Pain Is Your Portal: How To Turn Suffering into Superpowers | Akshay Nanavati

Wellness + Wisdom Podcast

Josh Trent

Education, Self-improvement

4.8 • 913 Ratings

🗓️ 20 May 2025

⏱️ 123 minutes

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Wellness + Wisdom | Episode 742

Is your fear of suffering keeping you from discovering the deepest treasures of your soul?

Author and extreme adventurer, Akshay Nanavati, joins Josh Trent on the Wellness + Wisdom Podcast, episode 742, to share how embracing suffering during his 60-day solo crossing of Antarctica became the key to transcending limitations and unlocking pure potential, what his journey taught him about the paradox of oneness, and why the only way out of suffering is through it.

"When you stop resisting suffering, it frees you from the grasp of suffering. It's not the suffering in and of itself that I seek. Suffering is the means, not the purpose. The purpose is what it gives you access to. It's the transcendence, the awakening, the breaking down of the illusions, the surrender." - Akshay Nanavati

In This Episode, Akshay Nanavati Uncovers:

(01:10) 60 Days Alone in Antarctica
(08:45) How to Stay In The Present Moment
(12:40) The Paradox of Oneness
(19:40) The Gift of Suffering
(26:45) Pure Experience
(31:40) Stop Attaching to The Outcome
(36:40) Don't Be Afraid to Get Off Balance
(43:10) The End of The Polar Expedition
(47:25) Does Distance Improve Relationships?
(54:15) Accept The Isness
(59:00) Feel It All
(01:06:30) The Power of Language
(01:11:20) The Reality of Polar Crossing
(01:16:10) Turn Your Pain to Your Purpose
(01:19:45) Suffer Well
(01:27:00) Stop The Noise
(01:31:25) Is Parenting A Spiritual Task?
(01:38:10) Find Beauty in Suffering
(01:43:15) Fear of Other People's Opinion
(01:47:30) Your Beliefs Hold You Hostage
(01:56:25) Connection with God

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0:00.0	So when you stop resisting suffering, it frees you from the grasp of suffering.
0:04.0	It's not the suffering in enough itself that I seek.
0:06.0	It's the means. It's not the purpose.
0:08.0	The purpose is what it gives you access to.
0:10.0	It's the transcendence. It's the awakening.
0:12.0	It's the breaking down of the illusions.
0:14.0	It's the surrender.
0:15.0	Akshay Nanavadi is a United States Marine veteran
0:18.0	and attempted to be the first person to solo cross Antarctica in 2025.
0:23.6	Did you get what you were looking for, or did you get so much more?
0:27.9	I did get some moments of that pure oneness with the divine where everything sheds.
0:33.9	It sheds that lens of reality, the constructs that shape our experience of reality,
0:38.1	and you get to feel true oneness, unfiltered experience. So on these voyages out at the edge,
0:44.1	you see two realities coexisting at one, which ultimately sheds the illusion that they are separate.
0:49.2	That's what creates ultimately all suffering, is the resisting or clinging to either side of any
0:53.7	duality. We as individuals, we will notinging to either side of any duality.
0:55.2	We as individuals, we will not rise to the level of the desires we want.
0:58.8	We will fall to the level of the struggle we are willing to endure.
1:01.4	So ask yourself, which struggle am I willing to endure?
1:07.6	This is your first pod since you came back from probably the most epic journey.
1:11.5	I think almost any human being can go on.
1:13.6	And I want to jump right out the gate.
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