Let’s talk about fitness and strength. You’d be thinking of the way an athlete gains successful performance. You could be right, but in this instance I want to highlight Emotional Fitness and Inner Strength.
Emotional Fitness
Emotional Fitness and Inner Strength
Emotional fitness is not often talked about openly. Emotions usually have that negative connotation. A child or someone gets upset and they are often treated as an annoyance and told, “Stop being so emotional…”
But emotions are really a state of behaviour stemming from being in a certain state of mind. It’s neither good nor bad. However, this emotional state can be used like a powerful energy to create. If you’re thinking Law of Attraction here, you’re right. I need not elaborate the aftermath.
So, what is your emotional fitness like? Does it serve you well? A noisy wailing child could get the attention he or she wants out of fearful parents. How you use its energy can get you what you want too.
Facing a bully of a boss at work for example, can become a trying time for you. But if your emotional fitness is on the strong side, you could realize that this nasty person is really more like that wailing kid. You realize you don’t have to be that punching bag or shoulder to be cried on.
Of course there is no need to become that war hero in the movies where you walk out to meet the enemy so that your comrades can get away. If you are, hey, let me know. You win a prize.
In both situations, something within you has grown to the point that you have more fortitude and confidence to meet any challenge.
Inner Strength
The mere mention of inner strength and your mind will likely give you clips of that powerful martial arts exponent breaking through a dozen bricks. Is it chi? It’s possible. But in this case were talking about people with the fortitude to see through challenges. People who can create breakthroughs with sheer will.
Consider a person who has been semi crippled for decades and is always being told not to be too ambitious in life. Always feeling weak and helpless, he or she dared not even dream of great things to accomplish. However, one day, being totally annoyed with that life condition, he or she may suddenly turn into a hero of transformation.
A wheelchair ridden person trained himself to walk. The eastern philosophies will consider that his chi was ultimately strong in him. We simply say his inner strength has developed within him. How did this person do that? His thoughts and then his sheer force of will caused a transformation of what was once a handicap to become that example of driving motivation. His handicap demonstrated his great dissatisfaction which drove him to want an alternative to his life. He was driven to create his breakthrough and walked.
A sequence of events must then occur in his mind.
- First, he lived what he had been experiencing for a long time.
- Second, he became so sick of his lot, he desired of another lifestyle, and that is to walk on his own.
- Third, he took massive deliberate action. This is where he had removed all hurdles that had kept him there and built his emotional strength.
Of course, we could say the universe helped with more thoughts, people and circumstances. But all would not have happened if he had not got himself away from his emotional and physical problems. He developed his emotional fitness and allowed his inner strength to get him off his butt.
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