How Emotionally Fit Are You?

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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 12:03am

Let us know how you do :)


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You can enhance your emotional stability, flexibility and resilience with regular exercise, a healthy diet and ample sleep. It’s just as important to have good friends and strong family ties. A trustworthy support system adds an element of pleasure to your life while buffering you from depression and anxiety. Loneliness seriously harms your health, studies show, whereas people with strong social networks tend to have better heart health and live longer.


Your emotional exercise: Practice being a good friend. To broaden your social circle, pursue a passionate interest: Take an art class, join a book club or volunteer for a worthy cause.


—Stacey Colino
Reviewed by: Steven A. King, M.D


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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 12:46am

After last week strangeness, I decided to look at this. Wow!

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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 1:45am
Wise to have done what you did Aileen,
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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 6:10am

*Yeah sounds about right...


You’re an emotional couch potato



“You’re not in tune with what’s going on in your heart, mind or soul, and you’re overwhelmed by the demands in your life,” says Domar. This is your wake-up call: It’s time to get to work on your emotional fitness. Start by taking baby steps: Find one person in your life you trust and try to confide in her or him. Learn to recognize your own feelings—and their causes—by trying to name them when they occur. Find ways to reduce stress in your life (by asking for help, setting limits or delegating a responsibility). Or start getting a grip on your own mood management by practicing relaxation techniques or engaging in healthy problem-solving exercises when upsetting things happen. Each successful change you make will encourage you to take more positive steps, Domar says, and before you know it, you’ll have boosted your emotional fitness.


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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 8:49am

You’re emotionally fit as a fiddle

Besides being comfortable in your own psyche, you have a healthy level of emotional self-awareness and can use it to your benefit in taxing situations. You’re able to accept and deal with your moods, the bad ones and the good, and you find ways to rise to life’s challenges and help yourself through them, gathering the support you need when you need it. “You’re in a good place emotionally so keep doing what you’re doing,” says Domar. “But don’t assume you can sit back and relax. It takes work to stay emotionally balanced, and as life’s circumstances change, you will need to stay on your toes and check in with yourself regularly.” In other words, keep working on those emotional muscles so they’ll be fit and flexible when you really need them.

That's mostly true. Some of the questions I was kind of in between answers. :p

Cathy

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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 9:35am
Perhaps some right Nadine,
Not sure I afree with it all about you :)





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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 9:36am
Good to see you Cathy,
Glad most of this is true for you ...
Sometimes we have to fudge a bit on the answers
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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 10:04am
You’re emotionally fit as a fiddle


Besides being comfortable in your own psyche, you have a healthy level of emotional self-awareness and can use it to your benefit in taxing situations. You’re able to accept and deal with your moods, the bad ones and the good, and you find ways to rise to life’s challenges and help yourself through them, gathering the support you need when you need it. “You’re in a good place emotionally so keep doing what you’re doing,” says Domar. “But don’t assume you can sit back and relax. It takes work to stay emotionally balanced, and as life’s circumstances change, you will need to stay on your toes and check in with yourself regularly.” In other words, keep working on those emotional muscles so they’ll be fit and flexible when you really need them.


Fairly close I think. Most of the answers provided were close but not right on to what I would have actually answered. Good quiz.

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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 10:21am
You’re emotionally fit as a fiddle


Besides being comfortable in your own psyche, you have a healthy level of emotional self-awareness and can use it to your benefit in taxing situations. You’re able to accept and deal with your moods, the bad ones and the good, and you find ways to rise to life’s challenges and help yourself through them, gathering the support you need when you need it. “You’re in a good place emotionally so keep doing what you’re doing,” says Domar. “But don’t assume you can sit back and relax. It takes work to stay emotionally balanced, and as life’s circumstances change, you will need to stay on your toes and check in with yourself regularly.” In other words, keep working on those emotional muscles so they’ll be fit and flexible when you really need them.


~Liz

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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 10:31am
Sometimwes that happens with the answers Cappy,
We have to pick the lesser of evils
Glad it matches you fairly well though :)





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Mon, 05-11-2009 - 10:32am
You have lots of practice at it though Liz,
So you're getting better & better
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