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The importance of a Mental, Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Solution!
By Jamie Kliewe
We have learned so much about mental health over the years and continue to learn more and more as time goes on!
Our mental health effects many areas of our lives. It can have a positive or negative impact on our self-esteem, our ability to perform, our relationships, our professions, our sense of peace, contentment and well-being, our purpose and direction in life and so much more. The state of our mental health is what might help us navigate through times of emotional challenge, change, disappointments and just everyday stress. Science has begun to realize the ability of our brains to create what we call neural patterning, either negative or positive, by repetitive subconscious programming as a result of repetitive experiences or repetitive thought patterns. If for example, we have continually experienced traumatic events one after another after another, our mental capacity to continue to handle more traumatic events becomes less and less. It may even lead to, what we call a mental break, if those traumatic experiences don’t stop. Essentially, our brains become programmed for these types of thought patterns and behaviors. While most of us are mentally equipped to handle moderate day to day normal life stressors such as sadness, anxiety and disappointments, there are breaking points for all of us so we must take care to implement strategies to mitigate the damage of too many mental and emotional stressors.
The best approach involves mental, physical, emotional and spiritual interventions. A majority of mental health stress is generated by fear and feeling out of control of our lives. I like to say that most of the time fear is “false evidence appearing real”. Most of the time! There are things that happen in life that legitimately are cause to have some apprehension and fear, however, most of the time we fear things that do not ever come to fruition. So, the first mental exercise is to establish truth. Is what I am “fearing” even likely to happen?
Physically we come under some challenges because we do not have proper diet and exercise habits. When our physical foundation of diet and exercise is not in alignment the chemical and energetic components of our being cannot properly mitigate stress and often causes our rational thinking to be off as well. When we experience this physical imbalance, we often do not get enough sleep either, which can change the way we are able to process things mentally.
Emotions can be tough! Finding productive ways to manage our emotions most certainly gives way to a more positive mental health status. It is all connected! Mental effects physical, physical effects emotional and vice versa. When one is off kilter, they all can be thrown off. Which leads us to the spiritual category.
Faith in a power greater than ourselves that operates in the realm of love and goodness, that cares about us and wants to see good things happen to us and for us, often provides a sense of peace and calm when things seem to happen that are out of our control and of which we do not understand. Faith in a power greater than ourselves, that is good and loving, also provides us with hope. It is extremely important to never lose hope in the good. There is good and bad in all of us but what we focus on tends to expand in our minds and will in turn effect our mental health and well-being.
Science continues to prove that the brain has the ability to be reprogrammed, the quality of neuroplasticity, so just as negative mental, emotional, physical and spiritual experiences can create more stress and mental fatigue, positive mental, emotional, physical and spiritual experiences can create more peace, contentment and a healthy mental state. Finding the right mental, emotional, physical and spiritual experiences is an important part of the journey and worth seeking.
There are many therapies and modalities that can reduce stress and give your body a chance to properly process situations and events which can be important in handling mental stress. We thrive in community and need to feel needed and wanted. Staying connected to others is very important! Being around uplifting and positive people is extremely beneficial for a healthy mental state.
These principles are the driving force behind the strategies used by the team members of Omni Balanced Life Center to assist our clients and patients with cultivating a healthy Mind Body and Spirit!
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