Mental health is not merely the absence of psychological disease but also the balanced development of an individual’s personality and emotional attitudes which enable him to live peacefully and harmoniously with his fellow-beings. As per the WHO mental health as “a being of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to his or her community”.
It was previously stated that there was no one “official” definition of mental health. Cultural differences, subjective assessments, and competing professional theories all affect how “mental health” is defined.
Mental Health is an important dimension of health, because the state of mind immediately affects the physical body’s processes. Mental health is a term used to describe either a level of cognitive or emotional well-being or an absence of a mental disorder. From perspectives of the discipline of positive psychology or holism mental health may include an individual’s ability to enjoy life and procure a balance between life activities and efforts to achieve psychological resilience. Mental health is an expression of our emotions and signifies a successful adaptation to a range of demands.
To know if you are mentally healthy or not, answer the following questions:
- Are you always worrying?
- Are you unable to concentrate because of unrecognized reasons?
- Are you continuously unhappy without any particular reason?
- Do you lose your temper easily and often?
- Do you have wide fluctuations in your moods from depression to happiness & back?
- Are you troubled by regular insomnia (sleeplessness)?
- Do you continuously dislike being with people?
- Are you upset if the routine of your life is disturbed?
- Do your children consistently get on your nerves?
- Are you irritable quite often and constantly bitter?
- Are you afraid without any particular reason?
- Do you feel that you are always right and other people always wrong?
- Do you have numerous physical aches and pains for which no doctor can find a physical cause?
The conditions explained in these questions are the major warning signals of poor mental health in one degree or another. Help is necessary if the answer to any of these questions is definitely ‘yes’.
Spiritually based positive thinking helps one to attain the highest level of emotional balance and remain mentally healthy. You can use meditation to improve mental health and capacity to improve their motivation for their goals and also to help improve physical health. Some of these techniques are very simple, so they can learn from a book or an article; others require the guidance of a qualified meditation teacher.
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