Chasing Excellence The 5 MindKillers: How You're Sabotaging Your Mental Fitness (& the Countermeasures to Stop)
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Oct 21, 2025 Chris Irwin, a retired Navy SEAL and founder of RareSense, shares his unique approach to mental fitness, treating it like physical training. He introduces the concept of the five MindKillers—oblivion, storytelling, suppression, fear, and stagnation—discussing their detrimental impact on mental health. Irwin emphasizes the importance of awareness and provides practical strategies like meditation and reframing to combat these mind killers. He also tackles how to transform fear and stagnation into growth, encouraging a mindset of openness and curiosity.
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Mental Health Is Trainable
- Mental health is a training modality like physical fitness, not a binary illness to treat.
- Treating mental fitness as skills you can train returns agency and reduces stigma.
You Are The Observer Of Chatter
- Most internal 'chatter' is not authored by you and simply shows up in your head.
- The goal is to disidentify and become the objective observer of that information stream.
Journal To Spot And Reframe Stories
- Use mind-priming and journaling after meditations to log recurring thought patterns.
- Turn recurring unhelpful stories into written reframes or mantras and post them visibly.
