Lesson 2.1
Mental Health By Carone Fitness
Mental Health Mental Health
Mental health is the combination of three interconnected dimensions of wellness: spiritual wellness, emotional wellness, and intellectual wellness. Your mental health determines how you interact with others, how you respond to life’s challenges, and your desire to learn.
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Mental Health Mental Health
You can strengthen your overall mental health by developing each separate component.
Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
Spiritual wellness means to possess a meaning or purpose in life and to be driven by personal values and beliefs.
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Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
Your spiritual wellness determines how you interact with others around you. If you are spiritually well, you are able to love, forgive, and have joy and compassion.
Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
For some people, spiritual wellness can mean connecting with nature or a higher power. Many people develop and strengthen their spiritual health by practicing religion. However, whether or not you practice a particular religion is not necessarily a measure of your spiritual strength.
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Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
How do you develop spiritual wellness? You must first develop an inner peace. To do this you need to recognize who you are and who you are trying to become.
Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
This knowledge then empowers you to make your own decisions. You may be influenced by others, but your actions stem from what you, as an individual, believe.
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Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
Once you have a firm grasp on who you are, the next step to spiritual wellness is to understand that there is a universal need to feel valued and respected.
Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
Every individual has that need. Therefore, we should try to show others compassion, forgiveness, and respect.
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Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
This is accomplished more readily when we understand that we have no control over how other people feel or act. Although we may have emotional impulses, we can choose how we will act or react to any given situation.
Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
To strengthen your spiritual wellness, you can engage in self-nurturing activities. Self-nurturing activities are any pursuits that allow an individual to restore inner balance. Self-nurturing activities differ from person to person.
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Mental Health Spiritual Wellness
Some examples include: • Praying or meditating • Listening to music • Taking a bubble bath • Reflecting on personal values • Writing in a journal • Exercising • Visiting a particular place • Creating something • Participating in a hobby • Reading a special book
Mental Health Emotional Wellness
Emotional wellness is to have a generally positive perspective of oneself and of life in general. Your emotional wellness determines how you will respond to life’s challenges and demands.
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Mental Health Emotional Wellness
Emotional wellness is governed by your thoughts. Whether you engage in positive or negative thinking affects your beliefs, attitudes, and actions.
Mental Health Emotional Wellness
How do you develop emotional wellness? The first step to developing emotional wellness is to strengthen your selfesteem. Self-esteem is how an individual views his/her worth. To have high self-esteem is to have confidence in who you are.
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Mental Health Emotional Wellness
Self-esteem is influenced by family, friends, teachers, and the media, but most importantly, by yourself. You can’t control what others will say or do, but you can control how you treat yourself.
Mental Health Emotional Wellness
To avoid negative self-talk, you first need to recognize when you are doing it. When negative thoughts about yourself enter your mind, send up a red flag. Then replace the negative thought with a positive one. For example, try telling yourself, “I did poorly on this test, but I will study hard and do better on the next one.”
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Mental Health Emotional Wellness
To strengthen your emotional wellness, begin by treating yourself better. Do this by avoiding negative self-talk. Negative self-talk is when an individual puts oneself down with demeaning and hurtful thoughts. An example of negative self-talk would be thinking, “I am a failure,” or, “I am so stupid,” after doing poorly on a test.
Mental Health Emotional Wellness
Controlling your thoughts takes practice, but the more you practice, the more often positive thoughts will naturally come to mind first.
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Mental Health Intellectual Wellness
Intellectual wellness is to have the desire to stimulate the brain, memory, and imagination. Your intellectual wellness determines how you interact with the world around you.
Mental Health Intellectual Wellness
Your scholastic achievements are not the only measure of your intellectual wellness. Intellectual strength includes creativity, curiosity, and an openness to new ideas.
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Mental Health Intellectual Wellness
How do you develop intellectual wellness? You can begin by exploring the world you live in and noticing the many wonders that surround you.
Mental Health Intellectual Wellness
To strengthen your intellectual wellness, begin by discovering your personal passion. A passion is something that excites you and ignites a hidden portion of yourself.
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Mental Health Intellectual Wellness
For some, it is an activity they participate in, such as playing a sport or practicing a musical instrument. For others, it is studying subjects like the human body or marine life. And for still others, it involves creating something through writing or art.
Mental Health Intellectual Wellness
This passion entices you to question things critically and to open your eyes, so you see things differently. It motivates you to learn new skills and increases your curiosity about other things.
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Mental Health Intellectual Wellness
Once you have discovered your own passion, use it as a means of self-expression. Self-expression means to describe a portion of who you are in a nonverbal way.
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