Real Change You Can Feel in Your Body: The Self-Centered Power of Climbing Stairs

True Achievement That Doesn't Depend on External Validation

Anyone who's tried climbing stairs knows that special feeling. That sense of "I did it" when you reach the 30th, 50th, or even 100th floor. What makes this sensation so unique?

The most important element is the moment of choice. Standing in front of the elevator, asking yourself "Should I take the easy way or the hard way?" - the victory begins the moment you choose the stairs. You feel pride in yourself for resisting temptation and making the better choice.

What's even more fascinating is thatno external recognition is neededin this process. The achievement you feel climbing those stairs alone, with no one watching and no one praising you - this is an unfamiliar experience for many people. For those who've lived their lives dependent on others' attention and approval, it brings a new realization: "I can feel this kind of satisfaction without any external reward."

Feeling Alive Through Your Body's Sensations

People who've lived peacefully without exercise have never truly felt their heart beating, their body sweating, or their blood circulating. They've viewed these sensations as unpleasant and tried to avoid them.

But through stair climbing, you realize these sensations are actuallyproof that you're alive. Your heart pounding, your body heating up, breaking into a sweat - all of this is a powerful signal that you're living. When you start accepting these sensations positively, you discover that the feelings of helplessness, depression, and self-hatred you've experienced weren't actually real.

Solving Emotional Problems with Your Body, Not Your Mind

When modern people experience anxiety or depression, they try to solve it through more study or analysis. They ask "Where did this anxiety come from?" and read books, trying to practice introspection. But for most people, this mental approach isn't easy.

Instead,moving your body to create physiological responses and change your rhythmis much more effective. When you increase your heart rate, improve blood circulation, and trigger the release of good hormones, negative emotions naturally disappear. This isn't about solving the problem - it's aboutchanging the entire atmosphere.

It's the same with children throwing tantrums. If you respond negatively to negative emotions, you only reinforce each other's negative behavior. Instead, when one person maintains a positive atmosphere consistently, the other person naturally loses that energy and the mood shifts.

Breaking Free from External Validation Addiction

Korean society is a典型的feedback addiction society. Scoring, praising, evaluating by results, and comparing are treated as if they're the source of motivation. Both children and adults are accustomed to external evaluation.

But true motivation comes fromself-centeredness that arises from within. The hidden sense of achievement that others can't see but only you can - this is the most powerful force that drives humans. People who move with this internal motivation are invincible. They don't depend on external praise or results; they become their own masters and move forward.

The Importance of Liking Yourself

Many people think they don't deserve to take care of themselves. Butyour top priority should be yourself. You shouldn't have anyone you like more than yourself.

You need to keep saying "I like myself." People who think they don't deserve to be loved by anyone, or that they need to meet certain conditions to be recognized, always crave external praise and rewards. But when you like yourself, there's absolutely no reason to seek that external validation.

The Power of Self-Centeredness in Crisis Situations

People with established self-centeredness developexistential center of gravity. They gain a solid weight that no one can shake. This power is most strongly demonstrated when external circumstances collapse.

When you face bankruptcy, relationship breakdowns, life foundation crumbling, or serious illness - when such strong shocks hit, people with strong self-centeredness can weather external storms steadily. They know that even when the outside world crumbles, the center within them still exists. That's why they can rise again with that strength and grow even bigger.

On the other hand, people without self-centeredness feel they have no reason to live when relationships break and money is lost, because external evaluation is everything to them.

Self-Centeredness Training Hidden in Stair Climbing

Self-centeredness is abouthow you treat yourself when no one is watching. How you treat yourself in that situation of climbing stairs that no one sees - that's the essence of self-centeredness.

Self-centeredness is continuously developed through the act of climbing stairs. You've just been climbing stairs daily, but you've actually been learning how to value yourself.

Who you are as a person is created by how you repeatedly treat yourself. When you value yourself and keep repeating that, when you use your body and climb stairs and experience the good feeling you give yourself even when no one praises you, that repetition eventually creates a strong self.

The Change Created by Today's Repetition

What's truly important isdesigning your day well. Today is all we have. You don't need to think about 10 years from now, and you don't need to think about an unhappy past. What will I repeat today - focusing on just this one thing is enough.

This kind of good repetition is contagious. Without me forcing anything or doing anything special, I simply repeated what I would do, and everyone around me changes positively. One person's repetition purifies that person, and that purification creates a good epidemic phenomenon where it purifies another person.

In Conclusion: Real Change That Starts with Your Body

In conclusion, many mental problems that modern people experience shouldn't be solved with the mind but approached through the body. It's much more effective to create physiological changes through simple physical activities like stair climbing and develop self-centeredness in the process.

Not depending on external recognition and evaluation, feeling real achievement that arises from within, and becoming the person who likes yourself the most. This is how you create an unshakeable center in life. And all of this starts with today's choices and repetitions, right now in this moment.