Mental health
今日は、健康相談室に出向いて、面談を受けました。 近況報告について、前回までとの違いは、 新しいプロジェクトの立ち上げが原因なのか? 夏に向かって明るくなってきたためなのか? たんに加齢なのか?! このところ何時に寝ても、4時半にはいったん目が覚めてしまいます、 ということ。 6時前までは目をつむってじっとしているようにしているものの、 頭が勝手にあれやこれやを考え始めるので、目覚ましが鳴るまで寝ていられません。 でも、寝つきがいいのが救い、と思っています。 From Wikipedia ..Mental health describes a level of psychological well-being, or an absence of a mental disorder.From the perspective of 'positive psychology' or 'holism', mental health may include an individual's ability to enjoy life, and create a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience.Mental health can also be defined as an expression of emotions, and as signifying a successful adaptation to a range of demands.Emotional mental health improvement Being mentally and emotionally healthy does not exclude the experiences of life which we cannot control. As humans we are going to face emotions and events that are a part of life. According to Smith and Segal, “People who are emotionally and mentally healthy have the tools for coping with difficult situations and maintaining a positive outlook in which also remain focused, flexible, and creative in bad times as well as good”. In order to improve your emotional mental health the root of the issue has to be resolved. “Prevention emphasizes the avoidance of risk factors; promotion aims to enhance an individual’s ability to achieve a positive sense of self-esteem, mastery, well-being, and social inclusion”. It is very important to improve your emotional mental health by surrounding yourself with positive relationships. We as humans, feed off companionships and interaction with other people. Another way to improve your emotional mental health is participating in activities that can allow you to relax and take time for yourself. Yoga is a great example of its meditating aspect which calms your entire body and nerves. According to a study on well-being Richards, Campania and Muse-Burke found, “mindfulness is considered to be a purposeful state, it may be that those who practice it believe in its importance and value being mindful, so that valuing of self-care activities may influence the intentional component of mindfulness”