Feeling into the Future // SPARTAN MIND 032

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Feelings can be powerful and even more so when they create discomfort. Anxiety, worry, and concern are three feeling states that can initiate a way of thinking that can very quickly create a barrier to you moving forward with whatever task is at hand. How you feel today is not necessarily a marker of how you will feel in the future but we can sometimes fall into the mind trap of believing this to be true. Think about it, if signing up for a Spartan race induced a tremendous amount of anxiety you may have the tendency to feel into the future and believe that your nerves on race day will be twice as bad. It’s important to remain in the present as much as possible and not make assumptions that how you feel now will be your emotional state moving forward.

LESSONS:
Feeling into the Future: When you make the assumption that how you feel now will be the same emotional state in the future.
Feelings are out of your control but how you respond to them very much IS in your control. Try not to let painful feelings be a marker for how capable you are to manage what lays ahead.
Remember, only you have the ability to decide your next best step. Don’t let feelings get in the way of how you want to proceed.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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0:00.0	Hey Spartans, you've got to stop feeling into the future.
0:04.0	Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L. here, your your Chief Mindock with Spartan.
0:14.0	Here we have Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up
0:16.4	podcast family.
0:17.7	I'm here every Wednesday, working to clear that mind
0:21.6	of the junk that's in there so that you can race better, perform better,
0:26.3	and live your life better, right?
0:28.5	So today we're talking about feeling into the future.
0:32.3	And what I mean by that is when we feel something in the present,
0:36.7	often we make assumptions about how we're going to feel
0:41.0	in the future.
0:42.1	Let me give you an example of that. Let's say I signed up for my first Spartan
0:47.6	Ultra and as soon as I hit that register button I got so nervous about it right and then I made the assumption if I'm
0:56.0	nervous now imagine how nervous I'm going to be on actual race day right so I made
1:01.4	an assumption that my feeling in the present is going to be present in the future.
1:08.0	And here is what's a little tricky about that, right?
1:11.0	First of all, we have no idea how we're going to feel in the future. about that
1:15.0	we have no idea how we're going to feel in the future. So I could be training super hard for that ultra.
1:19.0	I could be doing everything to set myself up
1:21.0	for the most successful race, and I get there on race day and I just
1:25.0	feel super pumped like I know that I'm going to nail it and knock it out of the park, right?
1:30.0	So really there isn't necessarily a like a path in terms of the emotions that you feel
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