030 - The Coach Up: 3 Mantras for Work, Anxiety, and Exercise
Apr 15, 2024
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Discover three powerful mantras for managing anxiety, exercise, and uncertainty. Learn how top athletes use mantras to succeed in their pursuits. Embrace impermanence and resilience in difficult moments.
Practice 'it's not a problem' mantra for minor frustrations and disappointments in daily life.
Embrace impermanence mantra to cope with challenges, remembering difficulties and joys are transient.
Deep dives
Mantra: It's Not a Problem
The first mantra discussed is 'it's not a problem.' This mantra is used to navigate minor frustrations and disappointments in daily life. By practicing radical acceptance and acknowledging that small inconveniences are not significant problems, the speaker finds it easier to move past challenges and avoid unnecessary stress. This mindset helps in managing anxiety, dealing with workout setbacks, and handling everyday obstacles with a more positive outlook.
Mantra: What Has the Nature of Rising Has the Nature of Ceasing
The second mantra focuses on impermanence and acceptance of change. By reminding oneself that difficulties and discomforts will eventually pass, the speaker finds solace in moments of anxiety or physical pain, like during runs. This mantra provides a perspective shift, allowing space to navigate through challenges without getting too overwhelmed. It also emphasizes that joy and excitement are transient, encouraging an understanding that everything in life is constantly evolving and changing.
Mantras are a good tool to have in your toolkit when life inevitably gets frustrating and difficult (to wit: in their FAREWELL interviews, ultrarunner Courtney Dauwalter and triathlete Chelsea Sodaro both shared how mantras have helped them become world-class athletes). Today, Clay shares three of his favorite mantras, phrases that have helped him manage anxiety, work, and exercise over the years.
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