Resting Your Mind SPARTAN MIND ep 009
The Hard Way With Joe De Sena
Spartan Races
4.8 • 874 Ratings
🗓️ 10 October 2018
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
As a Spartan, resting your body is part of the training program. You rest to reduce the risk of injury, increase performance, and avoid burnout. Your mind, like your body, deserves the same level of attention and mental rest is essential for the very same reasons you rest your body. Resting your mind with intention and purpose gives your mental faculties greater clarity and availability for focus when you return to the task at hand.
LESSONS:
• Your mind needs rest so you avoid burnout and have greater clarity and focus.
• Remember that resting your mind is not 'doing nothing' - it is doing something purposeful and effortful that moves you towards the goal of mental toughness.
• Use these three tactics to help rest your mind:
1. Plan your rest with intention.
2. Get out of this world with a book, movie, art or other creative medium.
3. Inform someone of your intention to rest so they can help keep you accountable.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Spartans, it's Dr. L with Spartan Mind, and today we're talking about resting your mind. |
| 0:05.7 | Today we're talking about resting your mind and the reason this is important is the |
| 0:16.0 | same reason it's important to rest your body right so as a Spartan when you're |
| 0:20.0 | training for a race or you're being super physical and rest as part of your |
| 0:24.6 | training package why do you rest you rest to avoid injury you rest to actually |
| 0:29.6 | increase your performance and you rest so that you reduce your risk of burnout the same is your in moving forward with whatever it is that you're working on and you also rest your |
| 0:44.3 | mind so that you don't burn out from whatever it is that you're working on. So one of the |
| 0:49.6 | things too that is really important to remember when we're talking about rest is that often we think |
| 0:55.1 | that rest is doing nothing. |
| 0:57.0 | I know that I think this sometimes, that when I'm resting I'm like, oh, I need to be doing something. |
| 1:01.9 | Well, actually resting is doing something. You have to be |
| 1:05.3 | intentional and effortful with your practice of rest. So it's actually not doing something. |
| 1:10.8 | It's just a different version of doing something than maybe you're used to. |
| 1:15.0 | So there's a few things and a few ways that I want you to bring rest into your life. |
| 1:20.0 | So first, plan for your rest. actually structure it into your day. |
| 1:25.2 | Try not to think, well, I'll rest sometime today, |
| 1:28.0 | but actually pick a time. |
| 1:29.6 | You could do it in the morning. |
| 1:30.8 | It doesn't have to be later on in the evening, but just so that you're setting |
| 1:34.4 | aside time to rest your mind. |
| 1:37.9 | The second is, get outside of this world, whether that's using a book like Hello Harry Potter or using art |
| 1:45.9 | something that really kind of shifts you away from where you are right now in the |
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