3196: Be Better at Balancing it All by Rachel Shanken of MindBodyWise on Self Help & Personal Development

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🗓️ 28 May 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3196: Rachel Shanken reflects on how her early passion for gymnastics shaped her life's philosophy, emphasizing precision and perfection. Through personal development and a pivotal yoga therapy session, she discovered the importance of mental flexibility and embracing a more balanced approach to life's challenges, highlighting how internal struggles often mirror external ones. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://mindbodywise.com/blog/be-better-at-balancing-it-all/ Quotes to ponder: "There was a right way and a wrong way, where timing was vital, and where every nuanced movement meant huge success or major failure." "Life felt (falsely) safer and clearer - moving along a self-imposed narrow mental path, much like a 4-inch balance beam, with little room for error." "The balance of the two creates amazing things, including a nice big exhale in my body and mind." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is optimal living daily episode 3196.
0:04.0	Be better at balancing it all by Rachel Shanken of mind body wise.com
0:09.0	and I'm your narrator Justin Molick reading you articles to help bring a bit more positivity, happiness, and motivation
0:15.8	to your day.
0:17.1	So now let's get right to it as we optimize your life.
0:23.0	Be better at balancing it all,
0:27.0	by Rachel Schenkin of Mind Body Wise.
0:30.0	com. Be better at balancing at all.
0:33.0	There's a picture in this post where I'm about seven years old posing happily on a floor balance beam.
0:39.0	Only one month before I had been selected as the newest member of the gymnastics team. In this picture I see a little girl beaming with pride and joy.
0:47.0	I absolutely and completely loved the sport of gymnastics. Gymnastics consumed my every minute.
0:53.0	When I wasn't in the gym, I was daydreaming about it.
0:56.0	And for many of my childhood years,
0:58.0	cartwheeling was my primary mode of transportation.
1:00.0	It was fun, fast, and easy.
1:04.0	The days of youth.
1:05.0	Aside from gymnastics, although not much matter to me besides gymnastics,
1:09.0	I loved hopscotch and jacks and ping pong. As the years progressed I became more serious about the sport.
1:16.5	I was training every night of the week after school and competing every weekend. My coaches were tough
1:22.2	and the pressure to push the boundaries of my abilities and my fears was constant.
1:27.0	My life, thoughts, feelings, and body were consumed by rigid rules and expectations of precision and perfection.
1:35.4	What I realized much later in life, through a lot of personal work and a yoga therapy
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