Mini: When You're Overwhelmed / Spartan MIND 050

The Hard Way w/ Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Fitness, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, 792700

4.7 • 870 Ratings

🗓️ 24 July 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Let’s face it. We all experience being overwhelmed. It is a common human experience. But the thing is, there are ways to manage being overwhelmed if you turn your awareness inwards. First, think about how you can use the work of the breath to calm yourself down. Try using the box method. Next, set your priorities. Think about what requires your attention next and where would your energy would best be utilized. And lastly, try and plan for what comes next. These tools can help ground you and create space for you to manage the feeling and the experience.

LESSONS:
Being overwhelmed is part of the human experience so don’t beat yourself up when you feel it.
Try these strategies to overcome feelings of being overwhelmed:
Remember your breath.
Set your priorities.
Make a plan.

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Production Team: Heather Knox, Knox Creative; Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host: Dr. Lara Pence
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Transcript

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0:00.0	What's up Spartans? It's Dr. L here, your Chief Mindoc with Spartan Mind,
0:09.6	part of the Spartan Up Podcast Family, where I'm working to build that mental toughness and
0:14.4	mental resiliency and clear your head of all that mental junk so that you can show up on
0:19.1	the race, perform the way you want to, and engage in life in the way that you're looking for.
0:24.0	All right, so today we're talking about overcoming, being overwhelmed.
0:30.0	Now probably all of you who are listening can relate to that feeling of being overwhelmed, right?
0:36.0	It feels like the world is closing in on you, that you just can't get what you need to get done,
0:41.0	that you've got too much on your plate, everybody's asking so many things of you.
0:45.4	It just feels like too much, some of you maybe even want to crawl out of your skin that the
0:49.4	feeling is so intolerable.
0:51.3	So being overwhelmed is a common human experience. But here's the thing.
0:57.0	A, doesn't have to be, and B, there are ways to manage it. So how do you overcome being overwhelmed? Well the first
1:05.9	thing I'm going to take it into the body. Breathe. You've got to breathe when you
1:10.7	feel those feelings of being overwhelmed because that sensation of being overwhelmed,
1:15.3	A, can literally take your breath away, but B can create more experiences of anxiety in distress if you are not breathing and what do we know
1:25.7	about the breath it calms people down right I mean think about those
1:29.9	individuals who are out there right now at war using the breath literally to calm them
1:36.2	down in combat. Well you may not actually be out on the battlefields of combat but
1:41.6	that business room might feel like it or that rope climb might feel like it and you just feel super overwhelmed
1:47.4	Use your breath the simple box method for in in, for out, rest for four. Do that as much as you need to to
1:58.0	calm the body down. Okay, the next thing I like to think about is set your priorities.
2:04.4	What needs to happen next?
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