Becoming more present
Rugged and hostile (emotionally and physically...whatever makes ur heart thump)... fight flight freezer mission or flow states, it’s out ancient brain that keeps us small. Stillness and being present in the toughness is where the magical growth and understanding then has time to take place...means we’re connected to ourselves, to others and to our craft. Being more mentally nimble in those environments allows us to command a confidence to pursue our own personal philosophy in them Train your body, mind and craft... everything else falls within one of these boxes. For the mind, one needs an anchor from one’s personal philosophy from which to base... Martin Luther King, (non-violence)*... the ability to line up your thoughts, words and actions both to yourself and then have the ability to apply that to any environment. Malcom X (by any means necessary)*
*the navigational route maybe vastly different however the end destination on the map remains the same.
Allowing yourself with the wisdom and passion of those of whom you can then craft your own philosophy from... then allow yourself to reveal it, as everything you need to know is already inside of you...this is done through; mindfulness, (being present with your inner experience), being about wise people, (the cultivation and germination process they have gone through to flourish into what they are now) and writing, (the skill of being able to write down the convoluted mish mash of thoughts within you to a meaningful manner)
Being questioned on what your own philosophy is...
Searching for it
Shaping it
Memory. Truly natural and inherently
Practice. Especially in the rugged environments
If you don’t know your inner thoughts how can you change them?
Mechanics of commanding your own inner experience: Our compass for our philosophy
Committing to the process and action. (Simple but not easy to do)
Calm... confidence... focus... trust, (both I yourself and those around) lock in to the present moment
Psychological frame-working; is it optimistic* or pessimistic... BOTH learned behaviours... thus we can train them.
Learning what’s in our control. Non-attachments to the uncontrollable, undesirable or something unforeseen outcomes. Serial processing perpetually fights our ability to remain non-attachment as it refers directly to our ability or non-ability to be, and to remain, completely present in a situation. Thus we need to learn to isolate and clarify our present moment and focus in solely on that... again, another learned skill... practice. Listening deeply... word by word, second by second, lock it in.
External pressures... job firing, winning etc, but also internal pressures... knowing you have the ability to achieve, knowing you can adapt spontaneously to the sporadic curve ball is also just as important. In reality, the, ‘winning’ part is only the part that enables us to continue on... be that within the role of our job as a coach, be that as a competitor in weightlifting, or be that as someone who simply gets to play another game of university rugby as they won in the eyes of their coach and the scoreboard. Developing a sense of grit. Living with passion. Acquiring resilience for the long haul and patience. Fundamental pivot and orientation to allow the prioritisation of it. *the centre of mental toughness which thus dictates our ability and thus overall outcome... self efficacy. Become a researcher of good... write them down. Parenthacy
Learn the above in the safe environment then progressively apply to the more hostile before it eventually dissipates... think stretching a balloon; it’s not easy but it increases the capacity... do it too suddenly and it pops, don’t keep blowing and it deflates rapidly back in to its own comfort zone Lock down your recovery programme. Can work hard on a regular basis :
Sufficient sleep. Priorities the scheduling to do this. Learning turns to application... application turns to insight.
Eating and nutrition
Moving your body
Think well... the MISSED and overlooked one. Going down to find no coffee left screws over your recovery of sleep by mentally overriding all of your efforts
Being ‘burnt’ effects you physically... you have reflexes to protect your body against that... same thing emotionally. Thus the creation of pessimism...learning to avoid the things that have burned our optimism. PTSD, yes OR... PTG (Post-traumatic growth) Thus we need to create our own intrinsic meta analysis of our experience to asses cause and effect, good and bad, growth and stunting, resilience and GROWTH that all came about Don’t complain about your leader...be your own... initiate your own self-efficacy. Links to morale and synthetic happiness… The body will go where the mind wants it to Searching, shaping, memory, practice
