The Mental Health Gym Playbook: 52 Weekly Exercises To Promote Achievement, Happiness & Well-Being
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The key to mental fitness is through commitment to a process of consciously making small and manageable changes that encompass a variety of healthy behaviors – including physical health and fitness, interpersonal relationships, intellectual growth, habit control, and the development of outside interests to maintain balance in one’s life. The Mental Health Gym is a website that promotes the components of mental fitness.
Each week since its inception, The Mental Health Gym has included a mental fitness exercise to help gym members move in the direction of achievement, happiness, and well being. Psychologist Dr. Ron Kaiser, The Mental Health Gym’s founder has now organized a year’s work of mental fitness exercises into The Mental Health Gym Playbook, an interactive guide book designed to lead to improved mental health in a systematic and proactive manner.
While not every exercise will apply to every reader, and most readers will undoubtedly be doing some of the exercises already, the typical reader will be able to selectively apply several of the suggested exercises to enhance mental health, enjoyment of life, and interactions with others.
The Mental Health Gym Playbook provides a practical application of principles articulated in Dr. Kaiser’s previous e-book, What Can Go Right? The Thinking Person’s Guide to Making Good Things Happen.
Ronald S. Kaiser, Ph.D.
Ronald S. Kaiser, Ph.D., ABPP, lives and works in the greater Philadelphia area where he is a psychologist in private practice and psychological consultant to the Jefferson Headache Center. He is also adjunct associate professor in the Department of Neurology at Jefferson Medical College and serves on the medical staffs at both Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and Methodist Hospital. He can be reached at his website: www.TheMentalHealthGym.com.
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The Mental Health Gym Playbook - Ronald S. Kaiser, Ph.D.
1. INTRODUCTION
I’m a fanatic when it comes to health – both physical and mental.
After a half century of working with a broad range of individuals in various settings, I’m convinced of two things: (1) Optimal health is not distributed equally among the population; (2) Regardless of our personal endowments in that regard, we can all do things to maximize our personal physical and mental health.
Nobody seriously doubts that personal decisions about smoking, alcohol, drug use, diet, and exercise can contribute to physical well-being and longevity. As a psychologist, I have committed myself to helping people take charge of their mental health by giving them information that can be transformed into behaviors to promote positive mental fitness.
Last year, I wrote my first e-book, What Can Go Right? The Thinking Person’s Guide to Making Good Things Happen. It is a positive psychology book that encourages people to take charge of their thinking and behaviors. I have been gratified to hear from those who have used the principles and exercises contained in the book to make dramatic positive changes in their lives.
Around the same time as I wrote the book, I established my website: www.thementalhealthgym.com. The website features various avenues of information – including blogs and podcasts. A popular weekly feature of the website is a Mental Fitness Exercise. I now have 52 of them, and this book offers a compilation of them in one place, arranged in a workbook format so that you can add your own input. In this way you can effectively guide your continuing mental fitness.
Every author needs a support system during the process of transforming an idea into a book. I'd especially like to thank Bill O'Hanlon and Sandy Beadle for their encouragement , guidance, and technical expertise in bringing The Mental Health Gym Playbook to fruition.
In addition to dedicating this book to my family – Libby, Brian, Jeff, Krista, Sofia, and Matt – I dedicate it to the many patients who have bought into my concept of mental fitness and have experienced personal growth. Through their interactions with me, they have not only helped me maintain my own arguable level of mental fitness (such as it is) but they have also made me extremely proud of the influence that I’ve had upon them.
2. MENTAL HEALTH AND