In this article we will discuss how to be mentally healthy and happy. There are seven things that you absolutely need to make this possible. Your mental health should be your number one priority. It is important that you know these seven tips to keep yourself in the best mental place possible.
Taking care of your mental health is vital. Unfortunately conversations around mental health are still met with stigma and resistance. It is slowly improving but not fast enough for those who need to have these important conversations.
That’s why it is important that you know how to be mentally healthy and happy. This topic is so important so that you can increase your everyday wellness and overall quality of life.
In this post you will learn why boundaries are important. Why it is important to slow down in order to connect with your breath. Why your connection to your body is so important.
So let’s begin this important conversation on mental wellness. So that you will know how to be mentally healthy and happy in order to take the best care of yourself possible.
7 Tips For Mental Wellness That You Must Know
1. BOUNDARIES Are the first step in How to be mentally happy & Health
Boundaries are so important to mental health and wellness. This is particularly true for women. Society has taught women to ignore their own needs in service to others. This leads to a lot of boundary violations that women are not prepared to recognize and address. These lack of boundaries can lead many women, particularly black women, to feel unwell emotionally.
That is why as part of good mental health care you have to have boundaries with others. You have to exercise your ability to say “NO”. You must be able to let others know what you will and won’t tolerate in your life without guilt or shame.
The feeling that you have to just accept not only poor treatment but any treatment that makes you feel uncomfortable is just false.
You don’t have to accept any treatment that makes you feel uncomfortable in any way.
Not from your family.
Not from your partner.
Not from your work environment.
Not in any area of your life.
Boundaries are so important to your mental health and it is time to establish and enforce them!
You might not feel that you can do this due to societal messaging. You have had expectations put on you that have been your norm for so long. But I am here to tell you that it has to change. It must for you to feel mentally well and whole inside.
As your boundaries are strengthened you naturally being to use your voice more…
2. finding Your Voice
To be mentally healthy and happy you have to find your voice and use it. You must stop stifling your feelings and the need to express them. By not using your voice, and holding in your feelings, this creates emotional, mental and energetic imbalances.
You must use your throat chakra. This is an energy center located in your throat which supports your ability to express yourself. This allows energy and emotion to move through your body in a healthy way instead of being held in.
If you are new to the concept of the throat chakra, and why it is important to your emotional and mental health, you can read here and here to learn more.
Using your voice helps you to enforce and hold the boundaries you are attempting to create for yourself and your health and happiness. You must be willing to let others know when something does not feel good for you and that you want to have a different experience.
3. Connecting To Your Personal Power
Being disconnected from your personal power can be hugely detrimental to your mental health. This disconnection can leave you feeling lost, alone and powerless. These all aid in filling your body with fear and increasing feelings of mental and emotional instability.
This disconnection from your personal power can also leave you feeling ungrounded and lost in a sea of emotion. This can lead to feelings of extreme overwhelm.
So how do you connect with your personal power?
The first thing you can do is begin to reflect on the idea that you have agency in your life. You have choices. You are not a victim. This is not about victim shaming people who have have been intentionally harmed by others either emotionally or physically.
This is about those of us that feel disempowered due to the impact that past experiences have left on your brain and body. It is realizing that if anything in your life continues to add to your mental and emotional turmoil you have the ability to end it.
I am not saying this is easy but it is always possible. By realizing that you have access to one of the most powerful things in the universe, choice, you can begin engaging with yourself and standing up for yourself in ways you never thought possible.
When you engage your personal power this automatically brings your spiritual power online as well.
4. Connecting To Your Spiritual Power
Your connection to your spiritual power is vital to being mentally healthy and happy.
Why?
Being connected to your spiritual power lets you know that you are not alone and lost in this world. A huge contributor to folks feeling mentally unwell is because they can’t make sense of what is happening around them and it feels psychically overwhelming.
There is too much going on and there are no answers that make it make sense for them. Now this is not about religion. This is beyond that.
This is about you connecting with yourself and your inherent divinity. No one religion can tell you that you are or are not divine. You come from the supreme source of energy consciousness in the universe. Your existence is a reflection of this consciousness in human form.
This is just the way it is and you can’t do anything about it.
So you need to embrace it. Reflect on it and connect with it.
You are not alone. When you are connected to your spiritual power you will see and feel that. You will know that you never have been alone despite external appearances once your mental health comes back into balance.
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5. Slowing Down And Breathing
Your connection with your breath is a vital part of your healing and how to be mentally healthy and happy.
Your breath is an intrinsic part of who you are but you take it for granted and don’t engage with it correctly. By learning to slow down and breathe, you can engage with your breath and your body in a way that can be deeply healing.
Most folks don’t know how to breathe correctly. They breathe in the upper third of their chest from the clavicle to just about to the armpit line. They are not giving themselves the extended belly breaths that bring more oxygen into their lungs and calm their nervous systems.
Here are two great videos I share with my clients on a regular basis to help them connect with their breath to support system regulation. This video is more basic and this video is a little bit more advanced but only a tiny bit.
Both are powerful and effective tools to learn how to connect with your breath in a way that is fuller and allows more healing into your body.
6. Listening To Your Feelings And Emotions
You will not learn how to be mentally healthy and happy unless you learn to pay attention to your feelings and listen to your emotions.
Just for the sake of clarity let me just say that feelings and emotions are two different things.
Feelings are what you experience in your body. Your body experiences so much more than hunger, pain, sexual arousal and a desire to poop.
There are dozens of feelings and sensations that your awareness is cut off from that you are actually experiencing.
Emotions are more the energy of your feelings. All emotions are tied to a feeling in the body whether you realize it or not. You are aware of your basic emotions: happiness, sadness, fear, etc., but there are more subtle emotions connected to your feelings that currently don’t have access to.
Getting to know your feelings and emotions is a critical part of your journey to be healthy, happy and well.
You have to know what is going on inside of you. To do that you have to slow down, breathe and connect to your body.
7. CONNECTING TO YOUR BODY is the final step in How to be mentally healthy & happy
On your journey to learn how to be mentally healthy and happy you have to have a connection with your body. Often when you are struggling with your mental health, being connected with your body is very difficult and nearly impossible.
You might not realize how important your connection with your body is to your health and healing.
Several of the things already mentioned above rely on you having a connection with your body, particularly slowing down, breathing, listening to your feelings and emotions.
To connect to your body you have to slow down, breathe and turn your attention inward. By turning inward you become aware, in a way you hadn’t previously, of what you are feeling and what your emotions are.
Often we are not aware of our disconnection from our body because we are overwhelmed by our anxiety and our fears. By slowing down and becoming present, even for a moment, you begin to create space inside of yourself to explore what is going on inside of you.
As you do this you will begin to see and feel into the root causes of your emotional or mental imbalances. This connection with your body now allows you to notice what is happening inside of you instead of your emotions and feelings trying to get your attention by overwhelming you.
This reconnection is key to finding your inner balance.
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