I AM...With Jonny Wilkinson collaboration: EXCLUSIVE PREVIEW

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# High Performance Podcast Preview: Exclusive Sneak Peek with Johnny Wilkinson

In this special announcement, hosts Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes tease the upcoming episode of the High Performance podcast, featuring a captivating conversation with rugby legend and World Cup winner Jonny Wilkinson. This highly anticipated episode promises to delve deeper into Wilkinson's life beyond his iconic sporting achievements, exploring his personal journey, challenges, and the profound insights he has gained.

## Key Insights from the Preview:

- Wilkinson's return to an intense state of conflict, similar to what he experienced at the age of 26, despite feeling content and successful.

- The challenge of confronting intense emotions and thoughts that seem foreign and overwhelming.

- The importance of awareness, acceptance, and responsibility as infinite capacities for growth and transformation.

- The distinction between a mind-based logical approach and an awareness-based approach in managing inner turmoil.

- The power of unconditional acceptance and welcoming of difficult emotions without judgment or an agenda to solve them.

- The liberating effect of not having opinions and preconceived notions, allowing for more authentic and open interactions.

- The responsibility of caring for loved ones and the delicate balance between sharing perspectives and respecting individual experiences.

- The value of not seeking answers but embracing the power of uncertainty and the ongoing process of self-discovery.

## Overall Message:

This exclusive preview offers a glimpse into the transformative conversation with Jonny Wilkinson, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, acceptance, and responsibility in navigating life's challenges. It highlights the power of embracing uncertainty, fostering authentic connections, and living a life guided by awareness and presence.

[00:00.000 -> 00:05.760] Everyone welcome along to a very special exclusive announcement on high performance that
[00:06.200 -> 00:09.440] That the very next episode we're releasing on high performance is
[00:10.160 -> 00:11.640] round two
[00:11.640 -> 00:14.880] With Johnny Wilkinson and you know what Damien I hesitate saying
[00:15.880 -> 00:21.540] Rugby World Cup winner Johnny Wilkinson because that's how we introduced the first time we met him and then we realized that rugby World Cup
[00:21.540 -> 00:23.540] Winner is about I don't know
[00:23.840 -> 00:26.000] 0.5% of whatr rhan fyddwn.
[00:26.000 -> 00:32.000] Roedd yna lawer mwy i Johnny. Roedd yn un o'r episodau sy'n newid y gêm y tro cyntaf
[00:32.000 -> 01:06.720] ac yn yr ail gwr credu, yna'n ymwneud â'r ymdrechion, ddim yn gwybod amdanynt, ddim yn gwybod beth oedd y cyfrifoldeb
[01:06.720 -> 01:10.480] arall, yn y cyfranog hon, rwy'n credu ymdrech o
[01:10.480 -> 01:14.160] hyn am yr hyn rydyn ni'n ceisio ei wneud gyda'r cyfrifoldeb
[01:14.160 -> 01:17.120] mae'n dod drwy. Iawn, yn debyg, rwy'n credu, y peth arall
[01:17.120 -> 01:20.160] anhygoel yw bod John wedi clywed y podcast, felly mae'n gallu
[01:20.160 -> 01:23.760] ymdrech ar ein gwestiynau cynhawn, Cia Khaleesi, Dr
[01:23.760 -> 01:26.080] Rongan Chatterjee, Mel Robbins, and he
[01:26.080 -> 01:29.640] offers his insights and his takes on what they shared with us too.
[01:29.640 -> 01:34.160] Okay, well the episode in full is going to be the next episode that we release here on
[01:34.160 -> 01:38.360] High Performance, but right now we're going to give you a nice little sneaky exclusive
[01:38.360 -> 01:44.160] preview. So here is a little listen to what you can expect from Johnny Wilkinson, coming
[01:44.160 -> 01:46.620] very soon here on the high performance podcast
[01:48.280 -> 01:52.300] When those feelings come for me and I mentioned about the last two years, you know
[01:52.300 -> 01:55.420] I've had after I spoke to you guys maybe a couple years after I spoke to you guys, you know
[01:55.540 -> 02:01.760] We spoke about being what sort of place you're in and out of the blue. I'm back where I've been when I was 26
[02:02.680 -> 02:04.680] right in the heart of
[02:05.960 -> 02:09.220] Really intense I've been when I was 26, right in the heart of really intense conflict out of nowhere.
[02:10.720 -> 02:15.020] You know, like proper shivering, panic, everything.
[02:15.020 -> 02:18.460] Madness to think that, oh, the arrogance of I'm here
[02:18.460 -> 02:21.440] and life's great, and then suddenly you're kind of like,
[02:21.440 -> 02:24.680] oh, God, and of course everything sort of comes up
[02:24.680 -> 02:25.760] in that space.
[02:25.760 -> 02:28.480] Because of that energy state, you think, well hold on,
[02:28.480 -> 02:29.520] I'm gonna just sit with this.
[02:29.520 -> 02:31.840] But that ability to sit with something
[02:31.840 -> 02:35.280] belongs to an energy state which is already really at ease.
[02:35.280 -> 02:37.200] So now you're basing yourself in an energy state
[02:37.200 -> 02:39.200] which is really conflicted,
[02:39.200 -> 02:42.160] that you think you're just gonna be able to sit in it.
[02:42.160 -> 02:44.800] But the challenge is such that if it's not
[02:44.800 -> 02:46.840] really, really intense, it's not a challenge.
[02:46.840 -> 02:48.880] And I'm sat there thinking,
[02:48.880 -> 02:52.440] I know what I need to do here, but I can't do it.
[02:52.440 -> 02:55.800] I am compelled down that chain of,
[02:55.800 -> 02:56.940] I'm seeing things the way I do,
[02:56.940 -> 02:58.700] I am spiked feeling-wise.
[02:58.700 -> 03:00.640] Thoughts are coming up in me that I can't even
[03:00.640 -> 03:02.200] believe where they're coming from.
[03:02.200 -> 03:04.000] I'm thinking, this isn't me.
[03:04.000 -> 03:05.120] And I'm doing things, I'm thinking, I don't want to be doing this, but I have to do it. And I'm in that believe where they're coming from. I'm thinking this isn't me. And I'm doing things, I'm thinking,
[03:05.120 -> 03:06.840] I don't want to be doing this, but I have to do it.
[03:06.840 -> 03:09.480] And I'm in that space where I could be
[03:09.480 -> 03:12.040] a young child again, but I recognize it.
[03:12.040 -> 03:15.360] And it's so powerful because it's come out of the blue.
[03:15.360 -> 03:17.400] And now we're talking about what's my work.
[03:17.400 -> 03:19.800] I feel like I was asking for this.
[03:19.800 -> 03:21.320] I'm asking, do I want to go into potential?
[03:21.320 -> 03:22.880] And you get something in you which you recognize
[03:22.880 -> 03:25.000] from your entire life and you say
[03:28.200 -> 03:29.120] Why are you here? It's like what are you asking for you want to know?
[03:37.360 -> 03:40.980] Where your responsibility and your acceptance and your awareness can go it's like but this is a large part of what's holding it back So all these things you speak about when you're feeling pretty good there
[03:40.980 -> 03:43.640] They come a little bit more easy and you don't really have the depth to it
[03:43.640 -> 03:45.440] But then you get the big one that seemed
[03:45.440 -> 03:50.440] like the big one to me and you say right money where your mouth this time so
[03:50.440 -> 03:54.600] what's been the most effective way you've learned to dial down that mind
[03:54.600 -> 03:59.920] voice and start to recognize those feelings of excitement that might get
[03:59.920 -> 04:05.760] drowned out the big shift if you like if it's in any way possible to articulate, which is not,
[04:05.760 -> 04:09.560] I almost feel like I'm cheating this by saying it, but to try and put some kind of words
[04:09.560 -> 04:16.800] on it, would be that the three things that really make sense to me are awareness, acceptance
[04:16.800 -> 04:17.800] and responsibility.
[04:17.800 -> 04:23.760] And all of those, the reason they are so powerful is they're all infinite capacity.
[04:23.760 -> 04:25.300] So there's no
[04:25.300 -> 04:29.120] limit to what you can become aware of and there's no limit to what you can
[04:29.120 -> 04:33.740] accept and there's no limit to how and what you can respond to which is why
[04:33.740 -> 04:38.660] they're exciting one of those the first one the awareness is exactly that the
[04:38.660 -> 04:47.680] the big thing is being able to become aware of a situation and aware of what's happening without entering into it
[04:47.680 -> 04:50.800] and becoming recruited by it.
[04:50.800 -> 04:55.800] And that's the difference about finding that voice is that it's an awareness based thing.
[04:55.800 -> 04:58.200] It's not a mind based logical thing.
[04:58.200 -> 05:01.240] So hold on, if I sit like this and do this, I'll hear that voice.
[05:01.240 -> 05:06.360] It's putting yourself completely in that space of and this is where the
[05:06.360 -> 05:13.080] acceptance comes in fully welcoming lovingly whatever is happening and that
[05:13.080 -> 05:16.200] doesn't mean involving yourself in it and solving it as I was yeah I've been a
[05:16.200 -> 05:19.960] big one for that something comes up I get recruited by and I have to try and
[05:19.960 -> 05:27.560] solve it but by solving it I just feed it I get more of it and the ability to sit with that
[05:28.340 -> 05:29.460] feeling
[05:29.460 -> 05:33.740] But not sit with it in a way that says if I sit with it, it will reveal something to me again
[05:33.740 -> 05:39.040] That's conditional. So it's a loving welcoming unconditional relationship with something that feels horrible and
[05:39.780 -> 05:43.080] Feels tough and that's the difference
[05:43.680 -> 05:45.760] feels tough and that's the difference. You know one of the things I've enjoyed
[05:45.760 -> 05:46.920] most about sitting and having this
[05:46.920 -> 05:49.640] conversation is like I've actually got
[05:49.640 -> 05:51.320] quite a nice sense of freedom from it a
[05:51.320 -> 05:53.440] reminder that having an opinion is
[05:53.440 -> 05:55.520] handcuffing yourself and actually not
[05:55.520 -> 05:58.240] having an opinion is freeing not putting
[05:58.240 -> 06:00.520] people in boxes is freeing not having a
[06:00.520 -> 06:01.840] preconceived idea of what you're going
[06:01.840 -> 06:03.280] to get out of someone or even how
[06:03.280 -> 06:04.440] they're going to react to what you say
[06:04.440 -> 06:05.300] is totally freeing
[06:05.680 -> 06:07.680] Right, so we all care
[06:07.800 -> 06:13.880] Deeply about our wives and our parents and our siblings and our kids and those others are really like really close
[06:14.340 -> 06:19.520] So do we have a responsibility to make them feel like this because it is helpful and I know
[06:20.440 -> 06:23.920] My wife for example, there's areas here where she absolutely
[06:26.120 -> 06:31.000] my wife for example there's areas here where she absolutely wouldn't doesn't go there and I wish she would so should we put it on them and say no think like
[06:31.000 -> 06:38.280] this but then it's the it's the same issues that this might feel like a great
[06:38.280 -> 06:43.480] shift in your life but why is it a great shift in someone else's did you try and
[06:43.480 -> 06:46.540] share all this with your wife and I we I speak?
[06:47.160 -> 06:48.880] honestly about
[06:48.880 -> 06:50.880] What I feel about things I
[06:51.520 -> 06:54.100] Never I'm in the position of saying
[06:54.800 -> 06:59.460] You know this might help you. I'm kind of a how would I know that's what I can say is are
[07:00.160 -> 07:06.060] So what are you feeling about this? I feel this but I have no I don't come at it from the same stance as you so
[07:06.440 -> 07:08.280] you know, it's a bit like
[07:08.280 -> 07:13.120] You're running a hundred meter and you think I'm running faster than I'm beating this next person, but
[07:14.040 -> 07:16.280] For a start, you don't all start in the same place
[07:17.080 -> 07:20.720] Secondly, you're not all running the same direction. No one's running in a straight line
[07:20.920 -> 07:27.320] So now say who's being who you're kind of like well this person's been running for about five weeks I think we should encourage them
[07:27.320 -> 07:30.960] though because I think might I think I think take them somewhere but then they
[07:30.960 -> 07:36.880] can choose I think the thing I find interesting is there's a power in not
[07:36.880 -> 07:41.200] finding an answer yeah I'm becoming comfortable with that whereas what I
[07:41.200 -> 07:45.540] think can somehow be imposed
[07:45.540 -> 07:51.080] Or be it from a societal perspective is that there's an answer and when you find it
[07:51.840 -> 07:58.560] You move on but that answer is the next problem and it's normally the same problem over and over again
[08:01.740 -> 08:02.600] So, there you go
[08:02.600 -> 08:07.040] That's just a quick extract and a few snippets from our conversation with Johnny Wilkinson
[08:07.040 -> 08:10.560] Which is coming very soon here on the high performance podcast, you know
[08:10.560 -> 08:13.520] I messaged him afterwards and just said how much I enjoyed it and he said I
[08:14.120 -> 08:20.580] Appreciated the opportunity to connect like we did such a great way to live life and I I like that
[08:20.580 -> 08:22.180] This is exactly what it is really, isn't it?
[08:22.180 -> 08:26.600] And you get that sense from him that this is not just a way of thinking. This is a way of living
[08:26.680 -> 08:27.800] Yeah, definitely
[08:27.800 -> 08:33.540] he spoke about that in terms of like sometimes just sat in a chair and just allowing yourself to be to
[08:33.620 -> 08:40.040] Concentrate on your thoughts that are going through but how you physically feeling and the emotions that are passing through you
[08:40.040 -> 08:46.980] This is definitely a way of life and hopefully our listeners can take something away that they can incorporate into their own lives
[08:47.140 -> 08:51.460] Well, I really hope you enjoy it. It's the next episode. We're gonna release here on high performance
[08:51.500 -> 08:54.300] It's also going to be released on Johnny's own podcast as well
[08:54.300 -> 08:59.940] Which is called I am and if you haven't listened to any of those episodes, I would strongly suggest you check them out
[08:59.940 -> 09:05.760] He has fascinating insightful educational conversations with all kinds of different people mae ganddyn nhw gwrthdysg, ymdrechion, ymdrechion ymdrechion, gyda phob mod o bobl gwahanol.
[09:05.760 -> 09:08.080] Gallwch hefyd edrych ar y fideo ar ein canol YouTube,
[09:08.080 -> 09:09.280] hefyd gwrando arno arno yma,
[09:09.280 -> 09:10.560] pwyswch ymlaen i'ch podcastau,
[09:10.560 -> 09:11.680] ac ddim yn gwybod,
[09:11.680 -> 09:13.280] os ydych am ddod yn fwy i gyd gyda High Performance,
[09:13.280 -> 09:16.400] gallwch hefyd i'r cyfranogi i'r cyfranogi High Performance.
[09:16.400 -> 09:19.040] Rydyn ni'n ffasiynol am y ffaith bod yn ymwneud â'n gredeg,
[09:19.040 -> 09:21.040] ac mae'n rhoi pobl yn ymwneud ag ymwneud ag
[09:21.040 -> 09:22.560] bywyd High Performance, Damian.
[09:22.560 -> 10:02.320] Ie, rwy'n credu y pwynt a wnaethoch chi yno, Jake, am ei fod yn gredeg, mae'n rhywbeth sy'n ymwneud ag y ryd o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o lefel o really important for us.
[10:03.520 -> 10:05.520] a'n ni'n nabod eich cyfnod.