By Dr. Linell King
The mind and body connection is both fascinating and physical. Like physical wellness, we often need to put forth the effort to achieve good mental health. Just as we often hire a personal trainer to help us meet our physical body goals, we may need to seek professional help to meet our mental health goals. When we connect with others, increase our physical activity, and get better sleep, the body and mind benefit. Help and support from qualified professionals and the important people in your daily life can get you back on your feet and moving toward your life goals.
One of the best ways to achieve good mental health is by connecting with others. This can be through social interactions, volunteering to help those in need, joining a sports team, or building a support network. Over time, it is possible to learn coping skills that can help us transcend the stresses of living and withstand major life challenges. Building a routine and a positive lifestyle will help you regain control over your emotions and actions and thereby over your life. Even small steps can help and add up to achieving a major life goal.
Our surroundings have a major influence on our mental state and physical well-being. Negative events and memories live on in our subconscious and affect our actions and choices. You can make a conscious decision to make your environment a positive one; to free yourself of negative influences.
This can mean spending more time with pets and people you care for, focusing your reading and entertainment choices on positive and uplifting books, films, television shows, and music, and thinking carefully about all the things for which you are grateful. Spending time in the garden or other natural surroundings is another way of bringing positive feelings into your life.
This does not mean that you should turn your back on the pain and suffering of others but that you should have a way of handling these in your life. In some ways, you are creating an emotional safe zone for yourself to give you the ability to deal with negative news and emotions. By isolating and identifying negative elements, you can handle them instead of letting them control you.
Mental health problems can be caused by many different factors, including biological issues, negative life experiences, and family history. Genetic inheritance can cause problems to surface, as can brain chemistry. Physical or mental trauma and abuse can also cause mental health distress. It’s important to know that people can and do recover completely. The road to mental wellness can be a difficult one, and it helps to have support from qualified professionals, family, friends, and community.
People can experience mental health problems at any stage of their lives. They can affect children, teens, adults, and seniors. Mental health problems disrupt emotional and behavioral patterns, which will have a ripple effect on all areas of our life. Mental health problems are never just limited to the individual but affect the family, community, and workplace.
Someone suffering from these mental health issues may withdraw from social interactions and become moody, disorganized, or distracted. This will have an impact on the well-being and safety of others. Mental and physical wellness, on the other hand, help you become the best you can be for yourself and your family and community.
While you can start the mental health improvement steps on your own, you may need professional help to turn your life toward true mental wellness. A professional mindset re-evaluation can help you identify the kinds of changes that will be most beneficial. Professional guidance can cover areas like stress management, personality development, and creating a healthy lifestyle. You can also receive help in developing daily rituals for a positive mindset.
Dr. King has been a practicing Medical Doctor for the past 25 years. He pursued further education in Functional and Integrative Medicine, to learn more about how nutrition, lifestyle factors, and treating the whole person could radically improve their immediate and long-term health and quality of life. He is the author of “Mastering Vitality,” and has spoken locally and internationally about utilizing combined methods of traditional and holistic modalities to safely create optimal health and well-being. He founded Naples Vitality to improve healthcare in his community and the world at large.
For years Dr. King has been fascinated by the human mind and what the brain needs to be able to function optimally. Using this technology, he can assist in this phase of your wellness journey. Naples Vitality is a team of functional medicine practitioners and integrative health coaches who are dedicated to helping their clients in the areas of detoxification, nutrition, fitness, hormone balance, gut health, brain health, and mindset. Naples Vitality has been a part of the Naples community since 2017. “We are proud to be able to educate and empower our clients and their families to achieve optimal health so that they can live life to the fullest”.
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