How to stay mentally healthy

How to stay healthy mentally

Mental health is a very broad phenomenon and there are different dimensions to be kept in mind for staying healthy mentally. Your thinking, your emotions, your sleeping routine, the time you spend on social media/internet, your physical routine, your job stress, your relationship issues and your mind setup… all these affect your mental health.

 So the article will give you a short and compact way of staying healthy mentally.

1.      Your Thinking:  Our thinking is a very important domain that affect our mental health. One faces a lot of different situation in life that could affect your mental health negatively (Rejection in job, breakups and financial crises). What should one do when he faces something like this?

One should stay rational, he should analyze the situation and his standing in the situation and should deal with it in a rational way. If one become hopeless or pessimistic then he/she will become more sensitive to psychological disorders like depression. So staying rational is very important.

2.      Emotions: Over emotionality is not a good thing as it affect your mental health. If one is over emotional then he will get upset on small things due to which he will over think about different things and it will lead him to mental issues. Being rational will help you here as well and when you stay rational you will understand the standings and situation of other due to which you will not get upset.

3.       Sleep: The good quality and quantity of sleep is a blessing and it helps you stay healthy physically and mentally. To get good sleep you need to have good sleeping routine, do not over use smart phone in bed, do not over think, and make dark or dim light when you go to sleep so your eye muscles get relax and it will help you get a very good and refreshing sleep.

4.      Social media/Internet: Do not over use social media as it is full of false information and disturbing news which affect your happiness and over all mental health and I you want to use it, use it for something which is not disturbing and which gives you relaxation but it’s over use is dangerous for you.

5.      Physical Routine: Your body needs physical routine like exercise, walking, jogging. If your body do not get tired because of exercise or walking etc then you will not get good sleep as it is important for physical fitness and good sleep as will. Exercise also activate hormones in your body that keep you happy or that keep your mode in tune.

6.      Stress: Job stress or relationship issues can also make you very weak mentally so taking a small amount of stress for the sake of productivity is fine but if it is affecting your happiness then it is not fine at all. Just think that the world in not going to end and you are a human being so doing mistakes etc is fine if your boss is shouting on you for small reasons then he needs help. Stay kind with him he also might be facing some kind of issues and he is bursting on you unknowingly.

Your mind setup is also of very importance. The way you process information and then react. You might be affecting yourself unknowingly. So try to stay positive and kind.

Along with above reasons there are a lot of other things that could affect your mental health. I will discuss them in other posts. Stay Kind… Stay positive… stay happy.