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Mental Wellness requires that a person uses and takes advantage of the different resources available to expand his or her knowledge. This can be developed through academics, professional career, cultural involvement, and hobbies. Mentally well individuals have a desire to learn and apply new concepts, improve their existing skill sets, and seek new challenges.
Mental Wellness Topics Include:
- Learning Styles / Study Skills
- Cognition
- Personality Styles
- Mental Health Disorders
Your mental health influences how you feel, think, and behave in daily life. Mental health also affects your ability to overcome challenges, build relationships, cope with stress, and overcome life hardships.
People who are mentally healthy exhibit:
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- A sense of contentment
- Zest for living – and the ability to laugh and have fun
- Ability to deal with stress and bounce back from stressors
- Sense of meaning and purpose
- Balance between work and play, rest and activity.
- Self-Confidence and high self-esteem
- Ability to adapt to change
- Flexibility and ability to learn new skills
6 Ways to Boost Mental Health:
- Social Connection – Humans are social creatures with emotional needs for relationships and positive connections to others. We’re not meant to survive, let alone thrive, in isolation. Our social brains crave companionship.
- Staying Active – Physical activity releases endorphins, powerful chemicals that lift your mood and provide added energy. Regular exercise or activity can have a major impact on mental and emotional health problems, relieve stress, improve memory, and help you to sleep better.
- Managing Stress – stress takes a heavy toll on mental and emotional health, so it’s important to keep it under control. While not all stressors can be avoided, stress management strategies can help you brings things back into balance.
- Brain-Healthy Diet – switching to a wholesome diet, low in sugar and rich in healthy fats, can give you more energy, improve your sleep and mood, and help you to look and feel your best.
- Quality Sleep – Skipping even a few hours here and there can take a toll on your mood, energy, mental sharpness, and ability to handle stress. And over the long-term, chronic sleep loss can wreak havoc on your health and outlook.
- Meaning and purpose – You may think of it as a way to feel needed, feel good about yourself, a purpose that drives you on, or simply a reason to get out of bed in the morning. Finding meaning and purpose is essential to brain health as it can help generate new cells and create new neural pathways in the brain. It can also strengthen your immune system, alleviate pain, relieve stress, and keep you motivated to pursue the other steps to improve mental and emotional health.
