Training Your Mind Is The First Step

In this article, we introduce the notion of training your mind to make it through hard times. You can train your muscles over time to become stronger, more resilient, and more flexible.

·       Strength: Developing muscular strength has many benefits, including increasing endurance, developing better posture, gaining greater balance and stability, and relieving back pain. 

·       Resiliency: Resilient muscles bounce back from fatigue and injury more quickly.

·       Flexibility: Muscles that are flexible can improve your performance and decrease your risk of injury.

With mental training, you can strengthen your emotional muscle to adapt to change better ultimately building more resilience. If you like to run, you don’t have to set a goal of finishing a marathon. But to get all the benefits of running, you have to train to do it properly and without injuring yourself. It is important to keep practicing – nothing happens overnight – and stick with it.

There are other skills that you can train your mind to be better at, such as attention, emotional balance, compassion, empathy and gratitude. So why not happiness as well?