How to Manage Painful Emotions // SPARTAN MIND 037

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2019

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Experiencing painful emotions is a part of life that we cannot avoid. But we try to through various types of numbing mechanisms. This could be anything from alcohol to drugs to food to over-exercise to gambling to social media. We are pretty proficient as a society in wiggling our way around uncomfortable feelings and moving towards either a numbing position or something more comfortable. But if you are looking to toughen up your mind and improve your performance in life, learning how to manage painful emotions is going to get you much further than numbing.

LESSONS:
Painful emotions exist for everyone and working to manage these emotions can build a healthy level of resilience and tolerance skills.
Work on observing the painful emotion, acknowledging that it exists, and then ride the wave, trusting that there will be a peak but there will also be a lull where you can catch your breath.
Remember, you are NOT your emotion. Being angry does not mean you are an angry person. And being sad doesn’t mean you are a depressed person. It just means that you are experiencing those emotions.

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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	Let's talk about some ways to manage painful emotions.
0:03.6	Hey Spartans, Dr. L. here, your Chief Mind Doc for Spartan Mind, part of the Spartan Up Podcast family.
0:14.8	I'm here every Wednesday giving you short little nuggets of information that help clear your
0:19.9	mind of that junk so that you can perform better, live better, be better, and engage with the world
0:25.8	and the way that I know you want to. So today we're talking about ways to
0:30.6	manage painful emotions. Now we've all got painful emotions.
0:33.5	Now, we've all got painful emotions, right?
0:35.8	And painful emotions can go under this big umbrella
0:38.8	in the sense that there can be lots of different kind.
0:41.0	And for each individual, what's painful for you might be
0:43.7	different right so when I think of painful emotions I think of shame
0:47.8	discouragement disappointment sadness anger anxiety sadness, anger, anxiety, those are the main ones that I think of, but you might have
0:57.3	others.
0:58.3	There might be other emotions that are particularly painful for you.
1:01.7	Oh, grief, that's another one.
1:03.2	That can be really difficult as well.
1:05.3	So the truth is tying some common humanity into this.
1:09.6	We all experience painful emotions, right?
1:12.0	It's part of being human, it's part of life. But
1:15.4	sometimes we are not very good with actually dealing with painful emotions. We are
1:21.3	a society that loves to numb, whether we're numbing with alcohol, food, sex, exercise,
1:29.9	gambling, shopping, social media, we love to numb as a society. We are just not very good at
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