An athlete preparing for Olympic trials discovers that wanting the outcome too badly was sabotaging their performance. Only by accepting they'd done everything possible and releasing control of the result could they enter flow state and let their body perform.
I fully felt that until the Olympic trials. I really struggled with the idea of like surrendering. That was a big thing that I remember coming back to. And I think that when I finally got to the point of learning to let go, because for me a lot of times, and I think athletes with mindfulness practice, it's like surrendering, being a witness to your emotions. But that surrender piece was really hard for me because when you're gripping on so tightly to this thing that you've been training for, for 4 years, you want it so bad. You're like, okay, how am I supposed to just surrender to like what is, you know? Or what's going to be like, how, what do you mean I'm supposed to just let go? But I finally got to the point where I was like, okay, I have done every possible thing in my control. I have zero. I can look back and I have zero regrets of my preparation. My body is ready. And if my, if I'm not the one on that podium at the end of the day, I did everything that I can. And like, God, I give it to you and I let go and I got in that flow state.
