These are the exercises that I first shared with viewers on Medium.com:
https://medium.com/@plushzilla/introduction-to-mental-fitness-exercises-ac0411f6e66d
However, I want to provide some exclusive contents for the people on steemit (which I am not doing on Medium), so any comments and feedback on how I can tailor this to people who will find this helpful and interesting will be much appreciated.
Exercise 1: Balancing with your mind
- Start by standing in a comfortable position with both feet planted on the ground shoulder width apart.
- Bring one foot/leg up so you are now balancing on the other foot.
- Close your eyes and continue balancing for as long as you can.
Optional: To improve try timing how long you can remain balanced on your left and right foot.
Exercise 2: Switching it up in your mind
- Pick a relatively easy daily activity that you do predominantly with one hand (e.g. brush your teeth)
- Start the activity with that hand and switch to the other hand and continue.
- Close your eyes and complete the activity.
Exercise 3: Pushing the boundary in your mind
- Choose a simple daily activity that can be done easily without any effort (e.g. fold a paper aeroplane, write your name on a piece of paper).
- Increase the difficult of the task by changing one way that you would perform the task which can be increased or decreased in a measurable manner (e.g. fold a smaller paper aeroplane, write your name in a smaller font).
- Stop when you find the task too difficult to complete easily and start next time at the difficult level just above what you accomplished last time.
You’ll find that these exercises mimic some of the elements involved in physical training, and also helps develop your muscle memory because of the link between the mental and physical connections in our body.
I’d love to hear about your experiences with these activities and next time I will also share some of the activities I use for mental fitness training.