Mindfulness is not only maintaining a moment by moment awareness of your surroundings and mental agility. Mindfulness skills also work towards improving your emotional and mental health to become better at dealing with distress and tolerating situations that can ultimately turn into a crisis without emotional management. Psychology Today says, “distress is an inevitable part of life, but tolerating it at high intensities can be really challenging.” With that being said, dealing with distress has many long-term benefits that can help you maintain your mental agility and even improve your tolerance. Keep reading to find out more!
Improves Emotional & Mental Strength
Dealing with moments of distress head on can ultimately improve your mental and emotional strength. Adjusting your tolerance level and facing your problems can improve your self-confidence and allow you to grow in terms of dealing with distress – eventually resulting in strengthening your emotional and mental health.
Builds Patience
Through constant practice, you also build and strengthen your patience in situations that may have previously seemed intolerable. Yes, this is easier said than done. However, facing your problems and dealing with the distress in the moment can allow you to further endure situations of discomfort through the empowering technique of being patient.
Builds Resilience
Dealing with distress , to put it simply, can prove that you have the ability to keep fighting. Standing up and proving to yourself that you can face your problems empowers you with resilience and motivation that you can get through anything. Life does go on, and, once you prove that to yourself through dealing with distress, you will have the motive to push through anything with a significant skillset.
Less Distress
This one may seem ironic to some, but yes, dealing with distress can, in fact, lessen the distress in your life. If you are dealing with what is making you upset, anxious, or causing damage to your mental health, you may be getting rid of it completely! If not, you are still strengthening different factors as mentioned above, ultimately allowing the distress to lessen and for you to become more in control.