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Hey, all, and welcome to the Mindset Coach Academy Podcast. My name is Lindsey Wilson and it is Mental Monday.
Today, guys, these are the episodes where I share with you one tip, tool, or technique that you can implement in your life this week or even today. And today I wanted to talk about calming your nervous system, calming your central nervous system. See, we talk about stress and mindset and breathing and meditation and visualization and all the things that we talk about.
And those are absolutely important. But one of the things that I learned, you know, I guess I didn't need to learn it, but I need to be reminded, I guess I should say that. And probably you do too.
Maybe you do too. And that is how much we need to get into our body to calm ourselves. So in other words, therapy is great. Journaling is great.
Talking to friends to get support and dealing with our stress that way is really, really important. But especially I think for those of us that are athletes, we're used to that mind-body connection that comes very naturally to us. But what is also true is that we can forget to be super intentional about that and we can get into our patterns of what has always worked, which for me has always been exercise.
I mean, I can't think of a time in my life where I didn't turn to exercise when things were hard or I was stressed or my central nervous system was activated in a fight or fight response. And that's great. And that's probably familiar to you as well. But what we also have to do is sometimes take it a step further. The couple things that I'm playing with right now are cold plunges or cold showers. I've done that before in the past with the cold water swimming to calm the nervous system.
I just wanted to give you that idea because the shower works in that regard as well. The second thing is really intentional breathing. In my case, I'm doing somatic breathing, which is... I don't really actually know what a definition is, but it's basically breathing with your body. Very intentional diaphragmatic breathing, that kind of thing. But it seems to go a little bit deeper than some of the things that I've done before.
So exercise, any kind of water therapy, I'd even say hot water, that's why bath is so helpful. And some sort of breathing. And really what all of this is doing for me at least, and this is where I think you can use this sort of framework for your own life if you don't like any of those ideas, is something that really forces you to be present. You know, I mean exercise does that, right? I mean you can't think about too many things if you're deadlifting or if you're doing sprints. So that very intentional work that forces you to be present. So that's my thought today for Mental Monday.
And I'm talking about some of this stuff over on Instagram. So come on over at Lindsay Positive Perform where I'm talking about some of the things that I'm doing to calm my nervous system. Alright, talk to you later.
Bye for now.
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