Show Notes
Have you ever considered that the happiness you seek could be a side effect instead of your end goal itself? What if, instead of asking yourself which passion you want to follow, you focused on what struggle you are willing to endure?
Akshay Nanavati knows a thing or two about fear and suffering and is here today to help you fall in love with your own unique worthy struggle.
- Learn what the ‘Worthy Struggle’ is and how it can play into your reason to be happy (3:25)
- Why you need to embrace the idea of falling in love with suffering to find progress (17:57)
- How to turn your demons into something purposeful through the paradox of singular duality (25:20)
- Tips for responding to fear, stress, and anxiety when building a business (43:19)
- Daily practices to help you conquer your demons and confront your fears (52:05)
- How to recognize fear in your wellness clients and help them address it as part of the healing process (1:01:28)
Now a lover of all things he used to be scared of, Akshay continually pushes himself physically and mentally to find the growth on the other side of the struggle.
Falling In Love With The Struggle
Akshay believes that life is meant to be lived, and experiencing struggle, fear, and stress are all part of the grand adventure. Instead of running from your fears, Akshay wants you to fall in love with the experience of suffering to continue to grow as a person and continually experience new awakenings.
If you don’t have a worthy struggle in life, you are not going to grow. Every time you fall there is an opportunity for new growth if you choose to see it. If you want to determine your worthy struggle, Akshay suggests working backward from the future and getting clear on who you want to be. While knowledge comes from others, wisdom comes from within yourself, and it is only by embracing the fear and the struggle that you can benefit from the growth on the other side.
Engaging With Your Fear
Having confidence is not the fuel you need to try the thing that is causing your fear, stress, or anxiety. Confidence is the result of striving for clarity, commitment, conviction, courage, and developing your capabilities.
The key to inner peace is the pursuit of a worthy inner war. When you are able to embrace, confront and understand your fear, you can use it as a catalyst to turn your demons into something purposeful.
Being able to engage with your fear takes practice, but it is only by motivating yourself to get to the other side of fear that you can find true nirvana. The union of opposing dualities is where true spiritual awakening lies, and understanding this fear can help you push past your own anxieties, and your clients, to help them use fear as a crucial part of the healing process.
Instead of beating yourself up over your fears, Akshay challenges you to engage with it, understand it, and move forward with it. By challenging yourself, stepping out of your current paradigm of the world, and embracing the coexistence of light and dark in all aspects of your life, you build ease, joy, and contentment into your life in a way that you never thought possible.
How are you working to fall in love with the experience of suffering and use that growth as the catalyst to shift your mindset and find happiness in the struggle? Share which of Akshay’s perspectives or mottos you connected with the most with me in a voice message here.
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