David Nurse

Yeah, the extreme sports is crazy.

Totally.

That's a great question.

So I think stress is such a thing that has a bad connotation to it.

And it's what you were saying with the on the edge, but not over the edge.

It's that paradoxical tension that we have to come up against.

But eustress is a great type of stress that nobody talks about.

And this is a stress that makes you feel like you're alive.

This is the stress that makes you lock into the zone.

If there's only bad stress and think of that in your life as like the overwhelm or feeling like you have too much stuff on your plate, it's pointless stress that is going to keep you out of the ability to get in the zone because you have

just too much like nonsense, the non-essentials really.

But the eustress, the positive stress is the nerves that you feel before you walk on stage.

It's the pressure that you might feel before you go on to a sporting arena.

That type of stress allows you to perform at a higher level if you have a relationship with it that you're accepting of it.

And I think one of the most important things for people in stress and just in life in general is the steps of, first, it's the awareness of.

So the awareness of is everything.

You have to have the awareness of.

And in this essence that we're talking about, the awareness of that stress

is prevalent and there is good stress then it's the relationship with now what's your relationship with it if your relationship with it is all stress is bad you have a bad relationship with stress but if you know that you can cultivate the good stress out of it that's your relationship with and then the third piece of it is the action from now what are you going to do with it you've got the understanding the awareness you have the relationship now what are you going to do with it

And this is one of my favorite parts, man, is I love watching sports games at the end of the games and seeing who wants the ball in the crunch time moment.