Mental health refers to a persons physiological, emotional and social well-being and it has to do with the person behavior, his thinking and his feelings, this will affect the way he handles issues and deals with challenges..
Healthy mental well-being is vital in this our critical time where life challenges often takes one off balance.
Most people that lack healthy mental well-being always get depressed and some commit suscide.
How can one maintain a healthy mental well-being.
Lets discuss.
Cultivating a healthy mental well-being is just around us and within our daily life.
First way to cultivate a healthy mental well-being is by giving ourselves a proper self care, take a proper time to relax, meditate on your daily life, then count your blessings.
Get enough rest and sleep, engage in body exercises and eat healthy diet, try as much as possible to reduce stress, read books, study Gods word meditate on what you read, it helps to stabilize our mental health.
Is also important to spend time viewing nature, try to engage ourselves in the things we love.
Secondly maintain a healthy relationship with your family members which includes your wife and children, always communicate with them, play with them, most times our family members are the ones to encourage us during life challenges so we should be in good relationship with them, the will help our mental health.
Make sure you set realistic goals and make plans on how to reach such goals by breaking the goals down in a small group, always celebrate yourself when you achieve a certain goal this will help the brain 🧠 to regenerate.
Never criticize yourself for your downfall, rather restrategize and move on
Practice given , support people around you because that brings inner joy and happiness, appreciate everything in your life .
Always surround yourself with positive up building people that will encourage you not discouraging you, share your thoughts and get suggestions, do not always deal with a challenge all alone because it will affect your mental state.
Most importantly when you have done all this and still feel mentally weak never resist to seek professional assistance, then follow due instructions from them.
Healthy mental well-being improves our physical health, it helps build our immune system, reduce sickness like heart disease obesity, depression and also affects our dealing with people around us.
When we are healthy mentally our relationship with others will be a smooth one, even in our workplace we won't be a nagging type that people might be scared of.
Healthy mental well-being will help one to be resilience and cope with challenges, difficultties or any setback that comes in life.
A healthy mental well-being will help one to concentrate and make sound decision at any point in time, it will improve the cognitive abilities and help develop new skills and productivity in all areas of life.
Complicated mental well-being can lead to depression and heart attack, it can also lead to suicide actions, so is very important that we all try our best to cultivate a healthy mental well-being.
Lets keep our mental health on check.
