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You can gain mental and physical strength, even during times of crisis. Here’s how to power through …
As a society, much time is dedicated to physical health. Healthy weight, healthy skin, stronger abs, lower cholesterol. However, there is a key element essential to our physical health: mental strength. Without it, physical fitness and wellness goals—and all other ambitions—are impossible.
Everyone has an unlimited capacity to strengthen their mental muscle. Just like a workout on the Fitness Floor, you need to train your brain. You can regulate your thoughts, managing emotions, and respond to circumstances in productive ways. A healthy lifestyle, with healthy thought conditioning, lends itself to improved mental functioning. Fitness builds confidence and releases uplifting hormones, improves thinking skills and decision making, and increases energy. All these are needed to advance our mental strength.
Our diet affects our mental health as well. Just as we eat for weight loss or improved blood sugar, we can eat to help sustain a better mood. Replace junk food with brain-building nutrition and enhance your mental strength.
A personal trainer has expert insight on the best ways to sculpt a bicep or increase range-of-motion. A behavioral therapist offers equivalent mental training. You can learn how to advance your thought process beyond negative habits and personal weaknesses. Train your brain to strengthen your brilliance, and eliminate those weaknesses that make you want to hide under a blanket and avoid opportunities to grow (otherwise known as tough times).
Mental strength is harder to muster at different times in life. A shoulder injury can set back your ability to bench press. A bout of depression can do the same in your training for improved mental health. However, the ability to persevere can be the difference between full-body muscular atrophy and a small area to be worked after healing. Resilience can help rebound from the depression versus allow it to render you hopeless.
