John Assaraf leads a live workshop segment teaching participants to break wooden boards as a metaphor for overcoming mental barriers. He emphasizes mastering thoughts (identifying "rational lies" and moving from victimhood to responsibility), sequencing right information/actions, and gives detailed, safety-minded physical instructions (hand placement, stance, breathing, energy transfer) to perform the board break.
Chapters
When we're looking at this board, we can either see an obstacle, we can see something that will hurt our hand, we can see something that will stop us, or we can see going right through it. But it has to start from here, right? Right. You didn't believe it last time. What happened? I accidentally. And then. Did you get through it? Yes. Very few people have heard my story. Yes, she's come back now to do two boards. So what I want you to be aware of first and foremost is the dialogue that went on first. I was excited, then nervous. My husband will kill me if I break my arm. So the first order of having it all in your life is mastering your thoughts, mastering the thoughts that take away all of your potential. If you have negative thoughts that have negative associations. Now, what I'm not saying is that you don't learn the right strategies and precautionary things that you need in order to help. That's why it's not just the right information in the right order, it's the right information in the right order. Back to the right actions, right? So you might have the right information in the wrong order. You might have the right way too, but you don't not breathe the problem. You might not have the right stance. There's different strategies we use, and it's really pretty simple, which you'll see. And so can you train yourself to observe and interpret things differently so that the meaning you come out with always serves you? Can you learn to gather information and use that information and give it a meaning that will always serve you? See, the answer is yes, and it's your choice. And this is where we separate responsibility from victim mentality. This is where we separate responsibility from victim mentality. Now, if there's anybody here who does not want to do this, I'm fine with it. It's totally up to you. We'll do it in the most safe way possible. We'll do it hopefully with lots of fun, lots of energy. And you will break through this when you choose to. And so I'll show you how to break through it. But here's what I want you to master. If there's any fear, if there's any doubts, if there's any anxiety, if there's any conflict going on right now, if there's any rational lying going on. Rational lies. Rational lying going on. I'm male, I'm female, I'm young. I just came from. Whatever the story is that's going on in there, be aware of that, because that's the rational lies that prevent us, in many cases, from breaking through the doubts, the fears, the anxieties. So just put your hand, one hand. Take your palm. Put the one hand, whether it's your left one, and just open it like that. Right here. Okay? Put the other hand just in front of you like this. No fist, no nothing. Just. I want you just to. Just to be balanced, breathe and just juke out to it, just so you're comfortable. Okay? And then just go from here. Your left hand. How many of you are right handed? Who's left handed? So reverse what I'm saying. Okay. So if your left hand's in front, all you're going to do is take your right hand and you're going to cock your left shoulder back as your right hand goes forward. Nice and easy. Breathe. See how you transfer the energy? Look at my. Look how I'm rocking just a little. Transfer some energy. Tristan. Yeah? Help. Just make sure your knees are bent. Paige, you need to have your left foot forward a little bit more. There you go. And just go back. Breathe it out. Okay? Okay. Shake it up. First time. Give yourself around. Thank. You. Do we just get one? That's.
