How to Improve Mental Health: Hey guys, this is Jacob here back with another post. Today we will be looking at How to Improve Mental Health in 2021. But it is not me writing here for you guys today. It is actually a guest writer who goes by the name of Sadiaameer182. They are a very talented writer
How to Improve mental health
Also called: Boost Emotional Wellness, Improve Emotional Health, Stay Positive
Summary
What is mental health?
Mental health includes emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we expect, feel, and act as we address life. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. a psychological state is very important at every stage of life, from childhood and adolescence through adulthood and ageing.
Why is psychological state important?
Mental health is very important because it can facilitate your
- Cope with the stresses of life.
- Be physically healthy.
- Have good relationships.
- Make meaningful contributions to your community.
- Work productively.
- Realize your full potential.
- How am I able to improve my mental health?.
- There is much various stuff you can do to enhance your mental state, including.
How to Improve mental health.
Staying positive. it is important to do to possess a positive outlook; some ways to try to do that include Finding a balance between positive and negative emotions. Staying positive doesn’t suggest that you just never feel negative emotions, like sadness or anger. you would like to feel them so you’ll move through difficult situations. they’ll facilitate you to retort to a controversy. But you do not want those emotions to require over. for instance, it is not helpful to stay wondering bad things that happened within the past or worry an excessive amount about the longer term.
Trying to carry on to the positive emotions once you have them.
Taking an opening from negative information. Know when to prevent watching or reading the news. Use social media to achieve out support and feel connected to others but watch out. Don’t fall for rumors, get into arguments, or negatively compare your life to others.
Practicing gratitude, which implies being thankful for the nice things in your life. It’s helpful to try and do this a day, either by brooding about what you’re grateful for or writing it down in an exceeding journal. There are big things, like the support you’ve got from loved ones, or little things, like enjoying a pleasant meal. it is vital to permit yourself a flash to enjoy that you just had the positive experience. Practicing gratitude can facilitate your to work out your life differently. as an example, after you are stressed, you will not notice that there are moments once you have some positive emotions. Gratitude can facilitate you to acknowledge them.
How physical health can help mental health.
Taking care of your physical health, since your physical and mental state is connected. Some ways to require care of your physical health include
Being physically active. Exercise can reduce feelings of stress and depression and improve your mood.
Getting enough sleep. Sleep affects your mood. If you do not get a decent sleep, you’ll become more easily annoyed and angry. Over the long run, a scarcity of quality sleep can cause you to more likely to become depressed. So it is important to create sure that you just have an everyday sleep schedule and find enough quality sleep nightly.
How eating healthy can help mental health.
Healthy eating. Good nutrition will facilitate your feel better physically but could also improve your mood and reduce anxiety and stress. Also, not having enough of certain nutrients may contribute to some mental illnesses. as an example, there is also a link between low levels of vitamin B complex and depression. Eating a well-balanced diet can facilitate your to induce enough of the nutrients you would like.
Connecting with others. Humans are social creatures, and it is important to possess strong, healthy relationships with others. Having good social support may help protect you against the harms of stress. it’s also good to own different types of connections. Besides connecting with family and friends, you’ll find ways to urge involved your community or neighborhood. as an example, you may volunteer for an area organization or join a bunch that’s focused on a hobby you enjoy.
Developing a way of meaning and purpose in life. this might be through your job, volunteering, learning new skills, or exploring your spirituality.
Developing coping skills, which are methods you employ to handle stressful situations. they’ll facilitate your face a controversy, take action, be flexible, and not easily quit in solving it.
Meditation, which may be a mind and body practice where you learn to focus your attention and awareness. There are many varieties, including mindfulness meditation and transcendental meditation. Meditation usually involves:
- A quiet location with as few distractions as possible
- A specific, comfortable posture. this might be sitting, lying down, walking, or another position.
- A focus of attention, like a specially chosen word or set of words, an object, or your breathing
- An open attitude, where you are trying to let distractions come and go naturally without judging them
styles of relaxation techniques include:
Relaxation techniques are practices you are doing to supply your body’s natural relaxation response. This slows down your breathing, lowers your pressure, and reduces muscle tension and stress.
- Progressive relaxation, where you tighten and relax different muscle groups, sometimes while using imagination or breathing exercises
- Guided imagery, where you learn to target positive images in your mind, to assist you’re feeling more relaxed and focused
- Biofeedback, where you utilize electronic devices to find out to manage certain body functions, like breathing, heart rate, and muscle tension
- Self-hypnosis, where the goal is to induce yourself into a relaxed, trance-like state after you hear a specific suggestion or see a selected cue
- Deep breathing exercises, which involve specializing in taking slow, deep, even breaths
It’s also important to acknowledge once you have to get help. Talk therapy and/or medicines can treat mental disorders. If you do not know where to induce treatment, start by contacting your medical aid provider
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Hey Jacob, Health is something so difficult to take care of and so easy to lose. If we only used half of the time we spend watching the news or some negative things to dedicate time to our health. We could go for a run, looking for ways to eat healthy, meditating, or just time for relax. It is very true what you say in your article positivity must come first, staying positive helps to maintain a healthy and balanced life.
Totally agree. Thanks for the support.
Well done, Jacob great post. Keep up the good work.
Thank you.
Sadiaameer182, thank you for this great post! I love your suggestions about eating healthy food and getting enough exercise and how it can improve your mental health. In my opinion, the single most important thing a person can do is have positive thoughts. Sometimes, I will stop what I’m going, close my eyes and find some positive thoughts. And, as you say, don’t let others get you down. This is great advice for all of us!
Thank you so much for the support. We have actually got a post coming out on the 6th of February 2021 which is tomorrow about Foods that help mental health.
Hi there, thank you for sharing this article with us about how to improve mental health.
Mental health is so important, and I know very well how everything changes when you become sleep deprived.Such a great overview of things we can do to maintain or improve our mental health. Most things are simple things to do, but great reminders to refresh ourselves how important they are.
As you describe in this article, gratitude is such a good practice to maintain or improve good mental health. I love to practice gratitude and do find this really works. We have a gratitude jar we put daily notes in with things we feel grateful for in our home.
Do you have any tips for some other activities you find effective to practice gratitude on a daily basis, especially with younger kids?
Jude
Some activities you should try especially as a child would be going out on your bike, drawing or simply helping your parents with the shopping. If you would like an entirely dedicated post targeted towards younger children please let me know!
I read through your site and there is a lot of Positive, Good Vibes going on here. Every day this is the way I live my life. I keep positive, when others start to nag about something I change attempt to change how they are looking at things. I try to turn their bad comments into good thoughts and it is funny, I always have 3 to 5 people a day in my office and once in a while they have each said to me…” I like coming in here – this is my happy space. It is so inviting in your office and I leave feeling better than when I came in.” That in itself brightens my day. I have to be careful not to take on their bad energy though. I throw it away. Thank You for all the useful information here – Eating Healthy to Keep Your Mood In Balance, Excersize to Keep Your Body and Mind In Balance – Getting Enough Rest – Keeping in Touch with other people – Social Contact and Your Mental Health. All Very Important. I will be checking back in.
Connie
Thank you so much for the support! Please feel free to contact us if you need any support!
Mental health is such an important topic especially now with so many restrictions due to COVID.
The mental and emotional harm this pandemic has caused worldwide is astronomical.
Preventing people from making a living, visiting family, and socializing with friends has only compounded many mental illnesses and has caused many more.
These clearly defined methods of taking care of our mental health are so important and they work.
It is also important to call, skype, zoom whatever platform works for you, to check up on family and friends and see how they are coping.
You reaching out to them may be just what they needed.
Personally, when it has been too long since seeing or hearing from family my own mental health is affected. I feel down and can’t shake the negative feelings as easily as normal. A simple phone call with one of my kids is so restorative.
If the lack of socialization can have such a profound effect on me, I wonder how much more devastating would that be for someone battling a mental illness already?
We can help each other, even distantly, especially with today’s technology.
Thanks for bringing awareness to this very serious topic.
I agree. Just follow everything I have told you today and I hope everything gets better for you. Please get in contact if you need to talk. Also we will have a follow up ost soon!
Now That was an awesome analogy. I do a lot of mental health therapy within myself. It is a constant battle. What I don’t understand is why the negative mental thoughts stays longer then the positive? It’s like the negative creeps in from nowhere and the positive you have to constantly force them to come in. Why is that?
It is good to get this advice and suggestions on how to stay positive and increase your mental health with exercises and meditation, all of this can help you if you work on it, I wanted to as you if you notice stress or anxiety symptoms in other people what can you do to help them? do you just suggest the same methods you explained here, or is there a more proactive approach that you can take?
I suggest going with what I have told you today. But of course, there are other ways to go forward with things!