MENTAL HEALTH

Tuesday, July 24, 2007

As I wrote before, I am really interesting in mental health and as I promise I will write about that topic.
Mental health is more than the absence of mental illness. Even though many of us don't suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder, it is clear that some of us are mentally healthier than others. The study of the characteristics that make up mental health has been called "positive psychology."In order to get a healthy brain, we can go several things such as sudoku,crossword,chess and others game that fun yet challenge our brain.We have to get involve in many things and try new experiences because it helps us in gaining knowledges and give our brain a brand new things to think.
In USA there is afew research in characteristic of mental health.Thi is the short list of mental health's characteristic :
i)The ability to enjoy life - The practice of mindfulness meditation is one way to cultivate the ability to enjoy the present.We need to plan our future but learn from the past and also donotmiserable our life by worrying about the future.
ii)Resilience (The ability to bounce back from adversity- People that can cope with the stress better than other.Rudyard Kippling has said that we need to treat our triumph and disaster as the same.
iii)Balance - The balancing between social life and time spent alone are very important. If someone always been alone, he or she will lose many of their social skills.
iv)Flexibility - People who hold very rigid opinion will set themselves up for added stress. Emotional flexibility maybe just as cumpolsary as cognitive flexibility. Mental healthy people have range of emotion and they allow themselves express their feeling.
All this characteristic show us how important mental health for us but it doesnot mean we have to ignore physical health.If you are in sedentary life you need to change because that way of life will give you great vicious.

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