Welcome to today's episode of the Mindsetment Tour Podcast. I am your host Rob Dyle.

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now 512-580-930-512-580-9305. Today we're going to talk about how to grow through suffering

and how suffering is actually necessary for you to get the life that you want. And this

is going to be through a concept that I call applied suffering. And let me first talk

about suffering. When we hear the word suffering, it has a bad connotation because nobody really

wants to suffer. Nobody wants to suffer going through their life. And let's put up pain

and suffering as two separate words so we can kind of even get a little bit more clear

on what we're talking about here, right? So there's pain. Pain is inevitable in life.

You're going to have pain. There's no way to go through your entire life without some

sort of scars in some way. Suffering on the other hand is optional. There's some people

that are still suffering an event or the emotions or the feelings of an event that happened

10 years ago. That's an option. That's not something that's necessary. Those people

are waking up and choosing to basically emotionally punch themselves in the face, right? Pain

is inevitable. Suffering is an option. But let's talk about how to actually use suffering

to grow. Here's the thing that I want you guys to understand. Pain is actually a stimulus

for your brain or body to make a change. So let me actually give you an example of the

pain and the suffering and how to use these things to actually help yourself. When you're

walking in the middle of the summer through a large, let's say you just got done in the

beach, right? So you don't have your shoes on and you're walking through a large black

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