We all seek psychological health and to enjoy physical and mental fitness. Then it is possible to really enjoy life.
If we are worried, or anxious there is no way we can savour enjoyment of any kind. When we are tense we cannot enjoy our food, any sensory experience, any intellectual exchange of ideas, or delight in our natural environment.
Anxiety acts like a poison in our psyche and can develop into a serious problem if we do nothing to curb its growth. Worries and fears of any kind will leech away your energy. So we must become free of any early symptoms and learn how to prevent any small concern growing and magnifying to get out of proportion in our way of life.
Some people have symptoms that are vague such as a negative presentiment or a general feeling ‘that something is wrong’. Many suffer anxieties that can be directly traced to actual circumstances and the events as well as people in their lives. In cases where a personal is recovering from severe trauma it is understandable that they experience depression. If you seem to have no cause, however, but still feel depressed, this may be due to basic imbalances in body chemistry and glandular activity that is now medically understood. You may require medical treatment.
However, if we keep an attitude that is reasonable, in allowing that most of us have mild anxiety and suffer stress, and sometimes depression because we are not coping very well with our lives for whatever causes, we can place our own ups and downs in better perspective.
A suggested programme is to start your day by going outside to breathe in the early morning air, appreciate the garden and a few peaceful moments before your activities of the day begin. Many people claim this puts a happy expression on their face. Others find that happy music and even better, with songs that you know, enjoy singing the lyrics too.
Start out the day well and it will tend to go well. Well enough for you to be able to adapt to circumstances that will arise, and to control any negative reactions that will spoil your harmonious mood.
We cannot always control the actions that occur in our day, or in our life but we can control our reactions to what happens around us and keep the calm centre within ourselves that indicates a certain degree of self control and mental fitness.
Sally Janssen’s wonderful book “Mental Fitness: The complete Self-Help Guide”, offers simple and timely solutions. Read more….
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