INNER GAME NOTES
A weekly letter on the inner game of pressure — for executives and athletes who want mental discipline, not hacks. Written by a CBH practitioner with an MSc in Psychology who works with elite athletes.
Burnout You Can Sleep Through
INNER GAME NOTES Burnout you can sleep through + Why rest won't reset you An apology first: this letter went quiet for a few months while I built the practice it writes about. Weekly from here on. There's a kind of burnout that never shows up on your wearable. Your HRV looks fine. Your sleep score is acceptable. You did the weekend hike; the watch was pleased with you. Your doctor asked how you're feeling, and you said “a bit tired,” because there's nothing diagnosable to report. And yet. The...
Why rest doesn't reset you
INNER GAME NOTES Is This Belief Fueling Your Burnout? You slept eight hours. The room was dark. The pillow was good. And you woke up exactly as tired as you went to sleep. This is the burnout you can sleep through. The one that doesn't respond to the weekend, the vacation, or the meditation app. The one that follows you back into Monday at exactly the volume it left you on Friday. The body slept. The system that exhausted it didn't. The pattern, in three rooms A Tour-level golfer,...
Self-hypnosis: what it actually is
THE NUMINAL RESET How Self-Hypnosis Calms the Nervous System & Reprograms the Subconscious Self-hypnosis: what it actually is When I tell people I teach self-hypnosis as part of the work, two reactions come up reliably. The first is curiosity. Interesting — how do I do that? The second is wariness. I don't want to be hypnotized. I want to stay in control. The wariness is based on a misunderstanding that's worth resolving, because the skill underneath is one of the most useful tools high...
Which State Are You In? Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn?
INNER GAME NOTES Which State Are You In? Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn? Which state are you in? The four survival responses, in the language of performance. You've been in a meeting that should have been routine. The CEO asks a follow-up question that's sharper than you expected. Notice what happened in your body in the next second. Did your chest tighten and your voice get firmer? (Fight.) Did your shoulders rise, your speech speed up, and your mind start producing a rapid escape plan?...
A weekly letter on the inner game of pressure — for executives and athletes who want mental discipline, not hacks. Written by a CBH practitioner with an MSc in Psychology who works with elite athletes.