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.
How Do I Become More Resilient?
You can improve your resilience in small steps by focusing on these qualities. Over time you’ll be able to withstand stressors better and rebound stronger than you were before.
The Eyes; a Powerful Mental Training Tool
Our intellectual reasoning ability is an important part of understanding the world surrounding us. Yet, it has many limitations. Use your eyes to move past the limitations.
How Can Rock Climbing (and Mental Training) Inform Our Response to Climate Change?
We can apply mental training to respond appropriately to the challenges of climate change. Climbers can be the ambassadors from the mountains.
Two Important Mental Training Qualities
Sustained attention and unbending intent represent our commitment to your learning journey.
Seven Principles for Self-Stalking – Practices for Improvement
The principles for self-stalking are practices we do continually. They help us climb with greater style and show us how to practice.
