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Health, Self-Improvement and Self-Mastery: Survive to Thrive, by A.P.S.
This article intends to uncover mechanisms to assist the reader in self-help, self-mastery, and self- improvement. The topics covered are meant to provide discovery of self- improvement ideas, identification of some techniques to improve your life, and give the reader further tools to pursue a deeper dive into the subject. The reader will come out of this article with an awareness of the many topics to improve their thoughts, feelings, emotions, physiology, and performance. The article pulls from sports medicine, psychology, martial arts, health and fitness, and self-help guides. To really master some of these topics, it is highly encouraged to revisit this article from time to time, discuss these ideas with peers, relatives, friends, neighbors, and practice each day until the self-help tool is internalized into positive habits. It is also recommended to take unfamiliar words and look them up throughout this article to understand the concept behind the idea.
So why discuss self-help and self-improvement? At the core of this article is honing our natural ability to adapt and overcome any situation. We are given both a naturally honed and God given gift to survive and adapt. The current lingo of today’s expression of this idea is resiliency. Call it what you like, but those that have adapted tend to survive longer, live healthier, and pass on to future generations a greater propensity to survive, adapt, and overcome. I feel it is the single most defining mechanism, if highly developed, gives the best chance of living a meaningful, healthy, and thriving life. It is my intent to introduce ideas about improving your body, mind, and psychology to not only survive, but to thrive.
My background in these topics comes from 25 years of serving our great nation in combat and peace time for the Army and National Guard. I also worked for a fortune 500 company for 10 years as a chemist (and sat on numerous panels that discussed root cause analysis, chemical disaster response, and Six Sigma), earned a black belt while teaching adults and children Tae Kwon Do, and being a leader throughout. Recently I had the honor to attend the Master Resiliency Trainer’s Course for the Army that provided instructor level mastery of self-help. Much of my experiences with self-help come from mentoring foreign armies and leaders on how to improve. I have been a trainer for the Latvian Army, a combat advisor to the Afghan Army and Police, and worked with the Liberian Army to improve their post-conflict situation after the civil war. Stateside I have trained American Service Members on counter terrorism, counter insurgency, and agribusiness best practices. I have taken my natural propensity to help others and melded into my professional and personal life.
Last year I realized something was terribly wrong. Mentally I was quickly snapping to conclusions and had a muddled brain, I couldn’t control my emotions and would snap, physically I was getting sick with colds and I looked like a balloon. Spiritually I was lost and could not find center and was not at peace.
Source: http://www.survivalblog.com/2013/05/health-self-improvement-and-self-mastery-survive-to-thrive-by-aps.html
