EMOTIONAL

COMMITTING TO CHANGE WITH

A habitual practice for confronting reality and cultivating positivity to attain the best life possible

FITNESS

What does it mean to be truly emotionally fit?

Before you can hit a target, you need to know what you're aiming for. At Vivir, our goal is to help everyone cultivate the essential qualities that exemplify true Emotional Fitness.

THE 5 KEY MEASURES OF TRUE EMOTIONAL FITNESS

  • VITALITY

    Having vitality means living everyday life with vigor, fully alive in the moment and actively engaged with the world around us. When we have vitality, we can fully appreciate, respond to, and influence our day-to-day experiences.

  • POSITIVITY

    Positivity is the ability to confront reality with a constructive and optimistic attitude, regardless of the circumstances. It involves seeing potential and opportunity in challenges, rather than just obstacles, drawbacks, or downsides.

  • RESILIENCY

    Resilience is the capacity to bounce back quickly from difficulties. It's about recovering strength and confidence after setbacks, failures, or rejections. Resilient individuals not only withstand adversities but also grow from them.

  • ADAPTABILITY

    Adaptability involves the flexibility to adjust thoughts and behaviors in response to changing circumstances. It is about being open to new ideas and different ways of doing things, and smoothly transitioning strategies when the situation demands.

  • SERENITY

    Serenity means maintaining a state of calm and tranquility, even in the face of turmoil. With unwavering inner stability, serenity allows for clear thinking and decision-making, free from the disruptive influences of anxiety and stress.

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live”

– Marcus Aurelius

Our Foundational Principles

The essence of Emotional Fitness lies in consistently tackling core emotional challenges, which are all fundamentally rooted in trauma.

Cornerstones of Emotional Fitness
Three critical elements underpin our approach to achieving high levels of Emotional Fitness:

• CONFRONTING REALITY

• CHOOSING POSITIVITY

• SELF-ACTUALIZATION

This approach is driven by a commitment to profound transformation—embedding Emotional Fitness into daily life to ensure that you don’t merely survive your past but thrive, creating a life of fulfillment, joy, and serenity.

A CLOSER LOOK

Understanding the roots of Emotional Fitness is critical to the process of developing it. Here’s a deeper dive into each of the cornerstone properties of the approach

The Strength in Confronting Reality

Reality is always staring straight at us. The choice to confront it or not is ours.

The word “confront” has a Latin origin, meaning “to bring face to face.” To have the best life possible, it is absolutely necessary to face reality. If we don’t face it, we cannot understand it. The better we understand reality, the greater our possibility of dealing with it effectively.

Reality can sometimes be unpleasant, and we can choose to try to avoid it. However, avoiding it doesn’t make it disappear or become less unpleasant. Whenever we try to avoid such a reality, we lose our opportunity to change it for our benefit. And typically, the longer we try to avoid it, the more unpleasant it becomes, and the more painful its eventual consequences.

Furthermore, our maneuvers to avoid it restrict us. If the reality we are trying to avoid does get worse, so do these restrictions. So, the sooner we choose to confront it, the better.

TO LIVE EMPOWERED

  • TAKE CHARGE
    Confront reality head-on

  • ASSESS THE OPTIONS
    There's always more than one

  • CHOOSE YOUR RESPONSE
    The power is in your hands

The Power of Choosing Positivity

To access our best possible outcome, we must choose the most positive way we can think of to deal with the situation being confronted.

“Positive” is defined as “constructive, optimistic, and empowered.” So, in every situation, we must choose to be as constructive, optimistic, and empowered as we can possibly be.

It is not uncommon to find ourselves confronting an undesirable situation that we did not create. We must still be as constructive, optimistic, and empowered as possible, irrespective of what happened and even if we did not cause the situation. Doing so involves activating our minds in that pursuit.

Even if we do choose the most positive option that we can think of, we may not end up with the result we would like to have. But we will get the best result that reality allows us at that time.

The cultivation of positivity is an art that isn’t easy and can never be perfected, just endlessly improved upon.

We can always be more positive.

And we must work to do so every day and in every situation.

The Journey of Self-Actualization

The only way to realize your full potential is to feel truly whole within yourself.

We’ve defined four key phases of self-actualization essential for achieving and sustaining a high level of comfort within oneself, which is crucial for optimal emotional fitness.

PHASE 1.
Know Yourself
First you must start by understanding your habits and patterns across all dimensions of your life to identify triggered emotional responses holding you back from realizing your full potential.

PHASE 2.
Love Yourself
As you initiate the process of change, new learnings, tools, and behaviors foster a profound love and compassion for yourself, creating a nurturing environment for transformation.

PHASE 3.
Trust Yourself
With a strengthened emotional foundation, you begin to build trust in your abilities, instincts, and decisions, empowering you to create a life of your design.

PHASE 4.
Be Yourself
Liberating yourself from the chains of outdated emotional responses, you can finally embrace your true, authentic self in personal realms, romantic relationships, and family dynamics.