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Living a healthy lifestyle is about more than good sleep, eating right, and getting enough exercise. Taking care of your mental health is an equally important part of that equation. Your mental health influences many parts of your day-to-day life, from how you feel to how you think and your ability to cope with stress. It impacts your relationships, your ability to work productively, and how well you can recover from setbacks, hardships, and heartbreak.
Being mentally healthy doesn’t mean you’ll never experience hardship or emotional problems. Everyone experiences life changes, loss, and disappointment. It does, however, impact your capacity to cope and bounce back.
Here are a few simple steps to improve emotional well-being and mental health:
Take a short pause of a minute or two several times a day. As you sit comfortably with your eyes closed, watch the inflow and outflow of your breath. Ask yourself, “Who is witnessing the breath?” Gently turn your attention to the silent, witnessing awareness that watches the breath. Whatever thoughts or emotions arise, just witness them the way the sky would see clouds floating by.
Pause to remind yourself that emotions are like these transient clouds. Instead of saying, “I am angry,” where you are identified with an emotion, remind yourself to say, “I am experiencing anger.” This helps you acknowledge the emotion without identifying yourself with it.
It is a reminder that the emotion is transient and will pass. I have found it helpful to pause and ask, “Who is getting angry?” or “Why is he getting angry?” This reminds me to try and get to the cause of the emotion. Very often, the true cause of the emotion is far different from the apparent reason at hand. Understanding what is really bothering you will really help you resolve the emotion and also take note of any underlying behaviour patterns.
