Mental Fitness Workouts
October 15h - October 22nd
Happy Sunday,
Mental health is something that YOU do.
Mental health requires investment and training.
Mental health is a daily priority.
The mind gym serves the purpose of making mental health exercises accessible. The hope is that you are provided the framework to train your mind, much like a half-marathon training plan. Similar to physical health goals, we don’t want you to go on this journey alone.
The mind gym will be taking the next step in building our community by hosting a live mental fitness workout session on Sunday, October 22nd at 11:00 am ET.
The details:
30-minute session
Reflect on the previous week and prep for the upcoming week
Live focus training exercise
Connect with like-minded individuals
If you have any questions leading up to the event, please reach out. Feel free to invite anyone who may be interested. Looking forward to seeing you there!
Mental Fitness Workouts:
Achievement: WOOP Goals
Take a moment to review last week’s exercise on meaning. As you know, activities that are fueled by intrinsic motivation pave the way for more joy, better performance, and increased resiliency.
This week your exercise is to create a WOOP goal for an intrinsically motivated activity that you identified.
In a journal, on a notes app, on your phone, or wherever you like:
Create a WOOP goal for your week. The following images will provide you a prompt and detailed information about how to effectively set a WOOP goal
Stress Training: Measured Breathing (4 inhale-1 hold-7 exhale)
6 days a week x 7 minutes
If you enjoy this practice, feel free to extend the days or time out to meet your current needs!
This breath pacer is a great tool to utilize for this practice
This breathing practice will be periodized throughout this mesocycle (September 18th - October 29th) similar to how you may periodize the bench press to increase weight. Our objective is to breathe for a longer time for the outcome of reducing stress.
Interesting Article:
Want to learn more about the difference between being and doing?
Check out this article from mindful
Back to the workouts:
Focus Training: Brain Games
Play this food count game to quickly count the right amount of food on the screen.
Play this rain dots game and change the color of the tile at the bottom to match it to the correct color dot that is falling
Self-As Context: Are you doing or being?
Doing mode is the experience of actively thinking about the past, present, or future.
Being mode is the experience of passively attending to the present moment.
A key difference is accepting what life throws at us in the being mode versus evaluating the same experience in the doing mode.
Your Exercise: Practice OUT 3 times this week
Observe that you are stuck in the doing mode
Undo this experience by mindfully engaging in the present moment for 60 sec
Transcend back into the task at hand with a being mode lens
You may be saying to yourself:
“Don’t I need to be in the doing mode to complete my work?”
You’re not entirely wrong. However, the shift comes in participating in the task at hand while being grounded in a present-moment awareness.
I want to leave you with one more statement about mental health:
Just like working out, just like eating healthy, just like taking care of your body:
Mental health is health.
I am stoked to see you for our live event on Sunday.
Be Easy,
Ryan