Are you focusing on strengthening your body or your Emotions?

[Heartache0405]

Are you currently focusing on strengthening your body physically so you can look and feel good or your emotions mentally so you can control said emotions better.

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Personally I have been focusing on strengthening my body at the gym with a friend. I feel as though I have come a long way in terms of honing my emotions. Is it for the better though? I have no idea. But it’s getting me by.

[DarkLordNoodlez]

I think the first step to emotional satisfaction is self-confidence. Not to say you should love yourself no matter what, as that's a dangerous ideology to fall down. But rather that self-improvement most often leaves to a happier and healthier lifestyle. So I think that as long as you look at it from the right view, working out will increase your emotional satisfaction. Of course you must take unhealthy views of body improvement into account as well. Such as feeling immense societal pressure to be in superb shape, or exercising to simply to make yourself feel more powerful. These are both unhealthy views of exercise, but as long as you avoid them, you will likely see an increase in your general mental health brought about through exercise.

[NewYorkCity]

My life lesson was, is that I don't have a genetics of Ronnie Coleman or Arnold Schwarzenegger, I don't have a right bone structure and muscle connections, meaning, no matter how hard I trained, for any amount of years or decades I would never be able to look like one of those iconic bodybuilders, so now, I'm just strengthening my emotional side, so nobody can hurt me, my family or outside looser people (humans).

[SenileOldMan]

Prioritizing emotional discipline and trying to take it easy on the drinking. It's in need of more work ATM. I've gotten a bit cranky and drunk during the COVID years.

[Heartache0405]

Don’t give up. It’ll get easier!

[SenileOldMan]

Cheers!

[SenileOldMan]

One thing is that if I focus on it, and stay sober, I'm pretty decent at the inner peace kind of thing. The thing is that lately, I don't seem to care. I'm enjoying being all fiery and cranky and impatient and being drunk. One of my problems might be boredom. I focus on cutting down the drinking first. That should help a ton.

[Heartache0405]

Maybe taking up and focusing on a hobby might help distract you from the drinking? If you claim to be drinking out of boredom?

[SenileOldMan]

I've taken up quite a number but maybe one of my problems is that I'm not much of an introvert. I'm quite the extrovert, but I haven't been able to hang out regularly with friends with the social distancing like I used to. The hobbies keep me entertained but I feel kind of empty.

[Heartache0405]

I guess it depends on where you live... because I’ve been hanging out with my friends almost every day. Not counting at work sense I do have a few friends I still work with who haven’t quit yet 😅 and I’m the complete opposite, I’m an extreme introvert

[SenileOldMan]

Perhaps I could benefit from a really deep hobby. I might need to find something wholly new. I like to draw, for example, like so:


But I'm not such a great artist and I'm not a deep one with some deep artistic thing to express. I just kind of doodle as a distraction. Then after I'm done, I get bored again. I also dabble in music and lots of other things lately, like reading about various subjects.

But I'm not finding any higher calling outside my work, and my work has gotten slow as well during COVID. I think I need a higher pursuit of some sort... anything! Something to work towards in the long run. I only have a bunch of distractions... or get back to a point where I can hang out with my friends regularly again. :-D

[SenileOldMan]

I'm in Japan ATM. They take the social distancing stuff hardcore here. All the bars in my area have shut down, restaurants close early, everyone wears mask, etc.

[Heartache0405]

That picture is extremely well done. Bravo. Having multiple hobbies isn’t a bad idea I don’t think. More distraction from the bad stuff 😅

[Heartache0405]

And damn... that really sucks... I’m sorry to hear that

[SenileOldMan]

I used to have a bar just within walking distance in my neighborhood and all my friends hung out there after work. So I could go even on like a Tuesday night and see a friend or two there and hang out. The owner of that bar is also my good friend but he had to shut it down permanently during COVID. I think I ultimately need to find a replacement for that bar. It was my way to get my share of social activity in for each week. I still hang out with my friends here and there: restaurant there, home party there, but it has become more like monthly than weekly.

[SenileOldMan]

Cheers again! I'll try to figure it out. The first thing I gotta do is ween myself off the alcohol. I'm starting to feel weird if I don't drink just for a few days. It's not like a hardcore withdrawal but I just feel weird. :-D

[Heartache0405]

Understandable

[MCheetah]

Neither. But I guess my emotions/mindset more, as there is nothing I can do to really "fix" or improve my body. That's a lost cause. All I can do is stop it from getting worse, via surgery. So the mind is the only thing I *can* somewhat fix.

[libsaretards]

Right now I'm focusing more on my mental health. I still go to the gym but more emphasis has been placed on mental and emotional health.

[lightbulb27]

body but I will get back to working more on my emotional self.

[es20490446e]

Neither. I just keep doing what I have been doing for a long time: training daily and turning the negative into opportunities.

[Kyle-Jackson78]

my goal is too be the biggest dude in my school, IM natty but still got a way to go

[AdithyaR]

Actually neither, I'm focusing on strengthening my intelligence and knowledge.

[MrJMM]

To me knowledge because I’m bad at understanding my own emotions and I don't give a flying fuck about exercising.

[Idiotikhumanz]

What emotions? Not sure I have them, if I do... I'm just very in control of them... I think only mentally weak people let their emotions control them

[Citizenkirk]

They both go hand in hand.