Manage Your Mind: The Mental Fitness Guide

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Self-compassion, however, can help you accept the disappointment in stride and turn your attention toward your next opportunity. When circumstances out of your control add stress to your life, it often becomes more difficult to regulate your state of mind. You’re miserable because you can’t do what you planned, so you turn your attention to things you’ve been meaning to accomplish. Your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to break out of this mental space and into a place where you can relax your emotional being as if in a king-sized bed all by yourself.

I don’t let it go very easily (if ever), so I have had to learn to manage my mind so I can stay in balance. In the world of self-help and personal development, there are two kinds of books: those that deal with your private life (how to improve your relationships, how to overcome depression), and those that focus on work and professional skills (how to manage time effectively, how to cope with the boss). Manage Your Mind also includes up-to-date information on how to make decisions, strengthen your memory, stop smoking, sleep better, recover from alcohol abuse, and more.

You may believe that this process is one of figuring out where you went wrong, but instead, it’s a mental prison built by trauma and pain. Once you feel calmer, you might have an easier time maintaining a relaxed state and regaining control over your thoughts and overall mindset. Fortunately, just as you can improve your physical health with diet and exercise, you can also take specific steps to improve your mental health. Sometimes we have to control our minds against thoughts that seem positive but can actually lead us to something negative or upsetting.

BetterUp can provides the support you need so that you can get rid of your unwanted thoughts and replace them with thoughts that help your well-being thrive.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines self-control as “restraint exercised over one’s own impulses, emotions, or desires. I would recommend it to anyone who struggles with their mental health and who is motivated to play a part in helping themselves.

You can’t disregard how your physical body feels when you’re trying to learn how to control your subconscious mind and vice versa. Anyhow, I believe this is a great 101 on mental health and CBT advice, and has loads of useful help to manage one’s issues. Feeling good is not just a question of addressing a few problems but depends on the development of positive attitudes and superskills that can help you to make the most of your opportunities. Start taking back control by exploring key sources of stress in your life and seeking potential ways to remove or reduce those triggers. Maybe you want to stop thinking about a recent breakup, or feel discouraged from a year of physical distancing and want to embrace a more hopeful perspective.

He is the editor of A Casebook of Cognitive Therapy for Traumatic Stress Reactions and co-editor with Adrian Whittington of How to be a More Effective CBT Therapist. I have bought two editions of this excellent book and used them to aid my mental health over more than two decades. It might feel a little awkward, but this cognitive reappraisal strategy offers a couple important benefits.