Emotional fitness is a fairly new term within the world of health and well-being. What it actually means is to be able to maintain, resolve, sustain and consistently find strength, when faced with challenges, stress, worry, and so forth.
The word is very similar to emotional wellness, emotional wellness again means the same thing, and also just being in a place, and having the skills to be resilient, on top of things, and knowing where to take yourself from one difficult situation to a place of resetting your nervous system and your logical mind and emotional body.
It is good to highlight, like any other person there are times when we don’t handle things well, we do become stressed or overwhelmed and that’s okay that’s all a part of life, but as you practice and observe yourself through the situations and circumstances you start to become more aware and you find, a map a inner map or compass to take you through the distressful events, whether that will be at work or in your personal life. It’s okay to not be okay though, sometimes we don’t have it all together and we’re not perfect. .
My emotional fitness levels are not the same as they were 20 years ago, and I’ve had significantly great people in my life that have guided me and provided sound mentorship to get to the place I am at today, I have gone back and forth throughout the years too. However, overall I’ve enjoyed the growth in the process. This is an important part to mention that to get to a level of emotional fitness, you have to enjoy self growth and self preservation in a sense, because that perspective will get you through the darkest times.
In the beginning, it may be difficult to sustain or remember, or utilise the information provided to yourself, or when you’re getting to know yourself and that can be difficult. However, finding what works uniquely for you is very helpful, knowing what you’re not as opposed to what you want to be, so that means understanding your capabilities, knowing your sensitivity levels, are key aspects of having a practical and productive level of skills in your life. When you are going through particular challenges in life, your mind, sometimes wants to already be at that place of peace and calm or in control which will then force you to want to speed up which would then create extra stress. Therefore, in this period what you ideally want to do is remember to take things slow and take things a day at a time, and really slow down the process, and again, this is one of the most difficult things to do, but it’s just something to be mindful of. This skill is having control of the thoughts and not the thoughts or feelings having control of you, basically not being too attached to the identity of the thoughts and feelings enough to observe them and then alter them.
So, whenever you are in a situation or circumstance, where you find yourself stressed, worried, unable to cope, it’s just being conscious, and mindful of how you are going to respond to the situation, and you don’t always get it right and sometimes you might have a laugh and think gosh, I didn’t do well this time, but that’s okay, that’s all part of developing and acquiring emotional fitness. To be honest it could take years to get to a level where you’re happy with your emotional fitness, wellness levels, I would never say it’s a speedy process but as the old saying goes it’s a journey not a destination and I know especially when something is painful or unpleasant you want things just to be okay and want to be in a better place which is natural.
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