You recognize when you feel good. You know when you feel at your best—at the top of your game. You realize when you enter harmonious relationship with family and friends—maybe even with foes. These are emotional states you experience. They range from negative and protective to joyous and ecstatic. The positive ones include love, peace, freedom, joy, empowerment, generosity, trust, tolerance, faith, patience, safety, honesty, and more.
Of course most of us most of the time want the good feeling emotional states. Perhaps you think you are not as consciously aware of such states as the next person. Whether or not you are, I believe that you can grow into broader and deeper awareness of these states. Only you can determine if you want greater awareness, or whether you deserve to experience these states, or even when you are ready to explore your potential. I encourage you to choose growth. And each of us has room to grow!
I see emotional fitness as the measure of how well emotions serve you. A high measure translates into an effective guidance system for you. Feeling responses signal when you are aligned with your purpose—also when you are not. When you align with your purpose at any level from the most mundane to the most sacred, you establish integrity with what and who you are from core to skin and beyond. Emotional fitness involves a condition that allows more and more persistent experience of emotional well being. It responds to conditioning which best begins with curiosity and flexibility.
You are emotionally fit relative to how well you align with your purpose. That calls first for awareness. Then it requires emotional agility allowing you to free your energy into an open flow. The effort required for this may be minimal. However, it can become very draining while meeting obstacles, residue, & constriction. Clearing these blocks is essential. I believe that good physical fitness contributes to emotional fitness as do clarity of thought, focused intent, and unbridled creativity. At the same time, each of these contributors benefits from and may even reflect emotional fitness. All are interdependent elements of overall, optimal wellbeing.
Consider a system of overlapping, mutually influencing fields. The picture could resemble a three dimensional Venn diagram. Emotion is represented by the intersecting areas of each sphere or field of experience. Label the three spheres “feelings”, “thoughts”, and “physical form”. Each relates to the other resulting in more or less positive or negative orientation. The results register in the body and/or present themselves through interaction with others and your circumstances. Seldom if ever does this result in no change. Your emotional response reflects the confluence of primarily these three fields.
The emotional response may well be the primary conduit for life force. Indeed, emotion may be the experience of life force. That is indicated by the effectiveness of acupuncture, thought field therapy, and other meridian stimulating techniques to open the flow and improve one’s positive orientation to the world. These techniques can address patterns of emotional response. I believe that when effective such techniques help you with alignment and thereby support emotional fitness.
While much, much more can be said on this subject suffice it to say that you can assess your emotional fitness by noticing how good you feel. You can improve your fitness through awareness along with navigating via thought, feeling, and action to achieve higher levels. You may need to free yourself from blocks using techniques that may call for the help of a coach or therapist.
I hope you agree with me that emotional fitness is a vital goal to pursue. I hope you join me in aiming for optimal well being!
