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The Path
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The Path is the pursuit of getting to know who you are. This doesn't happen overnight or through a 'one and done' activity, rather a continued engagement in living your life with presence, awareness, and connection. We discuss The Path, why it may be challenging to remain on it, and how we can travel along it to continue to get to know and express who we are.
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Transcript
Season 2 Launch: New Studio Setting
00:00:05
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Hello? Hello. We're back. Here we are. We took a month off-ish. Well, we felt it was appropriate to... It was the off season. Yeah. Now we have a new season. We're season two. We have a new setting. We're in the new gym. Very exciting. We are. We're not on our couch. We've grown up. We're in a podcast studio, some may say.
00:00:33
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Others may just... Some may say so. Some may not say. Professionals may not say that. Professionals would not. Anyway, shape or form say that. But this is good. It is good. So here we are.
Shift to Shorter, Insightful Episodes
00:00:43
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So we're going to change the podcast up a little bit. Not still having guests.
00:00:50
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I mean, that's a lot. If somebody wants to be the schedule manager for the podcast and volunteer your time, have at it. I just, and it's nothing, it's not against, we're not against having guests. Well, once you have a guest.
00:01:06
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Like I remember during the lockdown how I had that community call at the gym. Yes. And I had guests and then it became like, we need another guest. Yeah. And that's a lot. That's, that's a lot. So that's not what we mean by changing it up. No. What do you mean by changing it up? We're going to try to have shorter episodes for one. We're off to a good start. Just wasting time in the beginning talking about nonsense. Um,
00:01:33
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Yeah, well, we're going to have, we're going to try to have it be a little bit shorter episodes. And you know, that's, it's always sort of been like this non and specific reason, but we're going to try to have it maybe fit within the realm a little bit more of like observations and thoughts about really coaching people.
Is Self-Understanding Key to Happiness?
00:01:55
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more tangible, applicable, less heady, ethereal stuff. Yeah, we can still go into those and we'll still have maybe some episodes with that, but we want it to be a little bit more like, here's some things that we're observing, because there's a lot that we're privy to, and it's not to violate personal information or anything, but there's themes that I think people would benefit from knowing other people are experiencing.
00:02:24
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And that's kind of part of it as well. And that's sort of our job because we do spend all of our days pretty much coaching people across a spectrum of pursuits. We don't just do one very specific thing. So, yeah.
00:02:45
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And while obviously we are staying in our lane in terms of, you know, a lot of what we do does involve fitness movement. Most of the themes we see are for sure about people as humans and their lives. And that's kind of what I think if most people took a survey, the top of the list is being happy and satisfied and enjoying their life, not
00:03:11
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learning some tip or trick about the bicep curl and muscles sent in. So anyway, so today, what is our discussion?
Exploring 'The Path' and Presence
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Today we're going to talk about the path and what that means and how, uh, when we think about the path, we often think we often pull off of it or at the end of it, and we don't actually have the presence of what it is to be on the path and like, what does the path mean? And, and all of that. So.
00:03:48
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really what we do is we help people continue to get to know who they are. So why because I obviously say that a lot and between the ears that is part of its mission statement is really to like have people get to know themselves better. Why is that? Why does that matter to anybody who is just
00:04:13
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Because I would challenge everybody right now to know shit, look at themselves in the mirror, and ask themselves, who am I? And again, this is not just like, oh, interesting. This is from dealing and coaching a lot of clients. When you ask them, hey, who are you? And it's like, I don't know. But I'm saying, how does that, and in your experience, because you've
00:04:39
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worked with a lot of people now, how does knowing that matter? Like, why does knowing that matter to life? Hey, I just want to like, enjoy my life, I just want to like be happier, I just want to be more content. What does me like having this answer about who am I matter? And that might sound ridiculous to you, but I think there's people that are like, so what?
00:04:59
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because that's how you then travel down the path. If you want to be happier, that's an outcome. That's an X, that's well, whatever, but that's something that you want and in saying, Hey, I just wants to be happy. Maybe you're saying that you're not happy right now, right? And so getting to know who you are, there's a million things that can make people
Effortless Engagement: The Power of Presence
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happy. Knitting makes some people happy. Horses make some people happy. Skydiving makes some people happy. No idea.
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But unless you know who you are, you can't get to that. Unless you know who you are, everything you do lacks the substance and the essence. And there's a lot of good advice. There's a lot of tips out there. There's a lot of tricks out there. You could spend your entire day seeking for the answer completely outside of who you are and miss it and never find it. Right. And I think that's what we experience quite a bit in the coaching world, in the fitness world, in the nutrition world, and pretty much
00:05:59
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out there we are sold this idea that like this fill in the blank is the thing that will I see it with between the ears people think that between the ears is gonna is gonna solve their problems and I'll be the first one to tell you it won't
00:06:12
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It will not. It's because it doesn't know your problems and that's the thing. And it's like, if you show up and sign up and do between the ears and you're like, Hey, this is what I need. Why? Why is it what you need? You have to answer that. Nobody else can. And that's the path that is the pursuit. And wherever you are on the path, or if you think you're off the path or you want to be on a different path, like, okay. But it starts with who you are.
00:06:43
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Right, and what I was getting at before is that we are generally sold the idea that it's just this objective thing, this way of eating, this, like you said, like, you know, hey, people who are even friends who mean well, like, oh, you're struggling with X, Y, or Z, like, this is what I did, and it really helped. Well, right, I mean, if you really love
00:07:11
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shooting or bow hunting, like, how is that going to help me? It's not about now you now I could love using a bow. But like, again, I think
00:07:21
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That's to your point kind of right getting to like the end of the path. Like you're not actually asking yourself, is that something? Why would I do that? Why would that actually impact me? Because you don't know who you are. So part one of the path is getting to know who you are. And obviously it's not just a simple, okay, how do you do that? What's the five step process to like, who am I?
00:07:43
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Yeah. And that's exactly it. Like one of the questions that we encourage people to answer and not answer rationally, but answer through action and awareness is like when you are doing whatever you're doing. Cause obviously we do things and that's if we just say actions are the one, okay, fine. When are you feeling connected to who you are? Okay. When you, and let's, cause I want to make sure, I think we use a lot of words that you and I use all the time.
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and just making sure people understand. So feeling connected to who you are. When do you feel like you are you? Okay. Fully you. And what are some signs or feelings of that that you experience?
00:08:25
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Frankly, there's this element of not even trying, like no effort. Like being in the flow. Being in the flow, being in the zone, having this internal experience that I can't quite rationally figure out because one is not a rational thing.
00:08:44
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But then also just having this warmth, this energy, this awareness of what I'm doing and this very ultimate presence to where things are essentially effortless. And that could be anything from making a cup of coffee to lifting weights to driving to whatever. It's not that I was lifting up a heavy deadlift and it felt effortless. That's not it, right?
00:09:13
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Yeah. You know, yesterday I had a call, um, and a video call with somebody and when I got on, they had a comment later that I really was like, and we use the word aroused, like aroused, meaning like on turned on, excited, that type of aroused. Um, and it was funny because I had just finished coaching and we talked about it, that like that really connects to who I am. Now, of course I am a coach. That's not who I am, but that,
00:09:43
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expression and that feeling to your point like there's sort of this syncing up and yes being present kind of lit up feeling that you don't have to try to achieve it just kind of happens. So that is kind of part of what it means to be connected to who you are.
00:10:04
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Yeah. And that's the thing. I think that what people, what people often struggle with is they try to answer it rationally. And that's, that's not, that's not the way, cause it's, it's, it's not a, it's not a question. It's like, if you ask me a math equation and I, and I give you letters.
00:10:24
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Like that's not, it's two different things. It's really two different languages, but there is this, there is that part of it where you have that thing that you can't really describe, but you know. And that's... So kind of going in, because all this stuff is, you know, it kind of can be challenging to navigate.
00:10:51
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One of the things you said about that is like how you can cultivate awareness around it or understanding like, oh, I do, I kind of feel
Obstacles to Presence and Productivity Pressure
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that way. What am I doing right now? What this is who I am type of experience is being present. Yes. So when we look at, okay, fitness movement, there's a lot of ways to be present journaling.
00:11:15
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So there are tools to help you in being present, for example, having awareness so that you can start to identify who you are. If you're never present, if you're never aware, you're probably not going to have an experience of
00:11:31
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seeking out the answer to who you are, because you're always disconnected. But I think that that's the sad thing, though. And I do work with people who have a very hard time being present and who have a very hard time being aware with both the internal and the external. And they are trying to figure out who they are or they want to be someone. But they're looking, they're approaching it in the wrong way of like this thing I need to do.
00:11:57
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Or like, what's the answer? What's the tips? What do you do? And it's like, it doesn't matter. And so that's the thing I think that for people to be like, there's a lot of mimicking and imitating going on and not in a like, oh, I'm just gonna copy that person. No, but it's like, we see people who may be inspiring to us, who may be motivating, who may, you know, exude a way of being that we are like, I would like part of that.
00:12:23
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But if we don't look within ourselves and below the surface of that, then we're just imitating. And then it's like, that's what we talk about when we're taking a photocopy of a photocopy and you do that enough and you can't even see the picture. And so to start with being present.
00:12:38
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Like it sounds ridiculous but like yeah you have to be present and like I was talking with a client this weekend who's in special operations and going through some things and high stress and it's like you know you have to where you are you have to be where you are that's like you have to be where you are because if you're not where you are
00:13:00
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you're either in the past or in the future and depending upon the scenario, you know, there's either whatever the projections are. But like, if you're not where you are, you can't do what you have to do in that moment.
00:13:13
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and so much of stress, and depending upon the environment that you're in, pushes you out of the moment. It gets you into that, oh fuck, what's gonna happen? Or, ugh, I can't believe that happened. And now you're out of where you are now. Yeah, and we've talked about this quite a bit, but in a simple example, like working out,
00:13:38
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We hear people all the time say like, I just want to get it. Let's just get this over with, you know? And so, yeah, that's them being, they want to get projecting. I'm just skipping the entire process of doing what I'm doing right now, which has its own set of negative ramifications. But the point being.
00:13:55
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right, you're not able to be present just in actually like that moment, it's always about what's next, what's coming, it's the dread, it's, I can't believe, you know, or oh, and then as soon as you're done, it was such a bad workout. It's like, okay. So you the thing that is good news, because this is sort of, it can feel a little ethereal to people like, okay, like, how the hell that but there are like, there are very concrete tools. And so when we bring it back to like, what we do with people, some of the things in the gym,
00:14:25
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breathing, the self-assessment, balance, all those things, connecting to your actual muscles, what is that as it relates to the path, those tools? What do you feel like, why are you looking at me?
00:14:48
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I'm not sure what your question is. Well, my question is like, can you speak to those things as tools for helping people on like part of those tools are tools we've implemented because we feel it is so important that people go to make any kind of progress down this path and not just trying to skip to the end. Those are tools we've put into place and they are very real and tangible.
00:15:13
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Yeah, you can practice them. Yeah. So I mean, at a minimum, regardless of if you do are doing between the ears fitness or not, where we provide all of that, but like, pay attention to what's happening within you.
00:15:27
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And if you start doing that and can at a minimum just raise your awareness of what's happening within you. And that's everything from physical like with your body, mental to the conversation you're having and emotional which is
00:15:45
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at a basis, the sensations and feelings that then you can sort of then apply a label to and say, happy, sad, this or that. So that's the but that's also like every step that you take along the path of people, you know, it's not a mystery that that, you know, it's not about the destination, it's about the journey and all of that. And it's like people hang those posters up in their offices,
00:16:12
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But they have no idea how to do it. Yeah, we're not practicing that. And maybe the listeners are, you know what I mean? And that's not a judgment that every single person isn't. But as a society, we're constantly escaping and we're constantly trying to get off the path.
00:16:29
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or be done with it and it's like but the path is like the end state is we know what the end state is it's the same for everyone in this form and so for us to say for us to not pay attention to ourselves to not pay attention what's happening within to not have that be what propels us along the path
Embracing the Learning Journey
00:16:51
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and only trying to get off of it by being like, oh, I finished it. I got it done. Great. You got it done. Now what? Because it's just going to be on to the next. And there's this, there is just so much of it. And if you, that is escaping. And when you start to view the world through the lens of how present am I help present in others,
00:17:11
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And what is the influence and the pressures as it relates to being on the path? Like literally in your head right now, think of a path. It could be whatever your path is, like through the woods, through the mountains, whatever, hopefully not through the city, but nonetheless, like, and when you step off of it, when you're on it. Like that's all on it. You're there's usually you can see forward. It's a path. It's a trail. Sure. It's got some bends and some turns.
00:17:40
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When you're off of it, yeah, you literally don't see it anymore. Yeah. So, I mean, one of the things I think about the path that people often are not interested in, and I wrote about this yesterday in my journal and put a post up because I thought it was really important, I was kind of the person, I really practiced the like,
00:18:06
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get to the end of this path, get it done. That was really how I viewed a lot of things in life. It was good. I'm great at getting a lot of things done. But like, let's just let's just go. If there was a scenario where it was an opportunity to learn something, and probably if you're learning something or not graded it right away, I was like not interested. And I think that's an area where people and kind of to getting into a little bit of like, it doesn't happen overnight. The path is
00:18:35
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embracing not just learning about yourself, but learning about yourself through learning, yes, other things. And I always try to bring it back to concrete things like nutrition. That's a great example. People jump very quickly to the end state. I would like to lose 10 pounds, tell me the numbers, tell me how to do it. Okay.
00:18:56
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The problem with that is you've probably learned nothing about yourself in the process because you've stuck to this arbitrary external assignment that might have worked for somebody but does not work for your body. And so you get to the end of the path and then you kind of have to start all over because it wasn't effective versus learning about yourself on the path. Oh, like this is how my body responds to this. Oh, you know what? My body is like that. Now the problem with that is which one takes longer?
00:19:27
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And most people are in such a rush to, they don't have the patience. And like I said, I was sort of that person as well to, they want the answer. Like now tell, tell me. Yeah, for sure. There is that desire for the answer, which I get it. It makes sense. We'd like to feel like we have resolution because there's safety in that and there's known and the unknown presents.
00:19:51
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not only a stress, and this is where the beauty of the unknown is, the unknown is also the single thing you need to really get to know yourself. And so that's the thing of learning as well and taking those next steps. And I personally think that the pressure to be productive is absolutely destroying our ability to be present.
Tools for Navigating 'The Path'
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And you look at what's happening. The productivity market,
00:20:17
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is fucking huge. It is insane. And then there's this pressure to be like, Ooh, this next app is going to make me, I can, you know, put my notes, organize my things and this and that. And it's like, okay, great. Yeah. He's another 15 minutes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And then I can have this and it's going to sync up to my cloud. We're just going to ping my watch and it's going to, and you're like, holy crap.
00:20:36
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And so we're not saying don't be productive and just sit on your ass. Well, they know of course not but understand that's a pressure that pulls that That pushes you off the path that could push you off the back like well No, but then I'm doing more things like okay, but but how is it working? is it really actually working because We have and again we keep saying it but like we're in a time where there is no shortage of information and access, right?
00:21:04
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but something is broken. And I truly believe that
00:21:12
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just being more present, it doesn't mean stopping. Right. It does not mean stopping, being present, paying attention, knowing what you're doing and how you're doing it. And when you, that's the beauty about being really present, you actually then sort of forget what you're doing. That's in the zone. I mean, I've played games I've shot, I've had jumped like things in the military and in sport where it's like, I don't even know what I'm doing because you are that present and dialed in and all systems are firing.
00:21:42
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You don't turn that on necessarily, or you don't think your way through that, or you don't remember your way through that. What do you think people's aversion to slowing down is? Not slowing down, just... What do you think that's about? What do you think... I mean, you think it's a... Because it tells them something about themselves?
00:22:04
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I think it's the pressure that they're not enough. I think it's the pressure that they're falling behind, that others are doing more or better. I think social media has only exacerbated that. But I also think that as a society and as a whole, we celebrate the people who
00:22:23
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do it all. And in some ways, like, yeah, right on. But like that, is that really like what we're striving for? And I think that when we, when people are in that, in that
00:22:39
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resistance maybe to taking shit out of their life and that's again like a major thing and this is not just like an idea this is a Constant theme that you know 48 hours ago was coaching a group of veterans and on this exact thing and it's like well what we do to fill ourselves up we add more and it's like wrong why don't we take away a little bit and That's something that I just I just have a hard time
00:23:09
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believing that all of this access and visuals to everyone else isn't just destroying people's ability to accept themselves. And so, yeah, I mean, I do think the pause, of course, it does open up some, as soon as you stop and you're not going and going and going. It's why a lot of people at night, people with anxiety, people with, not even people with anxiety, but at night is when people
00:23:38
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maybe start to really, they have a hard time sleeping, they start to worry because you've actually stopped moving. And now you're laying there and it's just you and yourself and there's nothing to fill that void. And I think it's practice in, it isn't just, oh, okay, now you're just saying at night, do this to fix that. No, it is practice of being with yourself and not being potentially all the time distracted. And it's not to say you can't also be productive
00:24:06
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doing things in your day and also be present with them. But we've talked about this. I do feel that I can probably do the same amount of things from one day to the next. So it's not about what I did, but there's definitely a difference in the how.
00:24:24
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And if I'm present or if I'm already thinking about like I'm making this loaf of bread so that I can post this picture so that then I can get dressed and then I'm gonna go down here and do this and like then that's a totally different day and I'm not connected to me. Well and that's the thing and it's like
00:24:42
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do things, how should you, how can you do things to help you be present when you're doing it, be aware when you're doing it. And the thing about, um, at night that you were talking about with anxiety and people, there's also something that when people, like when you're, when people experience trauma and have that still with them,
Processing Trauma Through Presence
00:25:07
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the lull, like the chill moments can actually trigger signs of danger. If that was what was also associated with a past experience of when I, when I relaxed, shit hit the fan. You know what I mean? And so that can, you can insert any number of things within any number of incidences that could have that be traumatic for so much. But again, like that's going to be totally different person to person.
00:25:37
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And that definitely gets deep into some things, but just also knowing. But your system is connected to all of that. Your system is connected to all of that. But that's where awareness comes in and presence comes in. Because if it's like, hey, there's nothing like, like I'm, I'm relaxed right now. I'm chill. There's nothing going on. If we start to get that trigger, that's the same environment that we were in when this traumatic thing happened. Okay.
00:26:05
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You have to experience it. You know, you have to sort of then in that moment of like, oh, I'm feeling that and I'm having that attack or whatever, you have to be present for it. You have to at least recognize it. You can't just push it away and never get past it. Right. And so that's where being present is the very anecdote we need for continuing on the path, not getting stuck or not feeling, oh, I'm pushed off and stuff like that.
00:26:33
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And I guess the thing that might be obvious, but the so what of a lot of it is, um, you know, we're like, okay, so what, if I'm not present and I'm just onto the next end, you know, again, I can't, we can't speak for what the impact is with other people, but I think we've both experienced like, you might be, you're, you'll be fine one day, two days, three days. It's weeks or months on end of not being present or connected to who you are. Just kind of being.
00:27:02
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Like I described as like having an out of body experience, just going through the motions that will take a toll. Yeah. It will, it'll take a toll on your, whatever we want to call it, mental health, your relationships, what you maybe find as a, uh, so like what you try to then involve yourself with to, to feel something. Cause you're basically becoming a little bit numb. Yeah. So when we look at, you know,
Fitness as a Metaphor for Self-Discovery
00:27:31
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some of these tools that we use at the gym. I mean, that's something, the whole path concept really started because we are experiencing, it is very obvious in the gym setting when people have come from the check the box, get it done. I think the strong fit guys call it like, you know, objective, like objectivism of fitness, which has kind of been the way fitness has been for the last 20 years, at least.
00:28:00
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It's new. It's like, well, how many days of this will I need to do until I connect to myself and what I need? And it's like days. It could be years. But what you're asking for is when does the path end? That's the thing with it, where it's like when it doesn't fucking end.
00:28:22
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If it's like, when am I going to have it figured out? It's like you're asking for the end then. And that's what, you know, yeah, for sure the objective or the destination or the outcome. And it's like, we're not saying don't have an outcome in mind. And there's so much obvious advice and a lot of things get taken out of context. But like,
00:28:43
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Yeah, this isn't a, it can be overwhelming for people to be like, wait, so you're telling me you are providing me with tools. StrongFit does it, between the ears does it, that are going to help me get to know who I am. But I'm never, and what I need and improve my life and, you know, work through some things and make decisions out of a place of choice, not force, but I'm never going to kind of get there.
00:29:12
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And it's never going to end. And it's like, yeah, exactly. But think about that, the exact thing then, the quality then of the answer and what you're looking for is to not be present. Because we're saying, here we are. These are tools for you. All that matters is today. All that matters is this. Yeah, because you know, and you want and that's where the that's where so much of there's so much Buddhism baked in these things.
00:29:37
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That is very much about that that that presence to the impermanence of things and it's like
00:29:47
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This isn't permanent and this is you know and anybody and people and everyone who's been in high-risk Scenarios or has had high stress scenarios where you know where life Where life's fragility is exposed? Knows that like yeah, well, this is the whole point everybody was lost someone knows that like and we all go through ends Oh, how sad we get the other house and it's like
00:30:11
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shouldn't that teach us something then about like this leading because if you're not practicing it everybody has that moment I mean we talked about with your own experience when you were going through this stuff with your head you had that moment very clearly of like appreciation of like now this moment of being alive
00:30:32
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And then, as humans, we get pulled out of it. Now, that's normal, but it's the ability to get pulled back in and be like, okay, wait, what are my tools? What's my journey? And so yeah, I think the excitement about it and the other thing is you might have today figured out, but next year, because of a number of different scenarios,
Adaptability and Self-Awareness in Life Changes
00:30:55
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life is different. So those same things that were quote unquote working for you or you were connecting to, they're going to change because you don't live in a static world. It's constantly changing. Your body's changing. I mean, a lot of women like, Oh, I figured it out. I figured out great. And guess what? Like now you're entering pre menopause and your whole body changed. Yeah, you have to pay attention to it. And not to get on that tangent, but it is crazy when you look at how we just,
00:31:25
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send a, you know, put a bandaid on those kinds of things. So instead of having women, there's not a overwhelming message of like, Oh, you're struggling with hormones. This is a natural process in life. Here are some tools to connect to how you feel and to understand your body. It's here's a pill. It will numb everything until it's over. Yeah. So that's our society. And so we are very much going against the grain.
00:31:51
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but I think people, if they can relinquish a little bit of that control to get to the end.
00:31:57
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It is really an incredible process. And there's a relief. There's sort of like, oh, I don't have to get to the end. Like, great. Well, and that's exactly it. And that's the thing. And I was talking with a client this morning, and we're talking about like, hey, just one day at a time. And it's like, yeah. But the whole energy of that is just getting to the end and surviving. Right. And you don't survive tomorrow, or you don't thrive tomorrow. You thrive in the present.
00:32:25
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And so while there's merit and value, and it is a powerful tool to just be like, hey, I just got to get to the sunset, or I just got to get to the sunrise, or I just got to get one day at a time. Yeah, for sure.
00:32:38
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But is that how we're living everything? And the more we fixate on that one thing of I just need to survive, it's like you do something hard and physical, and the more you fixate on it not being over, the worse it becomes.
00:32:58
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versus if you actually turn towards that intense feeling in your legs when you're putting all out and just being like, I can feel that. This is happening. You'll be amazed. And it's paying attention, not trying to escape it. Do not get off the path. And if the path is, you have that burning feeling. Now, of course, you don't want to get injured in all of that. But from a physical standpoint, pay the attention to it. Because guess what?
00:33:27
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you're not strong enough to ignore it. But when you try to ignore it, it becomes even worse. Yeah, and and understood that we're we, we understand all this. And we also understand that people have been told to ignore it to push through, just get it done, survive. That's the messaging of the fitness world. Just get in and get out. That's been what people have been told and taught by coaches by
00:33:57
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different methodologies. So, you know, just that understanding of like, this is different, that will also take time. But the main thing about all of this is like, it is a path.
The Journey vs. The Destination
00:34:07
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And like you said, I think it's cool to kind of picture your path. And again, your path today might look different in your head than tomorrow. Yeah. And you have no idea what's around the corner. The turn, the turn you don't, what's beyond the turn you don't see. You don't know right now.
00:34:24
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But that's where so much of like, wow, I stumbled upon this. I had no idea. I'm learning something like isn't that Part of what makes life interesting, but you would have missed it if you just skipped or got off and that's really embracing that and
00:34:39
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Like you're driving through You're driving through the most beautiful natural park, you know, whatever that you can imagine And there's driving not okay. I don't know you're walking well pick it for purpose of this Let's just say whatever you're going through you're on a road trip and you just you take off and you're driving through this beautiful place Okay, a Many many people are In the back passed out
00:35:07
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or looking at their goddamn phone. And it's like, Hey, look where we are. And it's like, I just want to get, I just want to get to the hotel. And it's like a fucking Marriott. It's like, they're all the same. Look online for the pictures of the lobby. The hotel is that you miss what we're going through. And like, that is, I think so much of it. And yeah, sure. It's life and it's this and it's that, but like, yeah, what's the, you got there. Now what you got to the end, you you're there.
00:35:32
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Yeah. And the only other thing I wanted to add was just some of this, and I'm always, I think there is a certain element of like, what is the response or not the defense against this, but someone might say like, ah, like it's fine. Like I don't know that I need this, but you know, the other day was the world, you know, world mental health day or whatever. I think we all can understand, we all agree that
00:36:02
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There's something happening, especially right now with all of our mental health. I mean, that's not a classification apart. We all have mental health as humans. I would hope so. Right. And so this is part of that, like.
00:36:19
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all the pieces connect, all the stuff that is out there, the documentary on social media, the, the trying to get to the end of the road, the doing fitness, that's just sort of the end state. Like they all are connected. They're not these different, you know, offshoots that have nothing to do with each other. They're all, if we can start to look at this, this is how you approach your world. Then you can approach your social media in a way you can approach your workouts, your work, your relationships. It's,
Impact of Presence on Life Aspects
00:36:49
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It's not the object of this, it's how you are being back to the first thing we started with, like who you are in those efforts. Yeah. Yeah. All right. So I think that's good. Do you know that we're wearing our colors navy unintentionally? Navy and gray. We didn't do that on purpose. No, it's just literally two of three colors a hour.
00:37:16
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Well, we held our timeline. Yeah. Some of the things we have going on. Yeah.
Future Projects and Global Initiatives
00:37:22
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We've got, well, you're in the midst of the vector project, which is pretty cool. We're past the halfway point. That's been cool. And so they have an event just because we will probably be doing another one. It's an eight to nine week training program. And then it culminates in an event, which is going to be pretty cool. That's in November.
00:37:44
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What else do we have? We just opened a gym. Oh, yeah. That's pretty cool. But we also have an online part of it. So what is really cool about, obviously, if you're in the area, the gym is we're here. We're very involved coaching people. But the really nice thing is what we're doing online is really not being done anywhere. I'm going to say that.
00:38:09
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It's not just programming. It is how to do some of the stuff through your fitness. So it offers more than just workouts. So if that's something you're interested in, we do have a free week that you can, it's not everything we offer in the membership, but it definitely gives you a sense of what else there is.
00:38:27
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That's the thing too is like some of this stuff like especially now I'm like you're not gonna ever know like at a certain point and this is where I'm not not to have like an attitude or hijack thing but like we can't fucking tell you what it's gonna be you're going to have to do it you have to experience it and well that's like telling someone tell me about skydiving okay I'm gonna tell you every single thing I'll throw you out of the plane and then you'll know yeah
00:38:51
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Um, my women's group is ending. That's been awesome. Getting some women who've never pushed a sled before and doing different workouts. Veteran program program. And then some of the things we're tinkering with that we're planning on launching, it will be in person, but, um, we have some more youth focus things. I have a girls group coming up.
00:39:16
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thinking about doing one for young men, an endurance one for the winter to help some people who are like cyclists who want to train what is appropriate for them to help them get better in their season. Yeah, we've got some awesome stuff. And then the first between the ears fitness global.
00:39:33
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00:40:03
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Yeah, between the ears fitness, between the ears. Philanthes, cariana anthes. Yeah. We'll leave the other ones off. All right. All right. Stay on the path. Bye.