Mini: The Importance of Being Alone / Spartan MIND 057

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Many people equate being alone with loneliness. But they are not one and the same. We can be alone - with our self and by our self - and still feel very connected to others around us and our support system. We need to practice being alone more so that we can learn how to be with our own thoughts and feelings. Too often we are looking to others to fill up the white space when we could be getting more in touch with our own sense of self and practice gaining greater self-awareness.

LESSONS:
Being alone is not synonymous with being lonely.
In order to get to know yourself better, you may want to spend time doing things alone so that you can tune into how you are feeling and what you are thinking.
Being alone is not a measure of your worth and value. You are worthy and valuable regardless of who is in your presence.
Learning how to tolerate your own thoughts and feelings is a lost art, as we are constantly busy on our phone or distracted by various notifications. Learn solitude and you’ll inevitably feel more connected to yourself.

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Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L here with Spartan Mind, your chief Mind doc for Spartan.
0:10.8	So today I want to talk about the importance of being alone. Yes, being alone. Now you might be thinking, wait a second, Dr.
0:19.0	Dr. L has talked about how we're so disconnected and how we need to connect with people and have a strong
0:23.4	social support. Yeah those things are true and it's also important for you to
0:29.6	learn and tolerate being alone.
0:33.0	It doesn't mean that you need to break up with your boyfriend or your girlfriend
0:36.0	or divorce somebody that you're married to.
0:38.0	That's not what I'm talking about here.
0:40.0	What I'm talking about is that it's really important for you to be alone with your thoughts,
0:45.6	with your feelings, and with yourself regularly.
0:49.1	Now you could do that in your house, right?
0:50.8	You could go to your room and just sort of have some alone time. You could go to the movies. That's my favorite
0:55.2	place to be alone. You could be alone on the trails with your own thoughts and what's coming into your mind. Anywhere, really, you can be alone. People are scared of
1:05.4	being alone though because they feel like if they do something alone that
1:10.2	somehow that is an indication that they don't have friends, right, or that they are lonely.
1:16.0	Listen, I'll be honest with you.
1:18.0	Some of the most oppressed people that I've had in my office have a huge support system, but they feel lonely all the time.
1:27.1	Being alone does not necessarily mean that you're lonely.
1:31.7	Now yes, I can guarantee that the times when I've sat at a restaurant
1:35.0	by myself and enjoyed a meal with a book I've had people around other tables look at me
1:40.0	and probably think to themselves oh gosh sad she's so alone.
1:43.4	Okay well yeah great I can enjoy myself doing that and it's important that you get
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