If you learn to be flexible, you can choose the position that best suits your interests. Because true human power is nourished by mental flexibility, and not by approaches that, when finished, lose all sensitivity to what happens. In the end, happiness is movement and always responds to the mind that knows how to direct itself, that accepts its emotions, that connects, that takes care of its focus and has clear objectives.
When we speak of mental flexibility, it is very common to immediately see a bamboo forest. In the middle of a storm or a cyclone, it bends in front of each blow of wind and water to return later to the initial position. The metaphor is quite illustrative, but the real magic of bamboo is not found in its flexible property: it is its strength.
"The brain has many more possibilities and energy than we think, why, instead of dedicating ourselves to them, does it fall asleep, we do not strive to empower them?"
Jenny Moix-
Thus, our health depends not only on what we do, but also on what we think, in addition to other factors, such as genetics, in which we do not deepen. Therefore, something that we sometimes do not realize is how much our emotional and psychological balance is weak. In this sense, our mind can not be the quietest place to live. In it, many fears, obsessions, sadness, negative dialogues can live ...
As Jenny Moix explains in her book 'My Mind Without Me', we have to be aware that authentic happiness encompasses not only the sole of our tread feet. Good part of our possibilities of well-being resides in the health of our mental processes. Following this line, we can say that only if we are able to learn to be more flexible, give shape to a more resistant approach to any challenge or adversity.
Be flexible to experience less negative emotions
Who travels his day to day with a rigid and inflexible mental focus will stop inexorably before any obstacle, under threat of being destroyed. In this way, a mind that does not know how to adapt, relativize or control its automatic thoughts is not happy.
There are many scientific studies that support a reality: psychologically flexible people are able to enjoy a better quality of life. This approach will allow them to better manage their emotions, respond more creatively to difficulties and enjoy social relationships much more positive and enriching.
Being flexible also makes us more effective. This capacity puts resources within our reach to adapt and react to unexpected or new events.
Train our mental flexibility to be happy
Be flexible to be happy. This should be, without a doubt, one of our daily slogans. However, when we have practically half of our lives immersed in the mental locomotive of worry, anxiety, insecurity or those iron inherited schemes that condition us so much, it is very difficult to change habits, approaches, life ...
We would like to take things differently, relativize, train our mental flexibility to be more resistant to changes and adversities, but how to do it? Well, as they say, it is not always good to concentrate only on the results, on what we want to be or achieve. Close goals we reward allow us more often, while practicing different strategies.
Opening
Let's stop thinking in absolute terms, that the opposite of white is black,
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Let's dare to discover the world of nuances that opens between the two poles. Little by little, we realized that we were wrong in many things, that reality is full of details, riches, approaches, learning, points of view ...
The present moment
Our mind likes to ramble, loves to flee to yesterday, for what one day was, could be or not. It also has the bad habit of traveling to the future without a time machine to anticipate a thousand catastrophes, a thousand disasters and misfortunes.
Come on we put the brakes, we will shorten this mind as a traveler and learn to seduce her with the present time, with the here and now, when it happens that really matters.
Connect to what really matters
Having mental flexibility implies, in turn, not losing sight of our roots. It means being tied to our values and what really matters. In this way, it will be more difficult for judgments and current opinions of others to drag us.
Finally, some skills and abilities may be more beneficial than psychological flexibility. It is a way to resist much better the unexpected but recurrent oscillations that tend to arise throughout our life cycle. Deepening and acquiring adequate tools on this subject can help us to have a better quality of life.