500. The Physical Mountain of Self-Mastery W/ Mark & Catherine Divine
The Mark Divine Show
Mark Divine
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 January 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Catherine Divine is back on The Unbeatable Mind this week to delve into the concept of mastering the ‘physical mountain’--a term that refers to one’s journey towards physical health and fitness.
Mark and Catherine delve into the idea that in order to unlock one’s full potential, it’s important to train not only the body, but also the mind and spirit. Got a busy schedule and don’t know how or where to incorporate fitness? Mark and Catherine share practical advice for how to do so. The power of small, consistent efforts—-what Mark calls “spot drills”----can’t be understated and can seem like a godsend for those leading hectic lives. Beyond the benefits of physical activity, the interconnectedness of physical, emotional, and mental well-being is explored!
Key Takeaways:
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Time Management: Reframe physical activity as a cumulative activity and learn how to utilise ‘spot drills’ throughout the day.
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Integration of Different Aspects of Experience: Realize the importance of connecting fully to life through bodily awareness and the interconnectedness of both physical and mental experiences.
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Body and Mind as a Unified Construct: Listen to different philosophical perspectives on what the mind is and learn to create a mindful connection between physical and emotional states.
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Training Balance and Recovery: Recognize the importance of recovery in forming a balanced training routine and discover how to integrate physical challenges with mental and emotional ones.
Itunes Bio:
Catherine Divine is a leadership coach, author, and yoga instructor with over 20 years of experience helping leaders unlock their full potential. Coauthor of Kokoro Yoga with her stepfather, Mark Divine, and author of Sacred Silence, Catherine holds a Master’s in Transformative Leadership from CIIS and is pursuing a PhD in East-West Psychology. As a Master Unbeatable Mind Coach, she has trained C-suite executives, Special Ops candidates, and high-performance leaders, guiding them to integrate mindfulness, emotional intelligence, and resilience. Catherine combines intuitive healing with strategic insight to help leaders overcome challenges, heal from trauma, and strengthen their mind-body-soul connection.
Catherine’s Links:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/catherinec1/
Kokoro Yoga: https://unbeatablemind.com/kokoro-yoga/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CatherineDivineYoga/
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Timestamped Overview:
00:00 Unlocking the Physical Mountain
05:09 "Learning from Everyday Accidents"
08:34 Mindful Recovery Over "Suck It Up"
12:01 "Mind-Body Connection in Therapy"
14:53 "Body's Infinite Capacity Belief"
18:53 Functional Fitness and Coaching Advice
22:13 "Impromptu Workouts Anywhere"
24:09 Quick Fitness Routine Tips
26:40 "Support & Subscribe: Mark Devine Show"
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to the Mark Devine Show. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm your host Mark Devine. |
| 0:11.1 | Thanks so much for joining me today. |
| 0:13.9 | On the Mark Devine show, I love to dig into details |
| 0:16.8 | around how to move from theory to practice to mastery. |
| 0:20.4 | Mastery of what? Mastery of yourself in service |
| 0:23.7 | to others, ultimately in service to humanity. Sounds simple, but it's not easy. Self-master |
| 0:30.6 | requires that we do deep inquiry. We learn to stabilize and strengthen our body and mind so that we can then meditate and contemplate |
| 0:41.1 | and visualize and access our fullest potential so that we can be more creative, more powerful, |
| 0:49.5 | and more compassionate. |
| 0:51.4 | These are the skills of the new leader. |
| 0:53.9 | So if you want to thrive in |
| 0:55.0 | VUCA, where you want to accelerate yourself in this age of exponential technology, then it |
| 1:01.4 | behooves you to train yourself, your body, mind, and spirit, or what we call the Five Mountains, |
| 1:05.7 | physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually to unlock those capacities. So thanks for being here, and today we're going to talk about the physical mountain following |
| 1:15.6 | up on a conversation I had directly with you, the listener, last time or recently, |
| 1:22.6 | looking at the first chapter or the first section of my book, Uncommon, which is all about developing |
| 1:28.5 | physicality, physical health, and what I call your physical mountain. So today, I've got my |
| 1:33.4 | lovely daughter, Catherine, with me, and we're just going to have a conversation about some |
| 1:37.2 | of the things that came up and some of the things that she observed so that we can probe this |
| 1:42.9 | interesting topic even further. |
| 1:45.4 | Catherine, thanks for joining me today. |
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