ManTalks Podcast Weekly Training: Expanding Your Masculine Edge
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Aug 13, 2020 Dive into the importance of meeting your edge and expanding your masculine self! Discover how discomfort can be a pathway to growth, and learn to choose practices that ignite excitement. Explore the resistance patterns that hold you back and why starting small is key. Understand how to recognize your personal edge and use resistance as a tool for growth. Finally, gain insights on discerning between protective resistance and avoidance, helping you move confidently towards your goals.
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Edge As Initiation
- The masculine impulse craves meeting the edge to know its parameters and expand beyond survival.
- Initiatory challenges reveal necessary capacities for thriving, not just surviving.
Start Where You're Excited
- Find one area you feel excited to push and use it as your entry point for meeting the edge.
- Build rituals like breathwork or cold showers that consistently expose you to manageable discomfort.
Hockey Taught Cold Resilience
- Connor describes growing up playing hockey in Northern Alberta and loving the cold and challenge.
- Those experiences taught him to enjoy meeting physical and mental edges and informed his current rituals.