55 Tips for Mental Fitness

Mental fitness is just as important as physical fitness and should not be neglected. Mental fitness is keeping your brain and emotional health in superb shape. It refers to activities that help you focus, slow down, decompress, boost your memory and retain emotional well-being. Mental fitness refers to a healthy and strong mind that allows you to handle daily challenges and opportunities, without getting too stressed and warned out.

List of 55 Tips for Mental Fitness:

  • 1. Attend self-development courses/programs
  • 2. Be a lifelong learner
  • 3. Be charitable and meet new people
  • 4. Be compassionate
  • 5. Be optimistic and eliminate negativity from your life
  • 6. Challenge your (old) believes daily
  • 7. Chant mantras (see also: How Mantras Work and Benefit Us?)
  • 8. Complete a puzzle
  • 9. Consider the other side of every situation/argument
  • 10. Constantly confront the things you fear, ask yourself why you fear these things
  • 11. Develop a reading list
  • 12. Develop listening skills and use them daily
  • 13. Discipline yourself to avoid procrastination
  • 14. Do not get obsessed by things beyond your control
  • 15. Eat healthy food and avoid excessive use alcohol (see also: Healthy Eating and Mental Health)
  • 16. Explore healthy responses to anger
  • 17. Force yourself out of your comfort zone on a regular base
  • 18. Give money or food to a homeless (Should I Give Money to Beggars or Not)
  • 19. Go to a bookstore and browse things out of your interest
  • 20. Increase your vocabulary 
  • 21. Learn about the present as well as the past
  • 22. Learn another language
  • 23. Learn at least one new word daily
  • 24. Learn to draw
  • 25. Learn to play a musical instrument
  • 26. Look for good in things
  • 27. Love yourself
  • 28. Make a list of ideas for personal growth and review them regularly to check your progress
  • 29. Make a list of the positive attributes of someone you do not like
  • 30 Make a personal financial plan
  • 31. Meditate daily (see also: Small Secrets of Happiness – Meditation)
  • 32. Offer encouragement and praise your family members and colleagues
  • 33. Play chess
  • 34. Practice concentration of full attention to the matter at hand
  • 35. Question mainstream media statements
  • 36. Read about cross-cultural books and magazines to learn about global perspectives
  • 37. Realise that although you cannot control others you can control your reactions to them
  • 38. Recognise stress and find ways to reduce it in your life
  • 39. Spend more time in nature
  • 40. Stay in touch with your spiritual side
  • 41.Stay physically fit and you will find it easier to be mentally fit (see also: BENEFITS OF EXERCISE)
  • 42. Subscribe to new publications on a variety of subjects
  • 43. Take a vacation and relax
  • 44. Take time to listen to and to speak to strangers
  • 45. Time yourself to increase your focus and effectiveness (see also: The 20 Minute Timing Trick to Increase Your Effectiveness)
  • 46. Travel to places you have never been
  • 47. Try out new things
  • 48. Use a daily planner or calendar
  • 49. Use behaviour modification to achieve your goals (see also Reinforcement)
  • 50. Use visualisation to achieve your goals
  • 51. Visit a museum
  • 52. Visit a public library occasionally and check books of your interest and recommended by others
  • 53. Watch educational or motivational programs
  • 54. Watch foreign films
  • 55. Work on your memory/recall abilities (including people’s names)

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