Health is a significant aspect of our life and keeping good care of our health requires conscious efforts and deliberate practice of meditation along with a positive mindset that you will come out hale and hearty.
Your mental and physical well-being are equally vital. Yet many of us disregard our mental well-being. We set it to run automatically and pray for the best. Alternately, we neglect our emotional well-being until a catastrophe arises. Or we just don't give the things that would make us feel our best a priority.
Apart from mental health here comes a new health concept which is emotional health.
Emotional health refers to how a person is able enough to manage their thoughts, feelings, and emotions at the time of the ups and downs in their lives.
Why is improving emotional health important?
Emotionally healthy people often have control over their thoughts, feelings, and behavior and can deal with life's obstacles and overcome disappointments. Being emotionally balanced doesn't mean we never experience sadness, rage, or frustration.
Developing resilience, self-awareness, and a general sense of well-being require excellent emotional health. The way we receive and respond to criticism and feedback, how we offer advice, and how we observe and interpret what other people are doing and why also depend on how well we are emotionally balanced.
Our capacity to have the tools in place to manage both our good and negative emotions is crucial since we will inevitably confront problems in our personal life.
Emotionally healthy people have control over their feelings and actions. They can overcome obstacles in life, forge solid bonds with others, and bounce back from failure. But achieving or maintaining mental and emotional health needs effort, just as it does for physical health. It can be enjoyable to work on your emotional well-being because it will have a positive impact on all areas of your life, including your mood, your ability to handle stress, and how much you love living.
Understand – what emotional health is Not.
It is important to know ‘what emotional health is not. Emotional health is not defined by mood or sanity it is very different from mental health. An emotional health person could be depressed or diverted which is probably rare.
Emotional health is mainly derived and defined from the positives whereas mental health is full of negativity with the absence of mental illness for say anxiety, depression, or extreme mental health conditions. A completely mentally healthy person is defined as one who is flourishing without any signs and symptoms of mental illness.
Characteristics of emotionally healthy individuals.
1. Self-awareness = accurate.
Individuals who have stable emotional well-being are self-aware. Someone self-conscious can accurately perceive themselves and is aware of how their behavior is perceived by others.
2. Strong coping skills is their mechanism
a. emotionally balanced People typically have powerful coping mechanisms that aid them in difficult situations.
b. Among these effective coping mechanisms is...
c. using breathing exercises and meditation.
d. chatting with buddies.
3. Emotional agility
Like cognitive agility, emotional agility describes a person's capacity to handle pressure and discomfort in both professional and personal life. Research says that intelligent people can understand their emotions and use those insights to change, align, and perform at their best. They accept their feelings, "holding them lightly," and with an open mind, as opposed to ignoring or suppressing them.
A person who demonstrates significant emotional agility is resilient in the face of difficulty and can deal with setbacks without resorting to unhealthy behaviors or coping techniques.
List of some of the psychological triggers of emotional health are as follows,
Feeling of involvement or ownership
honesty
integrity
Credibility
Value and Proof of value
Justify the Purchase
Greed
Establish Authority
Satisfaction Conviction
Nature of Product
Current Fads
Timing
Desire to belong
Desire to collect
Curiosity
Instant Gratification
Simplicity
Sense of Urgency
Exclusivity - Rarity or uniqueness
Human Relationships
Guilt
Specificity
Steps to improve your emotional health.
1. Give yourself the love you would as out from others
For most of us, being good to others — even strangers — comes more naturally than being kind to ourselves. We feel undeserving of a nice word or even the most fundamental self-care because we hold ourselves to ruthlessly high standards. Try to treat yourself as you would a valuable friend. If you catch yourself being mean to yourself or denying yourself comfort, give yourself what you'd give a friend: a hug, approval, encouragement, or a reward.
2. Trust the process and yourself the most.
To develop self-trust, we must regularly take care of our needs and be there for ourselves when we're in trouble. We must have faith in our ability to look out for our interests, respect ourselves, and defend ourselves.
By committing to and carrying out one tiny act of self-care today, you can begin to develop self-trust. Your commitment must be manageable, so avoid making a lofty decision.
3. Practice meditation
A focused type of guided concentration is meditation. Although they focus on movement, yoga, and tai chi are both known to reduce stress.
Progressive muscular relaxation and deep breathing are additional methods for lowering stress. If you don't know where to begin, enroll in a class and learn how to practice alone for 30 minutes, three times per week.
4. Exercise
In addition to being extremely beneficial to emotional health, exercise is crucial for maintaining good physical health. Exercise raises self-esteem, lowers stress, and elevates mood.
5. Design your schedule and set goals
Making a calendar and establishing weekly goals can help you "be more in control of your days, and when you're more in control of your days, you're more in control of your life. You will have a sense of success when you complete the items on your to-do list, which will lessen tension, the author continues.
6. Get enough sleep to maintain your productivity throughout the day
Those who get a good night's sleep wake up with more energy and typically are more productive." When you are extremely exhausted, every duty and responsibility can seem excessive, and even minor issues can appear major.
7. Eat properly
Alcohol can help you relax, although Gardere advises using it in very small amounts. The same suggestion holds for overeating. If you consume smaller portions and engage in regular exercise, you can eat whatever you want and still enjoy it, he claims. Your physical and mental health depends on you maintaining a healthy weight.
8. Discard the resentments. Practice let go,
We must regularly take care of our needs and be there for ourselves when we need to establish self-trust. We must believe in our capacity to protect our own needs, respect ourselves, and stand up for ourselves.
You can start building self-trust today by committing to and completing one little act of self-care. You must make a manageable commitment, so refrain from choosing something lofty.
9. Practice gratitude and look for the positives in life.
Everything that goes wrong, what we lack, our issues, mistakes, and disappointments are all obvious. It's far more difficult to take notice of what's going well, how much we have, our joys, accomplishments, and growth. However, we may improve the brain circuits that encourage contentment by cultivating an attitude of thankfulness with intention (and probably some reminders).
It raises happiness, enhances bonds with others, boosts the immune system, and brings down blood pressure. The fact that gratitude alters the brain permanently is even more amazing. In essence, the more you express gratitude, the better your brain gets at noticing positive things.
10. Finally – Forgive yourself
Stop criticizing yourself for mistakes you made, missed chances, and not knowing then what you know now. Everyone has regrets but concentrating on them causes unnecessary stress. Acknowledging your mistakes, making reparations (if necessary), learning from them, and choosing to concentrate on the present and future rather than the past are the first steps in self-forgiveness.
How to handle emotionally triggering situations plus people.
Remove your attention from the situation or person and focus on your breathe.
Take a break. Physically leave the situation.
Find the humour in the situation.
Ask yourself why you are being triggered?
Don't bypass your feeling but act them out either. It's okay to consciously delay experiencing them.
Speaking openly about your mental and emotional health might be frightening. Nevertheless, everyone must cope with it. We all experience good and terrible days, and everyone can benefit from prioritizing their mental health. Emotional health issues are crucial to our entire health, just as physical health issues.
A trigger is anything that sets you off emotionally and activates memories of your trauma. It's particular to you and what you experience has been. Triggered, we revert to the feelings and behaviours we had in the traumatising situation.
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