162 Running To Focus On The Inside With Diz Runs Host Denny Krahe

Mindfulness Mode

Bruce Langford

Health & Fitness, Health & Fitness:alternative Health, Religion & Spirituality, Education, Spirituality, Self-improvement, Alternative Health

4.8 • 541 Ratings

🗓️ 10 November 2016

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Denny Krahe is passionate about running. He’s a certified athletic trainer and also a strength and conditioning specialist. Denny has a goal to complete 50 marathons in 50 different states and he uses running to stay focused and grounded. He also has a podcast called ‘The Diz Runs With Podcast’ which features interviews and running tips. Denny talks with other runners from every corner of the running world in exactly the same way he would talk to any new running partner during an easy day. Contact Info Website: www.DizRuns.com Podcast: DizRuns Social Media: @DizRuns Most Influential Person Hal Elrod (Author of The Miracle Morning) Effect on Emotions It helps me keep an even keel. I like to think that I'm a pretty even-keeled guy most of the time but like with anybody there are certain times when you get fired up or upset. I recognize it in myself very quickly. I take a couple of breaths and step away from the situation if necessary and allow things to settle back down. I'm thankful that I have that kind of personality. Thoughts on Breathing There's no question in my mind that the act of breathing and focusing on deep breaths; breathe in deep and slow on the exhale, it just helps to calm the body. I know there's science that supports that and what it does for the blood pressure. I just feel it. Whether it's before I record an interview, I just take a couple of breaths to calm my thoughts and settle my nerves. Or maybe before a race or when I'm frustrated because the baby's acting up. A couple of breaths does wonders for me. Suggested Resources Book: Miracle Morning by Hal Elrod App: Habitica (A gamified way of keeping track of to-do lists) Advice for Newbie With folks that are thinking about starting to run but don't know where to begin, I think that starting is key. Don't compare yourself to folks who have been doing it for a long time. That was a big hurdle for me, was the idea, if I'm going to meditate, so that means I have to sit here for 20 minutes, for 30 minutes, for 60 minutes and not think about anything. Point blank, I don't think that I could do that without my mind just wandering, going crazy and having all kinds of different thoughts. If I'm supposed to be quiet in my mind, how am I going to just sit here for an hour? It's not something that I can do. Then you realize that those folks who are doing that have probably been meditating for twenty years, for thirty years, for their entire lives. No wonder they're so disciplined and able to do that. It doesn't make any sense to try to compare myself with those type of folks. Five minutes, that's something I can attempt to do, then I can bump it up to ten minutes. That idea of start small and when you fail, don't beat yourself up for it. If I miss a day, it's not the end of the world. When I have a day where I start out trying to meditate and my mind wanders and I think, man, I only had a quiet mind for a minute and a half, that's ok. We'll try again tomorrow. Don't expect yourself to be perfect and be ok when you're not perfect.

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0:00.0	Mindfulness mode 162.
0:03.5	Get into the rhythm of the footfalls, you know, and just every step, boom, boom, boom, it helps to just clear the mind.
0:11.1	Reach new heights of calm, focus, and happiness on mindfulness mode with me, your host and mindfulness life coach, Bruce Langford.
0:19.9	On mindfulness mode, we talk about how people from all walks
0:23.0	of life have discovered mindfulness and how it's impacted their lives to help them become more
0:28.1	calm, focused, and happy. Hey, Mindful Tribe, do you want to share mindfulness with your children?
0:34.3	It can be so much fun for both of you. I have a free e-book I've written called
0:39.0	21 ways to practice mindfulness with your child every day for seven minutes. Download it at
0:45.9	mindfulness mode.com slash 21 ways. Enter your name and email and you'll have it in no time.
0:53.5	That's mindfulness mode.com slash 21 ways
0:57.4	okay mindful tribe let's get started i am really looking forward to this i have denny cray on the line today
1:04.7	hey denny are you in mindfulness mode absolutely bruce let's do this. All right. This is great.
1:13.8	Denny Kray is passionate about running.
1:19.0	He's a certified athletic trainer and also a strength and conditioning specialist.
1:24.9	Denny has a goal to complete 50 marathons in 50 different states.
1:25.4	Wow.
1:29.5	And he uses running to stay focused and grounded. He also has a podcast called The Diz Runs With, which features interviews and running tips, and it's a great podcast.
1:36.6	So Denny, tell us what mindfulness means to you, a runner.
1:41.1	Oh, man, it's, you know, there's so many ways you can go with that, but really it just it's just about to me at least it's just about kind of of you know being with yourself and and really kind of focusing from the inside out instead of from the outside in which is what I feel like it happens a lot if you're not if you're not conscious of kind of you know working on yourself and focusing from the inside to to kind of projecting that out to the people that you're with. right and you're not conscious of kind of, you know, working on yourself and focusing from the inside to kind of projecting that out to the people that you're with.
2:03.8	Right. And you're with a lot of people. You run with a lot of people and you do a lot of
2:08.1	interviews with a lot of people. So what are some of the things you've learned from some of your
2:13.4	guess about being grounded and focused.
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