Dr. Vitz kicks off a week-long Unassailable Challenge with an assignment to identify the opportunities to train our self-control.
The Unassailable Challenge
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The Unassailable Challenge
Season 9/Episode 81
October 13, 2024
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Introduction:
This is Levelheaded Talk, an exploration on clarity, peace and purpose. And the steps to meet the new you with Dr. Andrea Vitz.
0:19 Jon
Welcome to Levelheaded Talk. We're excited this week. It's the unassailable challenge week.
0:21 Andrea
Yes, Jonny, how does it mean to you?
0:24 Jon
Well, you know, if you are taking notes feverishly, and I hit the button to start us off before I let you finish taking notes, because I wanted to capture this excitement. (Yeah, this is great) Yeah. What? What are you so excited about over there?
0:40 Andrea
I've been thinking about doing an unassailable challenge for our listeners for, like, a couple months now, and really, it's the extreme and EMSO and emotional sobriety. It's the most advanced place you can get to in emotional sobriety. So what if we just attempted unassailability Right now, wherever you are in your training, even if you've never begun it. (Okay) Like, what would happen if we just leveraged the seemingly impossible, (okay) and went for it and started getting reps in the extreme. So I wanted to develop, like, a five-day-challenge for people that I'm going to eventually do online, in a live setting with my husband, but this week, I just want to do it on the podcast, just a little like, not go super deep, but just give people one thing that they can do every day, or something to really chew on all day today, and really challenge yourself to be unassailable. But first I want to ask you, what does it mean to be unassailable?
1:38 Jon
Okay, well, I didn't want to dodge that question, but I wanted to set it up, because what it means to be unassailable to me is that situations come at us from every direction, and usually the direction that you are prepared for the least. So what it means to be unassailable is that you are internally prepared so that you don't have to prepare for circumstances. You are just prepared. What an unassailable challenge means to me is that two things are going to happen; you are going to find out where you are stronger than you thought, and you are going to find out where you need more training.
2:18 Andrea
And when you see that moment, that's your opportunity to put something into new practice. So that's why I love this challenge.
2:26 Jon
Yeah, so both the opportunity to seek out what those new practices are, or if you intuitively know them or have been exposed to them, and you understand that, oh, my goodness, something I haven't attacked yet, or something that I didn't feel like needed to be addressed as much as something else. Well, now's your chance.
2:43 Andrea
That's it. Yeah. So I really want to just discuss today, not only the overarching theme of the week, but what we're going to start with today.
2:52 Jon
Okay, so we got a nugget today.
2:53 Andrea
We get a nugget. Yeah. First thing I want to talk about is what is unassailable to me. To me unassailable if you think about if you're in a sword fight, if you get stabbed, you've been assailed, right? You've been taken out. And what it means in EMSO is when we've been assailed, we are flooded with emotion. We've lost control of how we feel. We've lost control of our mental patterns. We've lost control of our behaviors. That's extreme right? So to be unassailable in emotional sobriety is actually the definition of emotional sobriety. (Yeah) It's gaining clarity, finding peace and staying calm no matter the situation. This is why it's a challenge to become unassailable, because you could think of a million things right now where you're like, oof, I don't think I can handle that. (Yeah) But by the end of this week, I want you to get to a place where there's a part of you that knows, wow, I really can handle anything, and not in a way of like, oh, I can handle this. I got this, but like a real, sincere, authentic knowing of your internal strength, and if it's not strong yet, your strength that is coming so that you can be unassailable. You're going to be the other person with the sword who can just dodge any swipe that comes your way. And you're always aware, you're always prepared. And it can feel a little bit like, well, does that mean that I have to pretend I'm always under threat. Yes and no. You have to be mature enough and wise enough to know that. You have to be unchanged at the same time and any minute, something unexpected can and will happen. So somebody else's emotional in sobriety, somebody fires you, somebody says something negative about you. Somebody hits you with their car while you're in your car. I hope you know something will happen eventually. This is what life is. It is a period of different periods of experience, and so in every. Moment, there's opportunity for things to go in a way that you'd never expect. So being unassailable is being so solid in your foundation that you're not assailable. That's it. And so I want to start off by recognizing, how do we get there? Self-control is a huge component of emotional sobriety, and self-control is different than most of us think. In my opinion, self-control is the ability to have control over oneself in meaning. I've done all the training today that I need to do to get as strong as I possibly can today. So that means physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, I've incorporated some form of training to get stronger in all those things. So when I go out into the world, when I'm alone with my thoughts, when I'm having life experience, I have already trained my self-control. So when we do this unassailable challenge, we're going to be training our self-control in the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, and this is going to help you fast forward your results in whatever it is that you're trying to accomplish in life. I think that there's two things that I want to discuss today, and the first one is Strength versus Weakness. And this is something that coach Ted O'Neill, Co-founder of Lifted Academy, teaches in his Paraphysical Training and strength versus weakness, Jonny, you're super familiar with this topic, but strength versus weakness is really every thought, every action, every feeling we have, every decision we make, is coming from one of two places, strength or weakness. And weakness isn't necessarily like a judgment at all. It's just knowing like, oh, I made that decision based on cravings and compulsions versus real, authentic, high integrity choice. Or I made this decision as a default versus high integrity choice. (Right) So we would want to know the difference between the two. And so this is the thing that you can do today, is go through your thinking process, your feeling process, and all of your decisions, and ask yourself, is this coming from a place of strength or weakness? And I want you to do that in every plane of existence physically. Is your decision with what you put in your mouth? Is your decision with what you do in your activity? Is your decision what you do to yourself? Is that all coming from a place of strength or weakness? And I want you to come from a place of strength all day and see how your life shifts just in one hour by doing that. Now, imagine if you did it for 24-hours, every decision you make, every thought you think, coming from a place of strength, and you have to really get real to do this, don't you? (Yeah) You have to be able to acknowledge what you're really feeling, what you're really doing and why, in order to be able to discern is this coming from a place of strength or weakness, your awareness is already going to be over the top compared to the person sitting next to you, because you're actually having to hyper observe yourself like a drone flying over your head. You're like observing the experience that this human is having, all the thoughts they're thinking, all their emotions, (the human just happens to be you) and the human just happens to be you. So this really creates opportunity for you to be able to, because when we're able to change our thoughts and our emotions and our decisions, we create opportunity, we make less mistakes, our relationships get better, everything improves, and we actually are more available toward an unassailable experience. So that's what we're doing today. So we're creating opportunities. Everyone, you have an internal compass in you, so you have to be clear enough to hear it and feel that compass. So you can't be feeling fear or resentment or embarrassment or anger, you can't be thinking thoughts that aren't in alignment with clarity, and you can't be taking action that isn't in alignment with the opportunity that you seek or might even make you miss an opportunity because you don't see it. All right, tomorrow we're gonna do day two. You've got your marching orders. Have an unassailable day.
9:34 Jon
You know, unassailable in a sword fight. (Yeah, tell me) References to the greatest sword battle in cinematic history, and when you're unassailable, you say things like, I am not left-handed. (Exactly)
This is Levelheaded Talk, an exploration on clarity, peace and purpose. And the steps to meet the new you with Dr. Andrea Vitz.
0:19 Jon
Welcome to Levelheaded Talk. We're excited this week. It's the unassailable challenge week.
0:21 Andrea
Yes, Jonny, how does it mean to you?
0:24 Jon
Well, you know, if you are taking notes feverishly, and I hit the button to start us off before I let you finish taking notes, because I wanted to capture this excitement. (Yeah, this is great) Yeah. What? What are you so excited about over there?
0:40 Andrea
I've been thinking about doing an unassailable challenge for our listeners for, like, a couple months now, and really, it's the extreme and EMSO and emotional sobriety. It's the most advanced place you can get to in emotional sobriety. So what if we just attempted unassailability Right now, wherever you are in your training, even if you've never begun it. (Okay) Like, what would happen if we just leveraged the seemingly impossible, (okay) and went for it and started getting reps in the extreme. So I wanted to develop, like, a five-day-challenge for people that I'm going to eventually do online, in a live setting with my husband, but this week, I just want to do it on the podcast, just a little like, not go super deep, but just give people one thing that they can do every day, or something to really chew on all day today, and really challenge yourself to be unassailable. But first I want to ask you, what does it mean to be unassailable?
1:38 Jon
Okay, well, I didn't want to dodge that question, but I wanted to set it up, because what it means to be unassailable to me is that situations come at us from every direction, and usually the direction that you are prepared for the least. So what it means to be unassailable is that you are internally prepared so that you don't have to prepare for circumstances. You are just prepared. What an unassailable challenge means to me is that two things are going to happen; you are going to find out where you are stronger than you thought, and you are going to find out where you need more training.
2:18 Andrea
And when you see that moment, that's your opportunity to put something into new practice. So that's why I love this challenge.
2:26 Jon
Yeah, so both the opportunity to seek out what those new practices are, or if you intuitively know them or have been exposed to them, and you understand that, oh, my goodness, something I haven't attacked yet, or something that I didn't feel like needed to be addressed as much as something else. Well, now's your chance.
2:43 Andrea
That's it. Yeah. So I really want to just discuss today, not only the overarching theme of the week, but what we're going to start with today.
2:52 Jon
Okay, so we got a nugget today.
2:53 Andrea
We get a nugget. Yeah. First thing I want to talk about is what is unassailable to me. To me unassailable if you think about if you're in a sword fight, if you get stabbed, you've been assailed, right? You've been taken out. And what it means in EMSO is when we've been assailed, we are flooded with emotion. We've lost control of how we feel. We've lost control of our mental patterns. We've lost control of our behaviors. That's extreme right? So to be unassailable in emotional sobriety is actually the definition of emotional sobriety. (Yeah) It's gaining clarity, finding peace and staying calm no matter the situation. This is why it's a challenge to become unassailable, because you could think of a million things right now where you're like, oof, I don't think I can handle that. (Yeah) But by the end of this week, I want you to get to a place where there's a part of you that knows, wow, I really can handle anything, and not in a way of like, oh, I can handle this. I got this, but like a real, sincere, authentic knowing of your internal strength, and if it's not strong yet, your strength that is coming so that you can be unassailable. You're going to be the other person with the sword who can just dodge any swipe that comes your way. And you're always aware, you're always prepared. And it can feel a little bit like, well, does that mean that I have to pretend I'm always under threat. Yes and no. You have to be mature enough and wise enough to know that. You have to be unchanged at the same time and any minute, something unexpected can and will happen. So somebody else's emotional in sobriety, somebody fires you, somebody says something negative about you. Somebody hits you with their car while you're in your car. I hope you know something will happen eventually. This is what life is. It is a period of different periods of experience, and so in every. Moment, there's opportunity for things to go in a way that you'd never expect. So being unassailable is being so solid in your foundation that you're not assailable. That's it. And so I want to start off by recognizing, how do we get there? Self-control is a huge component of emotional sobriety, and self-control is different than most of us think. In my opinion, self-control is the ability to have control over oneself in meaning. I've done all the training today that I need to do to get as strong as I possibly can today. So that means physically, mentally, emotionally and spiritually, I've incorporated some form of training to get stronger in all those things. So when I go out into the world, when I'm alone with my thoughts, when I'm having life experience, I have already trained my self-control. So when we do this unassailable challenge, we're going to be training our self-control in the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual, and this is going to help you fast forward your results in whatever it is that you're trying to accomplish in life. I think that there's two things that I want to discuss today, and the first one is Strength versus Weakness. And this is something that coach Ted O'Neill, Co-founder of Lifted Academy, teaches in his Paraphysical Training and strength versus weakness, Jonny, you're super familiar with this topic, but strength versus weakness is really every thought, every action, every feeling we have, every decision we make, is coming from one of two places, strength or weakness. And weakness isn't necessarily like a judgment at all. It's just knowing like, oh, I made that decision based on cravings and compulsions versus real, authentic, high integrity choice. Or I made this decision as a default versus high integrity choice. (Right) So we would want to know the difference between the two. And so this is the thing that you can do today, is go through your thinking process, your feeling process, and all of your decisions, and ask yourself, is this coming from a place of strength or weakness? And I want you to do that in every plane of existence physically. Is your decision with what you put in your mouth? Is your decision with what you do in your activity? Is your decision what you do to yourself? Is that all coming from a place of strength or weakness? And I want you to come from a place of strength all day and see how your life shifts just in one hour by doing that. Now, imagine if you did it for 24-hours, every decision you make, every thought you think, coming from a place of strength, and you have to really get real to do this, don't you? (Yeah) You have to be able to acknowledge what you're really feeling, what you're really doing and why, in order to be able to discern is this coming from a place of strength or weakness, your awareness is already going to be over the top compared to the person sitting next to you, because you're actually having to hyper observe yourself like a drone flying over your head. You're like observing the experience that this human is having, all the thoughts they're thinking, all their emotions, (the human just happens to be you) and the human just happens to be you. So this really creates opportunity for you to be able to, because when we're able to change our thoughts and our emotions and our decisions, we create opportunity, we make less mistakes, our relationships get better, everything improves, and we actually are more available toward an unassailable experience. So that's what we're doing today. So we're creating opportunities. Everyone, you have an internal compass in you, so you have to be clear enough to hear it and feel that compass. So you can't be feeling fear or resentment or embarrassment or anger, you can't be thinking thoughts that aren't in alignment with clarity, and you can't be taking action that isn't in alignment with the opportunity that you seek or might even make you miss an opportunity because you don't see it. All right, tomorrow we're gonna do day two. You've got your marching orders. Have an unassailable day.
9:34 Jon
You know, unassailable in a sword fight. (Yeah, tell me) References to the greatest sword battle in cinematic history, and when you're unassailable, you say things like, I am not left-handed. (Exactly)
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