By Grant Giles
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This podcast is devoted to our companion pain. There is an exhaustive list of the ways we have been taught to disassociate from pain.
We are experts at resisting what we don't want to feel. Problem with that is, because we are resisting pain, we resist allowing our experience when we are involved in something that is creating pain.
If you are resisting pain in your training, you are resisting chunks of your training. As a consequence, you will find yourself resisting large chunks of your racing.
Its a conundrum that most athletes don't want to look at.
So I'm here to draw you attention to it because it is also a huge area for opportunity, growth and expansion as an athlete and as a human.
If you can learn to bring your pain home, your inner fracture during training and races will cease.
This one is about meeting your pain and discomfort. Learning how to stay present and attentive to your process while you are experiencing pain.
Learning how to allow your pain its place. Allowing it to empower you rather than having it siphon all your energy into victimhood.
Dive in.
Gilesy.
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Ive been punching away at blogs for many years. In many ways that writing has become my own teacher.
Raw curiosity has dragged me headlong into a personal investigation of my own state, and the writing it spawned has held a mirror up to the world of performance.
The curiosity brings the questions, how do we live our best life? How do we bring ourselves to the zenith of performance?
The answer is we don't! We bring the performance to us.
The simple answer I have learned and experienced is that we need to bring more of ourselves, and as such we unweight ourselves of a mental burden. We are not adding to the burden of performance we are subtracting from it by simplifying it.
To learn how to accept the more uncomfortable aspects in the world of performance we must learn how to accept our own experience and let it teach us. Thats all about coming back to your own essential power, which in essence is the refusal to move a millimetre away from yourself.
How are you going to do that? I've written a cheat code on it.
This podcast is a very short summary of the key aspects.
Whether you plan to explore the cheat code with me in the coming months or simply listen to this podcast, there is plenty here you can use in your own journey of self exploration and peak performance.
At this stage I am thinking I will present an interactive webinar series over 6 sessions. Details on the cheat code will be coming up soon.
If you feel like reaching out with questions, you can DM me here- [email protected]
Cheers,'
Gilesy.
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We are full of patterns. Habitual, unconscious ways of being in the world built mostly around safety. Programmed patterns are running all the time in our training, many of them separating us from our own internal power. The past drags us around by our bootlaces unless we are very consci to it
All the metal, subconscious scripts that we run under pressure play at the forefront of our minds eye drowning out the potential in us.
If you are going to interrupt any physical or mental pattern, there is one immutable rule to do doing so, that is to make damn sure you are consistent. Ritual and habitual intensions are crucial to making real change.
This one is not for the faint hearted, It pulls no punches, sometimes thats what it takes to wake us up into a pattern interrupt.
Make change or stay the same, thats the choice. If you want something different, you have to be prepared to do something different.
Otherwise Its a case of monkey see, monkey do. Nothing new comes unless we observe ourselves closely and take responsibility for that.
What you can expect to cover in this one:
Probably a lot more too in this brain dump.
Hope you enjoy,
Gilesy.
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Sport and indeed life, demand our attention, our presence and our focus.
That focus is about retaining our personal integrity. It is to not speak against ourselves, or descend into self blame, self judgment or the self defeatist talk which can often lead to a fracture in an athletes focus.
It's about remaining self possessed and free from the internal agitation that deregulates our nervous systems and send us into a stress response when we need the full force of our own power.
Listen to this one if you want to learn how to become adaptive rather than reactive.
This ones about being poised, self collected, self contained, self possessed and composed.
You are the root of your own power.
Gilesy
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Don’t define yourself as an athlete, embody it!
What does that mean? It means bringing it home.
The measurement of the process is useless without the awareness it takes to integrate it.
The integration is about the intelligence and the self awareness that you apply to the suck and the embodiment of the physical unfolding that is taking place right here and now.
This is how physical consistency, adaption and development work. Cognition and consciousness are not just functions of the brain but are also influenced by the body and its interaction with the environment.
The physical and mental process is utterly interconnected.
This forms the whole approach of my own coaching and mental skills jam man.
You are: head, heart, body, mind and soul. Not less than that.
This one is about bringing the whole athletic journey home to yourself where it belongs and is at its most potent.
Gilesy.
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This week we had a chat with Mark Jansen about the challenges an athlete faces being an elite level age group triathlete and cyclist while working full-time in the corporate world.
Mark is a super strong willed athlete, racing successfully in 70.3 and Ironman. A twice top 5 finisher in Hawaii and a multiple sub-9 hour Ironman, he is well positioned to speak about the balance of work, life and sport.
We talk about the gift and the curse of the type A personality and the management it takes to keep that requirement in homeostasis.
We are talking about confidence, loads, recovery, the benefits of an active lifestyle and the foil of high-level sport and a corporate career.
We chat about what it means to go deep in racing terms and the physical and psychological nuances of racing and training that make them what they are.
Mark is a highly articulate human and that makes this chat great listening.
Enjoy,
Gilesy
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Want the best of yourself?
It's not about how you react; it's about how you respond.
Critically, it's about your state of mind as you respond that governs the quality of the action you take in that response.
You're programming around what you think you can and can't do radically affects your capacity to respond from a place of power rather than from a place of defense. If you are responding from defense, you are out of your power and trapped in your head.
All that you see in front of you is how you feel in your head.
Let me give you an example: How does the world look to you when you are sick?
It's not the same world, right?
Yep, Its pretty drab! Did the world change or did your perception of it change based on the way you feel?
We know through scientific research that we process the world based on our history, not on how it actually is in reality.
So, when you hit that spot inside yourself where things start to get difficult in a race or a training session and you are in a world of pain, that hurt doesn't belong to the session or the race, it belongs to you and your perception of it.
That's a melting pot of expectations brought to you by similar experiences of your past.
You see that course as you are, not as it is.
What are you going to do to get free of that so you can contact and deal with the reality of it as it is here on the coal face?
Let's explore that real potential that you carry as an athlete and a human.
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I suspect that a warrior hides in the DNA of all athletes. Many of us are disempowered in these times though. We are so busy trying to be an athlete on an outer level and not quite coming to terms with what that means.
So, in this podcast Im covering a few specific questions:
I'm breaking it down here and pulling apart the pieces that seperate us from our own instinctual warrior. Yes, you have one!
Lets explore how we can rediscover the power we need to perform on a level we never thought possible.
Gilesy.
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In life we have times where we meet a crossroads where we have to make a choice.
Profound life change can be a portal to a deeper existential shift in our perception of ourselves as human beings.
This week we had a chat with professional triathlete Laura Dennis who is being faced with that challenge right now.
Laura sustained a serious head injury after being hit by a car in training, and today we chat to her about the significance and the meaning of presence, intention, gratitude and visualisation in changing our perceptions not only of what has happened but also of where we want to be and what we want to experience.
The human brain is an amazing organism that has the capacity to literally change its own perception and heal itself.
I hope you enjoy the listening.
Gilesy
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People have ideas about mental strength which are not entirely true, often thinking they need to be ruthless with themselves.
They tend to think they need to have an Ironclad will that shows no vulnerability, no mercy, no leniency. But that which does not bend, often breaks.
The problem is, it is weak as it is projected outwards towards the world, and strong as it’s projected inwards towards ourselves. Like a tracker on a scent or footprints in sand , he has to use an element of intuition or the trail and the footprints will be lost in the sands for ever.
If he starts to follow every track and every print in the sand, he will lose the scent completely.
This is a metaphor for how we lose our own scent. We get lost trying to track our own progress because we only want to assess it from the outside, but it doesn’t work, it’s not enough!
A torrent of fiction, drowning in a sea of information bereft of a direction, a million tracks leading to no where if we are mindful.
So, this podcast is about finding you own inner strength so you can bring it to the world.
Gilesy
http://www.grantgiles.com.au
https://sansego.sansego.co/coach-grant
[email protected]
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The podcast currently has 49 episodes available.