Wellness + Wisdom Podcast's video: How To Love Your FEAR Unlock Your Full Potential - Akshay Nanavati

In this episode, Akshay Nanavati shares how he uses fear to prepare for the most extreme conditions in Antarctica. Grab your free resources from Akshay Nanavati - https://joshtrent.com/606 Get ALL Josh's trusted (10-40% off!) products - https://joshtrent.com/store 🎥 LOVE This video? Watch these 3 similar curated ones... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8DCsQmPKhA&list=PLpRP2BIxM90OP8xIRj4kBC_DS8aTOj5bm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9b2yfuPVddQ&list=PLpRP2BIxM90OP8xIRj4kBC_DS8aTOj5bm https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIo6GoJiXDY&list=PLpRP2BIxM90OP8xIRj4kBC_DS8aTOj5bm [00:00] Intro [01:30] The Gift of Suffering [11:05] Fear Propels You to Prepare [13:30] Emotions + Duality [21:15] Fear of Vulnerability [30:25] The Power of Pain [35:20] The Darkness + The Light [44:05] Learn to Love Your Fear [53:20] Letting Darkness Open Your Eyes [01:06:30] Pain Is A Part of The Process [01:13:00] PTSD Growth [01:17:50] Shadow Work: Confront The Darkness [01:24:15] Trust Your Inner Voice [01:32:45] The Hero's Journey - The selfless and selfish reasons that motivated Akshay to cross Antarctica. - How you can use your fear to prepare. - The power of negative visualization. - Why emotions are neither good nor bad, they're just emotions. - How you can use your emotions as fuel. - Akshay's struggles with drugs. - How sharing your feelings can open up a space for authenticity and vulnerability. - Courage and curiosity are essential for growth. - How experiencing pain amplifies the experience of pleasure. - Gratitude is a superpower. - How he used the depths of his darkness and the gift of his light as weapons to drive him forward. - Fear keeps us alive. - Labeling your emotions can help you create space between you and the emotion. - How children are programmed to not feel their feelings. - Why divorce made Akshay break his sobriety and brought him to dark retreats. - How most people live a life full of quiet desperation. - Happiness is not the elimination of sadness. - The principles of post-traumatic growth. - Why fitness or yoga are often more about the ego than health. - Entrepreneurs avoid looking within by keeping themselves extremely busy. - Learning to trust your inner voice. - How physical training helps Akshay access stillness. - Why he was driven by escapism. - Why he started studying method acting to understand how to character. ABOUT THIS PODCAST The Wellness + Wisdom Podcast is a global collective for humans to thrive in our modern world. In this podcast together we gather, apply, and embody the wisdom needed for authentic well-being in the 21st century. Each episode is artfully crafted to go an inch wide and a mile deep into the "Pentagon of Wellness" - Physical, Emotional, Mental, Spiritual + Financial. Your host, Josh Trent, asks the questions few have the courage to ask so you can garner the truth about how to live a life of confidence, freedom + optimal wellness. Together, we'll walk the path of courage to cross the gap between knowing + doing. Every episode is built from Josh's proprietary methods of teaching and communicating both science + spirit lessons from: The Wellness Pentagon Emotional Intelligence + Inventory (EI2) Emotional Epigenetics Is it possible to have true freedom from chronic stress just by using your breath? Learn the ancient healing power of breathwork 1-1 with Josh Trent in your 3-week BREATHE Journey (save 33% off!) Use code “PODCAST33” at https://breathwork.io All custom music produced by https://mettaverse.com