Thirty Minute Mastery?

BREATHE!

Your ego thinks it is you. Once you grasp this, it is easy to see why we engage in self-destructive and procrastinative behavior. Look at the Hero’s Journey: it predicts that the path to higher performance involves serious failure, the Dark Night of the Soul. Even the small challenges will trigger fear.

The way through the Dark Night is faith (in yourself, your companions, or a higher power) but managing fear properly is a massive advantage. Shall we call that part of “faith in self” in the sense of having confidence that fear does NOT mean you can’t or shouldn’t.

Imagine fear in that sense to be like a powerful wind. If you aren’t centered, it can tumble you, spin you, even make you crash and burn. But if you ARE centered, they call it “tailwind” and it actually speeds you on your way.

“Adrenalburger” is a term champions have used to describe the powerful fear emotions they experience before the Big Game. They transmute this to energy and focus (the easiest way it by transmuting it to rage and anger. Mike Tyson did this superbly), but the master simply heals the split between fear and love, turning it into pure energy, undifferentiated emotion.

“Real emotional content. NOT anger!” Bruce said in Enter the Dragon.

Just so. The champion knows that they need those powerful emotions. The Master knows how to direct them so that yes, there is a storm, but they sit in the center, in the eye of the storm. How do we get there? Stay there? Use…