This book isdedicated to all who seek inner strength.
Chapter 1- What does it mean to Have Mental Strength?
The term mental strength refers tothe internal power that drives you to complete a particular action, task orgoal. If youre an athlete it may involve sports and summoning up the energy tofinish that last stretch across the finish line. Business acquaintances usuallycall on their mental strength to close the final deal or complete a businesspresentation with rave reviews focusing on receiving immediate orders.Individually it is described as an inner strength that allows you to persevere,making it through lifes challenges and hurdles.
We each have the need to activateour own mental strength; its an internal force, which triggers your body toperform beyond normal exceptions. Its your inner voice that says you arecapable and you can successfully confront the opposition, whether itsphysical, or emotional. Mental strength is your bodys response to a conditionor circumstance, causing your body to reply as needed. Your mental strength cancreate a new level of physical and emotional endurance based on the situation.It also helps you to develop individually, calling on your own mental strengthto support you through physical encounters, and emotional hardships that youmay have to face throughout your lives. Mental strength is essential tobuilding your own personal character based on your own unique experiences.
As you go through each day, youdepend on a certain amount of physical and emotional strength. Its thisability to activate and call on our mental strength that ensures we start andfinish each day no matter how difficult. Its what brings us back to thestarting point to begin another day and face the ordeals that are imposed bythe world and ourselves. Its the same voice that listens when you have fallenand allows us to sulk, rather than agonize over what you failed to accomplish.Our mental strength allows you to accept your weaknesses and focus on turningthem into strengths. It gives you the ability to make a decision to moveforward with the aptitude to make noticeable differences within yourenvironment and yourself.
Mental strength builds yourself-reliance in making decisions based on your inner awareness, while at thesame time increasing your physical and emotional health. When you are feelinghealthy and confident you actually improve your own mental strength, buildingyour level of competence and strengthening your bodys ability to confront anddeal with lifes next adventure or challenge.
This process becomes an asset, andwe learn to use it as a valuable resource, taking advantage of our own abilitywhen we are in need of inspiration. Our own motivation and resourcefulnessencourages us to believe and gather the courage and strength to accomplish ourgoals and maintain this new found practice of reliance and certainty. As wecontinue to develop our mental strength we begin to understand how capable weare of achieving and completing our goals or tasks, whether its simply gettingthrough each day or attaining new levels of success.
Mental strength gives you theability to deal with demanding situations, empowering yourself with the trustand belief that you can confront your risks and deal resourcefully. Itscreates your will power to finish the race, the self-discipline to maintain adiet and exercise routine for your own well-being. It acknowledges that you arenot perfect, but you can become stronger and face the endeavors no matter howtough they appear in the beginning.
Mental strength confirms your needto know your own limits and how far you can push past those boundaries tocreate new ones. Its what gives you the ability to dream and focus on whatneeds to be done, generating the energy both physically and emotionally tosustain. It produces the inner strength to move past adversity anddisadvantages that have held you back before.
You can improve and reinforce yourmental strength each day, ensuring that each time you call for help, your braininstantly activates your bodys response. You need to challenge yourself slowlyover time so that your body automatically enables your brain to consider theexisting response or execute a newly planned reaction to realize a successfulsolution. Once you become conscious of your mental strengthen youll begin todevelop a habit that consistently improves the results and the outcome. At somepoint your mental strengthen becomes stronger and faster through practice,exercise and repeat functions. Your concentration improves as does your memoryfrom past experiences; taking the good conclusions and building endurance forthe future, while remembering the less successful results and replacing themwith proven achievements.
How do you make the most of yourmental strength? Challenge yourself each day, promise to consider analternative to old habits that didnt work and implement new ones that do work.You need to listen carefully to your brain, and believe that your body willrespond because its already been proven that you can endure to face thechallenges within your life. Take your disappointments as a new challenge; keepyour brain active by focusing on one thing at a time before you move on to thenext challenge to ensure the desired results. Maintain a healthy balance ofthought no matter what you encounter by simply engaging your mental strength everyday of your life.
Chapter 2- Mental Strength- Howto Be More Positive
A big part of life is not so muchwhat happens to us but how we respond to it. Having negative attitudes andbehavior will lead us to having a negative life. Having ups and downs is aregular part of life and, while depression is a very real condition, you do notalways have to act depressed. Having a positive attitude about life and eventscan make living more enjoyable for yourself and the people around you. If youwant to easily improve your life, having a positive mindset makes thatpossible. Being positive is more than just an idea; it is a way of life thatshould be practiced multiple times every day.
Need some help? Here are some waysto be more positive.
Laugh
Whoever said that laughter is thebest medicine had the right idea. Laughing, even when a situation is notparticularly funny, is a great way to improve your outlook on a situation.Laughing will also improve your mood and possibly the mood of those around you.If you are faced with an unfortunate situation that makes you want to cry, trylaughing instead. You may look crazy but you will also feel better.