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249. Running: The Teacher of Discomfort · Your Enriched Self

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  Speaker 1: by staying in discomfort. Each step I take bills my
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  Speaker 1: resilience and trust in myself. I grow stronger by staying
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  Speaker 1: with discomfort. Each step I take bills my resilience and
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  Speaker 1: trust in myself. I grow stronger by staying with discomfort.
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  Speaker 1: Each step I take bills my resilience and trust in myself. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let's get ready for this week's episode of the Your
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  Speaker 1: Enriched self podcast. A couple of weeks ago, I missed
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  Speaker 1: my group run and embarked on a solo run. And
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who run, there's something that happens
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  Speaker 1: when you are on a solo run, right, your level
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  Speaker 1: of focus really just kind of gets honed in. On
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  Speaker 1: that particular day, I was focused on running two miles
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  Speaker 1: because I was really concerned for the weather that was
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  Speaker 1: it seemed like it might rain or I didn't have
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  Speaker 1: a lot of time before it rained, so I didn't
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  Speaker 1: wanna take the risk. And so there was that element
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  Speaker 1: in it as well. But the other piece that I
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  Speaker 1: was battling is the fact that I hadn't been running
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  Speaker 1: in weeks, and so I'm running by myself, where you know,
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  Speaker 1: there's not a whole lot of motivation, you don't have
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  Speaker 1: that accountability buddy with you. I have the elements of
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  Speaker 1: you know, rain that could be looming around. And again,
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  Speaker 1: I got two miles ahead of me a little bit, well,
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  Speaker 1: actually three miles. I was gonna have a five k
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  Speaker 1: that day. And so anyway, I get started and I
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  Speaker 1: get going, and I'm not gonna lie. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: first moments of that run was that mental barrier, right,
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  Speaker 1: The first moment of any run for me, especially a
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  Speaker 1: solo run, after you haven't a run for a while,
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  Speaker 1: you don't have your accountability partner, and you're thinking, what
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  Speaker 1: do I have to prove? There's nobody out here but me.
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  Speaker 1: I can stop and it wouldn't matter. And that where
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  Speaker 1: literally the rubber on the soles of your shoes meet
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  Speaker 1: the road, is to push past that mental barrier. I realized,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at the end of that run, how much
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  Speaker 1: running was a teacher of discomfort because I had again
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  Speaker 1: that mental barrier, and that lets me know that there
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  Speaker 1: is a level of discomfort in that moment that I
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  Speaker 1: need to stick with. And it's hard. Again. It was
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  Speaker 1: hard because I was doing it by myself. It was
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  Speaker 1: hard because I didn't really have anybody there to keep
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  Speaker 1: me integral to my word and to what I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do. So I had to really dig deep into
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  Speaker 1: that mental space I call it the inner coach, to
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  Speaker 1: really push push me mentally through the importance of staying
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  Speaker 1: in it right because once you start telling yourself that
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  Speaker 1: it's okay to quit, is how I think about it.
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  Speaker 1: If I'm running and I give myself a mental out
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  Speaker 1: in the running space, then I start to do it
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  Speaker 1: in different places. Then it lets me know where my
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  Speaker 1: mental is because a lot of what we do in
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  Speaker 1: life is part It starts in the mind. And so
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  Speaker 1: if you can push past that mental what wants to
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  Speaker 1: become a block, and you can push past it, push
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  Speaker 1: past where that it's almost like a crossroads between where
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  Speaker 1: you're somewhat comfortable, but you're definitely going into a space
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  Speaker 1: of discomfort. If you can push that line and keep
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  Speaker 1: pushing that line of discomfort and just going against it
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  Speaker 1: and going against it even though you don't want to,
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  Speaker 1: that's when you know that you are doing what needs
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  Speaker 1: to be done and you are truly learning the lesson
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  Speaker 1: from this teacher, this running teacher. The next point is
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  Speaker 1: that once I had gotten past the mental block, now
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  Speaker 1: my body, my physical body is trying to resist the run. Right.
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  Speaker 1: So now it's almost like there's so much happening. Right.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I'm working on my breathing, because breathing
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  Speaker 1: is a huge part of running. I'm also working on
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  Speaker 1: using my arms to push me. And you know what,
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  Speaker 1: the first time I heard somebody, one of the trainers
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  Speaker 1: talk about, you know, using your arms, it just felt weird,
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  Speaker 1: but it sounded weird, but it also feels weird to
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  Speaker 1: actually run in the motion where you're pushing your elbows
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  Speaker 1: back when you're running side to side. It works. Works
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  Speaker 1: when my legs were not connecting the story of staying
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  Speaker 1: in it, and my legs wanted to give out. My
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  Speaker 1: body wanted to go through the feelings. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what I always say, your feelings are going to always
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  Speaker 1: lie to you. You know, It's so interesting the conversations
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  Speaker 1: I have with my body parts where some of them
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  Speaker 1: are trying to quit on me and tell me no,
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  Speaker 1: we can't go any further. And I'm like, well, then,
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  Speaker 1: arms you gotta get us through this, or legs you
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  Speaker 1: have to push now. This is your time to shine.
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  Speaker 1: But needless to say, there is after that mental push,
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  Speaker 1: that physical push that has to happen where you're feeling
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  Speaker 1: your body resists. But you start to discover with me,
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  Speaker 1: through those conversations with my body parts, and I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: I'm having actual conversations, you start to discover that you
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  Speaker 1: can sustain more than you thought you could. And through that,
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  Speaker 1: I've been able to We have a really challenging two
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  Speaker 1: mile route for my gym where we run and I
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  Speaker 1: remember the very first, you know, seasons of me running
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  Speaker 1: this route, right because we do a six week boot camp,
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  Speaker 1: so you have to imagine we run at least one
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  Speaker 1: day a week on that route. And so it was
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  Speaker 1: hard for me to run that route, you know, within
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  Speaker 1: a quarter mile without stopping. That was difficult. And over
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  Speaker 1: time now I can run that entire route without stopping.
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  Speaker 1: But it took so much mental but also the physical
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  Speaker 1: to allow my body to recognize that it can push
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  Speaker 1: pass that wants what was once a limit, what was
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  Speaker 1: once a piece that my body said we can't go
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  Speaker 1: any further, And now we're having these conversations. We're using
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  Speaker 1: the arms, were using the breathing so that the body
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  Speaker 1: can get into the conversation. The body can be a
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  Speaker 1: student in this classroom where the running is the teacher
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  Speaker 1: of discomfort. And finally there came, in that run day,
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  Speaker 1: that solo run day, a quiet awareness And it happened
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  Speaker 1: almost right at the end of the run. I was
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  Speaker 1: coming to the end of the run, and it was
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  Speaker 1: almost like a light bulb had just switched on in
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  Speaker 1: my head, and it was that I had gotten away
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  Speaker 1: from the idea that discomfort was scary. I had gotten
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  Speaker 1: the idea from that solo run that all running is
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  Speaker 1: is sustained discomfort for a period of time. That's it.
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  Speaker 1: You're not going to live in discomfort, maybe if you're
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  Speaker 1: running a marathon, but even marathon or some people can
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  Speaker 1: get it done in three hours. But it really hit
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  Speaker 1: me like I've been running for all these years and
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  Speaker 1: I finally finally get it. Running doesn't and hasn't gotten
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  Speaker 1: easier over the years. I've gotten better, I've gotten more
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  Speaker 1: aware that in order to run, I'm going to walk
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  Speaker 1: through run through discomfort, and that's just part of the game.
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  Speaker 1: That's part of what you do. It's like a basketball player,
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  Speaker 1: right if they go and try and get that shot.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the game is somebody may foul you, Right,
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  Speaker 1: That's just part of the stakes of playing basketball. Well,
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  Speaker 1: part of the stakes of running is knowing that you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be in discomfort, and you're gonna be in discomfort
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  Speaker 1: for a period of time, depending on how fast you go,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how far you go, You're gonna deal with
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  Speaker 1: that discomfort. And I promise you it was a crazy
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  Speaker 1: moment of awakening and awareness that that's all it is.
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  Speaker 1: And once I recognize that's what it was, my next run.
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  Speaker 1: I think I shared that with my friend. We ran
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  Speaker 1: around five miles around Stone Mountain and I told her,
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, that's all this was the whole time. It
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  Speaker 1: almost took the sting out of it, the angst out
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  Speaker 1: of it, just to realize, Okay, I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: do this. It's not gonna be comfortable. End of story.
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  Speaker 1: Now that's not how easy it goes. In my mind.
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  Speaker 1: My mind is so processing this stuff because remember, first
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  Speaker 1: couple of moments, I'm in mental discomfort. Got to get
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  Speaker 1: through that, then the body, and then you get to
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  Speaker 1: this almost like a zen moment where you realize that
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  Speaker 1: this is what it is, and this is how it
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  Speaker 1: is and it's okay. So whatever you're walking through in life,
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  Speaker 1: just know that it's going to be a period of
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  Speaker 1: discomfort depending on how long and how far you go.
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  Speaker 1: But it's not always going to be that. But while
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  Speaker 1: you're in it, get that quiet awareness of what it is.
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  Speaker 1: Allow that to teach you how to stay in it,
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  Speaker 1: grow from it, and build your resilience in that season.
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