How to take care of your mental health on a daily basis?

It’s back to school! The positive effects of hot sand and idle mode are already starting to wear off. Stress, family and professional obligations, frantic pace… Holding on for the long term can sometimes be a real ordeal. The subject of the Mental Health has become even more present since the start of the 2020 pandemic and for good reason… Isolation, health, job loss, compulsory homeschooling and now the context of war at the gates of Europe, inflation, shortages… We are put to the test and can no longer really ignore that taking care of yourself ALSO involves taking care of your mind. In order to help you the best I propose in this article to discover my advice and my tips to take care of you and gain in serenity. !

1. What is mental health?

2. Organize well yes, but don’t overdo it ++++

3. Learn to better manage your stress

4. Welcoming your emotions but not letting them dominate your life

In a world where people are increasingly connected and the media bombards us with information about political, economic, ecological and social issues, it is no wonder that more and more people suffer from stress and mental health issues.

Just seeing the number of “mindset coaches” emerging on social networks makes you think about the place of mental health in our society but above all, in our already busy daily lives.

Even too much.

1. What is mental health?

” According to the World Health Organization, health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. »

Mental health includes parameters such as stress, sleep, self-confidence, self-esteem, emotions, ability to make decisions, etc.

It can play on “physical” health by causing pain, fatigue, sensitivities, etc. to appear. This has been a subject often discussed in the media for several years.

Social networks participated in freedom of speech on this subject which was quite “taboo”. We often make the link between mental health and “psychiatric or psychological problems”, which is not entirely accurate.

We are all concerned by the subject of mental health but at different levels: when you suffer from a heartbreak, when you fail an exam, when you move house, when you become a parent, when you lose your job etc.… All the trials of life can make your mental health more fragile.

Exhaustion, mental load, fatigue, stress… These subjects are directly linked to the theme of mental health.

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2. Organize well yes, but don’t overdo it ++++

Even if you are already faced with managing a lot of things, you may be tempted to add even more to your to-do list in order to always feel more productive and in control of each situation.

In my opinion, this is a mistake.

We have the feeling of run after times permanently so much we must be efficient in the social, family, professional etc… This feeling results from a rather oppressive reality, it is not a mirage: to do everything well it would take hours more .

The do-gooders of the past 10 years, instead of teaching us to delegate, to surround ourselves well, to be less attached to details, to do our best without feeling guiltyhave put forward the notion of productivity.

It’s nice in work for example, because there, we have a defined role, we are paid to be efficient so why not?

But at home, with family, with friends, why always do more, always too much? We groan that we lack time but we saturate the schedule of ironing, batch cooking, online masterclass, storage of things that we don’t have time to use and use anyway. We are totally disconnected from reality when we live like this.

We lack time but we leave no empty space. We never get bored.

Focus on the essentials. But really.

Your house is not nickel? Who cares! Did you eat 1 reheated pizza? Oh my God ! The net police won’t know, I promise… In short, you get the idea.

Stop thinking “they do it like that”.

Think “me, this is how I want to organize my time”. Everyone has his own life. Everyone has their own needs.

Or we will become small armies of people without personality, boosted by overproduction and feelings that can be quickly squeezed in.

3. Learn to better manage your stress

Stress is poison. It insinuates itself into our lives in different forms and intensities. He watches us with every change, every decision. Some people are not prone to it and it’s a chance! For others, it’s more complicated.

To better manage stressit is imperative tolearn to let go. Remember the principle “I cannot change the course of events but I can change the way I react to them”. If you manage to do this, you have won everything.

Obviously, it is a permanent fight. Nothing is easy, nothing is guaranteed. To relax, you have many solutions: sport, meditation, cardiac coherence, essential oils, outings with friends, etc. Find what soothes YOU. Test. And make it a routine, a habit, an appointment with yourself.

4. Welcoming your emotions but not letting them dominate your life

Emotions are omnipresent in our daily lives. even if we don’t necessarily experience things the same way depending on our childhood, our situation, our expectations, our habits, etc. They are signals, indicators, clues, sometimes warnings, but they are not us. The emotions are there, it’s hard to ignore them (at the risk, in addition, that they become even stronger) so I think once and for all, whether you’re a man or a woman (yes because the cliché “a man doesn’t cry” or “a woman must stay strong” you know what I mean… ), we breathe and let life do its work.

Welcoming your emotions = a BIG YES!

Letting them dominate our life = NO.

Said like that, it sounds simple but obviously it is not! I know it well. Simply, you have to remember (and yes I know, you’ve seen it everywhere BUT it’s so true) thatwe can’t always change the course of the events that affect us BUT we can change the way in which they upset us (or not) on a daily basis.

The power is you who have it. The boss is you.

Hiding or denying your emotions is sterile and counterproductive, so don’t dismiss them. Accept having down days, protect yourself during these moments of vulnerability but accept. Also accept being overexcited/very happy for something that others would find trivial.

I would end with the fact that we do not manage our emotionss, we live with them, we dance in the rain with them, we celebrate the important moments of our lives thanks to them, we also learn, we must not seek to make them invisible but to leave them their rightful place. Do not give them excessive importance, remember that we are human, and that everything passes, everything changes, everything evolves.

I send you all my best vibes for the next few weeks, months… Take care of yourself, in all aspects that this represents. You deserve it.

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