MANHATTAN BEACH, CA / ACCESSWIRE / April 23, 2021 / If you ask an Army Special Operations Ranger, sports and fitness are some of the best tools to expose mental and emotional deficiencies.

The one emotion that holds people back from achieving a goal or progressing is fear. It's a natural human process, but is often a paralyzing one.

The truth is, anyone who says they don't experience fear is withholding the truth, unable to identify these emotions, or genuinely unaware of physical and mental signals. We all experience fear, but most don't know how to translate those feelings and emotions into performance enhancing tools.

The people we see who appear fearless are those who have modified their relationship with fear so it doesn't feel like fear. Instead, it feels like fuel. It acts as a specific point of awareness to change our internal processes. Military Special Operations Forces are experts in this field, with direct experience in correlating how we deal with mental issues and how to turn them into positive forward momentum.

Pearce Cucchissi is a former collegiate Rugby player and a special operations combat veteran. He served in the Army as a Ranger in the 75th Ranger Regiment, a US Army Special Operations unit. Throughout his deployments to Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, Cucchissi was in charge of a team of rangers and foreign special operations forces for training, performance, and mission success. His time in the military helped him to develop his current ideology about performance.

While going through years of the military's most rigorous selection, training, and combat environments, Cucchissi recognized that it was not physical limitations that held military special operators from performing at a high level, it was their mental and emotional state.

This was not often talked about, pushed aside and not used directly as a performance tool. Cucchissi was able to build consciousness relating to this issue and start to articulate language around ways to build an optimized mental and physical state. His conviction to this work lies in freeing others from themselves and watching them succeed.

In 2020, he created Built to Evolve, a human optimization program that helps others break free from their own limitations. The program transfers what Cucchissi learned in his military training to help entrepreneurs, professional athletes, creatives, and everyday citizens who struggle with fear, stress, anxiety, confidence and other limiting beliefs about themselves.

The purpose of Built to Evolve is to utilize the efficacy of sport and physical activity to expose correlations between mental and emotional health that are preventing teams and clients from performance optimization.

The ability to modify our relationship with fear, anxiety, and other mental deficiencies is an effective tool for performance, contentment, and satisfaction. Often overlooked, Here are 3 techniques you can use to overcome fear and improve your performance. They will be broken down into two categories: physical and mental.

Breathwork

Breathwork is a physical tool that regulates the nervous system. The autonomic nervous system along with the limbic system regulates pulse, blood pressure, breathing, and arousal in response to our emotional cues.

When we are in a state of fear, the nervous system prepares the body to respond to whatever external stimuli is present. This is a natural process we can feel, as long as we build physical awareness.

Breathwork is a technique used to soothe our nervous systems. It is a conscious and systematic way of calming nerves by intentionally changing your breathing pattern. It is also an essential part of sports and fitness-ask any martial artist, yogi or weightlifter.

Not only does intentional breathwork improve people's physical and mental well-being, it can improve a person's performance, no matter the activity. It can help us feel and perform better in the face of fear, anxiety, and while under pressure.

The goal with breath is to be able to take control of a subconscious action, and manipulate it in a way where we can control our state and put into practice the things we have trained for.

Identifying and dissociating from your thoughts

There is still a stigma around the topic of mental health. As a result, many people are struggling with mental issues and anxious thoughts, but don't know how to articulate or work through them. We also have failed to create a culture where talking about our mental state is the norm.

Creating language around this kind of mental activity starts with identifying the common threads in your head. From there you can work to change the narrative and ask for help if needed. These are essential and brave ways to overcome a negative mental environment.

The ability to dissociate from the thoughts in our head is a proven way to improve performance in the workplace, on the field, and in our lives in general. We are all capable of doing this. It starts with awareness and controlling our state.

Unfortunately in most high performance environments in sports, business, and in the home, we shy away from talking about negative patterns of thoughts and behavior. Pearce's philosophy and practice revolves around utilizing mental fitness as a tool for performance, contentment and satisfaction.

Nervous system control

A huge part of overcoming fears is regulating the nervous system. When we experience fear, our nervous systems automatically respond in the following ways: fight, flight or freeze.

It all starts with the amygdala perceiving fear. This prompts it to send signals to the hypothalamus, which stimulates the autonomic nervous systems.

Our nervous system is now kicked into full-gear.

You'll either respond with the parasympathetic or sympathetic nervous systems. The sympathetic nervous system triggers the fight-or-flight response. The parasympathetic nervous system triggers the freeze response.

Engaging in physical activity builds a sense of confidence in the face of struggle. Activities like boxing or kickboxing can train the body and nervous system to respond to external stimuli differently-transmuting fear into fuel.

We use physical activity as an incredible tool to expose where our mind holds us back, and gives us a consequence free environment to work through these problems and find a correlation to our everyday lives.

Movement is a necessary component to relieving stress and can act as a catalyst to maintain a better quality of life if the intention is correct.

Overcome Your Fears with Built to Evolve

Built to Evolve offers physical training and one-on-one personal development coaching to special operations candidates, college athletes, professional athletes and business people using his knowledge and experiences from the military.

He, along with his team of coaches, hold public and corporate training courses outdoors in Manhattan Beach and Santa Monica, California. The training sessions include strength training and conditioning, yoga, boxing and more. All with a purposeful intent to optimize the mind.

Private coaching is done at an exclusive rooftop location in Santa Monica, and a series of month long courses are available online.

Built to Evolve prides itself on customizing training and courses based on the individual's unique goals and abilities. They strive to uphold the philosophy of creating purpose, removing limiting beliefs, having honest conversations and practicing discipline and accountability.

If your goal this year is to improve your individual or team's performance, contact Pearce Cucchissi and join the Build to Evolve family.

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