Whats is Mental Health?
Mental health is an interlocked concept of emotional, psychological, and social well-being. How you feel, think, and act all affect your mental health either in a positive way or vice versa. Listed below are some classifications/factors that could possibly affect your mental health.
Factors that affect Mental Health
Mood disorders (such as depression or bipolar disorder)
Anxiety disorders.
Personality disorders.
Psychotic disorders (such as schizophrenia)
Eating disorders.
Trauma-related disorders (such as post-traumatic stress disorder)
Substance abuse disorders.
Mind Over Matter
Okay! let's put down all the technical terms and frightening factors aside and focus on simplicity and normalcy in taking care of our mental health.
when something you wished for lovingly or something that you planned to perfectionism yet failed to get what you wanted that's when your heart and brain starts playing oxymoron, your brain rejects all the ideas the heart put forth and your heart never seeks your brains advice in the first place it keeps on sticking to the one that it considers lovingly. It takes calm and subtle routine/habits to get your heart and brain back on track.
Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. so relax. - Byrant McGill
If you are feeling helpless and find yourself drowning in the vast ocean stumbling your way back to the land gasping for oxygen feeling no one is there for you to show love, on the verge of feeling that everything is falling out of your hand and stressing out because you couldn't do anything about it! Hey! you... You are not the only one facing all these there are millions of people who are undergoing the same phase as you do or sometimes even worse than you. They simply kick off the things that make them sobber and focus on the solution.
Let me give an example: Have you ever played with Rubix's cube?
You would have solved it correctly or either you would have thrown that away after several tries unable to solve. And remember one thing, throughout the process, you kept on finding solutions to solve the puzzle you even retreated your moves to solve the puzzle.
This is how you have to look at the obstacle and deal with them. You are capable of doing anything it just takes only your heart and mind to keep on reminding you what you actually want and what you are truly intended for.
"A wild person with a calm mind can make anything"
To boost your mental health follow some simple routines that will regulate your hormones and enzymes and make you feel stress-free, relaxed, and happy.
Best Apps To Boost Your Mental Health
There are a few apps that help in following a healthy routine of practicing meditation, offering audio visualization and sleep casts.
The Headspace app teaches you how to breathe, meditate, and live mindfully. It's even been proven to improve focus. There are 10 meditations for free anything more than that needs a subscription and note that with that subscription you get full access to the entire library.
Sleep casts and audio visualization are my topmost favorite and love the voice of the narrator. This app has a complete section for sleep and added to that it offers ambient music and sleeps meditation to stick to your daily bedtime.
The calm app is another service like headspace which not only focuses on meditation but covers a range of mindfulness and well-being. This app offers sleep stories recited by celebrities noted for their pleasing voices and these sleep stories are updated weekly so you always find something new to listen to. There is a limited free version of the Calm app and a free 7-day trial of the premium version.
It offers more than meditation and helps in detoxing your whole body from inside so it's worth your money.
Insight Timer
#1 free meditation app guided meditations and talks led by the world's top meditation and mindfulness experts, neuroscientists, psychologists, and teachers from Stanford, Harvard, the University of Oxford, and more. 15,000 guided meditations can be accessed freely and there is also a subscription scheme where you can get new meditations daily and a monthly package course on meditation. There is also a Night Mode premium subscription with 914 dedicated sleep meditation to make you fall asleep.
Something to work on...( a self note)
Calm Mind
Remove stress and tension
Think clearly
Focus on the solution rather than the problem
Happy mind = A happy life
Hug Therapy
The right side of your brain does a lot of processing of positive and negative emotions. A full-body hug stimulates your nervous system while decreasing loneliness, combating fear, increasing self-esteem, defusing tension and hugs may alleviate our fear as well.
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