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How Pain & Weakness Leads To Transformations & Breakthroughs

How Pain & Weakness Leads To Transformations & Breakthroughs

FromThe Mind Of George Show


How Pain & Weakness Leads To Transformations & Breakthroughs

FromThe Mind Of George Show

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Length:
10 minutes
Released:
Apr 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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So pain and weakness and how that led to breakthrough. I'm gonna make this one short. So most of my life was spent quitting before I ever hit the finish line because I was gave up on myself. I gave up on myself because most of the things I was doing in my life were for validation and people seeing me, not because I really wanted to do them. I did all the things that I did, the successes, the apps, the world record box, jump, all of that because I want people to see me, not because I really wanted to do it. I have had a lot of physical damage in my life and been on pain pills and had nerve blocks and things like that and I was introduced to cold therapy and I don't even remember who introduced me to it. Wim Hoff found Scott Carney and I made a commitment a couple years ago that for 30 days I was going to do what I call the push your limits challenge, so the things that I hated doing after the military were getting up early, creating content. I'm having no coffee and being cold, and so I made a commitment for 30 days. I was going to wake up at 4:00 AM I was going to take an ice bath, record a video, and have it posted by 6:00 AM and drink no coffee before I went to CrossFit at 6:00 AM for 30 days. It was one of the hardest things I've ever done for the first week. I remember my first ice bath. I was like, I got this but I didn't do the breath work. I was like, I don't need that breath work. I'll just get in the cold water. I think I made it like three seconds and I was out like screaming, and I was like, well, at least I did it and I did do it right. Then I recorded the video, posted the video, went to the gym to CrossFit, didn't have coffee. Next day, 10 seconds, next day, 15 seconds. Next day, 15 seconds. I stay 15 seconds and I just honored where I was. But what I started to realize is that the demons were real. But every time I stepped in that water, I was basically proving a story wrong. I'm like, I can do this. Nobody's watching. Nobody sees this. It's just me, myself, and I, and the only thing that I have is my integrity and nobody will know if I don't get in this water, but I'll know that I don't get in this water. Something shifted in me and it was day eight that I did 11 minutes. So it was like no more than 20 seconds and 11 minutes because I basically continued to practice and give myself the opportunity to win until I was in the moment to win. Then I got in that ice bath for 11 minutes and everything shifted because cold water cold in general forces presence. If you think or talk, you're cold. If you're grounded and present on your breath, you're warm. So it was the first thing I found in my life that turned off all the chatter, the monkey brain, the fears, the doubts, all of it. And I just made a commitment that, you know, I didn't have to be perfect anymore. I didn't have to be number one. I didn't always have to win the gold medals, but I always had to be in the pursuit of my own greatness but for me, and not for anybody else. It's not something that is there. It's not like, I'm all the way there. I still fall back. I still struggle. I still make mistakes, but I also still pick myself back up and pursue it again. Like yesterday, like we're up a year, it's snowing. We've done like four days of snow storms and it's great and Tyler and I literally go on barefoot walks and shorts and a tee shirt in 10 degree weather for five minutes because it's cold and it hurts and it burns, but it doesn't kill us. It feels good and we push our limits and we test our fortitude and the reason I do it is because in the world, and especially when I struggle with PTSD and trauma and some of the things that I've experienced in my life, what would happen is I would have this trigger. Like it would be like, my wife's mad at me and my business isn't working, I didn't do this right. Immediately the triggered would come and I would respond. I mean, I would react, and it'd be like, I would compensate. It was this vicious cycle of like off, dow
Released:
Apr 29, 2020
Format:
Podcast episode

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