The Holistic Workout Podcast: Recent Episodes
Aaron Kurtz
Without awareness of our thoughts and feelings we cannot be in a position to learn from them. Ultimately, OCD and anxiety is communication to us about how we are living our life. How we think, how we treat our emotions, how we feel about ourselves and our life. We must notice how our mind is reflecting our life back to us. Start by noticing and naming feelings and thought patterns.
The mind functions in a similar way as the physical body. The stimulus/response system guides our body and mind to adapt to meet the demands placed on it. Do you understand the powerful role you play in this process? Email address: Kurtzaaron88@gmail.comInstagram: OCD Hero
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In this episode I talk about how the mind can pull us into emotional repression by using our thinking and use of beliefs and mental stories. This is the process to developing anxiety and OCD. Can you recognize the tendency of your mind to do this?
Are your religious beliefs motivated by fear? Do you think the voice in your head is either God or the devil? People with OCD will struggle with strict versions of religion.
The thoughts and concepts in this episode are inspired from Terence Watt’s book “Warriors, Settlers, & Nomads.” The concept is that OCD and anxiety can come from emotional exhaustion. Emotional exhaustion comes from conflict in the subconscious. This conflict come from behaving like a “settler” but feeling like a “warrior.” Transformation looks like rediscovering the warrior nature in your relationships and personal life. Hope you enjoy. Or not.
Jordan Greathouse joins the show to tell his personal experience of living with anxiety and OCD. In addition, Jordan shares some of his early childhood experiences, his experience with meds and why he chose to get off them, and how he is changing his relationship with emotions.
Trying to make oneself feel more “positive” can be a compulsive behavior for those with OCD that further keeps lower emotions from being felt and released. We want to develop more skill in learning to be with these feelings rather than chasing them away. This is a fundamental process for OCD and anxiety transformation. OCD Hero online coaching community👇🏻 https://ocdhero.mn.co/share/YvXVZ5rclCWxicFP
For true change to take place, we must be willing to transform how we think. The foundation starts in the mind.
Poor sleep has been linked to an increased risk for anxiety and depression. In this episode I talk about why sleep is important for our mental health and what to do if you struggle to sleep.
In this episode I chat about my desire to share more about how I personally am doing with the content I share. Part of me would rather talk from a place of the expert who has “been there done that”, but I realize that is not authentic for me and I want to feel more genuine with the content I share.
In this episode I describe the difference between energy and mindset training, and how energy work is the foundation of mindset training. Our mindset is a result of our thoughts which come from the energy of our emotions. I share my favorite energy work technique, called tapping. Happy New Years!
Reality is the facts of what happens to us “out there” in the world. Our mental stories are the judgements we create to protect us from them. We can lessen our suffering by differentiating between the two.
In this episode I talk about my personal experience with anger and how I’m currently dealing with it.
In this episode I talk about two aspects of life that we engage in: the inner and outer “game”. They both affect each other. Which one do you want to win?
Tyler Smart is a 24 year old physical therapist assistant, who loves recreational bodybuilding and is weighing his options toward becoming a personal trainer or a Catholic priest. In this episode, we chat about his life journey and his recent experience and thoughts about fasting.
In this episode, I discuss how anxiety can develop in early childhood and and what to do with religious beliefs that may exacerbate these feelings.
In this episode, I explore how anxiety may be the result of living life in a restricted and limited way. Our self can develop beliefs that serve to diminish our ability to express ourselves in an authentic way throughout life. A first step to expand your self is to explore the ways you feel limited and be honest to yourself about how you feel. Expand your awareness and acceptance and your self will feel more free to be authentic.
This episode is all about implementing changes to your life to better handle stress. We talk about the big picture of stress: what is the story of your life and which role are you playing? We talk about strategies like identifying with the observer part of you, spending time with yourself, breathing meditation, and how to structure your eating in the morning.
Too often, we will try to control the people and circumstances in our life while neglecting to look inside of us. What if our external world is responding to our internal state? Or said another way, what if the only way to change our life experience is by changing how we feel and think?
In this episode, we talk about how understanding what is happening INSIDE us can open up new possibilities OUTSIDE us.
Why is it so hard to change our behavior? Or build new habits? Why does it feel like something keeps pulling us back to a certain level? In this episode, we dive into what drives our behavior and habitual patterns, and learn that emotions play a key role. We discuss a technique to help release emotions at the end of the episode.
How can we pull ourselves out of our anxious, scattered, racing thoughts? By bringing our attention back into the body by breathing deeply and noticing what we are feeling. Do this in the morning or whenever you need to feel more grounded.