How Warriors Battleproof Elite Health | Mastery Session

Hi, this is Robin Sharma, author of the Leader who Had no title and the 5am Club. And I'm absolutely delighted to welcome you to this mastery session. This mastery session is called How Warriors Battle Proof Elite Health. So over the past months I've got pretty deep into studying the the ways of the samurai and I've been fascinated by the Spartan warriors philosophy and I've been reading about Alexander the Great and some of the Roman emperors who were also military commanders. And what I started to do was in my battle sheets and in my journaling and on my whiteboards in my workspaces, I started deconstructing how warriors think and how warriors live and how warriors win. And I thought, you know, it was time for me to share a deconstruction on how warriors.

Arrive at peak health so that they win in the heat of battle. Right now you're probably an entrepreneur or maybe a business builder, a creative person of some sort, or you're building a family or you're building an empire of spirituality or you're working on your health. Whatever it is, you have some mountaintop that you're chasing. And along the way it is a little bit of a war. It could be a war of self doubt, it could be a war against temptation, it could be a war against distraction because we all have these competing diversions looking for our attention versus staying monomaniacally focused on the few projects or pursuits that'll get us to where we want to get to. And so I'm going to get right into it. The first part of the deconstruction about how warriors Battle Proof Elite Health is exercise. We know the power of movement and yet so few of us exploit the power of exercising every day. We know that if we exercise, we know it will allow us to live longer, it will give us more energy, it will boost our willpower. It'll release dopamine, the inspirational neurotransmitter, so we feel stronger. It'll release serotonin so we feel more relaxed. We know exercise promotes neurogenesis so you'll have more brain cells. We know it actually accelerates learning and processing. We know it releases bdnf, brain derived neurotrophic factor that John Ratey calls miracle grow for the brain in his wonderful book Spark. So why wouldn't you exercise every single day? And we not many people love getting up at 5 in the morning and exercising for at least 20 minutes. But think about how you feel after those 20 minutes. You feel phenomenal. And it's your neurochemistry at Work and your neurobiology at work. And you have this in you. It's the way your brain and body has been constructed. You just gotta force yourself to wire it into a habit. And if you believe me, there's tons of science that proves it. But if you believe me, that exercise is a total game changer. And I recommend to you do it first thing in the morning because the rest of your day, in terms of your mindset, heart set, health set and soul set, productivity and performance and happiness is fundamentally different. Why would you only do it once a day? So my encouragement, with great love and respect is do it from 5 to 5, 20 and then at the end of your workday, do a second wind workout. This is one of the rituals that I teach at my live events like Personal Mastery Academy where I walk you through all my advanced protocols on exponential performance battle, proofing your mindset, building a great company, living a world class life. And one of the rituals that I teach at Personal Mastery Academy is this protocol. It's called the second wind workout. The second wind workout. And so if you believe that exercise increases your energy and your focus and your happiness and your productivity, why would you only do it once a day? So at the end of your workday, you do a second wind workout. It could be a yoga class, it could be a soul cycle class, it could be walking in nature as I love to do on most days, or going for a mountain bike ride. Because when you exercise in nature, it's amazing what starts to happen. You get the fresh air, you get the sunlight, you get the color of the leaves. You reconnect to your spiritual self, you get to breathe the fresh air. Amazing. So the first point is really warriors understand the power of exercise to strengthen their interior core and their energy reserves and their mindset so they win in battle. Number two, we know it. It's proper nutrition.

I want you to remember that nutrition is medicine. The wisest cultures understood that if you want to heal, if you want to live longer, one of the greatest forms of all medicine is your diet, your nutrition. So I want you to think about food is not only fuel, but food as medicine. And I want you to also think of food as a mood enhancer. If you eat the right foods, you're going to feel happier, you're going to feel better. I don't know what diet or nutrition plan is going to be best for you. I've relatively recently got my genome mapped out and that was a game changer for me because then the genomist said, well, wow, because of your DNA because of your genetics. You need to be on this kind of a diet. And if you don't get onto this kind of a diet, this is what could happen and this is what could happen. So if it's possible for you, I really encourage you to go to a genomist and get your genome done and then understand what foods are going to be best for you based on your genetic profile. This is totally a game changer because a lot of us, we read a book and we go, oh, I guess I should be on the ketogenic diet. Oh, I guess I should be on this diet. Oh, I guess I should fast. Well, personally I'm not giving you nutritional advice, but I'm just saying I don't really see how you can pick a nutritional plan unless you first have your genome mapped out so that it's really tailored for you. Third part of the deconstruction for how warriors battle proof elite health. It's deep rest. I recently heard a piece of cutting edge science which is when you sleep, it's recently been discovered that a fluid moves through your brain that metaphorically washes your brain. I mean, it's amazing the level of research and science that's coming out right now. The point really is it's so important to have deep rest for your energy for brain optimization and cognition, which is how you think it's so important to rest because we know muscles grow in the rest and recovery and a lot of us are very sleep deprived. So make sure you think about your sleep. Make sure you turn off all your digital devices after 8 o'. Clock. So melatonin is at its best and it's in its proper form. So you sleep deeply. Sleep in a cool room if you can. Take a nice hot bath before you sleep with Epsom salts. I've been sharing this for years I at Personal Mastery Academy and then take a cold shower. So then you're actually going to get more melatonin. Again, no, technology in your room is very, very important.

And yeah, get your sleep into world class condition. The fourth part of the deconstruction. You've probably never heard this, but excellent hygiene. I mean the samurai understand cleanliness is a trait of royalty. So cleanliness in all key aspects of your physical dimension. Cleanliness in your mindset, which is your psychology. Cleanliness in your heart set, which is your emotionality. Forgive the people who need to be forgiven. That's so important for your health. Stress creates such inflammation which leads to disease. So hygiene for your mindset, hygiene for your heart set. Which is your emotional life. Hygiene for your health set, which is your physical life. And then hygiene for your soul set, which is your spiritual life. Be in nature. Take the time to pray. Take the time to meditate. Live a pure inner life. Amazing what you'll bring to the world. And the fifth part of the deconstruction is simply this daily relaxation.

We forget about that sitting still for even 20 minutes before you go to sleep or laying down and just relaxing in silence, stillness and solitude. Taking the time to listen to some beautiful music with the intention of relaxing your four interior empires that I've been teaching mindset, Heart Set, Soul Set and Health Set. So think about those elements that warriors use to battle proof themselves for elite health. What are they? Exercise not only once a day. I'm encouraging you to adopt my second win. Workout number two, Remember, peak nutrition. Number three, deep rest. Number four, excellent hygiene. And number five, some period of daily relaxation where you just sort of get away from the world and go to the metaphorical wilderness and recharge your batteries. It's a great gift you give yourself in this world of such complexity, noise and distraction. Okay, I hope this episode has been helpful to you. As usual, share it with three people, three of your friends. So you start the conversation so you help them as well and so that they make their rise to world class. Secondly, if you're interested in getting in the room to Personal Mastery Academy, my two day live event on exponential performance. Building a world class company and living a life that really makes history. I mean how do you live in the beauty? How do you have peak health? How do you find greater happiness? How do you do work that dominates your industry? If you're interested in that, get into the room at Personal Mastery Academy. Details are at personalmasteryacademy.com or@robinsharma.com we sell out every year. So if you're interested, go over to robinsharma.com the details will all be there. Also, you've probably heard about my famous four day live event. This is the highest level event that I do. It's called the Titan Summit. We have billionaires in the room each year. We have a world class faculty. I've had Richard Branson on my faculty. I've had the co founder of Apple, Steve Wozniak on my faculty. We have such luminaries from around the world that will teach you how to build your empires. How do you create a life that makes history? This is one of the highest level events in the world for titans, for empire makers, for people who want to be masters and virtuosos of what they do while they create lives that uplift humanity. If that is you, if you want to play out the rest of your life professionally, personally, physically, spiritually, financially, at the highest level, go over to the titansummit.com thetitansummit.com or you can get the details if you're interested@robinsharma. And you can get one of the seats we sell out again every single year at the titan summit. So robinsharma.com is where you'll get all the details because people always ask me, they say Robin, we didn't see the information, now you know where to get it. More than anything else, I want to thank you for being with me in this episode and we'll see you next time. Hi, this is Robin Sharma. I hope you received great value from this Mastery session. If you'd like to receive potent training videos, blog posts, learning tools and information on my two live events, Personal Mastery Academy and my flagship four day experience, the Titan Summit, go ahead and visit robinsharma.com.