Dr. Kelly Starrett: Breaking Yourself Against Your Fears

Align Podcast

Aaron Alexander

Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition

4.8 • 900 Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Are you ready for anything life throws your way?

In this episode of the Align Podcast, guest Kelly Starrett discusses how putting ourselves in physically stressful situations prepares us for the mentally stressful situations life throws our way. The example he shares is how the risk he emersed himself in doing high-level white water kayaking mentally prepared him for the risk he took to start his own business.

We dive into why taking risks and breaking ourselves against our fear doesn't make us more reckless, but actually makes us more responsible in the decisions we make in our lives.

Kelly is a physical therapist, author of Becoming a Supple Leopard, the founder of The Ready State, and to be honest, my preferred human of choice.

Kelly has had a profound impact on me personally, and I'm excited to have him back on the podcast in hopes of having a profound impact on you as well.

What we discuss:

02:25 - How does your bike affect your spine?

05:05 - How to implement biking into your life?

10:45 - What's actively challenging you in your life?

15:20 - Acknowledge bad behaviours and taking action

16:40 - The relationship between trying and doing

19:30 - The pressure of quarantine and it's social impact

22:10 - The value of experiences of being poor vs having too much abundance

27:00 - The relationship with tribalism.

32:45 - Breaking yourself against your fear

36:35 - How fear teaches you how to be in your body

40:50 - Why we seek dangerous behaviours

47:00 - The connection between physical risk and mental risk.

51:00 - Normal Accidents Theory

53:00 - Why it's easier to add to your diet than to subtract from it

Find more from Kelly:

thereadystate.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Line Podcast. My name is Aaron Alexander. This is a place that we bring together
0:05.2	the world's leading experts in all things health and wellness to help you optimize your mind, body, and movement.
0:10.6	Today's conversation is with one of my most inspirational characters in my life, I would say.
0:17.6	Dr. Kelly Strut, he is a major inspiration for me starting to create videos on the internet. He did the forward for
0:23.8	the Align Method book came out six months ago or so and yeah I mean he's been
0:28.7	paramount in my development as a body worker and as a mind-body thinker I guess you could say he's
0:36.6	been instrumental in my perception of the body so I hope you guys really enjoy this
0:41.7	conversation we get into some pretty abstract subjects I hope you guys really enjoy this conversation.
0:42.6	We get into some pretty abstract subjects
0:45.0	ranging from Rights of Passage for young people.
0:48.3	We get into how to fix your back and your hips
0:51.6	if you're biking a lot or sitting in chairs a lot and a really
0:56.3	fantastic conversation. I always enjoy having Cali on I think this is the third time we've done one of these and I hope to do many many more.
1:04.8	If you guys are interested in learning about how you can start opening up them sweet sultry
1:10.8	hips of yours that may be freezing over as a product of being stuck
1:15.1	inside chairs ever since you were a kindergartner we broke down a simple fundamental
1:19.9	video on a
1:23.0	how to start to open those guys up with some practices that everybody ought to have.
1:25.0	Very easy to integrate into your daily life
1:28.0	and you can find that on the line podcast.com
1:31.0	slash masterclass created a simple video for y'all to get involved.
1:36.5	And I think you guys generally dig it.
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