How can you use your fear to your advantage? Akshay Nanavati shares how he uses fear to prepare for the most extreme conditions in Antarctica, what lessons he learned about life during Polar expeditions, why it's important to love your fear, and why you need to confront your darkness. *Join The Liberated Life Tribe Online Community (FREE)* 👉 https://liberatedlife.com 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 #JoshTrent #Podcast #MentalHealth