November 5th, 2025

Pick Up Those Mental Weights

Your Mind Needs a Gym Too

Think about it,  if you started to gain unnecessary weight or started to develop a health condition from lack of exercise, you would want to get fit and sculpt your abs, you wouldn’t just wish for the abs. You’d hit the gym, stay consistent, and watch what you eat—your mind works the same way.

When you want to develop a healthier mind, you may meet insecurity, you may meet anxiety, depression, or that cruel whisper called self-hatred. Just like starting a physical workout routine hurts initially, the monsters of the mind won’t tuck tail and run the moment you start to shine a light on them.

They will fight back with everything they have. But through prayer, mentorship, honest conversations, and falling flat on your face a lot, the monsters will begin to shrink, as your light grows.

And that’s the thing about mental health: it’s a muscle. Just like your abs or biceps, it grows stronger when you train it intentionally and consistently. If you want a fit mind, you have to work it out. I like to call it a mental workout.

Here’s what that looks like:

• Move your body: Exercise daily, not just for your physique, but for your mind.

• Meditate and quiet your mind: Even five minutes of silence can clear more mental clutter than scrolling through social media ever could.

• Take a relationship fast: Sometimes, you need “boy probation” (or girl probation), a break from romance. Give yourself time to become the best version of yourself you can muster.

• Practice solitude: Learn to enjoy your own company. Turn down the noise , the invites, the constant motion, and be still.

• Go on digital fasts: Switch off social media. Fill your mind with content that uplifts you, faith-based messages, motivational talks, good books.

• Feed your mind intentionally: Read and write daily, even if it’s just a page. What you read, you become.

• Serve and build: Get involved in something bigger than yourself , church, community, a personal project. Purpose heals. Volunteer your skills. 

• Spend time in God’s presence: Every morning and night, speak Scripture over yourself like steroids. God’s word restores what fear has damaged.

Strengthening your mind doesn’t mean you’ll never face darkness again,  it just means you’ll have a brighter lamp when it comes. So go on, pick up those mental weights. The workout may be invisible, but the transformation won’t be.