You are mindful, you are present, you are living in the moment AND you are part of a community. Great! Your mental health is complete, right? Probably not. Think of something you hate doing…filing taxes, reading terms and conditions, jury duty, flossing, waiting in line, dusting shelves with a bunch of shit on them? Whatever […]
Alright, alright, alright. So you conquered the key foundation to Mental Health: Mindfulness. You are present, clear-minded, and totally living in the moment. Life is great. However, you are by yourself. All alone. The last living thing on earth. So sad. Life blows. If you are a true Buddha, pure loneliness will not phase you.
Mindfulness is probably the number 1 most important ingredient to mental health. What is mindfulness? Mindfulness, of course, is how full your mind is. Mind fullness. It is best if the fullness of your mind is as low as possible, or empty. Essentially, you want absolutely nothing going on upstairs. Lights are on, no one’s
What is mental health, exactly? Well, mental health is making sure your IQ is at least 100 or higher. I am kidding of course. Mentalhealth.gov suggests that “Mental health includes our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act.” (https://www.mentalhealth.gov/basics/what-is-mental-health) That seems like a pretty good definition. The World Health
Alrighty. So far, so good. We are one third of the way to health. And, remember, health = happiness. The list below summarizes the components of physical health discussed in previous articles. If any of these items are missing in your physical health column, make sure you get them in there, ASAP. If you have
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Last, but not least, go the f#!k to sleep. Sleep is incredibly critical for physical (and mental) health. You have heard it before: get at least 7 to 8 hours of sleep every night. Sure, some nights you will get less, some nights you will get more. Do your best to stick to 7 or
Food, water, air – check. Shelter and safety – check. So what’s another critical component of physical health? Movement, of course. Say you sat in the most comfortable chair or laid down in the most heavenly bed in the most luxurious home in the safest of locations and you had the highest quality food, water,
Do you have a roof over your head? Do you live outside of a war zone? If yes, rejoice! In addition to food, water and air, you also have the 4th and 5th critical components of physical health: shelter and safety. We are talking about the very bare necessities of physical health here, so why
Food. Water. Air. How much do you take these 3 things for granted? Think about it. Re-read it. Digest it. Food. Water. Air. How clucking awesome is it that the vast majority of us modern-day humans do not even give these necessities a thought? At the time I write this, the internet indicates that about
