Akshay Nanavati | How To Love Your Fear: The (REAL) Secret To Unlocking Your Pure Potential

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 606

How can you use your fear to prepare for unpredictable situations?

Akshay Nanavati, Adventurer and USMC Vet, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 606, to share how he uses fear to prepare for extreme conditions in nature, what lessons he learned about life during Polar expeditions, why it's important to love your fear, and why you need to confront your darkness.

"If you really want to know the heights of awe, the heights of bliss, go play in the depths of the abyss. Go play in the pain cave, go there, because it'll amplify the intensity of the human experience. It's how you feel more awe." - Akshay Nanavati

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In This Episode, Akshay Nanavati Uncovers:

(01:30) The Gift of Suffering
(11:05) Fear Propels You to Prepare
(13:30) Emotions + Duality
(21:15) Fear of Vulnerability
(30:25) The Power of Pain
(35:20) The Darkness + The Light
(44:05) Learn to Love Your Fear
(53:20) Letting Darkness Open Your Eyes
(01:13:00) PTSD Growth
(01:17:50) Shadow Work: Confront The Darkness
(01:24:15) Trust Your Inner Voice
(01:32:45) The Hero's Journey

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0:00.0	One of my many mantras is fear propels you to prepare.
0:03.0	So when I have a big quest, like writing a book or going to Antarctica, I'll write down, what am I scared of? What's the worst case scenario? How do I prepare for the worst case scenario? Astronauts actually do this and they call it negative visualization. It's important to actually visualize all the things that can go wrong because now you can prepare for that. So I am terrified and I want to be scared.
0:21.6	When you play on these edges in nature, you get to experience that in a very visceral way.
0:26.1	For example, in Antarctica, it is the most humbling place on Earth. It's massive. You are nothing
0:30.7	out there. Out there on those edges, life is amplified. The volume of life is dialed as high as it
0:36.6	can go. So the highs are as high as possible,
0:39.6	but the lows are also as low as possible. And so you get to experience the intensity of the human
0:45.0	condition at its rawest, at its most amplified out there. Everybody has their own version of an
0:50.7	Antarctica to cross. So if you really want to know the heights of awe, the heights of bliss, go play in the
0:57.2	depths of the abyss.
0:58.4	Go play in the pain cave.
1:00.4	Go there.
1:01.2	Because it'll amplify the intensity of the human experience.
1:03.7	It's how you feel more awe.
1:07.4	Hey, welcome to wellness and wisdom.
1:09.4	This is Josh Trent, your host.
1:18.2	This has always been the place for you to gather, apply, and embody the intelligence you need to live your life well.
1:45.2	Okay, let's begin. Akshay, welcome to the podcast. Thank you, brother. Appreciate you having me. Wow. So this was an awesome intro from our brother, our friend, Mike, Dillard. And so I just love and respect Mike so much. And he climbs his own mountains. You're about to climb an ice cap at the center of the world. Let's begin there. How do you keep yourself inspired to do something that literally, which is like no bullshit, no other human being has done.
1:49.8	Let's just begin there. People are seeing this on the screen right now, you on the training regimen that you're doing. Yeah. Where in the hell does this type of motivation come from?
1:54.5	Because I don't get from you, I told you when you walked in the studio, I don't get from you
1:58.0	this like angry, ungrounded, kind of like, you can't hurt me
2:03.2	attitude.
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