5 Steps To Mental Wellness

What is Mental Wellness:

Mental Wellness is the internal resources which can help you to maintain good mental health and mental well-being. It is the state of mind in which the individual realises his or her own potential or abilities, can cope with challenges in life, can work efficiently & effectively, and is able to find the happiness and prosperity in life. It is an active process that helps us to think and act differently and helps us to create ameliorate and success by increasing our self-efficacy.

Why Mental Wellness is very important:

Mental Wellness constitutes our overall mental health and well-being without any clinical approach.  Mental wellness helps to overcome negative situations such as stress, anxiety, bad habits, loneliness, sadness, fear etc. and lead a life in a positive direction of happiness, life satisfaction, strong relationships or personal growth. 

Mental Wellness offers a holistic approach that focuses on enabling people to function positively, such as overcoming illness, maintaining excellent mental health, and pursuing optimal emotional well-being.

Mental Wellness is generally developed as an individual to pursue higher levels of happiness and well-being by meeting the challenges of daily life. 

The universal desires of man i.e. peace, love, money, joy, happiness and purpose can be fully realized only through the method of Mental Wellness.

Mental Wellness vs Mental illness:

Study says that about 15 percent of the world population is mentally ill but that does not mean that the rest are mentally well, or they are living happy and peaceful, healthy, rich, meaningful lives, they are satisfied with their lives. Many people who are not actually mentally ill also do not feel well mentally, or constructive and productive, because sadness, emotional distress, anxiety, loneliness and life's challenges want to consume them, make them dull. Mental wellness is a quality-approach that enhances rather than dullness. 

Again, the presence of a mental illness does not mean that there is no Mental Wellness, for example, people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, brain injury, attention deficit disorder can also show positive mental health, they can also be happy, maintain good relationships, function properly.  can do work properly.

Mental wellness can alleviate and prevent mental illness. As Mental Wellness increases, mental illness will gradually decrease also. Mental Wellness can also significantly reduce the risk of future mental illness and help to maintain better mental health.

How Mental Wellness impacts in our life:

Mental Wellness help us to discover our inner resources like love, happiness, ecstasy, peace, mental fortitude etc. through self-actualization makes us mentally, socially, psychologically, emotionally strong, so that we can successfully overcome external obstacles and lead a meaningful life.

Mental Wellness provides inner strength to overcome extreme adversity, and leading to freedom from suffering, anxiety, anger, irrational fear in life by increasing resilience and persistence. Inspite of hundreds of challenges, it shows the way to reach the pinnacle of success and make life happy and prosperous by guiding oneself in the right direction. Above all, it helps to bring fulfillment in life by awakening the highest potential of people. 

Mental Wellness helps to forget past painful memories, break bad habits, create new strong beliefs and values, and restore balance in life.

Mental Wellness shows the way to get rid of the negative effects of the events that constantly happen in our lives, and frees us from negative thoughts, teaches us how to think positively. Mental Wellness gives motivation to a mentally broken person to survive, teaches how to stay mentally 

healthy, teaches how to be in peace in the midst of chaos.

5 Steps To Mental Wellness:

When you are mentally well that means you are ready for your best level performance, and when you are performed well in any area of your life you will surely get different results also. An experienced, skillful and compassionate Mental Wellness Coach can guide you in the right direction on how to root out life's problems and reach the pinnacle of success and live a healthy, happy, meaningful life. 

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"Empathy" Makes Us More Humane

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• Empathy
• Empathy definition
• Empathy vs Sympathy
• Empathy quotes
• Empathy examples
• Empathy Makes Us More Humane

Empathy:

Although most of the time we use the words empathy and sympathy as synonyms, there is a far difference between the two in terms of humanity or psychology. Empathy is the ability to understand and share the feelings of others from the heart, to be responsive and aware of another person or his condition.

Empathy is an emotional feeling that concerns of others without objectively expressing thoughts and experiences. Empathy always shake us from the depths of our hearts. Naturally we can explain empathy as another form of humanity. Empathetic people are usually more humane. Empathy is a humanitarian religion that does not judge person, time and place, but only focuses on solving the problems of others. 

Empathy vs Sympathy:

Empathy is a sincere feeling, whereas sympathy may or may not contain sincerity. Mainly sympathy is a feeling of pride or ego, sympathy can be shown to someone but empathy comes only from the deep feeling of heart. 

Our empathy is the extent to which we can offer sympathy, understanding and support to others.That is, through empathy, as our compassion for others is expressed, so is the desire to do something for them. Sympathy, on the other hand, involves sympathizing with a person or his situation, though much less cooperation and understanding. 

I have already said that the words sympathy and empathy are often mistakenly used interchangeably, although the difference between the two words in terms of emotional impact is quite important. Sympathy is the ability to recognize and share the emotions of another person and is limited to understanding the feelings and giving them great comfort or advice to get out of them, it means "stepping into someone else's shoes."

"Empathy" from a humanitarian perspective recognizes the ability to identify with the suffering of another person and to share their emotions and feelings with the painful plight. Empathy is not limited to comforting or commiserating, it is a deep feeling of compassion that actually comes from the heart. It is the deep expression of our mind. It is a genuine intention to help a person in jeopardy.

The difference between sympathy and empathy can be better understood through an example. For example, suppose two people are traveling on the road and were witness a road accident. They saw a person crying in pain on the road as he was fallen in an accident. One of the two passers-by saw the matter and said what a dangerous accident occurred on the person is suffering, he will survive! If someone informs to his house or to the police, if he can be taken and admitted to the hospital, he can be saved!" etc. etc. In this case, the person is sympathetic, and that is sympathy. 

On the other hand, the second person immediately extended his helping hand without thinking back and forth. He took the accident-victim to the hospital on his own initiative and took care of him, that is empathy.

An empathetic person thinks of standing by the side of others in danger by forgetting everything about self.  "Empathy" is not just a feeling of sympathy for the person in danger but a strong emotional desire to contribute something to help him.

Empathy Makes Us More Humane:

Just as the saying '"empathy makes us more humane" is literally true, its reverse, "humanity makes us more compassionate" is also true. Empathy is a very important human emotion. The words love, mercy, compassion, pity, affection etc. are important in this world today because there are empathetic people. They cannot be saved by mere sympathy unless there is empathy.  

Since compassion makes people more humane, many people are working selflessly to protect animals, plants, and the environment. Feelings of empathy Makes humane that's why someone take risk his own life to rescue a stranger swept away by floodwaters, when there is a fire in the deep forest, people risk their lives to save the lives of animals. 

Take a look at the recent memories of the covid-19 epidemic, how many people had the mentality to do anything special except to express sympathy when a family member or relative was reported to be covid positive in most cases! Again, many such people were found in those times who risked their lives to stand by the patients and their families. This is the bond of empathy and humanity.

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'Laziness' The Enemy Of your Success

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• Laziness
• What is the cause of laziness?
• What defines a lazy person?
• Is laziness a mental disorder?
• Phychological theories of Laziness
• How do I stop being so lazy?

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Laziness:

Laziness is the nature of not being willing to do something or use energy. Laziness is one of the enemies, a great obstacle to achieving great success. It has to be banished from life, otherwise failure will consume you instead of success and everything you have achieved in life will gradually disappear from you. 

What is the cause of laziness ?

Actually laziness is not a physical handicap it is a mental handicap. The sooner you can get out of this obstacle, the life will become prosperous, otherwise life will turn into hell. According to Newton's first law of motion, "a body remains in the state of rest unless and until an external force is applied", same thing is happening also in human behaviour. People who are lazy do not want to do anything themselves unless they are prompted or motivated from outside, procrastinating on everything. In order to get success in any work, it is necessary to take proper action, otherwise sitting at home, not working and only thinking can bring no result but failure. 

Just because you're procrastinating on a particular task doesn't mean you're lazy, laziness is the tendency to procrastinate on each and every task, feel bored just hearing about work, and not wanting to do anything. Laziness may or may not affect anything else, but it will greatly affect on your life. 

Laziness can be synonymous with indolence and sloth, i.e "without pain" or "without taking trouble". And slathness is considered one of our greatest vices, degrading our intellect and judgment. As the saying goes "Idle brain is the devil's workshop". Laziness provokes all kinds of negative thoughts. 

Phycological theories of Laziness:

Our subconscious mind has many excuses and many reasons to keep us away from doing something. Our mind always wants to put us in a comfortable zone, to relax us. If we don't consciously take control of this tendency of our subconscious mind then the strong subconscious mind will make us lazy for instant gratification. 

The first step to overcome laziness is to consciously take control. Just as the rider tames the strong wild horse by whipping, bridling and training first, so the conscious mind has to take control over this wild behavior of our subconscious mind. And to do this the following points should be given importance. 

How do I stop being so lazy?

Unfold your future to you:

Visualize how your laziness will effect on your future life, where this laziness will take you in the next five years, how much you will deteriorate, thus create a picture in your mind of the next ten years and twenty years. Break state when the visualization is completed.  

Now visualize how beautiful your coming days, years will be if you can get out of laziness, what positive changes will come in life in all areas including financial, health, love, success etc. Whenever you do this, the pattern of your subconscious mind will begin to break. 

Laziness is never a problem it's just a psychological symptom, and so try to evaluate yourself whenever laziness comes. Try to find out where it is coming from, is it a lack of motivation, or is there any fear working behind it, who is holding you back? If you can know the real reason, you yourself will be able to deal with it and then your self-efficacy will increase manifold. 

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Start with simple task:

To overcome laziness, first try to keep yourself busy on doing things that you enjoy, things that give you emotional satisfaction, then the tendency to work will gradually increase. Almost everyone wants to avoid tasks that seem complicated or unnecessary to the mind. Whenever you don't want to face something, especially doing boring tasks or facing difficult tasks, it will create laziness in you. To get out of such a situation, before doing any such work, rationalize your mind what you will gain by completing the work, what will be good for you. 

Find a partner or a coach to motivate you:

There won't always be someone to motivate you, but to overcome your laziness in primary stage you need someone who can work hand to hand with you, a person who can encourage you. Having got such a person you can easily overcome your laziness, be it your friend or your mental wellness coach. Not only this, but this kind of emotional bonding can make any work much easier and constructive to you. If there is any fear behind doing nothing, especially the fear of failure, it can be easily overcome with the help of a true partner, with the help of a valuable coach. 

But one thing must be taken care of in this case so that you will not be dependent on others. So, when the laziness tendency starts to disappear from you, start doing some tasks by yourself, then you will see that "snake will die but stick will not break". 

Set goals: 

If you don't know where you want to go, you will end up in an unknown place i.e unwanted life. So set big goals in life but break those goals down into smaller chunks, so that you'll have a crystal-clear picture of your outcome and it won't feel like a burden anymore. Create daily, monthly targets based on your outcomes and write them down and take feedback on regular basis how far you are moving towards your goals. Don't expect anything to work perfectly, because nothing in this universe is perfect. Do whatever you can, as much as you can, good or bad, take action and action will produce results.

Involve yourself in small daily activities: 

Try to do the small tasks of the house, family or yours, such as packing your belongings, ironing clothes, helping in cooking sometimes, buying something from the market, etc. Also, to get rid of laziness, you can take a short walk outside the house in the morning and evening, start to do a little exercise, do various physical activities. 

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