Introduction Mental health is an integral part of our overall well-being. It influences how we think, feel, and interact with the world around us. In this article, we’ll explore the profound effects of mental health on our lifestyle and provide practical strategies for maintaining a healthy mind-body balance. Understanding Mental Health Before delving into the specifics, let’s define mental health. It encompasses various aspects, including emotional well-being, psychological resilience, and social functioning. Here are some key points: Emotional Well-Being : Our emotions play a crucial role in shaping our lifestyle. Positive emotions enhance our experiences, while negative emotions can lead to stress, anxiety, and other mental health challenges. Psychological Resilience : Resilience refers to our ability to bounce back from adversity. A resilient mindset enables us to cope with life’s ups and downs, affecting our daily choices and behaviors. Social Functioning : How we relate to others...
Overthinking and stress are found to be among the few common causes greatly impacting the mindset of an individual these days. The root of the problem lies within ourselves, within the unhealthy lifestyle we choose to live, our consumption habits and working in a polluted environment. Looking in-depth the overall population in India according to Worldometer is 1,383,419,254 (as of Friday, 2nd October 2020), current literacy rate recorded is 77.7% respectively. Therefore, being a culturally diversified nation the individuals on the daily basis are required to follow the basic norms, regulations of their families, clans, and societies. Followed by, adapt to the working culture in their professional lives, travel time as well, interacting with different people.
So, the basic question is why stress
and overthinking has been surging when individuals can adapt themselves and
cope up with the situation from time to time! What are the causes of overthinking? How to stop overthinking?
Well, to answer these questions let's
consider the youth ranging from the age group of 15-24 years of age. This time
period is considered to be very crucial for the individuals where they step
outside their cosy nests and attempt to cope up with the reality for their own
survival. Although the overall process seems easy but to many, it is full of
complexities, complex situations and in a do or die situation.
Hence, what we can do for reducing and
gradually vanishing the process of overthinking and stress? Well, common solutions
include identifying one's interest and pursue skills and knowledge in order to
become confident in nature. That's not all! It will still continue so, a
variety of options needs to be given for making it more convenient right?
Options such as "get engaged in sports, activities, socially interact,
have face to face conversation with peers, attend seminars, webinars and
another heap of advice we get. Boring! huh! I can understand…. this makes the
situation more complicated rather than resolving the actual situations.
Shhh….Now I will tell you the secret behind breaking through the barriers and living the journey of your own life enthusiastically. So, follow the four steps below:
Step 1: Take some time for yourself during the day amidst your hustle-bustle life.
Step 2: Take a pen, a paper or use your digital note-taking platforms and write down your thoughts.
Step 3: Now rearrange your thoughts, find out the pros, cons and identify what you want to do in particular or what is it you have been searching for, which made you entangled with your thoughts. Don't worry, be yourselves as no one is judging you now.
Step 4: Go ahead plan the rest of the process, gather courage, proceed accordingly and you are done.
What's next? The next will be either you
will be the creator or destroyer of your mindset. It's simply like the mirage,
which will reveal to you the reality of the circumstances which will take place
depending on the action taken by you. In this case, always remember the attempt
made by you for the development of your positive mindset makes you the winner
and if you lose too, you can always learn from your mistakes.
Thus, each one of us bears the responsibility for keeping oneself healthy, stress-free and improve our mental health status on an overall basis. The positive environment that will be created will further help in fostering the wellness of the population and help in reducing the other linked issues which are harmful to our body physically, mentally, and psychologically at the same time. I hope, this will be useful to you during your chaotic messed up situations when you are struggling with overthinking and stress. Feel free to share your thoughts too and enjoy reading.
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