Self Care Combat: Bloody Noses & Black Eyes!
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In this episode of the "Self Care Combat" podcast, host Rances and Jason discuss the fighter's mindset and how it applies to self-care. Jason shares his journey of using martial arts to build confidence and resilience. The conversation delves into the importance of learning to take hits and get back up physically and mentally. They also explore how self-care practices can be integrated into training and how they can help build a strong mindset. This episode is perfect for anyone interested in martial arts, building resilience, and incorporating self-care into their daily routine.
This is an important video, so make sure to stick around until the end to get some valuable advice on caring for yourself mentally and physically!
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
2:42 - Martial arts journeys
4:07 - Forced to love yourself
6:35 - Mind-body union
9:30 - How is this self-care?
14:50 - The power of the breath
17:52 - Controlling stress
21:10 - Hurt Ego and growth
23:24 - The art of physical expression
29:06 - Tell us your thoughts https://forms.gle/aqLERqWV4H1BqDB79
Transcript
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Jason
There's no rules in this bitch. Okay. So we're going to talk about whatever you want, whatever we want, because we're going to spin it and let you all know what we're going to talk about for 15 minutes. I'm going to give you rapid fire stuff there. They're the coaches on the everyday guy. I'm going to challenge them because who the fuck are they to tell me what to do?
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Jason
They don't know me. They do know me. Know me for a really long time. But that's not the point. The point is we're here to give you guys a fun podcast and hopefully you learn some shit along the way.
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Jason
All right, everybody, welcome to another edition of Mindset U. You might be noticing that there's only two of us today. That's because our bestie Moises is out. We love him. We miss him.
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Rances
Very much so.
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Jason
Very much so. And but we're still the boss. So these are all, you know. So here we are. US, too. Nice to see you.
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Rances
We're equal height, too, so that helps a lot.
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Jason
It helps. The editing for this is so nice. We actually see it. I don't have to look up at you. It's pretty sweet. Today's episode, we spun self-care, so we decided to take a little, little liberty with that. And we're gonna talk about fighters mindset because your boy here likes to, like, some boxer get punched in the face.
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Jason
And he decided that he's going to do an amateur fight coming up in September. It's my first one and it's it's you know, I think this is a good topic to talk about.
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Rances
Yeah, I'm just finding out about this right now. Yeah. Awesome. Yeah.
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Jason
So doing the Masters division, it's 35 and up. Um, so I'll be in the elite division, so it's 35 to 40. I'm going down to like 153 to fight I could have done one in May but can do 165 and that's an easy cut for me. It's like 5lbs but fighting it’ll be fighting some big boys.
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Rances
Nice.
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Jason
You know and no thanks.
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Rances
So before we get into it, remember subscribed. Whether you're listening or you're watching, subscribe, go to our website VidaProject.com If you're searching up our podcast on your podcast source call to Mindset U, We'll see you there.
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Jason
Yes, sir. Also make of check us out on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts if you're Android user. But like, you know.
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Rances
We're literally in like all podcasts. Yeah, every source.
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Jason
Anywhere you can go yeah anywhere you can find the podcasts you'll find Mindset U. So that's a good thing. So so liking subscribe please please help us.
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Rances
All right. So I personally love this topic. And for me, the idea of talking about this as self-care is huge. And I think we can get very specific with this because it becomes very men based self-care. Right. And I want to share a little bit about for from my perspective with martial arts, my foundation on my perspective on life is really on martial arts.
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Rances
I started in Taekwondo, like many of us did when I was five years old. I trained for about five years, about ten years old. Then in high school I did a little bit of boxing, a little bit of judo, I did capoeira, and then I started training like mixed martial arts through starting with capoeira. This is when mma mae was very young.
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Rances
There weren't mma gyms at the time there. You literally had to go train this striking, you had to go train this grappling, you had to go train. So that's how I was training at the time, because I was going to fight in the cage, all this stuff, and then I got a bunch of injuries. That's another story. The key factor about this is that I started my career because I wanted to give people what I experienced through martial arts, and that was a big challenge.
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Rances
But I want to hear a little bit about how you got into martial arts, because I feel like for you it was later in life.
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Jason
You know, after the pandemic, I needed something to to be active again. And as much as, like, I enjoy, like working out and lifting weights and pushing myself in that aspect, that gets a little tiresome to me. But the act of, of, of learning a martial art, whether it's boxing or kickboxing, which I got into a little bit later in my martial arts journey, the consequences of of fucking up I like a lot.
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Jason
Yeah. I like it because it forces you to focus you can't think about anything else is you have your topic you have you have your task at hand and it's one time that you can you can clear your mind. And it's such a beautiful thing. It's such a freeing thing. And it's it's mental chess. I think a lot of people think when they hear like boxing or MMA, they think, oh, you're just going to go and fight.
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Jason
And there's so much more to it than just going in there and just trying to hit somebody, because most of it, I would say 80% of of fighting is mental. It's carried over to everything else in my life. But doubts of self-care aspect of it, it's a major self-care, such a major part of martial arts because you need to preserve your body to endure the kind of abuse that you're going to take, no matter how much of a team aspect it is.
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Jason
And training it is a very lonely sport. And same with losing. A lot of times with a lot of fighters, it's it can get real lonely when you lose because sometimes people write you off. Yeah. You know, I mean, it's it's that's another mental aspect of it. And that's where self-care also comes into it because you've got to learn to love yourself.
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Jason
And it sounds weird saying that for fighting, you know, but like you truly have to love yourself because you have to be accepting of failure. Yeah, and that's one thing that VidaProject taught me a lot about because a lot of the the physical activities you have to do is always about going to feel that you're doing it to you can't do it anymore and try to keep going.
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Jason
And that's helped me. So much in my martial arts. I'll I'll I'll say career for this you I don't get paid for any of this shit it's helped so much in that martial arts career of knowing what it's like to lose because it's a huge aspect of it.
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Rances
So there's, there's the element about this where, you know, you talk about the, the, the mental awareness of the chess, right? The mental chess. But I think there's a calibration from the mental and the physical, because you have to train that physical to match your thought process. Right. And that's the beauty of martial arts. Then we moved from there into the space of how this is actually self care, right?
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Rances
We because you're treating your body in order to optimize its performance, in order for you to literally survive. So if you don't love yourself enough, you're going to die. That's basically the format of thinking. And I think going deeper into that, we can talk about kind of how how this sets you up to have a whole different perspective in all aspects of life.
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Rances
So in martial arts, you know, we talked about a little bit before where when growing up in different elements of our life, right? Me, I started at five years old to about ten years doing taekwondo. Then in high school I did a little bit of judo, a little bit of boxing, and after high school was when I really dedicated myself to to martial arts.
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Rances
And just from my free time. And I had mentioned how that was something that I try to bring to people, which was the idea, the perspective of how this physicality connects you to your mind and connects your mind to your body so that you can work as one unit. And with you. J you mentioned how you know, younger years you did Taekwondo.
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Rances
He said at ten years old.
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Jason
Like, like you fight like from 5 to 10, ten ago.
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Rances
And then you did you tried to do other sports. You tried to do some
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Jason
failed horribly at every other sport possible. And then then in my thirties, I decided, you know what I should do? I start fighting.
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Rances
Oh, you you were 30 already?
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Jason
Yeah, I was in my 30 seconds. I mean, I was in my late twenties, I guess, when I started with Daquan Okay. But that wasn't so much like sparring all the time. That was, you know, learning the basics, like learning like the legit basics of, you know, knowing what punch is doing combinations, you know, doing all that stuff and being consistent with that.
00;09;02;25 - 00;09;27;00
Jason
But like I didn't start really like competing in like sparring like 3 to 4 times a week until I went to like an actual boxing gym and, and it's changed me completely with, with the way I look at things, the way I handle life. Um, but more importantly, it's a, it taught me to take care of myself a little bit better.
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Rances
Yeah.
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Jason
You know.
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Rances
So let's go into that because there's, there's the idea of doing martial arts. You're literally going, getting pummeled by someone else, right? Or you're doing the pummeling. Like, how is that related to taking care of yourself? Like, how is that even on the same sentence?
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Jason
Yeah. It's funny when when you don't fight or if you're not, if you never really, you know, followed competition, sports or anything like that, it's just like any other sport. You need to be at your peak athleticism to peak health in order to perform your best, because that's what you really want. You want to be able to perform to your most optimal capabilities, right?
00;10;11;05 - 00;10;28;03
Jason
So I notice with with me at least, I was like, okay, well let's start with sleep. I need to get a good, good night's rest because I'm going to be up at 5:00 in the morning to go train at six, so then go to work afterwards and then go back at night, nighttime to go train a little bit more.
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Jason
And you can't do that in a 4 hours of sleep. You can get away with it for a little bit, but your body catches up to you, and the older you get, the harder.
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Rances
It is. Yeah. So if I can interject right there for me, I was in my early twenties when I was really neck deep into like martial arts. Like my, my training regimen was, was all physical all day long. So I worked at the time as a, as a waiter in P.F. Chang's. Right. So I would typically go in to work at nine and I'll finish by like three.
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Rances
I work the afternoon shift. So my day started at like 530. I would me, my, my martial coach, my master from capoeira, he worked at Bally Total Fitness and we were workout from 6 a.m. to about 8 a.m. in the morning. Right away from there, I would run home. This was it wasn't too far from my house. So I took my car, run home to shower and then I would jump on my bike to bike to to West New York.
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Rances
All right. So take about ten miles, which at that time was easy because it was downhill right at the end of my shift at 3:00 was bike back uphill. So that was when I got to really put the work in. Yeah, I would go home after that. Then I'll go and train at home, just skill training, right? So I had a heavy bag in my basement.
00;11;56;16 - 00;12;22;24
Rances
Skill training, bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom bom. Just an hour there. Easy, eat all this stuff. I was so thin for this time like I couldn't put on weight. I would try and then from there around 530, I would leave my house to bike again to no, I wasn't sure how Bergin was called. So South Bergen Was it called Bergenfield?
00;12;23;02 - 00;12;54;29
Rances
Bergenfield Yes. Bergenfield The town where my capoeira school was. And there I'll take the class that was 6 to 7. Then I'll take the next class, which I will help teach 7 to 8. And then from 8 to 9 we would just do a bunch of like acrobatic stuff, right? And then on the weekends on Sunday specifically, we would train starting at 6 a.m. and this was just like pure MMA training would meet at 6 a.m. and train to about 1 p.m..
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Rances
Tuesdays and Thursdays we'll go to the judo gym and train with the judo coach. Basically it was more show how to defend, how to how to be able to adjust to a grappler than it was really us training grappling. So like this was my my day 9 to 5 every day really 6 to 9 and the whole thing with that going on in the circles back to what you were saying is like ten you finished training at nine and I would start at 530.
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Rances
So I wasn't getting that sleep and after like six months of keeping this up, my body just started breaking down.
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Jason
There's no other way. There's no other is. I don't understand what people think is going to happen. Like you're eventually going to you're going to gas yourself out.
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Rances
Yeah. And at 20 years old, that was the lesson that I had to learn, which was like, oh, now why don't now it's not just like, okay, what do I have to do to maintain now is like, I'm injured all over, I can do anything. So what does this mean? I have to learn how to rehab myself. I have to learn how to build myself back up and see how I can make this sustainable.
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Rances
And this is like during this time I still I was already coaching people as a personal trainer, but this opened up my eyes to a whole new level, which wasn't just you just go intense, intense, intense tense. This was now about that self-care level of like, how do I modulate myself to maintain this performance but be able to do this for longevity?
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Rances
And that to me that that was a huge lesson. And I'm grateful that I went through it at an early age because I was young enough to recover from a lot of those things, right? Where, you know, as a coach now I work with people who are older, who are dealing with these injuries and never learned how to manage them.
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Rances
So now they're just compiled of years and years of trauma, basically.
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Jason
Yeah, no, that's true. And I think another aspect that like there's so many different aspects of like self care and stuff like that. And another thing I learned from you guys is how to properly like breathe. And I think people realize how important it sounds, silly, how important breathing is. Breathing is super important to guys. And it's even more important when you're doing a physical activity for, you know, 3 minutes a round, let's say, because those 3 minutes can feel like an eternity.
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Jason
Yeah. If you're tired, if you're not breathing properly and if someone is beating your ass, that 3 minutes can feel like hours.
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Rances
thats anxiety Yeah. So breathing. The interesting part about this is because you mentioned that anxiety aspects because breathing is directly intertwined with your nervous system. You can actually regulate your nervous system through your breathing. So the more you practice that, the more you practice that skill under stress, under duress, the more you're able to master controlling and managing your nervous system to perform when stuff is out of whack, when it's a high stress situation, how do you perform?
00;15;58;07 - 00;16;20;18
Rances
And I think that's one of the the key aspects of martial arts training. You mentioned, like the mental chess is the mental chess calibrated with a physical element where you're able to have a physical body that can express your thought process, your nervous system and your perspective of the world in an instant. You have to react in an instant, otherwise you're literally getting hurt.
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Rances
So the consequences that you mentioned before, their immediate and significant.
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Jason
It's true. And it's funny because like at the gym, I spar with different levels of guys, you know, with the greener guys and the guys who are closer to my level, you know, a lot of them are a lot better than me, but I'm able to hold my own and they think like, Oh, you have great cardio. And it's not that I have great cardio, it's I know how to breathe.
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Jason
And that's because of you guys. And it's just one of those things that like that's what I mean with the mental stuff. Like it's so mental because there's so many guys who are in such great shape that they crack under the pressure and you're like, You have a six pack, you have muscles, you have all this stuff, but it means nothing unless you're qualified or you're.
00;17;03;13 - 00;17;19;12
Jason
Then I'm like, Oh shit. Okay, look, you freaking me out a little bit if you guys don't understand what that means. Clarify. Carl Hoyer is from wrestling. Also every enemy fighter. Yeah any grappling guy so you know they've been around the block. If they got cauliflower.
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Rances
Yeah it's when you have an ear that looks like a little like not basically what happens is that the tissue gets trauma, you know, either through physical or the mat itself rolling on it. And it gets trauma and then it swells up and the tissue dies. So it literally shrinks up into a little ball. If it's not handled immediately, it's not drained immediately.
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Jason
That's true. And so word of advice for anybody who decides that they're going to be macho and get into a fight in the street, look at your ears. It'll let you know what you're getting yourself into.
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Rances
So I wanted to to circle back with, with the self-care and the breathing aspect of this, because there I want to kind of explain what's really happening in the body. So when I mentioned the nervous system, right? The nervous system is what guides you, what gives you direction on how to behave. It's the lens that you're wearing when you think about having an emotional experience, right?
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Rances
It's literally changing your nervous system. Your nervous system now is going into a fight or flight is going into freeze. Any of these things are happening at a subconscious level. And the more we are disconnected from that, the less that we're able to actually influence our own behavior. So when when we train in something like martial arts and the reason why we at VidaProject, our company, we, we work so much with that physical element.
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Rances
It's all about experiencing that physicality is because you're literally learning how to tune your nervous system, right? So breathing is a great way to start doing that. And there's breathing practices, for example, there's a thing called tummo breathing, very similar to the Wim Hof style of breathing. So basically you're you're breathing in a very fast pattern. The reasoning for this is that it's putting you literally in anxiety state, that fast breathing is the same thing as someone having an anxiety attack.
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Rances
Right. And when you do that, you're able to, number one, see your thoughts happening because you're inducing this on yourself, right? So if you can create a space from inducing this on yourself and recognizing what is happening, you start to freak out. You're like, Oh my God, something is something wrong? So I'm just going to go right. You have the thought process in that you're doing this with your body and then you have the the moment where you hold your breath, right where everything comes to calm and there's a little moment of silence there that's just like, oh, and then the panic starts to arise because you're like, I need to breathe, I need to
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Rances
breathe, I need to breathe. And then you also go through that. So all of this awareness, what is happening is that you're listening to what your nervous system is screaming out to you, and then you're taking your brain and acknowledging it. And then with that acknowledgment, then you're saying, Well, this is how I'm going to behave. So you literally practicing your behavior.
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Rances
This is exactly what happens in a combat sport, right? Where the issue is that you're not fully in control, where I can start breathing whenever I want. The issue is that someone else is in control of how much they're pummeling you. Right. So there is no kind of escape plan. All right. It's in your face. And this trains us in a high level of stress to be able to modulate ourselves.
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Rances
So, as you said, in the experience when you're going through in a match and someone is like really aggressive and so on, so forth, and all of your thoughts, all those thoughts start to creep into anyways. So did I do something? Is he angry? Right? There's all your nervous system thoughts. And now you learned how to modulate that and say, Hey, you be quiet, all right?
00;21;06;26 - 00;21;31;08
Rances
I hear you be quiet. This is how we're going to approach this. But it's also another element of this, which is like the same thing as as I explain when you're holding your breath, right. And then that calm and then panic, because when you're getting your ass beat, what it does, it really anchors you in reality. Number one, it takes your ego and chops it the hell down.
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Jason
Right? Amen.
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Rances
So it makes you confront your biggest fears about yourself, because when your ego is hurt, everything you believe about yourself is hurt. And in that moment now, it's like, that's when you really learn to love yourself when you have no ego left.
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Jason
Yeah. Or if you get your ass beat in front of your friends and family in front of a crowd. It's a it's definitely a it's definitely a humbling experience. And you learn, I think the best part, you learn a lot about yourself. Yeah, you learn a lot about yourself when you're in a crisis situation. Like the same thing, like they say like a and like a in a relationship.
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Jason
You don't know how strong relationship is until you handle some shit. You know, if everything's, oh my God, everything's so much fun. It's like, that's great, but how do you guys handle stress? How do you guys handle the hard stuff? Yeah, you know, and that goes into everything. And I think with the fighting stuff, it's helped with life.
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Rances
Yeah.
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Jason
You know, because it all carries into everything. Everything kind of marries itself to something else. You know, you can always take one aspect of what you learn from something to apply it to something else. And I think with fighting helped me do that and a sense of being like, you don't have to freak out. It's going to you're going to figure it out.
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Jason
It might not be the outcome that you want, but you're going to figure it out. And that's helped tremendously in life. Yeah.
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Rances
So there's a aspect of that because you have to consciously remember these experiences and take them out of that box of fighting and put them into life. Right? So that's a that's a it's an active practice is to do in order to be able to really reap the benefits across the board. I wanted you to go into the the the idea of how this is in integral to self-care, which is when you're doing all of this and you're, you're experiencing these, these trauma like experiences, micro traumas constantly, right.
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Rances
I think there is a something that we need to get into because when you think of self-care, I think people always think about the you know, the glitzy, pretty easy stuff of self-care, right? Like you got to make yourself feel good. Treat yourself.
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Jason
Nice day. Yes. Yeah.
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Rances
And so this kind of clashes with with that idea because we're literally saying and a bloody swollen and then is like this is self-care right and if you haven't experienced martial arts you this won't compute.
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Jason
I want to say one last thing. So when I have my smoke shows and stuff like that, I mentioned that I was like three and one. And I always made a point that even though I won the next day, I was at the gym at 6:00 in the morning, and when I lost, I made sure I was there at 530 in the morning just cause because it's like you win, it's a win of great, you won.
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Jason
You still have so much to learn. There's so many things that you could have worked on. There's so many other things that you can do. And it's even more important when you lose. I think it's more important to lose that you treat it just like how you treat a win. Yes. You you still have to go and work.
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Jason
It does the world silky smoothing and I think that when when you lose I think I was like oh they're gonna think I'm a loser. No, no. In the people who do, what does it matter? They're not in that ring that most anybody who's going to judge you for losing in a in a competition is somebody who doesn't compete.
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Jason
Yeah.
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Rances
Bernie Brown in her book, she talks about this one quote, that the harshest critics are in the cheap seats and they're always in the bleachers. Those are the ones that are the judging. They're not the ones in the arena.
00;25;27;29 - 00;25;36;08
Jason
You have to could or should have were the kids, you know. Oh, I could do that if I had this. Oh, I can do that. If I did that, I would have won if I did this. But you didn't.
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Rances
And I think that's going back to their mind. Body connection. So if you can connect from your mind from like, oh, I could do this and your body to react to actually do that, that is self mastery. So when you work on developing that self-mastery so that the body and the mind are not disobedient to each other, so they work well with each other, so they work in unison and synchronicity that is pure art.
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Rances
And when we to finalize the idea of self-care, when we talk about self-care, when you turn your body and mind into a art form expression that is the most powerful potentially that you could take yourself.
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Jason
It's a high. It's a drug. It truly is a drug. There's no other drug like I love pot. It pot doesn't compare too to the the the way you feel from from competing and just training in general. And I think that's the reason why I do it, because it's addictive. I love I love training more than I like actually fighting because I feel like you learn so much more in the training aspect of it because you don't actually have to do it.
00;26;54;06 - 00;27;08;21
Jason
There's no there's nobody's putting a gun to your head to go to the gym in the morning. There's nobody putting a gun to your head to eat. Right. There's no way in the country it's. So you don't put down that beer, grab that water, it's all on you. And I think that's what make that's what builds that character.
00;27;09;09 - 00;27;23;22
Jason
And that's a big part of self-care, is holding yourself responsible for the little things, not just not just making it to practice, not just doing this. It's you hold yourself accountable at all aspects because it all circles back to each other.
00;27;24;13 - 00;27;51;16
Rances
And the last point to that is what happens to the person who's training their mind and body in that physical combat sport is that they walk around with a confidence and it's not a, you know, this idea of the bully. I can beat everyone up. And that's the person that hasn't been beat enough is the confidence of understanding myself and then understanding the others.
00;27;51;16 - 00;28;15;10
Rances
Because you walk into a room, you see how someone moves. You understand right away you start to create this like decoding system in your brain. You understand and you understand a physical body to a whole nother level too. And to go to another topic, it also helps in bed because when you connect in their physicality, you also connect in the bedroom with your partner.
00;28;16;03 - 00;28;22;10
Jason
Stroke game is strong now. Sorry babe. I'm not sorry. You're welcome. Yeah.
00;28;22;10 - 00;28;23;15
Rances
How's your thing? What do you think?
00;28;23;15 - 00;28;29;18
Jason
The outcome? Well, I was a star. There were print out our bedroom business out there, but it's true. Got better.
00;28;29;18 - 00;28;34;12
Rances
Yeah, well, you know, I've been 20 years and bedroom strong.
00;28;34;13 - 00;28;55;25
Jason
You know, that's. That's important. You don't realize how important that she is. It is important. Anyways, we can talk about this for, I think for like six more hours if you let us. So we're going to stop it there. This was a great podcast. This is something I love talking about with Rances because this is something we actually really connect on.
00;28;55;28 - 00;29;09;07
Jason
And I think this is one of our bonding things is that we have a love for martial arts and we like to see how it translates to the rest of our lives. It's another great episode of Mindset U! Mo we missed you.
00;29;10;29 - 00;29;14;08
Rances
Yeah. Mo would have been great on this topic because he kind of explored it later in life.
00;29;14;08 - 00;29;23;25
Jason
Yeah, well, yeah. And he's also a basketball coach too, so I also play so it's not a combat sport, but it's still a mental aspect of winning and losing and stuff like that. So yeah.
00;29;24;16 - 00;29;44;14
Rances
So guys, listen, subscribe, like we mentioned before, every week where this podcast is growing, we're getting new subscriptions, we're getting more comments. So be part of that wave. Join us and put in in the in the link below, you're going to see a link that is for you to click on and vote on what you want us to talk about.
00;29;44;14 - 00;29;45;20
Rances
Right. The different topics.
00;29;45;20 - 00;29;54;04
Jason
Let us know. Yeah. All right. Thank you, guys. sweet.