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Mental-Health, Important
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Mental-Health is much more than the absence of mental illness. It is about physical and emotional well being, which includes our wills and emotions.
It is about having the capacity to live a full and creative life and also the flexibility to deal with its problems.
Mental and physical well being contributes to our overall health fitness.The mind arena(emotion and will), has needs just as the body has needs for physical fitness. In order to insure good Mental-Health, it must be fed. Love is one of the basic needs of the mind, but there are others, as well.
We all need:
- beauty,
- friendship,
- recreation,
- exposure to nature,
- challenge,
- meaningful work,
- a sense of self-worth,
- and other mental"foods."
To ensure good Mental-Health, we all need some means of creative self-expression, such as art, drama, music or a sport or hobby.
That is, our minds have a need to receive, to take in, to appreciate and enjoy, but also our minds need to express, to give out, to perform, participate, or display.
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If we fail to feed our minds what is needed, something else will take its place. We could call this the law of compensation.Boredom and marital conflict are often symptoms of mental starvation (or misunderstanding) without compensation taking place. However, it is only a matter of time before trouble comes in and fulfills the law of compensation.
Like the body, the mind has certain inherent strengths and weaknesses.
Like the body, the mind needs certain foods to function in a healthy way, and when it is fed properly, the inherent weaknesses do not break down or become diseased, affecting our mental health.
Some years ago black people in this country coined the term "soulfood." People of all races need "soul food" to have healthy minds, healthy love lives, healthy sex lives.
What is "soul food?"
We feed the mind-will-emotion arena with beauty, truth, color, lovely experiences, perfume, music, delicious tastes, the things we love to touch, graceful movements, poetry, art, learning, satisfying work, a sense of achievement, and love.
To a great extent, our ability to appreciate "soul food" for the mind-will-emotion depends on our earliest experiences.
Your mind-will-emotion is a major component of Mental-Health. As it exists right now, is influenced by three main factors:
- your genetic inheritance
- your childhood home environment
- your education and experience.
Sometimes it is difficult to tell whether we have inherited a certain personality trait from our mother or father, or justpicked it up from being around them so much.
Whether we can actually distinguish between the two doesn't matter.What matters is to realize that these influences have been at work in the mind-will-emotion arena, affecting our mental health.
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Just as food nourishes the body as it passes through, causing good physical fitness, words nourish the mind-will-emotion and spirit. When we speak loving thoughts to others, we become loving people. When we speak hateful thoughts to others-or even think, hateful thoughts-we become hateful people.
Loving words and thoughts are health-building as well as character-building.
Hateful words and thoughts are destructive to the health and to the character. Words are seeds that have tremendous potential to grow and affect the minds and spirits of our friends and mates, as well as our own health.
Scientists have researched the connection between our minds and our health, and they have discovered that there are diseases and disturbances that can be triggered by what goes on in our minds-wills-emotions.
Ulcers, colitis, arthritis, heart disease, and cancer can be triggered, or aggravated, by negative attitudes, thoughts, and feelings.
Good News! We find that words reveal what goes on in our minds. If our minds can create conditions destructive to our bodies and lives, they can also create and support good Mental-Health, wonderful physical fitness, beneficial lifestyles, and happy, healthy, relationships.
In conclusion, good Mental-Health, physical fitness and emotions are fulfilled when we are noticed, appreciated, praised-and reprimanded or corrected if we are violating the rules of right relationship.
Love includes all these things. For more information, check out these pages:
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