What should you do when “life gives you lemons?” You’ve planned a nice picnic and found yourself in the pouring rain – do you go home disappointed or embrace it and have fun playing in the mud with your children?
In this episode, coach Travis Ramsey goes over 4 principles you can follow to become more mentally fit. Listen to learn about the impact of mental fitness on life expectancy, how to approach things when they don’t go according to plan, and why you should “take care of your feet.”
- Change is constant – you can either become stronger with whatever happens, or can retreat and wither from the things that happened.
- Think how great life would be if you could become a bigger person that can have everything go wrong and still choose to enjoy yourself and not let it affect you internally.
- Some events in life are so powerful that they fundamentally alter the way we see the world. Some people call them trauma, Travis calls them powerful events.
- It’s like being a boat in the ocean. You may get hit by a wave and the boat gets a hole – you can either let water come in and sink the boat or seal the hole.
- For some people, healing, personal growth and mental fitness are about going back and reclaiming the lost parts of yourself.
- Facing a challenge? You can either retreat or see it as an opportunity to grow.
- It’s not easy, but learning to become comfortable with the uncomfortable is a life-changing thing.
- Travis shares what’s at the heart of mental fitness and mental wellness: it’s the ability to contain.
- Can you hold two things: the world is both beautiful and full of good people, love, and hope, but it can also be not-so-kind and destructive too.
- Travis points out that there’s such a strong desire to make sense of the world and to make it fit our container, rather than expanding our container to fit it.
- When you’re experiencing inner turmoil, Travis’ advice is to allow the things that come up to come up, without the need of pushing them aside or numbing them.
- Courage is not the absence of fear, it’s moving forward despite the feeling of fear.
More information and episodes:
honestlybetterfitness.com/list
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