Welcome to Spartan Mind, the newest addition to the Spartan Up Podcast family.

I'm Dr. L, Spartan's chief Mindoc.

I'm going to be here each Wednesday bringing you back to the couch

to toughen up your mind to get you super uncomfortable, working you through a little internal barbed wire so that you can increase your physical execution and your performance in life.

So keep listening to the Spartan Up podcast that you're used to on Tuesdays.

You'll find me here on Wednesdays and Spartan Way habits on Thursdays.

Now that's a trifecta. factor.

All right Spartans, today we're talking about increasing your emotional acuity.

What I mean by that is really checking in with your emotional state at any given time. The thing

about emotions is that we actually can't control which emotions arrive. The only

thing that we can control is how we respond and if we're not checking into our emotional state,

then our emotions are much more likely to impact our behaviors,

our choices, and our ways of relating.

You do this with your physical state,

probably on the race course at any given moment.

Just think about it. You've got Hurquoist coming up and rope climb before that.

If you're tuned into your physical state,

you're going to adjust your technique for rope climb so that you've got the arm strength for

hurt hoist.

The same goes for your emotional state.

We've got to be tuning into our body so that we can make more intentional choices.

So that's a three-step process that I want you to think about. The first step is where am I feeling.

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