Build strong psychological immunity for a healthy body and mind

The psychological immunity consists of set of our feelings and thoughts about our abilities to deal and survive a threat. A negative emotion which is overwhelming and constant can throw off our mental balance. Emotions impacts physical health and reverse is equally true.

Mental health and physical health are very closely connected. Mental health plays a major role in your ability to maintain good physical health. Mental illnesses, such as depression and anxiety, affect your ability to participate in healthy behaviors. This can result in problems with physical health, such as chronic diseases and can decrease a person’s ability to participate in treatment and recovery.

Fear and stress can have multiple causes that may be complicated to analyze on your own. Sometimes, it’s driven by prolonged stress and anxiety. Other times, it’s associated with phobias or depression. It is suggested to figure out the cause of your worries with a professional psychologist. In the first instance, you can adopt following strategies to overcome fear and gain control over your emotions and have a stronger psychological immunity.

PRACTICE SOME MENTAL WORKOUT

• Begin your day with a prayer and deepfelt thankfulness for everything. You may repeat it during the day and before going to sleep.
• Meditation is well known method to reduce worry, anxiety, fear and panic response patterns while calming nervous system and attain a relaxed state of mind.
• Deep breathing or alternate inhalation and exhalation slows down heart rate resulting in a relax state of mind

BE MINDFUL OF YOUR THOUGHT

• choose a thought of positive belief and hope.
• a hope of health and happiness and survival.
• practice this thought many times in a day
• then adopt a responsible and cautious behavior that supports your thought of hope.

LIFESYLE SHAKEUP

• Design and follow a daily schedule even though your work time requirements have changed during pandemic
• Consider this time as a lifetime opportunity to prioritize your activities, duties and hobbies according to your own liking and preferences. That is possible to a very large extent only now.
• Physical exercise is a must as it is known to trigger mental rejuvenation and positivity. Always follow covid safety norms.
• Limit covid news consumption to twice or thrice as it may bring in negativity. Just update yourself for any safety and helpful medical information from authentic sources.
• Treat yourself with healthy home food and sufficient sleep. You can learn some new recipes too
• Spend lot of time with each other as family like playing indoor games, chatting, watching shows, cooking together new dishes, cleaning etc.

FINAL WORD

Its evident through studies and researches that there is a direct relationship between mental health and physical health. We really need to be careful about our thinking and feelings to restore a happy and peaceful self. And it is good to adopt few tips to safeguard mental health in order to protect ourselves physically. In case one finds it difficult to manage on their own its best to reach out to a psychologist or a counsellor who can help to navigate from conditions of confusion and stress towards resolution accompanied with a peaceful and relaxed state of mind.

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