Overcome Your Fear of Falling – Series – #2 Falling is a Skill
Falling is a skill you can learn. Do you agree? If so, why?
Overcome Your Fear of Falling – Series – #1 Intro and History
Falling is as integral to climbing as climbing itself. At the same time, it creates fear that you must address correctly—and you must learn proper falling technique in order to fall safely.
Did Your New Year’s Resolutions Already Fail?
What were some of your New Year’s resolutions? Do any of them share a theme?
How to Move Beyond Sleep Deprivation
How can we reprogram ourselves to create a different belief about the importance of sleep?
How To Be Less Busy and Find Balance
What are some of you keystone habits? It’s interesting how we can focus on doing—exercise and thinking—for improving productivity. However, if we focus on the opposite—sleep and meditation—then we establish a solid foundation which can lead to more productivity.
Overcoming Impostor Syndrome
Have you noticed the feeling of the imposter syndrome in your climbing? Have you considered that it could be used as a helpful friend?
Who is Beth Rodden Really?
Hazel Findlay digs deep with Beth Rodden in The Curious Climber Podcast on how elite climbers can be torn between achievement and enjoying climbing.
How to Structure Your Day for Peak Performance
Connect your subconscious mind with your conscious mind to diminish being overwhelmed and heighten your focus.
Why are OKRs Important for Setting Goals?
What are your OKRs for your climbing this coming year? Do you have the motivation that best helps meets these objectives?
Is It Possible to Create a Kinder World?
Focusing on how you’re similar, instead of different, shifts your mindset. The people you see haven’t changed. They’re still the same. But you’ve changed.
Should I Free Solo?
Death can advise and teach us to live our lives in meaningful ways. Death lays our lives raw before us and free soloing is an activity that does it better than most others. Free soloing can offer us the opportunity to ask the difficult questions about why we’re here and how we’ll fill the content of our lives.
What is the Aim of Attention?
Attention is at the core of mental training. But what is its aim? How do we become aware of limiting ways of using attention and develop practices to use it better?
From Duality to Unity
In climbing, we find ways to use our senses to extend beyond the limited perceptions of the mind, which tends to perceive situations dualistically: comfort and stress. Doing this moves us away from trusting our engagement, the body, and the learning process. Our attention is shifted from stress to comfort.
The Power of Action
Focusing our attention in the body helps us live as warriors. We “live by acting” not by “thinking about acting”
The Problem Isn’t the Problem – Thinking you shouldn’t have problems is the problem?
Warriors don’t solve problems to get rid of problems, feeling sad until they’re problem-free. Warrior’s solve problems for their own sake, feeling joyful for the challenge provided to them.
