How Does Your Mindset Affect Your Health? There are a variety of obligations and interests that we automatically believe must be addressed on our mental to-do list. We have also developed a sense of taking care of ourselves as a result of our past experiences and understandings. Do you think it’s smart or selfish? Were we taught to take care of ourselves as an option or as an essential? It is imperative to create space in that seemingly immovable mindset for a new belief about self-care in order to successfully integrate it into your daily life.
Exercise requires you to change how you think about it, just like Meaning and Awareness. To prioritize your energy level and sense of well-being, you need to get inside your mindset and surface beliefs and attitudes that are preventing you. The tendency is to confuse our mindset with ourselves, and to confuse our mindset’s choices with our own. Our mindsets are powerful, so that’s why. How we perceive everything is determined by it, as is how we act and how we prioritize our time. As we live inside it, looking out through its window, we can hardly see the world around us.
You must remember that your mindset is influenced by your socialization, but it is not necessarily you. Additionally, it is not always looking out for your highest interests. You’ve worked hard for a few days, and you’re close to exhaustion from all the work you’ve done. As you gaze out the window, you think about how refreshing it would feel to walk around for 45 minutes on such a pleasant day.
Then you realize that you should finish your work first. By the time you finish your work, it’s dark outside, and you have no choice but to go home and to bed. How would you describe the actor in this drama who represents your mindset? How would you describe yourself? In whose sphere of interest are you most likely to find yourself? The values we value most are strongly influenced by socially constructed norms and pressures, such as being “a good provider” or “a good parent.”
Few would argue that these are not good social values. We get rewarded for choosing to fulfill these values, but they can easily become out of proportion because they are so cherished in society. Eventually they become a must that we fulfill automatically and in excess, which crowds out all other needs. In the end, adding one more should take its place at the end of a long list-I should take care of my own daily health and fitness.
In the face of this challenge, most people are unable to get past yet another social norm: I should not be selfish. We can easily get distracted by this kind of thinking, which is rooted in our own values and self-worth, and it can effortlessly derail our self-care efforts. Despite its good intentions, this fixed mindset is misguided.
If we ignore our own self-care needs for the sake of never-ending to-do lists, we become overwhelmed, exhausted, and fatalistic about the possibility of ever changing anything in our lives. Our emotional, mental, and physical “caretaker muscles” can also become inflamed if they are overused. I call this state of being caretaker painful. My oh my!
How Does Your Mindset Affect Your Health? There are a variety of obligations and interests that we automatically believe must be addressed on our mental to-do list. Photo Credit – Pexels
