How Maturity Can Make You Stronger

Everybody has negative experiences throughout the world. Negative experiences in training, life, and with people you work with, etc. A lot of things mature a person and this relates to being a lifter and your progress and physical culture, etc. It has to do with how you handle those negative experiences. The immature way is to react with anger and to descend into a level of angry repetition back and forth. This still happens to the best of us and is always part of life, but the mature perspective is to use it as a reminder to grow. Use it as a reminder to gain and intelligence and as a motivator to never be able to put in whatever situation angers you, diminishes you or creates problems for you again.

We control a big part of our life. We don’t control everything and I don’t believe everyone who tells you that has really thought through the entirety of the universe or life, but we control how we react to things. That’s not saying that a good healthy dose of self defense and possibly a provoked emotional response is occasionally warranted. And it is especially warranted if whatever negative experience you’re going through is in defense of others. But most of the things that we stress about, create problems about, create trouble about in our lives in reaction to a negative situation are minor things.

Minor levels of idiocy among other people, or inconsideration or selfishness or whatever might cause the problem. Controlling how you react to these things is how you begin to grow as a person. It takes time, effort, mental growth just like physical growth. Just like everything else that you do in life takes work. So put the work in. Grow as emotionally and mentally and spiritually as much as you grow physically.

Here’s one of the best flip sides of this for your physical training and physical culture. The greater you control your emotional response the greater you control your mental response to negative or stressful situations, the better you control your own hormones, the better you control your stress hormones from every area of life the better your physical condition will be from a health perspective and growth perspective. Stress literally is a killer and you’ve got to learn to control it. So control it by maturing and by turning negative situations into positive given opportunities. If nothing else in often negative situations are multiple opportunities. See them as if nothing else, as the ability to motivate and remind yourself to grow. To motivate and remind yourself to control the situations you CAN in you can and never be put into those situations you can’t. Control those hormones and you control your health. Control that stress and you have a better health and positive life and on top of that better physical gains.

God bless,
Bud Jeffries

P.S. Make sure you join us this week for Super Human Training. We’ve got Adam Glass, a guy who has survived some real stress in combat and came out strong mentally and physically. If you haven’t signed up yet do that here.