Mental Fitness Quick List for Cops
Feb 18, 2024
Mental fitness includes, but is not limited to, the following:
- Resiliency – The capacity to withstand or to recover quickly from difficulties.
- Fortitude – Courage in pain or adversity.
- Toughness – The ability to deal with hardship or to cope in difficult situations.
- Perseverance – The steady persistence in a course of action or purpose, especially in spite of difficulties, obstacles, or discouragement.
The following skills, when diligently practiced, become powerful tools in navigating challenges and enhancing performance.
From segmenting tasks into manageable components to compartmentalizing emotions and thoughts, maintaining positive self-talk, and employing pre- and post-event visualization, each skill contributes to mental resilience and optimal decision-making.
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To further delve into the application of these techniques, the EFT Mental Fitness Guide For LEOs provides comprehensive insights and practical strategies, offering a valuable resource to seamlessly integrate these skills into your daily life and workouts.
Carrying this list with you or prominently displaying it in your gym serves as a constant reminder to hone essential mental skills crucial for success in both training and real-world scenarios.
If you work these 5 skills in training, they will work for you in the field:
1. Segmenting:
Break up larger, more daunting tasks into smaller more manageable tasks.
2. Compartmentalization:
If you are feeling emotions that are not useful to your immediate task or if you are thinking about anything that is not useful to your immediate task, consciously put it into a mental box and set it aside. Refocus your mind on relevant and useful information.
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3. Self-talk:
Maintain positive self-talk through difficult challenges as much as possible. If you find yourself thinking in a negative or unproductive manner, recognize this and direct your mind to more positive and productive thoughts.
4. Pre-event Visualization:
With great detail, visualize in your mind exactly what you are about to do.
5. Post-event Visualization:
Use this as a corrective tool. With great detail, visualize everything about an event or situation you were in, except this time correct any mistakes you made or things you wish you had done differently.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FREE MENTAL FITNESS GUIDE
Download the EFT mental fitness guide to learn how to implement these skills into your workouts and daily life.
