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How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
10 Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation
What is Meditation?
How to Meditate: Meditation 101 for Beginners
10 Science-Backed Benefits of Meditation
What is Meditation?
Benefits of Mindfulness: Mindful Living Can Change Your Life
Mindfulness 101: A Beginner's Guide
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Mental strength involves your ability to think, act and perform at your best in any given circumstance.
So, what does it actually
mean to be mentally strong?
Well, there's a lot of
misconceptions about mental strength.
And when I talk to people about it, they
often think that it's about keeping a
stiff upper lip, pushing down difficult
emotions, and just soldiering on, or
perhaps using willpower to push through.
Some people think that mental
strength is about always being happy
and never feeling any unpleasant
emotions like sadness, anger, or fear.
But mental strength is not
about any of that at all.
Mental strength means that you're able
to manage your thoughts skillfully,
regulate your emotions in a healthy
way, and have the capacity to live
according to your values, even in
the midst of difficult circumstances.
So mental strength really involves your
ability to think, act, and perform at
your best in any given circumstance.
I think what's important to note is
that mental strengths does not make
you immune to life's difficulties.
Heartbreak, losses, misfortunes,
illness and pain will all arise as a
natural part of life from time to time.
But in the midst of these circumstances,
as well as in the midst of good times,
when you're mentally strong, you'll
have the tools and inner resources
to navigate through whatever you're
facing with the best of who you are.
In its essence, I would say
that mental strength is really
about living with awareness.
It's only through cultivating awareness
that we can manage our thoughts
skillfully, regulate our emotions, and
live our life according to our values.
That's why mindfulness really
is the foundation and the
backbone of mental strength.
Because mindfulness is all
about cultivating our ability
to be more aware in our lives.
So when we learn to tap into awareness,
we not only learn how to become
less reactive, how to unhook from
unhelpful thoughts, how to ground
ourselves in a sense of inner calm and
wholeness, but we also tap into all
the qualities of our deeper nature.
Compassion, joy, wisdom, and
enormous reservoir of inner strength.
So by becoming mentally strong requires
effort, practice and commitment,
in the same way that becoming
physically fit and strong requires
effort, practice, and commitment.
It's really about training your
mind, learning and then practicing
healthy mental habits and continuing
to practice them over time.
And that's what mental
strength is really all about.
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