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Enhance your mental toughness and do better at life with these 8 steps

Fernando Albert

Do you want to empower your mental toughness and function more efficiently in life? Take a look and find a few 8 powerful but easy-to-follow suggestions to improve your mental toughness and start getting a lot more out of your life. Your energy will start shifting today!

Life challenges you, so make sure to enhance your mental toughness with these 8 steps

Hello everybody! This week we continue talking about subjects that perhaps are more psychological or philosophical than spiritual since last week we spoke about undivided attention and this week we are talking about enhancing your mental toughness. I have said many times everything is connected, you cannot separate it. Plus, as you know, a spiritual touch is always added to everything, and today will be no less.

We live in a very competitive society, as well as a society with a massive polarity between positive and negative experiences, good and bad people. I will be frank, life is not easy, you probably know this as well. However, you can make this difficulty a lot easier when you have the right approach to things. Undivided attention is one of them as I shared last week, but proper mental toughness is also essential, especially when handling pressure from other people and situations.

If you want to jump straight to the eight steps, you can click here, but I recommend you read the whole thing!

The importance of mental resilience

I want to share with you a quick tip that can increase the endurance of your mind in difficult situations. You need to work on developing your resilience because once you do, you will be able to handle a lot more, and only thanks to mental resilience you will continue to grow stronger, and recover much faster from negativity.

There is not a magic formula to be more resilient, but setting clear intentions and making an effort. Normally, if you have had a difficult life since you were little, but you managed to pull through, you are likely to be highly resilient, however, you can always keep improving this. I will share a few things that will contribute to having greater mental toughness.

Dwelling in negativity

Is your glass half full or half empty? This is a very simple statement, something very common that you probably know. If you want to start to have more resilience, you should start seeing that the glass is half full. I have a hard time understanding why you would always think that the glass is half empty and that it is a bad thing. Aren’t you able to project gratitude to the fact you have at least half the glass full?

It always greatly hurts me when I see some of my loved ones sticking in the “the glass is half empty” group because they sadly apply it to everything in their life. Is this your case? Think about a former situation that which the results were not awesome. Are you focusing on the positive results at all, even if they were insufficient? Are you even able to open your eyes more, observe the picked picture, and notice the good? This is essential for mental strength.

You can’t image how much you are damaging yourself when you do not see the positive side of things. Thanks to various Laws of the Universe, you will attract more opportunities to keep seeing your glass half empty. Is this what you want? Perhaps you are reading this, or even translating it for some reason, and you don’t make an effort to start seeing things more positively. Why? With more positive energy you bring your best in developing mental endurance by expanding your emotional resilience.

Grudges

Do you believe you hold grudges? Did anyone, especially a loved one, tell you that you hold grudges? Perhaps your ego doesn’t allow you to accept it, but when loved ones tell you this, you should consider looking more inside yourself. Start addressing any hatred, grudges, or negativities that you have within your heart. You are perhaps holding on to things for years, even towards loved ones, and it can be very painful for them and you.

You might believe that you are stronger when you hold on to things. I am sure this sentence resonates with you “I forgive but I don’t forget.” I have at least heard it from some of the people about events in their lives, people that I love the most, and it breaks my heart. Yes, it is important to remember things, learn from experiences, and grow stronger. The problem is that usually, the negative emotion attached to it remains in the heart. As an empath, for my loved ones who say this, I certainly feel they hold this negativity in their heart, not contributing to emotional regulation but damaging them instead. On top of this, their ego will make sure that they don’t see or believe otherwise.

You can truly let go of negative things, especially if it’s connected with your loved ones who understand any potential pain they could have caused you. Otherwise, you will weaken your heart by holding on to bad emotions. Trust me, you are not stronger for holding grudges on the person next to you, for example, but you are tweaking yourself thanks to the Principle of Vibration and Mentalism alone, plus more.

One essence for emotional resilience at work, for example, is to mainly center on what you need to do, period. If you want to think about others, only focus on what concerns, and affects you. Protect yourself from the negative and embrace the positivity, because if you do, it will grow. To be more resilient, you cannot hold on to negativity, so if a problem is solved, let go of the grudge… I meant it, let go of the grudge, and start working on this now.

Not living in the now properly

Another topic that promotes mental toughness is learning how to live in the now. But you gotta do it properly. I have shared a lot about this in an article that talks about linear time as well. Sometimes, there are powerful teachings that are incomplete. For example, the LoA is incomplete on its own, as you need to keep into account more Principles of the Universe. The same happens with some teachings of living in the now.

There is one particular popular song that teaches you to be well in the now, but in my opinion, not the right approach because it promotes you to be irresponsible. Even some teachings online share about not even caring for the future, and this is wrong. I like to teach it in the way that:

You learn from your mistakes from the past but discard the rest and certainly do not dwell on them. This promotes mental toughness and greater emotional regulation.
You give your 100% in the present, the here and now. Project undivided attention over the things you do, and make sure to live the now to the fullest.
Since you learned from your mistakes and are giving your all in the present, you don’t even need to think about the future (nor worry), as you are assuring a great one.

Once you take these into account, you need to improve a little bit your time management to feel more confident and productive. As time goes on, you will feel that living your life this way makes you a lot stronger, yielding greater mental resilience.

Sounds simple, right? Sometimes, simplicity is best, and the abovementioned only requires you to do your best focusing on the now. This is a fantastic way of building emotional resilience because if difficult moments strike, you can rely on a stronger foundation that you have built. There is nothing more of mental toughness than this!

The Eight ways to build up mental toughness and resilience

Now that you know a lot more about resilience and mental toughness, you will get your 8 steps to start taking an assertive move towards a greater version of yourself. I recommend you start slowly applying these in your life, don’t try to do it all at once, but be truthful to yourself.

Cultivate a Growth Mindset: You want to focus on slowly but steadily improving, every day a little. This comes from trying better every day, but without getting obsessed with it. A tiny step is still a step, and all steps forward are great. Always keep this in mind. One simple way to do it here is to observe more how you were doing things, and how you are doing them now. Honor your progress, and reinforce what is necessary.
Develop Emotional Regulation Skills: Here, you need to be more connected with yourself and understand your feelings. You need to know what you are feeling, when, and why. When you figure it out, you will not succumb to your skills. During difficult moments, especially if you can’t do much about it, you want to focus on projecting positive feelings, even if it comes by recalling other situations. This increases emotional resilience by a lot.
Set Realistic Goals: It is super important that you set realistic goals to promote mental toughness. Otherwise, you will exhaust yourself or lose motivation. If you are very assertive, you can overdo things, pushing yourself to the edge and beyond, inducing massive anxiety (trust me, I know well!) Other people will feel very discouraged, losing motivation and growing weaker. So you need to find your sweet spot, and one way to find it is both experiences and knowing yourself well.
Strengthen Your Support System: If you need to ask for help, ask for it! You are no less of a person if you need help. Care nothing whether others need no help, or need more help than you do. Focus on what you need, drop your ego, and seek the help that will bring the emotional and mental toughness you need. You are not alone, you don’t need to face your demons alone. With some help, you will do it better, and faster.

Practice self-compassion: This one might be harder than you think or better said, you might make it harder because you don’t find your worth. I know a lot of people, including loved ones who don’t even want to bother with self-compassion, even while being aware. They instead prefer to make self-destructing comments and put themselves down. Is this your case? If so, you are not contributing to your mental toughness and it is time for a change right now!
Step out of your comfort zone: Another one that takes willpower. Even if you think you cannot step out of your comfy zone, you can indeed, and perhaps you are already doing it, and you cannot even honor yourself for it. You need to try new things, and you will discover more of yourself, and this will make your mental toughness and emotional resilience increase. You will little by little bring new things into your life, contributing to your overall happiness as well.
Develop a Daily Routine: You need to add new things to your life, such as being more focused, knowing how to approach the positive side of things, and adding new experiences to your life. With the busyness you probably have, you want to add a few things to your daily routine. For example, add 10-15 minutes of daily introspection for greater self-awareness. The key is little by little adding more to your life. As I said above, not all at once. Start by loving yourself more and honoring your efforts, every single day.
Keep your connections strong: As a human being, you need to interact and socialize. Plus, divide and conquer only weakens us, is better to group up, and move forward. Together, you will pull a lot more power and have much greater results. Honor the positive connections you have and nurture them. Work on reinforcing the bond by being present, kind, and loving in all your personal and professional relationships.

As you can see, these are quite simple steps. I am not sharing an ancient secret that will make your mental toughness flawless. You only need to keep these few things into account and add new changes, little by little every day. Don’t feel you have to rush, as feeling the need to rush already reduces your emotional resilience.

Mental Toughness will develop within your mind and consciousness

From here, it is all about you, and how you approach life. You need to keep into account to always project positive behavior over things, remember, like attracts like. Mental toughness is not only about being able to take hits. It is about doing things in a way that you will take fewer hits. This is one of those situations where a positive offense yields the best defense. The offense goes around “hunting and destroying” everything that doesn’t belong in your consciousness.

You cannot just cope with setbacks and challenges just like that. You need to have a strong foundation, and precisely it’s here where one of my statements comes to light; “learn from the past and live in the know to ensure a secured future that you don’t have to focus on nor worry for.” Because if you have a problem or setback (you will eventually), you will have a lot of answers to the problem, as well as a whole deck of cards available to use to face the problem.

If you find yourself in this situation, I can assure you that your mental toughness is fantastic. Besides powerful mental endurance and emotional resilience, you know better how to approach things so you do not need to use that toughness or resilience, things will simply flow better.

Building Mental Strength is a Daily Journey

I want to wrap up with a reminder. You become and continue to be a person with a strong mental toughness, so it is not a tool, it is part of you. This means that you need to keep into account everything you have learned and apply it every day. I advise you to start little by little, so it will not become overwhelming.

Again, you only need to remember that mental toughness is something you develop and something that you keep getting better at. As with everything, practice makes the champion, so don’t feel rushed or weak, you are strong because you focus on improving yourself and your life.

FAQ

Q: How do you build mental toughness?

A: To be straightforward: focus on yourself, honor your accomplishments, plan, and be ready while you project and work on positive thoughts and emotions.

Q: What makes you mentally stronger?

A: When you become more resilient, you become stronger. Setting a good foundation in life, knowing yourself, and surrounding yourself with authentic individuals who connect with you will enhance your mental toughness.

Q: What is mental strength called?

A: You can call mental toughness being able to handle difficult situations with great resilience, energy, and potentially, positive results.

Q: How does a growth mindset contribute to mental resilience?

A: Learn how to let go of grudges. Stop living in the past, and worrying about the future, take action. Set a stronger foundation in life, and surround yourself with caring people. The most important, work on yourself on knowing and honoring your needs.

Feel free to comment on any strategies you may have developed personally! You will possibly help someone else 🙂 So, next week we will continue in the same spectrum of articles, this time, we will talk about self-care, and to remember we are not machines. However, all of this in a week. See you next Wednesday!

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Rev. Fernando Albert

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Fernando Albert

Welcome to Soul Guidance! Here you can read all about Fernando Albert, Psychic Medium, Healer & Author. He speaks English, Spanish, Galician, and Catalan. Fernando believes in constant learning and personal and spiritual development, so he has both attended and taught spiritual workshops around the globe. Fernando follows his life purpose in being of service to others. He dedicates himself full time to providing psychic readings, energy healings, and coaching and teaching others.