A conversational YouTube video (Ben Greenfield, Aug 25, 2023) on confronting fear and personal growth. The speakers exchange practical tactics and personal anecdotes (e.g., Ben keeps a 33°F cold tub near his office) and encourage leaning into sensations of fear—interpreting aversion, procrastination, or reluctance as fear—and deliberately approaching the feared task (exposure) to diminish its power and enable growth.
And I literally have a cold tub that I keep at 33 degrees, 10ft away from us outside my office.
I completely agree. And I challenge everyone out there to as soon as you feel afraid of something, make that be the thing that you're drawn towards. I feel afraid of that. I feel a little aversion. And fear shows up in different ways. It might just be like this feeling of aversion or procrastination or I don't feel like it. All of those are just different labels for fear. And. And as soon as you feel that, because meditation helps you really observe the sensations in your body and emotions and what they might be, dive into the thing. Say F you to that fear and dive into it. Because that's the way we break it. That's the way we reduce all of its power and can climb to whatever height we want. When we get the fear to stop.
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