Strategies and Tips: Improving Emotional Health through Senses

Emotional health can be achieved by three things – exercise, healthy diet and good Sleep. Exercise keeps us agile and helps in metabolism, healthy diet gives us energy and good sleep is necessary to rest our brain.

Let us look at some strategies and tips that will help us to gain a state of perfect emotional health:

1. Sound Sleep

Our brain does a lot of thinking throughout the day and at night it goes to sleep only when we get some sleep. It is important to get a sound sleep, if we are constantly thinking in our sleep those thoughts become our dreams/nightmares. Once we learn to accept our thoughts as they are, our mind rests in peace.

Stillness of mind is an art that can be achieved by giving the mind what it needs. Although it is not possible to acquire everything we desire, hence it is essential to become spiritual and get rid of unwanted desires. We can meditate and listen to peaceful songs to increase our concentration levels. Once we learn to focus we tend to relax and stop getting unwanted thoughts in our mind.

2. Balanced diet

A balanced diet is rich in both carbohydrates and nutrients. Only eating protein by consuming chicken and eggs is not sufficient and in taking carbohydrates by consuming wheat bread may not help. Our body needs a little of all types of food including butter. Butter is said to be a lubricant for the bones in our body. Some of the benefits of consuming a balanced diet are agile body, proper digestion and metabolism.

3. Exercise

A proper exercise regime keeps the body active and healthy. A healthy body and healthy mind are interrelated; i.e. one depends on another. You can get rid of unwanted fats and dead cells in the body by just going for a 10 minute brisk walk. These days the prices of treadmills have come down and loosing those extra pounds was never easier! With a treadmill you can stay fit and lose weight in 3 months.

4. Quit those bad Habits

You always wanted to quit those bad habits like smoking, drinking alcohol and consuming junk food. Now is the time, just set goals by taking treatment for smoking and start reducing the number of cigarettes you smoke each day. You can also consume quit smoking chewing gums and turn into a non-smoker in a year’s time.

Some of the bad habits like alcohol are way of life that is we do them unconsciously. If we get conscious about these habits, that is enough for us to start quitting them. Occasional drinking is fine, but if you are over-weight it is best to stay away and grab a glass of lemon juice instead.

5. Family and Friends

It goes without saying that man is a social animal. Family and friends form an integral part of our life. So go ahead and make that phone call to your old friend. Visit your parents this weekend, buy them some gifts and spend quality time with them.

6. Do what you love

Not each one of us is in the career of our choice. We choose careers by calculating the kind of salary we will accrue. For instance, there are very few who choose painting or singing as their full time career. This is because they are afraid about not earning enough income.

Hence, it is quite essential to take up what you love to do as a hobby. Do it every weekend, it can be anything – singing, painting or playing a musical instrument like guitar. This will solve two purposes – one is you will learn something new and satisfy the inquisitive nature of your mind and two is you will do what you love to do the most.

7. Find God

Many of us think that God is some sort of super human who resides in the sky. Although the truth of the matter is God is a divine emotion present in each one of us. God means loving everyone, being compassionate and doing service for the needy. This does not mean one has to be submissive but it only means to be compassionate and assertive. One should be conscious about the environment and accept everything good in life with gratitude. Love and gratitude is the nature of all human beings. One should not forget to smile. A smile can break all barriers of communication.

Thus, achieving emotional health should be the main goal in one’s life. So how does one measure emotional health? Emotional health can be measured by seeing the difference in ‘old you’ and the ‘new you’. Are you happier than what you were in the past? Do you value people more than what you valued in the past? Do you help the needy and poor? Do you have a consistent exercise routine? Do you consistently avoid bad habits such as smoking, drinking alcohol and consuming junk food?

If the answer to the above questions is a big “yes”, then you are doing great progress on the path of achieving emotional health.

Amanda Kidd is a blogger who also happens to be a health buff. Her diet routine is very vigilantly planned and she makes sure that she follows it religiously. Her health tutorials include daily sessions of yoga which she believes is important for maintaining a good physical and mental health.

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