Mental Fitness is defined as your capacity to deal with life's challenges in a positive way vs. a negative way. It is a measure of the strength of your positive mental muscles (Sage) versus the negative mental muscles(Saboteurs). Based on the NY Times bestseller book, "Positive Intelligence" by Shirzad Chamine, the recently launched 6-week Mental Fitness program from Stratosphere has been demonstrated by research at Stanford with 500,000 participants to improve your performance, relationships and happiness.
Saboteurs react to challenges in ways that generate negative emotions such as stress, disappointment, self-doubt, regret, anger, shame, guilt, or worry.
The Judge is the universal Saboteur that afflicts everyone. It is the one that beats you up repeatedly over mistakes or shortcomings, warns you obsessively about future risks, wakes you up in the middle of the night worrying, gets you fixated on what is wrong with others or your life, etc. Your Judge is your greatest internal enemy, activates your other top Saboteurs, causes you much of your stress and unhappiness, and reduces your effectiveness.
The Judge uses one or more of these “accomplice” Saboteurs to hijack your mind:
Avoider, Controller, Hyper-Achiever, Hyper-Rational, Hyper-Vigilant, Pleaser, Restless, Stickler, Victim.
The first step in your Mental Fitness journey is to identify and expose your Saboteurs. Take a 2-minute survey below to find your top Saboteurs!
