Mental Fitness

The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental strength and fitness to take on all of life's challenges Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a high level of physical fitness, involves hard work, effort, and consistency. Our level of mental fitness determines how effectively we can flourish through adversity, realise our potential, and be happier with our lives - regardless of what the universe has in store. We all know about mental stress (or we think we do). We've definitely all experienced it, and none of us like it. Yet this is not a threat to be avoided. Mental stress is perfectly analogous to physical stress: it is the mind's way of telling us that what we are attempting to perform is challenging our resource. This is a catalyst for growth, and a sign we are pursuing our potential. When we experience stress, we have a choice: we can heed that signal and give up - after all, we're meant to stay in our psychic comfort zone all the time, right? Or we can recognise the discomfort we are feeling is simply nature's way of enabling us to rise to the occasion. In Mental Fitness you will learn how to: Increase your mental fitness, just as you would increase your physical fitness Get closer to your potential by working proactively to maintain your mental fitness Experience the right level of stress (this is what makes us get fitter) Cope effectively for longer before you get fatigued or exhausted (it doesn't mean you don't feel the struggle) Pay attention to the indicators of fatigue to avoid burnout and unnecessary misery

"An important read for anybody who is sick of covering up the underlying problems with medications and explore non-pharmaceutical solutions." —Emeran A. Mayer, MD, Distinguished Professor at UCLA and author of The Mind Gut Connection and The Gut-Immune Connection Achieve a balanced mood, clear thinking, and abundant energy through transformative methods based on groundbreaking research on the gut-heart-brain-axis. Depression, anxiety, and burnout are the plague of modern times. Mental wellness issues afflict millions of people worldwide and account for billions of dollars spent on pharmaceuticals and “feel better” products. Unfortunately, most of these solutions make us feel “different” but not really “better”–and certainly not how we want to feel. Nurturing the Brain-Body-Biome is the superhighway to improve physical energy, mental acuity, and emotional well-being through nutrition, movement, and mindset. Written by expert Psychonutritionist Dr. Shawn Talbott—a nutritional biochemist who has dedicated years of research and a dozen books to the study of nutritional psychology—Mental Fitness provides a clear, actionable path to optimize the connection across the Brain-Body-Biome and feel better naturally.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The brilliant new book from the multiple Sunday Times bestselling author that will explain the principles behind maintaining a healthy mind and body.

This is a keep-fit guide to your mind. It provides practical, step-by-step advice on how you can use psychological techniques to improve relationships, reduce anxiety and depression, and in many other ways to get more out of your life.

With Mental Fitness, Michiko Rolek provides a practical handbook for integrating mind, body and soul. Included are simple instructions on breathing, posture, concentration and relaxation, based on Rolek's own system of mind/body fitness

This book explores mind over matter in a digital age and presents the importance of continued transformation of the mind to promote humane Artificial Intelligence for greater good. In doing so, it focuses on the organizational and managerial practices that are critical in creating an environment that supports mindset and organizational growth. The digital age is significantly impacting employees and organizations and steering billions of people around the world. Artificial Intelligence has created a whole new paradigm with a revolution loftier than all the industrial revolutions and the innovations of the past millennia combined. We are either headed towards restoring humanity back to the “Imago Dei”, where creative powers are unleashed in human freedom, or advocating selective breeding and “survival of the fittest”.

In a fast-paced and interconnected world, where the demands of modern life often seem unrelenting, the importance of mental fitness has come to the forefront of discussions surrounding holistic wellbeing. Just as physical health is a cornerstone of our overall vitality, mental fitness plays an equally pivotal role in determining our quality of life. At its core, mental fitness refers to the state of one's psychological and emotional well-being, encompassing resilience, emotional intelligence, and the ability to navigate life's challenges with grace and poise. In a society that frequently places emphasis on external achievements and material gains, the significance of mental fitness is sometimes overshadowed. However, a growing body of research highlights the undeniable connection between our mental and physical health. Understanding that mental wellness is not just the absence of mental illness, but rather a positive state in which individuals can flourish, is a vital step toward holistic self-care.

The goal of mental fitness is to achieve a healthy mental state through a method that fits each situation, and with clear and specific steps, helps the reader discover where they are, understand how they got there, and what they can do to reach a complete mental well-being. With particular attention to the way in which we feed our mind, the factors that have come to establish certain habits in us, and which often become a block to our intention to improve, are addressed here. With a simple practice, the reader will be able to notice the benefits in his life through small changes in his daily activities. Mental Fitness helps those who practice it to more easily achieve their goals in a faster way, and also leaving them more time to dedicate it to the things that they really enjoy doing, and that are more productive than those that made up their old habits.