Practice

It's true that we can meditate anywhere at any time, regardless of what may be happening around us.

But when we come back to a practice or learn a new practice, we know it's going to be challenging There will be obstacles.

So how can we quiet some of the noise around us? Making the task maybe a little bit more accessible today.

If you're comfortable with it, the eyes can be closed.

Seeing if you can just gently Open the mouth slightly.

Just releasing that tension in the face.

When we bring ourselves to start a new practice or return to a practice that we've taken a break from, it can be really easy to convince ourselves that it's harder or more challenging or more complicated.

And it definitely doesn't need to be.

It was very, very tough.

But we still so pre-practice and I'll give you that example.

Pre-practice, we had two cold fronts that hit us.

Right.

So now I know, OK, crap, we're going to get hit by a cold front.

We'll review your pre-shot routines.

We'll talk about your mental game, your practice schedule, course management, and more.

No swing coaching.

This is all about performance and mental, and want to help a few of you guys out.

Is there other ways to train for that without... 'Cause it's hard to get to 7 under through 12-

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... often enough to get to practice it.

Is there ways to prepare for that or a, or a player that, uh, wants to break 80 but, you know, gets, gets in that situation once a month or-

And if you're like most women, it's probably a little bit of all three, right? So I decided to put something together.

I'm doing a seven-day protect your peace practice.

Because before we can protect our peace, we have to recognize what's stealing it.

So October 5th, we are going to spend one week focusing on simple daily practices that help you identify what you're carrying, what isn't yours to carry, and how to create a little more emotional breathing room in your life.

This isn't going to be something overwhelming.

It's nothing complicated.

It's just one simple practice each day.

We're gonna have encouragement from other women and a chance to spend a week focusing on your own well-being.

And so I think the spiritual journey I talk about is... kind of twofold because it's about showing up for the little parts of you and letting parenting be a way of healing that part of you, like being for this kid what somebody couldn't be for you.

But then there's also like stepping into what for me feels kind of almost religious of like, how do you love someone who's not willing to earn that love? How do you practice unconditional love? And that both goes for how you treat your child, but also how you treat yourself, because you're going to mess up so much.

If you have a strong-willed kid, you're just going to do things that make it worse.

And then you can easily go to this place of like, what's wrong with me, this sort of shame spiral.

Emotions are contagious.

Like, there's reasons for this.

And having tools and practices to...

And there were years I will like, and if I could go back in time, like there were so many years where I, I took on all my girls emotions.

Before this work, Oli spent decades facilitating emotional intelligence and leadership programs at Fortune 500 companies and trains- trained as a NOLS, N-O-L-S, instructor.

He's given a TEDx talk on the transformative potential of psychedelic medicine, is releasing an- or has released a book called "No Shortcuts," and hosts a free daily practice called "15 Minutes of Positivity," built around neural habits and guided reflection.

It is hilarious that I have to read this because Oli Mittelmeyer is my husband.

Welcome, Oli.

So, um, there are pain protocols, and we do treat a fair number of people.

The, the, the tricky thing with ketamine and chronic pain is it depends on where the pain's coming from or what the primary sort of manifestation of the pain is.

Meaning, you know, if you have two slipped discs and really, you know, those nerves just, uh, you know, don't have enough space to move, there's no amount of ketamine that we can give you that's just gonna fix that, right? Having said that, for, for lots of folks that have CRPS or fibromyalgia or things where there's a really strong, uh, psychological component to it, again, being able to have this space where there's like, "Oh my gosh, this is what it's like to be me," in the absence of pain, even if it's just like a couple of hours in clinic, it reminds them and reminds their nervous systems like, "I'm-- you know, I have the ability to experience myself in that way." And then you take it out, right, into the world, and you learn new skills to, to integrate and practice mindfulness and, yeah.

Wow.

Or a month later, it might be something else.

But this to me is good practice.

You know, is, again, don't do this on the range.

Do it on the course.

Let's say you're injured.

Post-practice, you're feeling a little icky and you're like, okay, I'm going to take a rest day.

Do you keep training? When do you know that you need to keep doing strength training or you should actually rest up and take more rest to prevent being injured?

Yeah, that's definitely a skill, learning to be able to listen to your body and know when it's time to push, when it's time to hold back.

That's how it is for a lot of people.

In my practice, first, third and ninth are the years.

Anyway, but so, yeah, first grade was when he had his crisis and we got referred, you know, for things.

And I thought, OK, well, no problem.

Right.

And so, you know, so it was kind of through that support group that where I really started finding the connections and learning and understanding.

And so at that point I had a little private therapy practice, right? A little part-time practice.

uh, you know, what I decided to do was I transitioned my practice to focus only on ADHD and that started supporting families.