prefer to stay seated. Do this not just because it is polite, but because you are doing something that you are reluctant to do. In this way you are overcoming the resistance of your body, mind and feelings.
2) There are dishes in the sink that need washing, and you postpone washing them for latter. Get up and wash them now. Do not let your laziness overcome you. When you know that in this way you are developing your will power, and if you are convinced of the importance of will power in your life, it will be easier for you to do whatever you have to do.
3) You come home tired from work and sit in front of the T.V. because you feel too lazy and tired to go and wash yourself. Do not obey the desire to just sit, but go and have a shower
4) You may know your body needs some physical exercise, but instead you keep on sitting doing nothing or watching a movie. Get up and walk, run or do some other physical exercise.
5) Do you like your coffee with sugar? Then for a whole week decide to drink it without sugar. You like to drink three cups of coffee each day? For a week drink only two.
6) Overcome your laziness and your habits. Convince yourself of the importance of what is to be done. Convince your mind that you become stronger when you do things, even when you are reluctant, too lazy or believe you are too tired to do.
7) Sometimes, when you want to say something that is not important, decide not to say it.
8) Don't read some unimportant gossip in the newspaper, even if you want to.
9) You have a desire to eat something not too healthy. Refuse the desire.
10) If you find yourself thinking unimportant, unnecessary, negative thoughts, try to develop lack of interest in them by persuading yourself of their futility.
Never say that you cannot follow the above exercises, because you certainly can. Be persistent no matter what. Think and rethink about of the importance of performing the exercises and the inner power and strength they will give you. Believe me it helps. It helped me and it can help you.
Trying to attempt too many exercises immediately at the start may end in disappointment. It is better to start with small and not so important actions at first, and gradually increase the number and difficulty of the exercises. Practice will improve and increase your power, giving you a lot of satisfaction.
Remember, these exercises develop both will power and self discipline, as they are strongly connected. Strengthening one strengthens the other.
Most of these exercises can be practiced anywhere, anytime. You do not have to devote special times for them. Believe me, they are very effective. Practicing them enables you to be strong and exercise will power and self-discipline in everything you do. This power becomes available whenever needed.
If you practice weight lifting, running or doing aerobics you strengthen your body. When you need to move something heavy, you have the strength for it. By studying French each day, you will be able to talk French when you travel to France. The same thing happens with will power and self-discipline. By strengthening them, they become available whenever they are needed.
The exercises should be practiced because of your decision to perform them, and because you realize that by doing them you will develop your will power and self-discipline.
One important thing to remember is not to interfere with your health or deny your body and its necessities. Deny what is not necessary or harmful and you will get stronger.
If you stop doing something in order to strengthen yourself and you find that it is easy, you can resume doing it, if it is not harmful. For example, you love orange juice, and in order to strengthen your will power you switch to apple juice and then find out that it does not matter to you. If it is so, you can switch back to orange juice if you like. You have proven to yourself that you are stronger than your subconscious impulses. Always use your reason and common sense so that you do no damage to yourself.
Advantages of Possessing Strong Will Power and Self Discipline
You need both of them in order to rule your thoughts and to be the boss of your mind. The stronger they are, the more control you have over your thoughts, and consequently your powers of concentration get stronger.
When you are the master of your mind you enjoy inner peace and happiness. Outer events do not sway you, and circumstances have no power over your peace of mind. It may sound like a dream for you, but once you start on the way, you will prove to yourself that all the above is true.
They are essential for self growth, spiritual growth and meditation. They are the powers that change your habits, and are the key to any kind of success.
Will power and self discipline give you more control over your daily life, help you in the development of all the inner powers and are essential for a spiritual search. They keep you on the right track until you get what you are after.
If you practice the exercises presented here earnestly and persistently, you will go really far.
